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Course Criteria
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4.00 Credits
Practical training and experience in beginning skills necessary to function as a chairside dental assistant in a general dentistry practice. Emphasis on developing clinical skills in four-handed dentistry techniques. Training will occur in the dental clinic setting under the supervision of the SSMH Dental Clinic staff. Students will be required to spend 180 hours in training and pass competency-based performance assessments. (Prerequisite: HLTH D101)
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3.00 Credits
Focus on gaining knowledge of psycho-social aspects of addiction. Historic and behavioral approaches, disease concept and current trends relating to addiction are presented. Twelve step and self-help approaches explored
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3.00 Credits
Concepts and techniques of working with small groups, including establishing group goals, effective group interaction, termination and evaluation. Development of therapeutic group activities presented.
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3.00 Credits
Helping people in crisis from a theoretical and experiential perspective. Understanding how people feel, think and behave during periods of crisis and grieving. Suicide, violence, life transitions and AIDS explored.
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3.00 Credits
This course covers basic interviewing skills such as establishing rapport, active listening and eliciting information. Basic clinical interventions such as displaying empathy, establishing boundaries, interpreting body language and tone of voice, assessing client issues, goal setting and contracting are also covered. Ethical conduct and personal awareness and growth are emphasized.
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3.00 Credits
This course covers treatment modalities specific to chemical dependency, such as twelve-step programs as well as individual, group and family therapies. Skills covered in this course are assessment, treatment planning, documentation of client progress and facilitating an intervention. The mandates of State of Alaska and Federal laws are emphasized.
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1.00 Credits
This course will examine significant historical force, events, and consequences related to alcohol and other drug use in Alaska. Topics include the impact of: Russian and American traders, miners, missionaries, disease, US Military rule; Federal/Territorial/State legislation, the transition from Territory to Statehood; health and safety issues; prevention and treatment; recent history and trends.
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3.00 Credits
This course examines ethical issues such as confidentiality, rights of clients, privileged communications, privacy and duty to warn. Federal and State of Alaska laws regarding substance abuse counseling and mental health counseling are explored. Ethical decision-making and the identification of unethical behavior are also discussed. Oral presentations are required.
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3.00 Credits
Concentration on the interdependence of the visual arts, the performing arts, and literature as set against specific social, political and cultural backgrounds of selected eras. (Prerequisite: ENGL 111X.)
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3.00 Credits
Introductory course for students who wish to acquire the ability to speak I upiaq, the language of the North Slope. First learn to understand simple spoken language, then to speak simple I upiaq, developing a beginning level of communicative competence in the language.
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