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Health and Human Service: Annotated Bibliography
Health & Human Services Capstone
May 25, 2020
Health and Human Service: Annotated Bibliography
Greene, R. (2017). Human behavior theory and social work practice. Routledge.
This book examines various human behavior theories. The historical context, philosophical roots, and assumptions of each theory are discussed. The book offers perspective on the interactions between people and social systems. The application of each theory by social workers in shaping their social work practices is examined, and the relationship between each theory and professional social work practice established. The book further explores each theory’s challenges and limitations and addresses how each theory offers a framework for social work practice, provides an understanding of social system behaviors, implications of each theory for social work practice strategies and interventions, and the role of social workers as a change agent as provided by each theory. The theoretical approaches examined in this book offer social workers ground for basing their practice and interventions as they seek to enhance societal conditions and improve the social functioning of and between social groups in various settings.
The book is relevant to my paper because it provides a theoretical ground on understanding the challenges health and human services professionals face in delivering services to homeless people. A more relevant theory that relates to my paper is system theory. Various interactions in an environment introduce challenges that make the work of health and human service professionals challenging. Based on system theory, society is a complex arrangement of various components that influence behavior. Various issues are connected, giving rise to challenges that the health and human services professionals face in their practice. This book is important in examining how components in society interact to give rise to these challenges.
Sherraden, M. S., Birkenmaier, J., & Collins, J. M. (2019). Financial Capability for All: Training Human Service Professionals to Work with Vulnerable Families. Journal of Consumer Affairs, 53(3), 869-876.
This article examines the potential for health and human services practitioners to improve vulnerable populations’ financial capabilities. The article points out that health and human service practitioners work with individuals who are financially vulnerable, and they are in a position to offer basic financial support and guidance to these people. The article explores training as an approach to enable these practitioners to build the financial capabilities of the vulnerable populations they serve. Education and training in human development, societal dynamics, and social policy prepare health and human services practitioners to be key players in coming up with solutions to financially vulnerable individuals. The article proposes additional resources to the curriculum, including assessment models and practice tools, to enhance the capacities of these professionals to serve financially vulnerable populations. The article concludes and recommends the development of degree programs and continuing education in financial capabilities to enable the health and human services practitioners to offer better service and enhance the wellbeing of financially vulnerable populations.
This article is relevant to my paper, presenting two challenges that health and human services professionals face, including the inadequate capacity to serve financially vulnerable populations, and locating the homeless people. The homeless are financially vulnerable, and these professionals do not have adequate capacities to build the financial capabilities of the vulnerable populations they serve. Another challenge, as pointed out in this article, is locating homeless people since the homeless shelter at night and leave in the morning, making it hard for health and human health services to locate these people to offer them services. Therefore, this article is important in examining my topic.
Wirth, T., Mette, J., Prill, J., Harth, V., & Nienhaus, A. (2019). Working conditions, mental health, and coping of staff in social work with refugees and homeless individuals: A scoping review. Health & social care in the community, 27(4), e257-e269.
This article reviews twenty-five studies to establish job demands, psychological health issues, resources, coping interventions, and needs of social workers. The article identifies job demands, including the system of bureaucracy, high caseloads, the suffering of the clients, and little success experiences. The article identified that maintaining professional boundaries as a challenge, especially working with people the social worker has a personal relationship with and as a coping strategy, helping social workers maintain professionalism. Important job resources identified in this article include support from the team and getting meaning from work. Social workers experience mental health problems, and this is associated with their nature of work with refugees and homeless people. As they dead with people with serious traumatic experiences and job demands, these places load on their mental health. The article concludes and recommends ongoing training, external counseling, and supervision to help social workers deal with job demands and mental health problems.
This article is relevant to my paper because it documents challenges the social workers face work when working with refugees and homeless people. The article identified job demands, including the system of bureaucracy, high caseloads, the suffering of the clients, little success experiences, maintaining professional boundaries, and mental health problems as being challenges that social workers face in their practice. Another challenge mentioned in this article is language and cultural differences as the refugees and homeless people come from different cultural backgrounds. Thus, this article is important to my current topic, challenges health and human services professionals face in delivering services to homeless people, by delineating some of these challenges.
References
Greene, R. (2017). Human behavior theory and social work practice. Routledge.
Sherraden, M. S., Birkenmaier, J., & Collins, J. M. (2019). Financial Capability for All: Training Human Service Professionals to Work with Vulnerable Families. Journal of Consumer Affairs, 53(3), 869-876.
Wirth, T., Mette, J., Prill, J., Harth, V., & Nienhaus, A. (2019). Working conditions, mental health, and coping of staff in social work with refugees and homeless individuals: A scoping review. Health & social care in the community, 27(4), e257-e269.
