Human Services (HMS) at Brightpoint Community College
Distance Learning
Time of Day
Term
- HMS 100 - Introduction to Human Services
- 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
- 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
- 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 122 - Basic Counseling Skills II
- Expands the development of counseling skills needed to function effectively in a helping relationship. Emphasizes skills in responding, personalizing, summarizing and initiating. Clarifies personal skill strengths, deficits and goals for skill improvement. Develops plans for achieving personal and program goals.Lecture 3 hours per work.
3 credits - HMS 171 - Advancing Youth Development
- Provides an overview of principles of youth development research and the impact on the youth work field.Lecture 2 - 3 hours. Total Contact 2 -3 hours per week.
2-3 credits - HMS 225 - Functional Family Intervention
- 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 227 - The Helper As a Change Agent
- 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 236 - Gerontology
- 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 251 - Substance Abuse I
- Provides knowledge, skills, and insight for working in drug and alcohol abuse programs. Emphasizes personal growth and client growth measures in helping relationships. Stresses various methods of individual and group techniques for helping the substance abuser.Lecture 3 hours per week.
3 credits - HMS 252 - Substance Abuse II
- Expands knowledge and skill in working with the substance abuser. Focuses on assisting substance abusers in individual and group settings and explores client treatment modalities. May provide opportunities for field experience in treatment centers.Lecture 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite: HMS 251.3 credits - HMS 258 - Case Management and Substance Abuse
- 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
- 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 261 - Human Behavior I
- Develops skills in working with individuals, families, groups, organizations and communities within the socio- cultural context. Emphasizes historical development of various social systems and how these systems affect the whole person. Part I of II.Lecture 3 hours per week.
3 credits - HMS 266 - Counseling Psychology
- 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.
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