History of Systems of Change

Introduces historical foundations of the human service profession through the lens of formative legislation and the evolution of the profession.

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Substance Use Disorder in AK

Covers social and community factors influencing substance use as a social problem. Focuses on the epidemiology of substance use, substance use disorder, addiction, and co-occurring disorders. Addresses the social, psychological, behavioral and biophysiological aspects of substance use. Addresses infectious diseases that may co-occur with substance abuse.

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High Risk Behav in Adolescents

Provides an overview of brain development and its impact on behavior. Presents types of issues in adolescence and prevention approaches to high-risk behavior.

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Intro Children's Behav Hlth

Covers ethics and ethical practices, self-care, confidentiality, mandatory reporting, overview of child and adolescent development, building and maintaining therapeutic relationships, boundaries, culturally responsive interventions, resiliency, communication, and additional behavioral health topics impacting treatment outcomes for children and adolescents.

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Tch Behv Sup & Soc Skls to Yth

Equips students and professionals with practical strategies to enhance children's self-esteem, social competence, and resilience while incorporating positive behavior support principles. Introduces various intervention models and emphasizes effective interactions and conversations to support children from diverse backgrounds, providing a comprehensive framework for enhancing social development and behavior management skills.

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Understndng Chldrn's Mntl Hlth

Offers students a comprehensive understanding of mental health diagnoses commonly observed in children, within the context of supporting the child's well-being. Engages students in exploring interventions associated with various diagnoses. Equips students with the knowledge and skills to effectively support children with behavioral and mental health challenges in various settings.

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Trauma Informed Wk w/ Children

Covers differentiation between types of trauma that children can experience and how trauma may affect their treatment outcomes. Examines safe and supportive trauma-informed interventions, as well as strategies to reduce the effects of caregiver fatigue. Special Note: Not available for credit to students who have completed HUMS A307. May be stacked with: HUMS A307

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Conflict & Collaboration

Presents interpersonal conflict and collaboration through the social construction and general systems theoretical frameworks. Presents models to help manage and/or resolve conflict.

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Counseling in Human Services

Presents counseling approaches and skills within ethical and theoretical frameworks. Provides students with knowledge and practical application skills for helping relationships, including skills for understanding, positive action, crisis intervention, and trauma-informed care.

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Guardianshp and Conservatorshp

Examines guardianship and conservatorship regarding statutes, authority, limitations, and fiduciary obligations. Explores alternatives to guardianship, the power of attorney, and supported decision-making for vulnerable adults. Introduces person-centered practice as well as medical decision-making obligations and limitations.

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Guardianship: Legal Process

Describes the legal process of working with guardianships, including petitioners and their duties, types of opening letters, Guardian ad Litem (GAL) conversions, court visitors, motions, annual reports, repayment of benefits, and wills.

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Human Serv and Disabilities

Explores human services in the diverse field of disabilities. Examines history, service systems, advocacy, and disability culture.

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*Place Identity & Hist Trauma

Introduces historical trauma and its impact on marginalized populations. Explores the diversity of Alaska Native cultures and languages and the concept of place identity. Introduces the 1971 Alaska Native Claims Act. Utilizes case studies, story telling and talking circles to identify culturally appropriate prevention and treatment interventions.

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Case Management in Human Svs

Focuses upon theory and application associated with service delivery, client assessment, case planning, implementation, evaluation and ethical decision making. Registration Restrictions: Admission to the Associate of Applied Science in Human Services, the Bachelor of Human Services or department approval

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Human Services Practicum I

Places students in a community agency with an emphasis on observation of agency structure and function, development of professional and inter-agency relationships, and applying helping skills with agency clients. Includes having students construct e-portfolios to document their growth and development in practicum. Special Note: Includes a mandatory weekly in-class seminar and 125 hours completed in the field placement agency. Registration Restrictions: Admission to the Associate of Applied Science in Human Services or the Bachelor of Human Services

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Advn Trauma Work with Children

Extends knowledge of learning theory to functional behavior assessments of problem behaviors and appropriate interventions in children. Examines the development of behavior support plans using non-aversive interventions for challenging and problematic behaviors with children, with a particular focus on understanding trauma and its impact on children's mental health. Special Note: It is recommended that students have completed foundational coursework in psychology, child development, or a related field. Not available for credit to students who have completed HUMS A207.

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*Diversity Issues HUMS Prctice

Examines diversity from historical and current perspectives with an emphasis upon self-awareness. Incorporates the needs of diverse groups into human services best practices through readings, role-play and group activity.

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Alternative Dispute Resolution

Provides a conceptual framework in alternative dispute resolution with emphasis on history, communication skills and ethics. Uses simulation exercises, including negotiation strategy and tactics, mediation process and techniques, and development of arbitration case theory presentation. Registration Restrictions: Department approval

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Working with Indiv Clients

Presents techniques for working with individual clients. Covers specific theoretical concepts and techniques appropriate to a broad range of human services delivery systems. Presents approaches in a cultural context for individual clients, particularly ones in which members experience oppression and marginalization. Registration Restrictions: Admission to the Bachelor of Human Services or department approval

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Advanced Recovery Practice

Addresses models of counseling and intervention that incorporate diversity and strengths-based approaches for advancing recovery, particularly those useful in challenging situations. Deepens students’ understanding of tools to address those challenging situations, including relapse, infectious disease, developmental and cognitive factors, and socio-legal issues.

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Privilege & Oppression

Presents historical information on laws, policies, and regulations that have impacted racism and anti-racism efforts. Provides a framework for recognizing racism in the context of today's society.

