Question: Human Services Competencies Questionnaire

You have been asked by your supervisor to help develop a questionnaire that will be used to determine the competencies of human service professionals applying for a position with your human service agency. Your supervisor has already developed five questions for the questionnaire listed below. You have been tasked to create five additional questions that will help address the following:

• The applicant's method for handling ethical issues.

• The applicant's plan for staying current in his or her area of expertise and for receiving continuing education.

• The applicant's approach to boundaries and multiple relationships.

• The applicant's commitment to multicultural competence.

After creating your five additional questions, your supervisor has asked that you test the questionnaire by creating complete and detailed responses, as if you were one of the professionals applying for the position, to all 10 questions.

Complete the questionnaire, utilizing complete and detailed responses, as if you were one of the professionals applying for the position by answering ALL 10 questions.

1) How would you describe the purpose of boundaries within the field of human services?

2) How do you know when someone is demonstrating multicultural competence?

3) What is the first thing you do when faced with an ethical issue in your field of practice?

4) Would you describe yourself as having professional competence? Why or why not?

5) Which of the professional Codes of Ethics do you follow? How do you apply them to multiple relationships for human service workers?