HUS Test 1Ch 1-4 Questions & Answers 2024/2025
Human Services focuses on "the improvement of quality of living for the ________ members of society." - ANSWERSneediest
A human service worker is a trained _____ level professional. - ANSWERSentry
A human service worker can fill various role...
Human Services focuses on "the improvement of quality of living for the ________ members of society."
- ANSWERSneediest
A human service worker is a trained _____ level professional. - ANSWERSentry
A human service worker can fill various roles, and is considered a generalist. True or False? -
ANSWERStrue
What issues are considered priorities for human service workers to address first - ANSWERSphysical
Human services focuses on problem solution rather than on treatment. True or False? - ANSWERStrue
Human service workers are identified by their _____. - ANSWERScompetencies
What does the term "evidence based mean?" - ANSWERSValid evaluation & a commitment to act on the
results of that evaluation. The delivery of a particular service must be based on its effectiveness in
problem solution rather than on the deliver's belief that it is good for the client or on the fact that the
deliverer enjoys doing it.
What is meant by "overdependency on services?" - ANSWERSOvertreatment - delivering long-term
services to a small percentage of potential clients, which in effect ties up the system and prevents
services from being delivered equally to all.
How did Dorothea Dix contribute to the helping professions? - ANSWERSShe investigated conditions in
jails, debtor's prisons, and asylums exposing the ill treatment and brutality that had become common.
She presented to state legislatures and lobbied for improved conditions. She was directly responsible for
the establishment of more than 30 mental hospitals in the US & Europe. Her efforts at reform
foreshadowed the advocacy role of later human service workers.
, What was the realization in the 1940s about the problems with the traditional helping systems and social
welfare services? - ANSWERSPrisons were overcrowding, crime rate was increasing, mental hospital
populations soared and educational opportunities were unequally distributed. Society was waging a
losing battle. Obvious that persons with lesser need but greater access were receiving the most services
while those with the greatest need and lesser access were receiving almost nothing at all. Services were
being obtained more by the people who could pay for it-the middle & upper class.
"Although there were a few groups in the traditional human services who were working in new
directions, most of the impetus was coming from what has been called the _______ level." -
ANSWERSgrass-roots
What public law prompted the increase of community mental health centers? - ANSWERSlaw 88-164
Why would clients benefit from mental health services in the community more than in hospital settings?
- ANSWERSTo foster the development of their maximum capacity and to bring them closer to normalcy
and independence.
Who are considered the foreruns of human services? - ANSWERSIndigenous workers, paraprofessionals,
case aides, and community and mental health workers who mostly were employed in community mental
health centers.
What is the NOHS? - ANSWERSNational Organization for Human Services. Membership association of
human service educators, students, and workers
A human service worker is an agent of _____. - ANSWERSchange
Outreach worker - ANSWERSReaches out to direct people with problems, to refer them to appropriate
services, and to follow them up to make sure they continue to their maximum rehabilitation. Example -
working with senior citizen centers to identify person's who need assistance and refer them to
appropriate services.
Broker - ANSWERSHelps people get to existing services and helps the service relate more easily to the
clients.
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