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Here, "human service" means "intentionally helping persons or groups of people fill current primary needs." This Web site focuses on the key developmental and adjustment needs of co-parents, kids, and their supporters. Human-service professions include clergy, counsel-ors, therapists, attorneys and judges, mediators, coaches, medical pro-fessionals, educators, social welfare and case workers, consultants, law enforcement pros, 'customer service' reps, and many more. In each profession, service with a specific client ranges from "totally ineffective" to "completely effective." Effective means (1) "the (a) client's and (b) the professional's current primary (vs. surface) needs were filled 'well enough' (2) in a way that pleased all participants well enough." In human-service organizations, "participants" may include Board mem-bers, stockholders or funders, and service-accreditation professionals. In any human-service transaction, there may be three or more judges of "effectiveness": the client, the provider/s, and interested third parties. |
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