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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
3 credits Introduction to the established professional codes of ethics that define the professional context within which the addiction counselor and human services provider works. Students will become knowledgeable about federal and state laws and regulations that apply in the field of substance abuse treatment and other human services. This class is accepted by ACCBO to meet certification requirements for alcohol and drug counselors.
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2.00 Credits
2 credits Introduces the epidemiology of HIV/AIDS, hepatitis, tuberculosis and sexually transmitted diseases that frequently infect people who use drugs or who are chemically dependent. Students will examine treatment options and prevention strategies. The legal and policy issues that impact infected individuals as well as the larger community will be explored. This class is accepted by ACCBO to meet certification requirements for alcohol and drug counselors.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits This course will introduce students to the issues and impact of learning to live with, and manage, losses. Students will explore the emotional, cultural, developmental, spiritual and behavioral factors that shape an individual's reaction to loss, including the reactions of helpers who are working with people experiencing personal loss and grief. Material will address losses of individuals, and their significant others, when confronted by chronic disability, illness, or other life-altering events associated with aging as well as death. Students will investigate specific therapeutic methods to respond compassionately and help individuals develop emotional resilence to loss. This class will combine lecture, small and large group discussions, journaling and art projects that focus on personal experience as one way to grasp the reality of griefwork.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits Prerequisite: HS 155. This class will provide an introduction to the theory and principles of motivational interviewing. Motivational interviewing is a client-centered approach to helping clients make behavioral changes and encouraging the client to explore and resolve their ambivalence about changing their behaviors. Students will learn the theoretical basis of this evidence based practice. Students will learn about stages of change and strategies for intervening effectively at each stage of the change process.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits Prerequisite: HS 155. This course will introduce students to the theory and methods of cognitive-behavioral approaches to counseling. These approaches rest upon the premise that psychological distress and maladaptive behavior is the result of faulty thinking. Cognitive-behavioral approaches are based on a psycho-educational model and focus on changing cognitions in order to change feelings and behavior.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits All older persons experience normal changes in cognitive functioning as they age. Some older persons, as well as younger persons, experience pathological changes in cognitive functioning often associated with growing older. This course will address the common myths and fears related to cognitive aging, will provide current information about the capability of the brain to continue to learn and remember, will identify coping skills for successfully adapting to both normal and pathological changes in cognition, and will build skills for developing successful helping relationships with older persons. Instructional practices will include guest speakers, media presentations, role plays, case studies, reading assignments, and lectures.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits Prerequisite: HS 155. Students will learn the theoretical knowledge and skills needed to work effectively as case managers with clients in human service organizations. Students will be introduced to solution-focused, and client directed interviewing skills that emphasize client strengths and goals.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits Prerequisite: HS 155 or HS265. Students will be introduced to the theory and practice of case management. Methods of delivering accessible, integrated, coordinated, and accountable case management services will be presented. Students will learn how to maintain professional records, including documenting assessments, treatment plans, chart notes and other relevant agency records. Cross-cultural issues to designing and delivering case management services will be explored.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits Diverse cultures and philosophies will be studied. How the human service practitioner can become culturally competent, will be the focus. Major ethnic and cultural groups will be studied as well as major cultural assumptions and patterns and their impact on identity and mental health.
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4.00 Credits
4 credits A survey of the historical development of the early Western world, peoples, and societies that have influenced it including the Greeks, the Jewish, the Romans, and Christians, the Germanic and Islamic influences in the wake of the fall of Rome, and the early Renaissance. This course will provide and overview of diverse peoples and nationalities, the creation of and changes in religious systems, ideas, social structures, and political institutions while considering connections to our modern world. May be taken out of sequence.
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