Reflect on the Knowledge, Skills and Values that Professionals Utilise in Working with People

Key Values of Professionals
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Key Values of Professionals
Professionals recognize that problems experienced by individuals, groups, communities, families or even themselves are vital, and require the understanding of human behaviour, culture, politics, socioeconomic and the law to prevent or alleviate. Hence, demonstrating the fact that a specialist utilises knowledge, skills, and values in his work with persons (Glasby, 2012). Thus, the study focuses on this phenomena. It appraises the strengths and difficulties experts face in their jobs and service user involvement. Therefore, demonstrating how knowledge, skills, and values are significant to a health and social worker.
Strengths And Difficulties for Professional’s working
For an individual to enter into a career, there are forces that drive them into the career. This reveals the existence of strengths for a professional who is working. The first one is the drive to get the basic needs. Maslow’s hierarchy of needs model establishes the wants of an individual in life. Some of the needs require money to alleviate. Also, for one to get the money they have to work. Good pay attracts a majority of folks to a field. This demonstrates the strength of needs in a professional’s functioning. The other aspect is personal interests. Motivated by external factors, a young person develops interest to join a particular profession. Later, when they are professionals in the field, they will appreciate performing their duties. The next facet is the motive to be of service to a community (Glasby, 2012). Theoretically, the concept seems to be based on behaviourism theory. The model’s idea that people behave in a way that they will receive favours in every situation reveals why an expert will work unsurpassed to become the best in their work environment. The necessity of a profession can also be the strength of the professionals working. Health careers are very crucial for humanity, hence, a medical specialist will be encouraged to carry out his duties based on need for service for humanity. The other strength for experts working is teamwork (Schon, 1983). Good cooperation among fellowships can lead to an expected achievements from individuals. Social factors like good relationship among members boost individuals' attitude towards working in an organisation.
Working conditions affect one’s morale towards their work (Brotherton, 2008). If a person is exposed to unsafe or unhealthy working conditions they can resign (Trevithick, 2005). However, if the conditions are conducive, they will passionately play his responsibilities. This proves the essence of good working conditions for specialists. The state law and requirement on a career impact a lot on a profession. For instance, if the law tampers with any of the physiological, safety, social, esteem, and self-actualisation needs of the professionals they will be disheartened. Incentives such as good pay and other benefits motivate people to work. The nature of a job can also be a limiting factor to practitioners. For example, aged people get it hard to adapt to new technologies. Thus, old specialists can be demotivated by technologies. Other difficulties faced by professionals include workload, stress, challenging clients and low pay (Trevithick, 2005). Overworking results exhaustion which brings about poor performance at the work environment. Stress comes as a result of boredom from a job or group associates traits. It diminishes individual’s attitude to a given task. It negatively affects the person’s performance of tasks.
Challenging clients is another source of difficulties to specialists. Bad behaviour from clients results in anger, tension and pressure among the professionals. The factors can affect a person’s health and social relations with others. Low and delayed payment is a common challenge to professionals (Barnard, 2011). Not only do they affect individuals’ attitude but also make it hard for them to perform their duties. Delayed payment can lead to the lack of transport, hunger, and other sufferings. Petty duties are other boring factors. They make a professional feel incompetent. The other risk is the health issue, some instruments used in health services like x-rays have negative impacts on health (General Medical Council 1993). Also, some contagious diseases can spread during care, thus, exposing the specialist to a risk of contaminating the disease.
Values for a Health and Social Care Practice
Health and social care practice is a challenging, but rewarding career (Brotherton, 2008). The practitioners have the charge of helping persons, families or group members to cope with problems they face in life. One aspect of their skills is how they develop mechanisms for patients to get back to wellness. However, counselling is only one aspect of the various tasks they perform. They often serve as liaisons between different entities to assist the suffering from questionable health conditions. They also cooperate with other experts for the benefit of a patient. They have to maintain a case history of data records and prepare reports. Furthermore, they engage in policy development, advocacy for health services and research (Barnard, 2011). In general, they carry out therapeutic, transformational, maintenance and emancipatory duties. Therapeutic is the focus on improving a clients’ situation through the process of interaction and medication. Transformational involves empowering oppressed people to participate in self-care. Maintenance encompasses the efforts or criteria to improve individual adaption to a situation or functioning. Emancipatory is associated with actions targeted at both helping the needy and achieving structural change.
To carry out these responsibilities they need knowledge, skills, values and personal ethics. The skills include active listening, asking questions, speaking, critical thinking, coordination, reading comprehension, service oriented, writing, complex problem solving, decision making and judgment. Active listening is t...