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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No Distance Learning courses available.

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 Services ePortfolio

Provides students an opportunity to explore documenting their achievements in a professional electronic portfolio and practice relevant technological literacy skills for the workplace. Includes the completion of self-assessments of students' skills and scope of work in human service organizations.

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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. Crosslisted with DLS A200

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Teach Social Skills Youth CBH

Promotes an understanding and application of learning theory to communication strategies, teaching methods and crisis prevention interventions. Crosslisted with DLS A205

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Pos Behavioral Supports Child

Extends knowledge of learning theory to functional behavior assessments of problem behaviors and appropriate interventions in children (age 0-18). Examines how to develop behavior support plans using non-aversive interventions for challenging and problematic behaviors with children. Crosslisted with DLS A206

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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.

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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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Place Identity & Hist Trauma

Introduces historical trauma and its impact on marginalized populations. Explores the concept of place identity and focuses on the importance of recognizing signs of historical trauma in children. Utilizes case studies, story telling and talking circles to identify culturally appropriate prevention and treatment interventions.

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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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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

Involves placement in a community agency with an emphasis on observation of agency structure and functioning, development of professional and inter-agency relationships, and application of beginning 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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Subst Use Treatment/Life Cour

Offers a family-centric approach to substance use treatment and recovery focusing on four phases of the life course (childhood and adolescence, young adulthood, adulthood, and older adult). Addresses recovery ethics.

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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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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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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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Cultural Practice in Human Sys

Presents the concept of a culturally attuned practitioner, acknowledging the pain of oppression and coming from a place of not knowing. Provides students with the principles of multiracial cultural attunement: critical multiraciality, intersectionality, and social constructivism. Presents theories of racism and oppression as well as theories consistent with cultural attunement.

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Trauma and Crisis Intervention

Presents intervention techniques focused on a systematic approach to effective crisis management. Examines the causality, identification, intervention, treatment strategies, and follow-up with victims of trauma. Registration Restrictions: Admission to the Bachelor of Human Services or Minor in Human Services

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Prog Development & Evaluation

Provides knowledge and skill development in: the systematic analysis of service needs; planning appropriate strategies, services, and implementation; and the evaluation of outcomes. Involves the assessment of client needs and the planning of programs and interventions that will assist clients in promoting growth and goal attainment. Registration Restrictions: Admission to the Bachelor of Human Services and junior or senior standing.

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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: Admission to the Bachelor of Human Services and senior standing

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*Hum Svcs Integrative Capstone

Prepares students to conduct applied research to complete a Human Services Integrative Capstone project. Includes 50 hours in the same field placement agency as HUMS A495, where students will collect data necessary for their Capstone research project. Requires students to complete a literature review, collect and analyze the data and present the results, in a presentation, using e-portfolio. Provides an opportunity for students to develop their grant writing skills. Registration Restrictions: Senior standing and admission to the Bachelor of Human Services, and completion of all GER Tier 1 (basic college-level skills) courses.

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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. Crosslisted with DLS A200

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Teach Social Skills Youth CBH

Promotes an understanding and application of learning theory to communication strategies, teaching methods and crisis prevention interventions. Crosslisted with DLS A205

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Pos Behavioral Supports Child

Extends knowledge of learning theory to functional behavior assessments of problem behaviors and appropriate interventions in children (age 0-18). Examines how to develop behavior support plans using non-aversive interventions for challenging and problematic behaviors with children. Crosslisted with DLS A206

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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.

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Selected Topics Human Service

Addresses a selected topic or current issue in human services. Includes topics of national and international interest. Special Note: May be repeated twice with change of subtitle. Department approval may be substituted for the required prerequisite course(s).

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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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Selected Topics in HS Practice

Presents a systems approach to community and family human service delivery. Examines contemporary and changing service delivery values, perspectives and intervention techniques, in the correctional, child protection, mental health, health, housing, and other complex systems. Special Note: May be repeated three times with a change of subtitle and content. Registration Restrictions: Department approval.

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