Searching for Solutions: Case Studies & Discussion Questions for Helping Professionals
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In the human service / social science / public service academic realms, we have extensive options for the learning of models and paradigms. This allows us steppingstones to gain an expansive knowledge-base of the issues we face in the workplace.
However, until or unless that can be translated to reality-based understandings, it remains only potential vs action steps.’
In this set of Case Studies, West offers a set of very real world examples of how to transform knowledge into human need response. Bringing her decades of experience as a social justice activist, senior administrator within private and public human service/ wellness agencies, and her decades as a Professor into focus, West offers real world case studies that are springboards for classroom discussion, as well as building blocks for projects and papers.
Module 1: Helping in Times of Crisis
Module 2: Assuring Help is Trauma Informed
Module 3: Healthy Boundaries—With Self and Others
Module 4: Crisis Intervention and De-escalation
Module 5: Confidentiality and Coordination of Care: Informed Consent
Module 6: Self as an Instrument of Change: Telling Our Story to Clients
Module 7: Learning to Listen to Learn
Module 8: Engaging Mandated Clients in the Therapeutic Process
Module 9: Harm—to Self, to Others
Module 10: Documentation in the 21st Century
Module 11: Change is Neither Linear nor Assured
Module 12: Mental Health, Mental Illness, and Everyday Exhaustion
Module 13: Gender, Sexual Identity, and Comfort in Dealing With Intimacy
Module 14: Difference—Equality, Equity, and Justice
Module 15: Care of the Caretaker
Module 16: Grief—Stages Versus Continuum of Care
Module 17: Minors: Mandated Reporting and Family Dynamics
Module 18: Virtual Life and Work—Success and Failure
Module 19: The Role of Belief in Well-Being
Module 20: Termination of Therapy—Both a Clinical and Ethical Process
Doe West, MS, MDiv, PhD, PhD
Board Certified Human Service Practitioner
Dr. West’s love of learning brought her to earn 8 college degrees over her lifetime (two each of Associates, Bachelors, Masters, and Doctorates) but she knew that book knowledge was not ever sufficient to actually impact the world. To create change, one has to be able to offer full advocacy for one another. That means one has to add life experience to education. In her decades of work as a social justice advocate, academic, researcher/writer, senior administrator in public and private settings, clinical experience as a counselor and service as an interfaith Chaplain, each set of skills became the glue for the amalgam of beliefs and behaviors she offers all whose lives she touches daily. She welcomes communication and opportunities to share her knowledge and cooperation with others doing this imperative life affirming work.
Contact her at: doewest.phd@gmail.com
In the human service / social science / public service academic realms, we have extensive options for the learning of models and paradigms. This allows us steppingstones to gain an expansive knowledge-base of the issues we face in the workplace.
However, until or unless that can be translated to reality-based understandings, it remains only potential vs action steps.’
In this set of Case Studies, West offers a set of very real world examples of how to transform knowledge into human need response. Bringing her decades of experience as a social justice activist, senior administrator within private and public human service/ wellness agencies, and her decades as a Professor into focus, West offers real world case studies that are springboards for classroom discussion, as well as building blocks for projects and papers.
Module 1: Helping in Times of Crisis
Module 2: Assuring Help is Trauma Informed
Module 3: Healthy Boundaries—With Self and Others
Module 4: Crisis Intervention and De-escalation
Module 5: Confidentiality and Coordination of Care: Informed Consent
Module 6: Self as an Instrument of Change: Telling Our Story to Clients
Module 7: Learning to Listen to Learn
Module 8: Engaging Mandated Clients in the Therapeutic Process
Module 9: Harm—to Self, to Others
Module 10: Documentation in the 21st Century
Module 11: Change is Neither Linear nor Assured
Module 12: Mental Health, Mental Illness, and Everyday Exhaustion
Module 13: Gender, Sexual Identity, and Comfort in Dealing With Intimacy
Module 14: Difference—Equality, Equity, and Justice
Module 15: Care of the Caretaker
Module 16: Grief—Stages Versus Continuum of Care
Module 17: Minors: Mandated Reporting and Family Dynamics
Module 18: Virtual Life and Work—Success and Failure
Module 19: The Role of Belief in Well-Being
Module 20: Termination of Therapy—Both a Clinical and Ethical Process
Doe West, MS, MDiv, PhD, PhD
Board Certified Human Service Practitioner
Dr. West’s love of learning brought her to earn 8 college degrees over her lifetime (two each of Associates, Bachelors, Masters, and Doctorates) but she knew that book knowledge was not ever sufficient to actually impact the world. To create change, one has to be able to offer full advocacy for one another. That means one has to add life experience to education. In her decades of work as a social justice advocate, academic, researcher/writer, senior administrator in public and private settings, clinical experience as a counselor and service as an interfaith Chaplain, each set of skills became the glue for the amalgam of beliefs and behaviors she offers all whose lives she touches daily. She welcomes communication and opportunities to share her knowledge and cooperation with others doing this imperative life affirming work.
Contact her at: doewest.phd@gmail.com