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Courses Offered in HUMAN SERVICES

The following courses are available for your Associate's degree. Each course provides you a unique educational experience. Each course is developed by an international staff of highly skilled instructors. The course material is updated to provide students with the latest current information in the subject.

Core Course

  • Course Name

  • Courses Description

  • Credit Hours

  • Interpersonal Practice with Individuals, Families, and Small Groups

  • This course provide strong historical context for understanding current programs, issues, and policy decisions with an expanded treatment of legal framework of child-welfare services and practice. It takes comprehensive approach to child and family services and policies, covering preventive services, day-care and child development programs, income security, juvenile-justice, and advocacy.

  • 6 Credits

  • Social Work Policy and Practice (Organization, Community and Society)

  • This course is the most comprehensive and easy-to-understand introduction to social-welfare system and social welfare policy. It focuses on political aspects of policymaking; major social welfare programs, including public assistance, Social Security, disability, health insurance, and more. It includes information on welfare reform, food stamps, managed care, disability, aging, etc.

  • 6 Credits

  • Social Work and Human Services

  • This course offers a comprehensive introduction to the field of human services, with an emphasis on practical application, and increased coverage of multicultural issues. Course provides a comprehensive grounding in the broad range of careers available in the human services, an introduction to skills that are required for those careers.

  • 6 Credits

  • Statistics for Social Workers

  • This course focuses on a conceptual understanding of the topic and its contribution to evidence-based practice which requires no prior knowledge of statistics. You learn how to select, calculate, and interpret appropriate statistics applicable to common data analysis situations related to direct practice, administration and planning, and policy making.

  • 6 Credits

  • Social Work and Substance Abuse

  • This eloquently simple course provides a “cutting edge” philosophy for those dealing with the assessment, diagnosis, treatment and aftercare of individuals suffering from issues with chemical dependency. Diagnosis and Treatment of Substance Abuse follows the D.E.C.L.A.R.E model of treatment.

  • 6 Credits
Specialized Course

Interpersonal Practice with Individuals, Families, and Small Groups

Topics Covered in This Course:
  In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
    An introduction to family and child services.
  In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Rights and responsibilities of parents, children, and government.
    Supporting families with day care and child development programs.
  In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
    Family income security.
    Law and procedure: court intervention with children, youth, and families.
  In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Protecting children from abuse and neglect.
    Family preservation.
  In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Foster care: a service for children and their families.
    Families by adoption.
    Case xample: juvenile delinquents: the community's dilemma.
    Professional responsibilities: ethics and advocacy.

Social work policy and practice (Organization, community and society)

Topics Covered in This Course:
  In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Politics, rationalism, and social welfare.
    Government and social welfare.
  In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Defining poverty: where to begin?
    Preventing poverty: the social insurance programs.
  In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
    Helping the -deserving poor-: aged, blind, and disabled.
    Ending welfare as we knew it: temporary assistance for needy families.
  In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Fighting hunger: nutrition policy and programs in the
    Improving health care: treating the nation's ills.
  In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Changing paradigms in the poverty wars: victories, defeats, and stalemates.
    Providing social services: help for children, the elderly, and people with mental illness.
    Challenging social welfare: racism and sexism.
    Implementing and evaluating social welfare policy: what happens after a law is passed.

Social work and human services

Topics Covered in This Course:
  In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Human services: a new direction.
    A history of helping.
    Human service workers: agents of change.
  In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Human services: identifying problems and causes.
    Human services boundaries: special populations, special systems.
  In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
    Medical/psychiatric approaches and the person in need.
    Behavioral approaches and the person in need.
  In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Psychotherapy and the person in need.
    Integrating contemporary strategies, personal relationship skills, and the supervisory process.
  In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Problem assessment, planning, brokering.
    Inspiring change in human service clients
    Case management: cornerstone for human services.
    Crisis intervention.
    Social intervention: prevention through environmental change.
    Social control, human rights, ethics, and the law.

Statistics for Social Workers

Topics Covered in This Course:
  In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Introduction.
    Frequency distributions and graphs.
  In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Measures of central tendency and variability.
    The normal distribution.
  In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
    The basics of hypothesis testing.
    Sampling distributions and testing the null hypothesis.
  In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Selecting a statistical test.
    Correlation.
  In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Regression analyses.
    Cross-tabulation.
    Tests and analysis of variance.
    Other contributions of statistics to evidence-based practice.

Social Work and Substance abuse

Topics Covered in This Course:
  In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Introduction: declare therapy.
  In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
    An overview.
  In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
    Basic methods.
  In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
    The initial interview.
  In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Diagnosis/treatment.

Human Behavior and Social Environment

Topics Covered in This Course:
  In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Human behavior and the social environment -hbse- and paradigms purposes, foundations, and assumptions.
    Traditional and alternative paradigms.
    Paradigm thinking and social work knowledge for practice.
  In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Traditional/dominant perspectives on individuals.
    Alternative and possible perspectives on individuals.
  In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
    Perspectives on familiness.
    Perspectives on groups.
  In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Perspectives on organizations.
    Perspectives on community-ies-.
  In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Global perspectives and theories.
    Putting it all together: toward more comprehensive and complex views of humans and knowledge about us.

Social Work and Welfare

Topics Covered in This Course:
  In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Competing perspectives on social welfare.
    Social welfare: basic concepts.
    Social work as a profession.
  In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Generalist social work practice.
    Responses to human diversity.
    Religion and social work.
  In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
    Poverty and ndash;the central concept.
    The nature and causes of poverty.
    The development of antipoverty programs.
  In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Child welfare.
    Crime and criminal justice.
    Health care.
  In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Mental health and developmental disability.
    Housing, homelessness, and community development -by robert d. leighninger, jr-.
    Aging

Social Work and Family Therapy

Topics Covered in This Course:
  In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
    - the evolution of family therapy and #8195;
    - lessons from the early models: group process and communications analysis and #8195;
    - the fundamental concepts of family therapy and #8195;
  In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
    - bowen family systems therapy and #8195;
    Chapter6- strategic family therapy
    Chapter7- structural family therapy
  In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
    - experiential family therapy
    - psychoanalytic family therapy
    Chapter10- cognitive behavioral family therapy
  In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
    - family therapy in the twenty-first century
    - solution-focused therapy
    Chapter13- narrative therapy
  In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
    - integrative models
    - comparative analysis

Advanced Social Work Practice

Topics Covered in This Course:
  In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
    The domain of the social work profession.
  In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Merging person with profession.
  In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
    Merging the person's art with the profession's science.
  In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
    The roles and functions performed by social workers.
  In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Guiding principles for social workers.
    Practice frameworks for social work.
    Facilitating change through decision making.

Human Services

Topics Covered in This Course:
  In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Human services: a new direction
    A history of helping
    Human service workers: agents of change
  In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Human services: identifying problems and causes
    Human services boundaries: special populations, special systems
  In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
    Medical and psychiatric approaches and the person in need
    Behavioral approaches and the person in need
  In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Psychotherapeutic approaches and the person in need
    Integrating contemporary strategies, personal relationship skills, and the supervisory process
  In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Problem assessment, planning, and brokering
    Case management: the cornerstone for human services
    Inspiring change in human services clients
    Crisis intervention
    Social intervention: prevention through environmental change
    Social control, human rights, ethics, and the law
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