Human Services Parent Program

(2009-2010 Catalog)Course Selection Guide for this program

Human Services: Parent Program (code: EB35)

Associate in Science Degree

This program is designed to prepare qualified students for a wide variety of community counseling-related employment positions in the urban-suburban region of Greater Bridgeport and surrounding metropolitan areas. Career positions in such fields as counseling, mental health, social services, substance abuse, community outreach, and gerontology. Instruction is cross-disciplinary and is designed for maximum transferability for those wishing to continue their studies.

Outcomes

Demonstrate knowledge of the range of effective communication and basic counseling strategies/skills necessary to establish a collaborative relationship with the client or patient.
Apply knowledge of formal and informal assessment practices in order to respond to the needs, desires, and interests of the client.
Demonstrate knowledge of formal and informal supports available in the community.
Demonstrate knowledge of the range of participatory planning and outreach techniques associated with the helping professions.
Demonstrate the ability to match specific supports and interventions to the unique needs of individual clients and recognize the importance of friends, family, and community relationships.
Demonstrate awareness of the diverse challenges facing clients (e.g. human-rights, legal, administrative, and financial) and be able to identify and use effective advocacy strategies to overcome such challenges.
Demonstrate knowledge and appropriate application of crisis prevention, intervention and resolution techniques, and be able to match such techniques to particular circumstances and individuals.
Demonstrate case-management skills with clients including the development of collaborative relationships, assisting with the identification and access to community supports, implementing plans in a collaborative and expeditious manner, promoting an advocacy position, and mobilizing resources and support necessary to assist clients.
Understand and articulate a systems perspective for the treatment and resolution of individual, family, group, and community human service problems.
Develop and demonstrate ethical standards and sensibilities.

Suggested Sequence of Courses:
Prerequisite or parallel courses may be required. Please check individual course descriptions for details.

Freshman Year
	*ENG E101**	Composition	3
	*POL E111**	Introduction to American Government	3
	*PSY E111**	General Psychology I	3
	Science	Elective	3 - 4
	*HSE E101**	Introduction to Human Services	3
	*ENG E102**	Literature & Composition	3
	*PSY E245**	Abnormal Psychology	3
	*SOC E101**	Principles of Sociology	3
	*HSE E210**	Group and Interpersonal Relations	3
	*HSE E243**	Human Services Skills and Methods	3
Sophomore Year
	Fine Arts	Elective	3
	*COM E173**	Public Speaking	3
	Mathematics ¹	Elective	3 - 4
	*HSE E202**	Introduction to Counseling/Interviewing	3
	*HSE E291** ³	Human Services Internship I	3
	Human Services ²	Elective	3
	*HSE E235**	Professional & Ethical Issues in Human Services	3
	*HSE E292** ³	Human Services Internship II	3
	Humanities	Elective	3
	Open ²	Elective	3 - 4
Total Credits			60 - 63
¹MAT* E075, MAT* E095 not acceptable. ²It is required that students discuss selection of elective with Program Coordinator. ³Internship courses (HSE* E291 and HSE* E292) must be taken in separate semesters and approved in advance by the Program Coordinator. Note: For degree completion the student must complete the Computer Literacy Requirement.

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