	Intentionality in Human Services

Shuler, Michelle Kelley

doi:10.52678/2021.8

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“…The wellness requirements of our marginalized campus populations, especially, have become even clearer. As one of the current article's authors, Schwitzer, noted in his introduction to a recent special issue of the Journal of Human Services that he co-edited on marginalized populations in the COVID and Black Lives Matter (BLM) contexts, while on one hand “the longstanding pressure of uneven social justice in the U.S. and the effects they have on disadvantaged groups have for a long time been well-known challenges” to service providers such as student affairs professionals, on the other hand, “the entrenched social disadvantages marginalized populations experience have gained much wider … attention during the recent dual crises of the COVID-19 pandemic and [BLM] moment” (Schwitzer, 2021, p. 8). In fact, Michael Couch emphasized in his recent About Campus article that marginalized populations are perhaps “our most vulnerable students” in regard to postpandemic wellness needs (Couch, 2020, p. 10).“the entrenched social disadvantages marginalized populations experience have gained much wider … attention during the recent dual crises of the COVID-19 pandemic and [BLM] moment”…”

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Clinically Speaking: Today's Student Wellness Needs and Resources—What Student Affairs, College Health, and Campus Counseling Should Know

“Woody” Schwitzer,

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2024

About Campus: Enriching the Student Learning Experience

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OLLEGE AND UNIVERSITY EDUCATORS all seem to agree that levels of student stresses, health problems, and mental health needs are strikingly high as we continue to wind through the COVID-19 pandemic. Recent About Campus volumes, reports from groups such as the American Psychological Association and Association for University and College Counseling Center Directors (AUCCCD), and popular media share the same observations. In this context, we want to remind educators that while difficulties in college student health, wellness, and mental health certainly have been exacerbated over the past few years, they were already pressing concerns even pre-COVID-19. In fact, one of us, Alan Schwitzer (2019, May), discussed recent college mental health trends at the May 2019 American College Health Association (ACHA) convention in a grand ballroom presentation for health center psychiatrists, psychologists, and other practitioners just before the virus hit us. Schwitzer casts a wide practice lens when discussing these trends: He got his start in residence life, student development, and academic advising before launching his counseling center career as a licensed psychologist. He has experienced large institutions (such as The University of Texas at Austin), private schools (such as Tulane University), diverse urban centers such as Virginia Commonwealth University, and the traditional college-town campus of James Madison University. In each setting and role, his interest has been in student adjustment and wellness. Correspondingly, in the 2019 ACHA conversation, Schwitzer pointed then to the well-documented high demand for counseling services among today's learners and to the negative effects their psychological concerns were having on their personal adjustment and development and their academic success.

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Clinically Speaking: Today's Student Wellness Needs and Resources—What Student Affairs, College Health, and Campus Counseling Should Know

“Woody” Schwitzer,

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2024

About Campus: Enriching the Student Learning Experience

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“…As we have outlined, a core responsibility of human services professionals is to work towards the goal of optimizing consumers' self-determination -by improving economic stability and enhancing their ability to fill life roles -in the face of countervailing social pressures and economic structures (Schwitzer, 2021). This necessarily includes reducing educational barriers.…”

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“…In this conceptual article, we review the current research and practice literature in order to discuss community colleges as an often-overlooked partner that the human services field has in meeting the needs of its community members. As Schwitzer (2021) recently pointed out, "while human services has always cast a wide professional net, involving a diverse range of … service delivery systems, the modern need for professionals across settings and institutions to work together to serve … population needs is unprecedented" (p. 11). In part, this need exists because of the increased complexity of the skills and knowledge that are required in order to adequately serve constituents (Nancarrow et al, 2013).…”

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Casting a Wide Multidisciplinary Net: Two-Year Colleges as Human Services Contributors in Their Communities

Schwitzer,

Huber,

Schmoyer

2023

Journal of Human Services

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The need among human services professionals for interdisciplinary approaches to meeting population needs, especially in the current COVID-19 and Black Lives Matters (BLM) contexts, is unprecedented. This conceptual article reviews the current research and practice literature in order to discuss two-year colleges as often-overlooked partners in meeting community needs. We present the argument that American two-year colleges, by design, can be human services partners when addressing the inequities, economic and other deficiencies, and marginalization based on racial and ethnic discrimination or similar dynamics found in our communities. Specifically, we demonstrate the relationships between human services, on one hand, and the work of community colleges in their roles as economic engines intended to generate socio-economic security, as academic success centers intended to mitigate obstacles to learning outcomes, as mechanisms for social justice intended to produce life improvements among marginalized populations, and as mental health and wellness supports intended to reduce barriers to achievement. We rely on our own experiences in the Virginia Community College System (VCCS) as illustrations, and we use the work of one sample institution to provide a start-to-finish example of the overlap between human services goals and community colleges.

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Review of Myths of Mindfulness

Paulson

2023

Journal of Human Services

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In the recently published title Myths of Mindfulness (Sequoia Books, ISBN 978191411061), Dr. Richard Sears (2021), an experienced clinician, author, and trainer who is a recognized expert on mindfulness and its application in the helping professions, sets out to clarify information on mindfulness. Throughout the book Dr. Sears addresses common misconceptions about mindfulness and challenges some of the excessive claims made about the proposed benefits from mindfulness practice. He also explains what mindfulness is and how mindfulness-based practices can support emotional health and well-being. Mindfulness in Human ServicesMindfulness-based interventions have increasingly become a prominent part of behavioral health and social services over the past several decades, including the human services profession (Holt & Cottone, 2014). While mindfulness is often a central aspect of several contemporary psychotherapies, such as Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) and others, mindfulness practices and skills themselves are not necessarily a clinical, therapeutic intervention and can be utilized and facilitated by generalist human services practitioners (Paulson & Huggins, 2018).The topic of mindfulness has increasingly become a part of human services education. This has included its incorporation into human services courses and curriculum to enhance the learning of attending, empathy, and therapeutic communication skills (Banks et al., 2016;Lahikainen & Soysa, 2014) and to increase student comfort with utilizing mindfulness skills as part of the services they provide (Lahikainen & Soysa, 2014). Mindfulness has also been explored as a means for fostering intentionality among human services practitioners and the interventions they utilize (Shuler, 2021). Other authors have highlighted how mindfulness can support practitioner self-care while also improving work efficiency and satisfaction with professional identity (Kerewsky, 2019;Lahikainen & Soysa, 2014). Given the rapid and broad expansion of mindfulness in the helping professions, it has become increasingly important

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 Intentionality in Human Services

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Clinically Speaking: Today's Student Wellness Needs and Resources—What Student Affairs, College Health, and Campus Counseling Should Know

Clinically Speaking: Today's Student Wellness Needs and Resources—What Student Affairs, College Health, and Campus Counseling Should Know

Casting a Wide Multidisciplinary Net: Two-Year Colleges as Human Services Contributors in Their Communities

Review of Myths of Mindfulness

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