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The definition and basic reason for human services
is the need for social cooperation and assistance. This 7 page paper
identifies and discusses a number of issues that are of importance for
the worker involved in working for an agency such as Suffolk's County
Children And family Services. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
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7 pages (~225 words per page)
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and assistance. There have been times when the need for assistance has been greater or lesser, however, the future holds a definite place for the human service worker able
to incorporate the necessary skilled and knowledge. Times change, people change. The world has changed since the earliest inroads were made in the social service area.
The new reality is one in which multiculturalism and welfare reform mark the wave of the future. The student becoming involved in the study of human services will need
to be aware that not only the theories and models of the past are applicable but that competencies that reflect the needs of the future must be incorporated into the
knowledge and training received. There is a propensity in the modern world to label problems in order to address situations. The relationship between the worker and the
client has at its core the problem solving perspective. "The helping professions may have abandoned the notion that human failings are a result of moral defect, but they seem
to have retained some of the baggage that came along with that notion, particularly the idea that human failure and human problems need be the major focus of helping professionals
work. That idea may now be articulated in a sophisticated professional language with phrases derived from differential diagnosis and complex theory-driven taxonomies of pathological states, but weaknesses, limitations, problems,
and failures remain the filters through which the majority of helping professionals see their clients" (Cohen, 1999, pp. 460). The problems that confront the individual on a day
to day basis are either predictive or postdictive in form. Basically, if the answer lies in the future it is a predictive problem and is the answer can be
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