Primary, Secondary and Tertiary Interventions. The Primary intervention is dealing with try to prevent an occurrence of a problem by concentrating on the environmental stressors and working on dealing with them before they begin to effect ones behavior in a manner that will worsen. For example, beginning signs of the use of illegal substances or alcohol. Dealing with the situation around an individual demonstrating a signs of stress and the use of either illegal substances or alcohol to cope with the stress. This type of scenario would classify under a primary level of prevention. In which a service within the human service field could be called …show more content…
Listening Skills, being able to actively listen and obtain the information a client is giving allows you as a worker to understand and appropriately assist with what your client wants rather than what you want.
Verbal and written communication skills, as a worker you will need to be able to obtain and communicate a lot of information to appropriate individuals, having strong written and verbal communications skills is a necessity to be able to effectively provide information where and when needed.
Boundaries, being sure “mixed signals” are not being crossed between worker and client is important. Being a human service worker you are coming into a situation in which supports are limited to the client. Clients tend to be very vulnerable and could see a worker as a “friend” over time and keeping a professional relationship with clients is extremely important so that the therapeutic process is always protected.
Organizational Skills, many clients you come in contact with are in a very stressful time in their lives and organization is something they could be really lacking. Being organized is very important as you will often be multi-tasking, the ability to prioritize which work is required to be done in which order is extremely