When dealing with vulnerability, dependency and resistance with clients, which of these do you feel would be the most difficult to overcome? In what way does the helping professional fall victim to these issues as well? Is one more likely than another for the helping professional? Reply in 250-300 words. Respond to a minimum of two of your classmates' posts.

Human services workers need to deal with three important factors in their area of work- vulnerability, dependency and resistance. Often, they come in contact with clients who are vulnerable due to illness, failure, unemployment and physical violence. Exposure to the events leading to client vulnerability due to violence also leads them to show adverse posttraumatic stress reactions (Brend, Krane & Saunders, 2019). To deal with the situation while dealing with vulnerable clients, special skills and knowledge to deal with such clients and situations is required and I think this is the most difficult of the three areas. The role of human services professionals is very challenging in such situations, where they are required to develop and create a change in the destructive environment, while keeping positive themselves. They need to show empathy, communication skills and understanding of the situation. This may be particularly difficult as client is actually using the worker just to vent out his/her own frustration. Clients also do not want to come to terms with the fact that they need help as the culture in the society is that of independence. They also are resistant to change, which the workers should understand as quite natural. But this could be overcome by efficient communication and confrontation with facts (Levine, 2013). I think workers could be vulnerable when they think that they can be the agents of change. It is actually the clients who change, human services workers are only a way to manage that change.

Brend, D. M., Krane, J., & Saunders, S. (2019). Exposure to trauma in intimate partner violence human service work: A scoping review. Traumatology. https://doi-org.proxy-library.ashford.edu/10.1037/trm0000199

Levine, J. (2013). Working with People: The Helping Process (9th ed.). Retrieved from https://redshelf.com/