Personal Model of Helping

How to make a personal model of helping for human services.

Krista’s Personal Model of Helping

BSHS/312

Models of Effective Helping

Professor Jamie Larson

January 31st, 2013

Every individual has his or her own set of issues that they need to deal with such as

relationship difficulties, family problems, individual personal struggles, addiction, disability

troubles, and much more. Thankfully, theorists have created different theories to go about the

different situations that have helped me form my own viewpoint from many of the techniques

and methods discussed in this course.

Starting off my personal model of helping is the Adlerian theory. Learning about this

theory I have come to learn being able to have a sense of others outside of oneself, is an

important part of development in an environment. Learning about birth orders and the roles that

are typically assigned to them needs to be considered as these roles are reinforced by social

norms (Cicirelli, 1994). Knowing that conditions within a family can affect behavior and

personality development, the need to consider family constellation will take part of my model of

helping. My role of as a helper would be to establish a strong rapport with the client, evaluate the

client's concerns, and use modeling to help the client change his or her behaviors or achieve

goals. Face-to-face interviews are important in the partnership between client and helper (Parrott,

2003), and will be used. By conducting face to face interviews, I can show the client more facial

emotions and develop a stronger rapport that I believe is very important at the beginning and

with new clients.

In my personal model of helping, I also will include ideas from behaviorism. I feel that if

a client is making an excuse on a behavior because he or she is too old and it cannot be broken is

not an excuse....