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Human Services Practicum III

Provides students with advancing levels of responsibility in direct client services and/or specialized activities/projects. Increases students' professional development through the use of electronic portfolios. Affords students an opportunity to develop the proposal for their Capstone project. Special Note: Requires students to complete 125 hours in a field placement agency. Registration Restrictions: Senior standing and admission to the Bachelor of Human Services

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Leadership & Diversity

Explores leadership development, styles and challenges in a global society through the frameworks of transformative and other structural change models. Examines profit and non-profit management as well as agents of change that improve or hinder human services delivery.

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History of Systems of Change

Introduces historical foundations of the human service profession through the lens of formative legislation and the evolution of the profession.

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High Risk Behav in Adolescents

Provides an overview of brain development and its impact on behavior. Presents types of issues in adolescence and prevention approaches to high-risk behavior.

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Human Service Practice

Presents skills appropriate for human service professionals in practicum placements and in future careers. Includes skills related to task groups, leadership, problem-solving, workplace norms, technological literacy, digital communications, and working with diverse client populations. Presents the use of e-portfolios in the documentation of learning.

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Intro Children's Behav Hlth

Covers ethics and ethical practices, self-care, confidentiality, mandatory reporting, overview of child and adolescent development, building and maintaining therapeutic relationships, boundaries, culturally responsive interventions, resiliency, communication, and additional behavioral health topics impacting treatment outcomes for children and adolescents.

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Tch Behv Sup & Soc Skls to Yth

Equips students and professionals with practical strategies to enhance children's self-esteem, social competence, and resilience while incorporating positive behavior support principles. Introduces various intervention models and emphasizes effective interactions and conversations to support children from diverse backgrounds, providing a comprehensive framework for enhancing social development and behavior management skills.

(Click on an individual CRN for more information on each offering)

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Understndng Chldrn's Mntl Hlth

Offers students a comprehensive understanding of mental health diagnoses commonly observed in children, within the context of supporting the child's well-being. Engages students in exploring interventions associated with various diagnoses. Equips students with the knowledge and skills to effectively support children with behavioral and mental health challenges in various settings.

(Click on an individual CRN for more information on each offering)

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Trauma Informed Wk w/ Children

Covers differentiation between types of trauma that children can experience and how trauma may affect their treatment outcomes. Examines safe and supportive trauma-informed interventions, as well as strategies to reduce the effects of caregiver fatigue. Special Note: Not available for credit to students who have completed HUMS A307. May be stacked with: HUMS A307

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Cases in SUD Treatment & Pract

Serves as an integrative experience using the case method. Allows students to work individually and/or in small teams to address practice issues. Includes topics that include assessment of substance use disorder and co-occurring disorders, development of treatment plans, application of best practices such as motivational interviewing, case management process, crisis intervention methods, and team-based collaboration.

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Counseling in Human Services

Presents counseling approaches and skills within ethical and theoretical frameworks. Provides students with knowledge and practical application skills for helping relationships, including skills for understanding, positive action, crisis intervention, and trauma-informed care.

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Human Serv and Disabilities

Explores human services in the diverse field of disabilities. Examines history, service systems, advocacy, and disability culture.

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Group Work

Presents practical knowledge of planning, facilitating, and sustaining task-centered, support, and psychoeducational groups within human service practice in the formation of supportive communities. Includes a typology of groups and their facilitation, ethical considerations, group leadership, management and evaluation skills, and discussion of basic issues in group membership and facilitation.

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Human Services Practicum II

Provides students with advancing levels of responsibility in direct client services in the community and/or specialized activities/projects while increasing their professional development. Refines e-portfolio for further documentation of learning in practicum. Special Note: Requires students to complete 125 hours of field placement in an agency setting and weekly classroom seminar. Registration Restrictions: Admission to the Associate of Applied Science in Human Services or Bachelor of Human Services.

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No Distance Learning courses available.

Advn Trauma Work with Children

Extends knowledge of learning theory to functional behavior assessments of problem behaviors and appropriate interventions in children. Examines the development of behavior support plans using non-aversive interventions for challenging and problematic behaviors with children, with a particular focus on understanding trauma and its impact on children's mental health. Special Note: It is recommended that students have completed foundational coursework in psychology, child development, or a related field. Not available for credit to students who have completed HUMS A207.

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*Diversity Issues HUMS Prctice

Examines diversity from historical and current perspectives with an emphasis upon self-awareness. Incorporates the needs of diverse groups into human services best practices through readings, role-play and group activity.

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Case Mgmt in Complex Systems

Introduces policy and process issues involved in providing case management services in highly structured systems. Identifies strengths in collaborating across and among systems and barriers to implementing culturally appropriate case management services to families.

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Family Mediation

Examines the role of mediation in resolving conflict in domestic relations, family business situations and crisis situations within the community. Incorporates systems theory, mediation theories, principles and skills of mediation, different approaches to family mediation and current research. Registration Restrictions: Department approval

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Ethical Issues in HUMS Pract

Examines ethical issues in human services practice defined in the National Organization of Human Services (NOHS) Ethical Code. Focuses on client rights, confidentiality and worker responsibility. Registration Restrictions: Admission to the Bachelor of Human Services

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Crisis Intervention & Trauma

Presents culturally responsive and effective interventions for crisis management. Presents practice issues related to children and adults who have experienced trauma. Examines the causes, interventions, strategies, and follow-up. Registration Restrictions: Admission to the Bachelor of Human Services

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Qualitative Research and Eval

Provides knowledge and skill development in qualitative research and evaluation. Prepares students for their Capstone research project. Registration Restrictions: Junior or senior standing or department approval

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*Hum Svcs Integrative Capstone

Prepares students to conduct research and complete an Integrative Capstone project. Includes 50 hours in their last field placement agency for data collection. Requires students to complete a literature review, collect and analyze the data, and present the results using e-portfolio. Provides an opportunity for students to develop grant-writing skills. Registration Restrictions: Senior standing and admission to the Bachelor of Human Services

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