- HMS 100 - Introduction to Human Services
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Introduces human service agencies, roles and careers. Presents an historical perspective of the field as it relates to human services today. Additional topics include values clarification and needs of target populations.
Lecture 3 hours per week.
3 credits
- HMS 106 - Working With Death and Dying
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Studies the hospice concept emphasizing the management of providing services associated with terminal illness, while providing human services for the family as well as the patient. Explores the unique role of each member of the hospice care team as to how each assists the patient and family in coping with the effects of the illness. Emphasizes understanding grief and loss. Focuses on the dying person and emphasizes the social and moral aspects of death and dying.
Lecture 3 hours per week.
3 credits
- HMS 121 - Basic Counseling Skills I
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Develops skills needed to function in a helping relationship. Emphasizes skills in attending, listening and responding. Clarifies personal skill strengths, deficits and goals for skill improvement.
Lecture 3 hours per week.
3 credits
- HMS 139 - Community Resources and Services
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Studies federal, state, and local agencies, their functions, limitations and interrelationships. Emphasizes purposes of agencies as related to delivery of human services and procedures for referral, team building, and regional cooperation.
Lecture 3 hours per week.
3 credits
- HMS 141 - Group Dynamics I
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Examines the stages of group development, group dynamics, the role of the leader in a group, and recognition of the various types of group processes. Discusses models of group dynamics that occur as a result of group membership dynamics.
Lecture 3 hours per week.
3 credits
- HMS 142 - Group Dynamics II
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Examines group dynamics, group leadership, group cohesion, transference and group helping through experiential involvement in group facilitating and leadership. Increases group skills through active classroom participation in group experiences.
Lecture 3 hours per week.
3 credits
- HMS 190 - Coordinated Internship
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Supervises on-the-job training in selected business, industrial or service firms coordinated by the college.
Credit/practice ratio not to exceed 1:5 hours. May be repeated for credit. Variable hours.
1-5 credits
- HMS 220 - Addiction and Prevention
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Examines the impact of drugs and addiction on individuals and their families. Explores the myths about various drugs and their benefit or lack of benefit.
Lecture 3 hours per week.
3 credits
- HMS 225 - Functional Family Intervention
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Provides an understanding of functions and dysfunctions within the family. Emphasizes the development of effective skills through an interpersonal/interactional approach to family intervention.
Lecture 3 hours per week.
3 credits
- HMS 226 - Helping Across Cultures
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Provides an historical overview of selected cultural and racial groups. Promotes understanding of group differences and the impact on counseling services.
Lecture 3 hours per week.
3 credits
- HMS 227 - The Helper As a Change Agent
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Teaches the following skills for implementing alternative models of change and influence: action research, problem- solving, consultation, workshop development, and outreach and advocacy for diverse client populations.
Lecture 3 hours per week.
3 credits
- HMS 230 - Assessment Techniques for Care Managers
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Presents basic theory, demonstrations, and practice of entry level assessment techniques for determnining social, health, environmental, physical and emotional needs of the aged. Examines basic theory and practices for interviewing clients, and counseling skills necessary when working with individual clients. Considers concepts of cultural perspectives influencing assessment. Prerequisite:
PSY 237.
Lecture 3 hours per week.
3 credits
- HMS 231 - Gerontology I
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Examines characteristics of the aging process and problems for the elderly. Considers both theoretical and applied perspectives on the following issues: biological, psychological, sociological, economic and political. Part I of II.
Lecture 3 hours per week.
3 credits
- HMS 232 - Gerontology II
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Examines characteristics of the aging process and problems for the elderly. Considers both theoretical and applied perspectives on the following issues: biological, psychological, sociological, economic and political. Part II of II.
Lecture 3 hours per week.
3 credits
- HMS 234 - Managing Senior Adult Activity Programs
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Prepares the activity professional to develop and implement an activity program for clients in a long term care facility. Includes management techniques, policy and procedure development, and procedures for the evaluation of an activity program in a long term care.
Lecture 3-4 hours per week.
3-4 credits
- HMS 236 - Gerontology
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Examines the process of aging; its implications in relation to health, recreation, education, transportation, meaningful work or activity, and to community resources. Emphasizes experiencing the aging process, facilitating retirement, and application of the helping relationship to work with older adults.
Lecture 3 hours per week.
3 credits
- HMS 255 - Adolescent Alcohol Use and Abuse
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Examines adaptive and injurious effects of alcohol on the adolescent. Teaches adolescent developmental tasks, behavior concepts and principles. Explores specific treatment modalities.
Lecture 3 hours per week.
3 credits
- HMS 258 - Case Management and Substance Abuse
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Focuses on the process for interviewing substance abuse clients. Includes intake, assessment, handling denial, and ending the interview. Teaches skills for writing short-term goals and treatment plans with emphasis on accountability. Examines various reporting devices.
Lecture 3 hours per week.
3 credits
- HMS 260 - Substance Abuse Counseling
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Provides an understanding of the skills of guidance of clients and those associated with being an advocate. Examines the dynamics of the client/counselor relationship in developing treatment plans and empowerment skills.
Lecture 3 hours per week.
3 credits
- HMS 265 - Personality Theory
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Studies the theories of personality and their relationship to counseling. Emphasis is on the historical perspective, view of human nature, contributions and limitations of each theory.
Lecture 3 hours per week.
3 credits
- HMS 266 - Counseling Psychology
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Studies major counseling theories, their contributions and limitations, and the application of each to a counseling interaction. Students develop their own personal counseling theory.
Lecture 3 hours per week.
3 credits
- HMS 270 - Treatment Systems
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Examines the services and facilities established for the purpose of treating addictions. Focuses on treatment therapy models and ethical standards related to addiction-disease theory.
Lecture 3 hours per week.
3 credits
- HMS 275 - Adult Home Administration
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Provides opportunities to develop an adequate and precise knowledge base of the aging population from an administrative perspective. Focuses on health care and prevention, nutrition, financial planning, management and family intervention.
Lecture 3 hours per week.
3 credits
- HMS 290 - Coordinated Internship
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Supervises on-the-job training in selected business, industrial or service firms coordinated by the college.
Credit/practice ratio not to exceed 1:5 hours. May be repeated for credit. Variable hours.
1-5 credits
