Chapter 8
List 3 human services careers in the medical field.
What are:
•Child Life Specialist
•Therapist/Counselor
•Patient Advocate
•Psychologist
•Hospital Social Worker
What are 3 duties of school psychologist?
What are:
•Focus is on mental health
•Provides psychological assessments & testing
•Provides coping skills
•Provides communication & social skills
•Emphasizes safe learning environment
List the types of faith based communities.
What are:
-Christian agencies
-Jewish agencies
-Islamic agencies
Do faith based agencies belong on MDT's?
What is yes, if it benefits the client's success.
Which category does medical needs go in on Maslow's Heirachy of Needs?
What is physiological.
List the outside factors effecting students.
What are:
•Poverty rate
•Exposure to crime & trauma
•Food deserts
•Access to resources in the area
•Child’s home environment impacts student success
•Adultification of children
•Immediate survival needs
•Truancy
•Is school an immediate need for child & family
Faith based communities often act as_____ between people and human services agencies?
What is a liaison.
Which faith based agency is extremely popular in Baltimore City and has worked with Stevenson students to provide them field placements?
What is Catholic Charities?
Explain the impact that COVID-19 had on the medical field in terms of trauma.
What is medical staff were exposed to higher rates emotional trauma due to the high rates of death. They had to be isolated from their families and friends. They had to get creative with the way they provided care to their patients.
What is a school services team?
Works to meet academic & psychosocial needs
•Multi-disciplinary team
-Social workers
-Teachers
-School administrators
-Student
-Caregiver
Explain the benefits of faith based agencies.
What are:
•People rarely turned away
•Emotional support
•Guidance
•Emphasizes impact on other life factors
What is something that school systems do during school breaks to help children that may be living in poverty?
What is provide free lunches.
Explain the purpose of hospice care.
What is
•Offered to terminally ill patients
•Comfort care
•Dame Cicely Sanders
•Founder of Hospice Movement
•Said people should transition with dignity
•Said that dying people should still be cared for
What is some challenges that school social worker's face?
What are:
•Funding
•Teacher capacity
•Baltimore City
-Lack of resources
-Siloed agencies
-Poverty rates
-Cycle of concerns
What did the Care Services Act do for faith based communities?
What is it gave faith based agencies funding as long as participation in the religion was not a condition of receiving services.
What is a child life specialist?
What is:
•Helps the child & family during medical treatment
•Provides comfort
•Provides child friendly explanations of medical treatment
•Patient advocate
•Liaison between medical staff & family
What is an MDT? Provide a scenario & example of one.
What is a team of professionals from many different fields that work together for a common goal of the patient or client?
What types of goals do school counselors work on?
What are:
•Academic
•Career
•Personal
•Social
What is the mindfulness movement? Provide an example of a mindfulness exercise.
What is:
•Recognizes connection between mind, body, & soul
•Holistic approach
•Emphasizes being in the present moment
•Emphasizes self over everything.
What are SAMSHA's 6 key trauma informed principles?
What are:
1.Safety
2.Trustworthiness & Transparency
3.Peer Support
4.Collaboration & Mutuality
5.Empowerment, voice & choice
6.Cultural, historical, & gender issues