Running head: FINAL RESEARCH PAPER 1

Final Research Paper

Palm Beach State College

GEB3213 Business Writing

April 15, 2019

Abstract: In the following research paper I discuss the person-centered approach

sometimes displayed as Strength based approach or “whole person” centered approach. The

following will detail how “the approaches have changed over the last 100 years” regarding the

participant and his or her disabilities, methodology only detailing in the general discipline of

social work as I as a student have not studied the applications and can tell you about history.
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The ethics of a social worker described by Ethical Standard for Human Service

professionals (2019) that the whole person, is the whole person who they serve, meaning that this

is a way of saying that they serve someone from head to toe, what does that mean?

In the book Social Work today, Jones 2009 has found that the Person -Centered approach, that

according to Carl Rogers (1902-1987) that all humans have ability for psychological growth.

That is the mindset that human service professionals intend to “assist” those in need, the writer

discusses what is the person-centered approach in general.

The idea that social workers are fixers and band aid placers for persons

with disabilities is a misconception and how human services professionals are meant to be the

holistic approach to managing a persona with a disability. The main points that the writer

discusses that many researchers, and professionals have deceived that disability is mostly social

and cultural, while social workers and human services professional describe a disability as a

social mode (see figure 1) and biologically linked to medical anomalies. The writer of this book

will discuss matters related to “their form of potential in their lives”. The first, topic is “person

centered thinking” the way person centered thinking revolves around social work as a general

discipline (Jones 2009) the writer discusses the connection of “person centered approach” and of

the strength-based approach. (Jones 209) writes how people today encroach and not encounter,

people with disabilities, people with disabilities who for example (Jones) tend to live in a

residential “in patient” housing such as residential facilities, Where they would receive services

from many service pushers also known as providers and the participants or the disabled would be

the service users, the service users are mandated or have little to no choice to accept those

services it is already “accepted for them”. For those who are able bodied and able-minded, they

struggle to find they’re what the disability means for them. Social workers who specialize in
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disabilities are versed and take supervisory hours to attain experience in assisting those who have

barriers and disabilities. In the book, Social work and disability, the writers discuss how

“disability” over time, the models of disability and what they mean.

The way of thinking during the time period and how social work roles

changed over the last 100 years. The below Image is from a power point presentation from May

17, 2016 where the writers discuss at the “School of Social work” Strafforshire University, in the

UK. She discusses lastly the human rights model, where she works on mezzo and macro issues,

and she sees people with disabilities as a disenfranchised group that needs a voice. The writers

discuss the issues with Social workers, and the limitations that social workers have in the care of

management roles. The writers discuss who the person with a disability is, and the reason the

person with a disability does not have to identify by just the disability, because the person with a

disability or impairment is a human with more than just a disability, while this book describes

the topic, it is in other statements. Service plans, Case plans with families and people with

disabilities are written in a way that is combination of what plans and goals the person with

disabilities has for future and what goals they have for themselves. Case managers have a

difficult duty to differentiate what each service provider wants and what the person with the

disability wants to flower.

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FIGURE 1. Main disability Models

What does that realistically mean for the population, let’s look at it from a economic standpoint.

(Weaver 1995) discusses that the United States has been in trouble keeping up with the rising

cost of welfare. The ADA (Americans with Disabilities Act) started working on the legislative

level in the 1990’s removing barriers so people with disabilities could work at the same jobs and

not be fired, it was not lucrative work for the disabled, the work became less profitable and

attractive to those receiving welfare by creating a “means” to remain dependent.

In 2019 the Ticket to work program still exists following is information taken from excerpt, that

Table I-1. Employment and SSDI/SSI receipt among population reporting work limitation Year

Work limitation prevalence Employed more than 200 hours last year SSDI/SSI receipt 1981

7.3% 35.2% 32.6% 2010 7.8% 22.6% 51.4% Source: Authors' calculations using March CPS

data Note: Sample limited to civilian noninstitutional population age 25-59.The reality not that I

personally think that people with disabilities do not deserve a safety net, on the contrary there are

people who have disabilities that have ability to protect themselves and are vulnerable, instead

try to empower the individual on different levels and case management would be different for

each person. There is no cookie cutter response to “empower the disabled” because everyone
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disability is not the same or seen/perceived the same way. In my opinion raising the threshold on

the people who are strictly depending on the government. Welfare for the disabled should be

based on tiers. The Tiers would be classified not by autocrats and would “focus” attention on the

most vulnerable individuals who “regular” abled bodied people may not be able to see on a

regular basis.

Although the writer in the following Journal Disability Research Matters (Thorton 2004)

Another hardship that people with disabilities face is that they are often “ found in difficult socio

economic conditions that parents of the persons with disabilities have lower incomes than

families of non-disabled children, They are most likely to be renters, or be on government

housing, Those houses privately owned or rented by the parents that had no legality to it’s

upkeep, were mostly in need of repair, in addition of some kind of repair related to the person

with disability.

Often people with children who have disabilities are focus, hyper focused on getting their

child the best form of communication and education possible, sometimes those students who

are able bodied but are diagnosed with disabilities that are educable encounter a lot of hardship

outside of public school and stigma in public school, even with the advancements in

“inclusion’ and person catered approach to continuing care of school districts there are times

when having a disability is harder for the parent trying to navigate the “information” availed

to them and accepting services for their adult child or students because they were given

information.
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People with children with disabilities that are focused on education, deal with other socio-

economic issues, of those issues that are related to the barriers to the disabled face.

Welfare assist those families by supplying housing, food benefits, accommodation or durable

medical equipment but nothing else unless they are apart of a program.

Managing the distance between a social worker who means well but is not managing the

position of a social worker with a client with a disability that may need more care. (Leary &

Tsui 2013) Managing this delicate process has been conceptualized as maintaining

‘professional distance’, premised on the belief that a psycho-social separation will encourage

rational scientific objectivity. It safeguards against the emergence of bonds that are personal,

sexual, religious, financial or business-oriented and allows the social worker to observe and

help from a ‘safe’ distance. In relation to the genre of social work, social work is a general

discipline where you are dealing with a mix of different groups, differentiated by sex, or

sociological groups man blends of people, the people that come and receive assistance from

social workers deal with mental illness, stress, and micro , mezzo issues come with to receive

and discuss concerns with the human services professional.

In conclusion, the following information is a general approach to the “Person Centered

approach” in a general sense it’s empowerment.

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