Week 6 – Final Paper

My Future as a Human Services Professional

Prior to beginning work on this assignment, read Chapters 13, 14 and the epilogue from your text, 

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 and 

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. Your final paper should identify and analyze a specific need identified by a community.

Your summative assessment will require you to reflect on your future as a human services professional. In your paper, you must comprehensively address the following:

· Evaluate your career selection that was made in Week 1.

· What populations do you want to serve and in what capacity?

· What type of organization do you want to be working for in the future (or now if you plan to stay with your organization as you advance)?

· Appraise the past, current, and future societal issues facing the human services profession with your chosen population and organization.

· Evaluate a minimum of one historical issue related to your population.

· What current challenges might your clients face and how might this impact your organization as well as your work?

· What future societal issues might your clients and organization face?

· Evaluate how you might perform your role in this field.

· How might you be supervised?

· What might your working relationships be with your colleagues?

· How will you maintain healthy boundaries with clients?

· What other services might your organization offer and how might these services interact with yours.

· Assess the impact that the community will have on your clients and organization?

· How will you work to serve your clients within the community?

· How do you think you will have an impact on the global needs in terms of the population you have chosen to serve?

· Compare the human services organization where you currently work or might work with a similar human services organization that serves the same population.

· Outline the similarities and differences, evaluating which is more of an effective model of a human services agency.

The My Future as a Human Services Professional final paper

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Must be six to eight double-spaced pages in length (not including title and references pages) and formatted according to APA Style as outlined in the Writing Center’s 

APA Style

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Must include a separate title page with the following:

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Title of paper (bold and with a space between the title and the rest of the information)

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Student’s name, followed by institution name

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Course name and number

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Instructor’s name

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Date submitted

· Must utilize academic voice. See the 

Academic Voice

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 resource for additional guidance.

· Must include an introduction and conclusion paragraph. Your introduction paragraph needs to end with a clear thesis statement that indicates the purpose of your paper.

· For assistance on writing 

Introductions & Conclusions

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 as well as 

Writing a Thesis Statement

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, refer to the Writing Center resources.

· Must use at least three scholarly, peer-reviewed sources in addition to the course text.

· The 

Scholarly, Peer-Reviewed, and Other Credible Sources

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 table offers additional guidance on appropriate source types. If you have questions about whether a specific source is appropriate for this assignment, please contact your instructor. Your instructor has the final say about the appropriateness of a specific source for a particular assignment.

· To assist you in completing the research required for this assignment, view this 

Library Quick ‘n’ Dirty

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 tutorial, which introduces the University of Arizona Global Campus Library and the research process, and provides some library search tips.

· Must document any information used from sources in APA Style as outlined in the Writing Center’s 

APA: Citing Within Your Paper

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· Must include a separate references page that is formatted according to APA Style as outlined in the Writing Center. See the 

APA: Formatting Your References List

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 resource in the Writing Center for specifications.

 Discussion Posts: You are required to post items to the course online discussion forum (see syllabus for how they will be graded) that add value to the topic that is covered that week linking theory to real world examples.

• Find & Post (or post a link to) a concept of International Business Communication (photo, short video, brief piece of writing, song, etc —  related to this weeks chapter 8.
• Analyze the object according to requirements for the week.
• Make a connection to the readings, videos or recordings for the week.

 Your short answer is based on this module’s readings and videos and has 6 questions. You have 2 hours to answer the questions. It is worth a total of 6 points. Guidelines to answer each question:

• Each question should be answered in 1-2 paragraphs of at least 5-7 sentences each paragraph.
• Incorporate corresponding terminology (review chapter).
• Review grammar and mechanics
• Read articles before completing

You will be asked to answer  the following list of questions:

1. Determine whether certain personality traits are actually expressed in the voice and whether listeners are sensitive to these cues? What are the different personality stereotypes related to voice?
2. What is known about emotional ex-pression in the human voice? Can people can identify emotions in the voice? Why? How?
3. What are the typical prescriptions for use of the voice in delivering a public speech?
4. Several studies tend to support the prescriptions for vocal variety in increasing audience comprehension and retention. Please develop in detail.
5. Vocal cues play an important role in managing the interaction and are part of a system of cues that helps people structure their interactions. How? What are the different rules for managing interactions? Explain in detail.
6. What are the reasons for why pauses occur? Define are the different types of pauses? Explain in detail.
7. What are three of the many interpersonal functions served by silence? List and explain.
8. Research suggests that the voice may be important in some aspects of persuasion. Why? How?
9. Consider stereotypes you have about the voice—for example, about high or low voices, fast or slow voices, voices with different accents, and so on. Discuss what truth you think there is to the stereotypes, based on as many real examples as you can think of.
10. Analyze the phenomenon of sarcasm in terms of the voice as well as the other cues that might be associated with it. Are verbal and non-verbal usages different in teasing (or joking) compared to being sarcastic?

RESROUCES:

BOOK and POWERPOINT SLIDES ATTACHED

 

Select one item from the BACB® 5th edition task list. Pinpoint a specific behavior or output/permanent product related to the task list item, operationally define it, and determine how you would evaluate a trainee’s performance on the skill, both initially and ongoing. Would you include a checklist, BARS, or self-assessment? Would you use any fundamental measures or sampling procedures? How will you make your trainees comfortable being assessed on this skill? 

Remember to review the Reflection Paper rubric and instructions for reviewing a peer’s submission in the Important Course Information module.

Additionally, please include LINKS or DOIs to any articles or books referenced outside of the assigned readings as part of your APA citation (as is required when using web-based referencesLinks to an external site.). Failing to do so will result in point deductions.