Mark Graham
Bio
I am a person who really likes to read and write and to share what I learned with all my education. My page will mainly be book reviews and critiques of old and new books that I have read and will read. There will also be other bits, too.
Stories (638/0)
Good-bye Mr. President
Dear Mr. President: Just wanted to drop this note off to you for showing your spirit and your business acumen for the last four years. To be honest I did not really understand everything you said and done. You lead the country like one of your many businesses. It worked, but it didn't. Did you really have a consensus of all parties to do the things that were required of you or did you say "I am President Donald Trump and all must do what I want."
By Mark Graham3 years ago in The Swamp
Family Issues
Family Issues Family and Abuse What is a family? A family is any group of individuals who are banded together through marriage, kinship, adoption or mutual agreement whether hetero/homosexual. Kinship means related to grandparents, aunts and uncles. There are six goals of the family and they are an opportunity to express ideas and feelings, to have no family secrets, to having a valuing of everyone's values, opinions and feelings, must have rules and have flexibility and yet enforced with consistency, have positive energy shown in a systems theory support system that allow for opportunities for growth and change.
By Mark Graham3 years ago in Families
Group Development
Group Development In group development there are closed-ended groups that begin and end in and at a particular time period. The clients start and finish with same group with no new members entering at various times. There are also open-ended groups that people start and end at different times and go through different stages of development and these stages of development are:
By Mark Graham3 years ago in Journal
Tongue Twisters and fun Stories
Here is a series of Tongue Twisters that I wrote in hopes of getting them published in a book. I was hoping to make it a hard or soft cover book or even a coloring book or a workbook where children could read the tongue twister and then draw and color what the tongue twister would look like as a picture. I have had no such luck unless you count those 'vanity press' publishers where you have to pay to get your work published. This set of tongue twisters will go along with the 'What I know' articles that I have been sharing about what I learned in my Human services degree.
By Mark Graham3 years ago in Humans
Settings
Settings The settings that are ideally first encountered should be made at a time when the human service worker has some extra time and not distracted by at her or his competing obligations. Schedule a one (1) hour of uninterrupted time for meeting. Where? The agency has advantages like 1. it involves a clean, safe, private and convenient professional environment. 2. it has access to supplies, forms, and resources. 3. the human service worker is able to introduce other human service workers who may assist with the client. The disadvantages are 1. the human service worker may not be able to assess people and their family members in their own environment and may not establish a clear understanding of the impact of living arrangements. 2. It may be inconvenient of client(s) getting to the office for treatment. 3. There could be increased client anxiety. 4. There could be stigma. 5. The clients are worried about leaving dependents at home.
By Mark Graham3 years ago in Journal
Play and Social Development
This is a newspaper column that I have had written for a local newspaper many, many years ago. The newspaper said that it was good, but they did not have the room to publish the piece, so I am going to give it try here and see what happens. As I said this is an old piece and some ideas have changed, but I do believe that there may be something useful in it even now.
By Mark Graham3 years ago in Longevity
Diversity Issues
Diversity Issues This is the beginning of the second half the semester notes for HSV 201 Introduction to Human Services, which is the name of the textbook that the material came. It is written as from a notebook that I studied. It is a series of definitions of terms and lists that the professor gave us in class. This study sheet article shows how diversity is shown in general through some statistics that were given by the professor.
By Mark Graham3 years ago in Education
Chapter Two
Chapter 2 Notes (continued) In the 1800's 'Workhouses' were around that were residential and with a contract with private citizens to provide food and clothes people got to work for what they had. This brought up the idea of 'Indentured servant 'servitude' system- Five to seven people total worked their way to the colonies for food, clothing, shelter, and medical care. Sponsers were gained to get to colony and this is equal to slavery in the Southern colonies.
By Mark Graham3 years ago in The Swamp