HHS 497 Health & Human Services WK3-D2

Week Three - Summary

All Sections

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Transitional phrases

https://awc.ashford.edu/grammar-transitional-phrase-and-verb-signal.html (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.

Direct quotes

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In-text citation guidelines

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Paragraph Organization

McWhorter, K. T. (2005). Reading Across the Disciplines (2nd ed.). New York Pearson Longman. Retrieved from  https://valenciacollege.edu/wp/cssc/documents/OrganizationalPatternsinAcademicWriting.pdf (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.

Communication takes place when two or more people understand the words and gestures of each other. The Social Information Processing Theory, suggests that communication can be face-to-face or by online transmission (Walther, 2008). Regardless of the channel used to communicate information, it is passed on from one person or technological device to another. This week you will learn about technology in the human services field, where different methods of technology are used to enhance knowledge, through the Internet and social media, such as Facebook, Twitter, Chat rooms and other types of communication processing.

Migone (2013) noted that information and communication technologies have established the way we see our world.  Kimball and Kim (2013) noted that mobile devices (smartphones and tablets), computer hardware and software has incorporated technology.  Blais, Craig, Pepler, and Connolly (2008) suggested that technology has opened our world to learning and entertainment. For example, to Netflix and movies on demand. I want to add that communication technology has opened our world to new and innovative telehealth medical treatment options that enhance patient care.  Instead of calling the receptionist to get a doctor's appoint, you can log into the hospital's website to make appoints, as well as get lab results. With the growing use of technology, Dr. Watson’s core principles and practices of caring can provide a caring and healing atmosphere for patient improvement.

Technology in the human services field has changed considerably over the last 20 years. When I was a case manager, the computers were old and slow, and the client's information was completed using paper or sticky notes. However, in many instances, the paper was lost, or a diet coke was spilled on the paper.  Later, we received updated computers, and all the client's information was entered into a system called running records. Running records was a significant change from the old paper system. Along, with new technology came ethical issues associated with privacy and confidentiality on the Internet, as well as secured emails and data protection. To keep data safe, in our department we have training each year on Internet safety, and how to protect and secure emails.

Did you know there is a different between the Internet and the World Wide Web?

The Internet is a network of computer devices, routers, and servers working across the world, and the World Wide Web is the software running on the Internet which has no physical existence (Fossbytes, 2017, February 8).

I have provided an article, “What’s the difference between the Internet and the World Wide Web" at https://fossbytes.com/difference-between-the-internet-and-world-wide-web/ (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.

Please check it out!

Below is a video on "The History of the Internet," what are your thoughts?

Remember, you will be graded on following directions, the content of your paper using the Assignment Grading Rubric and your knowledge of the APA guidelines.

References

Blais, J., Craig, W., Pepler, D., & Connolly, J. (2008). Adolescents online: The importance of Internet activity choices to salient relationships. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 37(5), 522–536.

Fossbytes (2017, February 8). What’s the difference between the Internet and the World Wide Web? Retrieved from https://fossbytes.com/difference-between-the-internet-and-world-wide-web/ (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.

How the web became a thing.The history of the Internet (2017, March 29) SciShow. Retrieved from https://youtu.be/1CsPHKJWiw0

Migone, P. (2013). Psychoanalysis on the Internet: A discussion of its theoretical implications for both online and offline therapeutic technique. Psychoanalytic Psychology, 30(2), 281–299.