This introductory course explores the human services field. It exposes students to historical perspectives, ethics, and the role of the community support human service practitioner in various agencies and specific areas of human services employment.
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This is an introductory course in basic interpersonal communication skills. Students discuss, evaluate, and demonstrate skills of appropriate self-disclosure, active listening, and appropriate challenging. They acquire these skills through small group discussion with other students and a video-taped interpersonal conversation.
This course begins to prepare students to use good helping skills on a one-to-one basis. Counseling skills and techniques include at least four of the following: active listening, reflective feedback, summarizing, self-disclosing, displaying empathy, confronting, establishing rapport, and communicating at the client's comprehension level. Students acquire and demonstrate skill through videotaped role-plays, in-class role-plays, counseling critiques, case studies, and other experiential exercises.
Students focus on an examination of the historical and current theories of counseling. Counseling theories include rational-emotive therapy, Gestalt therapy, reality therapy, and client-centered therapy. Students practice using counseling techniques and theories and demonstrate an integrated theoretical approach through video-taped interviews.
This course includes the process of collecting pertinent data about client or client systems and their environment and appraising the data as a basis for making decisions regarding diagnosis, treatment, and referral of chemical dependency clients. The course includes instruction on coordinating and prioritizing client treatment goals and working with other services, agencies, and resources to achieve those treatment goals. It also includes practice in assessing and managing a case including the development of sample case records and utilizing the written client records to guide and monitor services with emphasis on the development of the social history and intake, initial assessment, case reviews and consultation, individual treatment plan with measurable goals and objectives, documentation of progress, on-going assessment, and discharge planning including appropriate referrals. Students address confidentiality of client information and records as defined in 42 CFR Part 2 and study the strengths and weaknesses of various levels of care and the selection of an appropriate level for clients. They study basic information on two or more objective assessment instruments for alcohol or drug disorders such as the Michigan Alcoholism Screening Test, Substance Abuse Subtle Screening Inventory, Addiction Severity Index, Mortimer-Filkins and others.
This course provides students with the opportunity to explore career options in the human services field through direct observation in a field setting and through guest speakers. This course also helps students to begin to develop knowledge of community resources.
This course includes the study of the physiological, psychological, and sociological aspects of alcohol and drug use, abuse, and dependence. It discusses the classifications and basic pharmacology of drugs, basic physiology, and the effects of drug use on the systems of the human body and alcohol and drug tolerance. This course also includes the etiological, behavioral, cultural, and demographical aspects and belief systems about alcohol and drug use along with the processes of dependence and addiction including signs, symptoms, and behavior patterns. NOTE: The co-requisite PSYC 1010 must be taken concurrently or previously completed.
This course addresses a wide range of ethical issues as they apply to human services and chemical dependency counseling. These issues include confidentiality, dual relationships, competency and referral, counselor values and conflicts, legality and ethics, client welfare, establishing appropriate limits and boundaries in the client relationship, informed consent, dealing with impaired professionals, professionalism (including responsibility for competence, professional development, burnout, and self-care), and the need for cultural diversity. This course examines ethical codes of professional organizations. These organizations include, but are not limited to, NOHSE, NAADAC, ACA, APA, ARCA, and NASW. NOTE: The co-requisite HMSV 2150 must be taken concurrently or previously completed.
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This course includes the study of group theory, processes, and dynamics, as well as techniques and methods of group counseling and facilitation. The coursework includes practice in group counseling and facilitation. NOTE: The co-requisite HMSV 1130 must be taken concurrently or previously completed.
This course provides an examination of social policy development. The examination focuses on historical factors, value assumptions, and social, political, and economic contexts. It emphasizes the processes and skills necessary for examination and evaluation. Students explore social issues in the field of human service and relate them to social policy.
This course includes the study of treatment issues specific to alcohol and drug disorders including, as a minimum, dual diagnosis and the impact of physical and mental health disorders on alcohol and drug treatment; the historic and generational influences on alcohol and drug abuse and dependence including adult children of alcoholics, enabling, and the family disease concept; the influences of Alcoholics Anonymous, Narcotics Anonymous, and the 12-step philosophies in alcohol and drug treatment; and the uniqueness of special populations including sexual orientation, cultural dimensions, adolescents, women, and the elderly and how that uniqueness affects assessment of, response to, and delivery of alcohol and drug treatment. Students discuss treatment issues specific to different populations, other aspects of chemical dependency treatment including treatment methodology and aspects of treatment that address resistance, denial, minimization, relapse and relapse prevention, cross-addiction, spirituality issues, and the influence of other self-help groups including 12-step groups. NOTE: The co-requisite HMSV 1140 must be taken concurrently or previously completed.
This course reviews theories of family therapy with an emphasis on the systemic model of therapy. It applies theoretical approaches to case examples. NOTE: The co-requisite SOCI 1010 must be taken concurrently or previously completed.
This course focuses on the counseling implications for cultural, social, and economic factors as they affect diverse groups including African Americans, Native Americans, Hispanics, and others. Students pay attention to multicultural barriers and to the impact of the counselor's own world view on the counseling relationship. The course examines adaptation of counseling techniques and theories to the needs of minority clients. NOTE: The co-requisite HMSV 1130 must be taken concurrently or previously completed.
This course is an advanced course in the theory and practice of group counseling. Students continue to learn about the process of group counseling as well as demonstrate their skills in facilitating the group process in a safe and structured setting.
This course focuses on the identification, definition, and causes of exceptionalities. It emphasizes concepts and trends in the field of exceptionalities, as well as laws pertaining to the rights and services of exceptional persons.
This course focuses on factors necessary for the successful completion of a practicum. Topics include work behavior and work attitude; developing and writing appropriate goals and objectives; professional presentation and development; informational interviews to gather data about human service organizations and agencies; recognition and management of personal issues that may influence performance as a professional worker; policies, rules, and procedures applicable to the practicum; and volunteering in a human service organization or agency. NOTE: The co-requisite HMSV 2050 must be taken concurrently or previously completed.
This course explores theories about crisis intervention and how to apply that theory in the field and systematically improves students' interview, communication, evaluation, and helping skills within the framework of crisis intervention and management.
This course permits instruction in special content areas not included in other courses of the Human Services program.
This course provides field opportunities to expand and apply students' practical and classroom experience. Students must complete field experience and a practicum seminar in conjunction with the assigned practicum.
This course provides opportunities and experiences to integrate and apply classroom and textbook knowledge in addition to experiences from the first practicum. Students must complete field experience and a practicum seminar in conjunction with the assigned practicum.
This course provides experience in a more specialized area of human services. Students continue to integrate and apply classroom knowledge and experiences as well as experiences from the first two practica. Students must complete a practicum seminar in conjunction with the assigned practicum.
This course provides an opportunity to have a practical work experience with chemical dependency counseling. The College assigns students to agencies, institutions, or treatment centers serving and treating chemically dependent clients. Students must complete a practicum seminar in conjunction with the assigned practicum.
This course provides the opportunity to expand students' practical work experience in chemical dependency counseling. The College assigns students to agencies, institutions, or treatment centers serving and treating chemically dependent clients. Students must complete a practicum seminar in conjunction with the assigned practicum.
This course provides the opportunity to expand students' practical work experience in chemical dependency counseling. The College assigns students to agencies, institutions, or treatment centers serving and treating chemically dependent clients. Students must complete a practicum seminar in conjunction with the assigned practicum.