Managing Boundaries in the Helping Process

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Unit 6 Assignment

Managing Boundaries in the Helping Process

Please put parts 1 and 2 together in a single document and submit one complete assignment to the Dropbox.

Part 1:

Managing boundaries is an everyday reality faced by human service professionals, particularly those who live and practice in small communities. Helpers who work in rural communities may have greater challenges in dealing with multiple relationships than those who work in urban areas. In 3 to 4 pages, explore the issues below. Please use APA subheadings and title the sections scenario 1, 2, and 3. Your response should include a minimum of four scholarly sources, one of which must be the National Organization of Human Services Code of Ethics.

Scenario 1:

A human service professional discovers that all of her bank accounts are at the local bank where a client works as a teller. This client has access to the human service professional’s financial information and may be able to ascertain who the human service professional’s other clients are in town when checks are deposited.

Scenario 2:

A human service professional sees one of his clients at the local grocery store. The client is with one or more other persons. The human service professional, who is mindful of confidentiality, must decide how to respond. If he doesn’t acknowledge the client, will the client feel snubbed? On the other hand, what if the human service professional approaches the client to say hello and the client doesn’t want others to know that he or she is working with the human service professional?

Scenario 3:

A human service professional has been invited to a dinner party hosted by a friend. She is not aware of the fact that the friend’s son is dating one of her new clients, who also attends the party. Upon seeing her client at her friend’s party, the human service professional must decide how to respond. This scenario can be taken in a number of directions. For example, what if the client has concerns with the human service professional’s friend because the son constantly complains about him/her? What if the client identifies as being gay and is romantically involved with the friend’s son, but his parent (the human service professional’s friend) does not know that he is gay? There are several more possibilities as well.

Part 2:

Increasingly, clients or former clients want to become “friends” with their human service professional via the Internet. For helping professionals who are considering using Facebook, a host of ethical concerns about boundaries, dual relationships, confidentiality, and privacy arise. In 2 to 3 pages, please summarize what you would do in this situation. Your response should include a minimum of four scholarly sources, one of which must be the National Organization of Human Services Code of Ethics.

Provide appropriate citations and references for any information you use in this paper. For help with citations, refer to the Plagiarism Guide found in Kaplan Academic Tools. For additional writing help, visit the Kaplan University Writing Center and review the guidelines for research, citation, and plagiarism.




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Managing Boundaries in the Helping Process
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Managing Boundaries in the Helping Process
Introduction
Human service professionals are the individuals mandated with helping families, people,
and members of communities and groups in renewing their capacities to function as individuals
acceptable to society (Greene, 2017). In addition, human service professionals help organizations
and individuals to reaching peak of efficiency through implementation of services and
interventions that help them perform well.
Human service professionals usually begin with getting a clear understanding of how
social interactions between groups and individuals or organizations may impact the individuals
and harm or help their abilities and functioning to attaining desired goals. Working in
collaboration with groups, individuals, these professionals try to understand their capabilities,
problem solving skills, ability to cope and ways of maximizing effectiveness (Greene, 2017). In
addition, by assisting the organizations or individuals to implement meaningful changes through
numerous services and interventions, the human service professionals establish an environment
of achieving optimal results.
Part 1
Scenario I
The scenario explores the importance of maintaining confidentiality between the human
service professionals and their client. We are faced with situation where one of the human
service professional’s clients has access to one of their financial information and the client may
be able to scrutinize other clients’ information through financial deposits (Greene, 2017).
However, it should be understood that confidentiality is one of the key principles in human
service professionalism. Therefore, it is the responsibility of the human service professional to

HUMAN SERVICE PROFESSIONALS

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ensure that the sensitive and confidential data of his/her other clients are dully protected. Hence,
the human service professiona...


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