Answer Questions
Monday March 12, 2018 Sociology of the Helping Professions Chapter Five Homework Assignment
Please answer the following questions and post your document to the link on Blackboard.
1. What are personalization issues? What is an example? Why are these relevant to choosing a career as a helping professional?
2. What is meant by vicarious traumatization? What are some examples? What steps can a helping professional take to minimize the impact of clients’ trauma on their own personal lives?
3. What is burnout? How does it affect the helping professional? What are some examples of helping professions that have high levels of burnout and employee transience?
4. What is emotional regulation? What are its components? Can it be learned? What are some of the associated neurological processes that influence emotional regulation? How is it important both for the helping professional and the client? What are steps toward recognizing emotional triggers?
5. What are key emotional self-regulation strategies? Discuss each and provide an example.
6. What is implicit bias? What are some examples? What is its relationship to implicit and explicit memory?
7. What is cultural competence? What are its key components?