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  • BHHS 212: Resolution-Focused Help Skills

    3.00 Credits
    Community College of Philadelphia

    BHHS 212 introduces students to the values, concepts, vocabulary, knowledge base and practice skills of time- sensitive approaches to helping relationships. The cultural and historical factors that have shaped time-limited approaches to treatment are emphasized. The course addresses how people change, extratherapeutic factors and clinician specific variables that predict successful outcomes in helping relationships. Motivational interviewing and resolution-focused models of helping are introduced and specific skill sets are practiced through role-plays, supervision, and audio and video-recording. Students learn to work with individuals of varying ages and abilities in a variety of behavioral health settings and with groups using skill sets such as assessing readiness, identifying key challenges, establishing goals and taking specifi action steps. Prerequisite:    BHHS 111
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  • BHHS 213: Practicum II

    3.00 Credits
    Community College of Philadelphia

    This is the second of two practicum courses in which students work directly with clients. Students spend 12 hours per week (156 hours per semester) in a field placement. during class time, students develop the ability to make meaningful connections between direct practice experience and classroom knowledge especially as it relates to utilizing resolution-focused helping skills, increasing competence at managing personal responses to client issues and developing skills related to professional identity. Prerequisite:    BHHS 195 (Grade of C or Better) Corequisite:    BHHS 212
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  • BHHS 222: Assmt & Planning in Recovery

    3.00 Credits
    Community College of Philadelphia

    This course will explore the medical, psychological, cultural and social aspects of recovery from addiction to alcohol and other drugs of abuse. The student will be introduced to counseling techniques, case management, extended recovery and a person first approach to assessment issues, professional responsibility and proper ethical practice. Special populations such as dually diagnosed (co-occurring disorders) individuals and HIV substance abusers will be discussed. The course compares the traditional medical model and the community based social model of recovery. Prerequisite:    BHHS 121
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  • BHHS 241: Crisis Intervention

    3.00 Credits
    Community College of Philadelphia

    Prepares students to give immediate help to people experiencing crises. Applies a short-term crisis intervention model for assessing and helping persons regain equilibrium during these crises experiences. Simulations and role-playing activities are used to model crisis intervention with situations such as: post-traumatic stress disorder, suicide, sexual assault, partner battering, addictions, and personal loss.
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  • BHHS 261: Develop Disa Support Svcs

    3.00 Credits
    Community College of Philadelphia

    Students will gain specific knowledge and skills that will assist them in better understanding and serving the unique needs of adults with developmental disabilities. Students will learn to employ assessment techniques, programming strategies, goal planning, and life skills training that support self-advocacy, productivity, and community and family inclusion of individuals with developmental disabilities. Prerequisite:    BHHS 161
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  • BHHS 277: Beh Devel & Soc Proc of Aging

    3.00 Credits
    Community College of Philadelphia

    Focus on the biological, psychological and social issues affecting older adults. Application of research findings to practice and policy. Case study approach. Required for the Gerontology Certificate. Prerequisite:    BHHS 171 (Or Equivalent) or Coordinator Permission
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  • BHHS 291: Theories of Counseling

    3.00 Credits
    Community College of Philadelphia

    Students will study the major traditions in Counseling including the psychoanalytic, behavioral and humanistic. Emphasis will be on understanding the theoretical basis for the different approaches to helping. Students will observe demonstrations of different approaches and discuss how what is being learned can be incorporated into the practice of a skilled helper. In addition, students will become familiar with the values and ethics of the helping professions. This course can only be taken with BHHS 292 or with special permission of the curriculum supervisor. Prerequisite:    BHHS 194 (Grade of C or Better) and BHHS 195 (Grade of C or Better)
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  • BHHS 293: Family/Relationship Counseling

    3.00 Credits
    Community College of Philadelphia

    This course focuses on counseling skills necessary to work with families and couples from a systems approach. Students will have an opportunity to practice the skills they learned in BHHS 111. They will apply those skills to relationships, including families and couples. In addition, class time will be devoted to learning about multicultural and diversity issues involved in working with families. Prerequisite:    BHHS 111
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  • BHHS 294: Practicum in BHHS III

    4.00 Credits
    Community College of Philadelphia

    This is the last of three practicum courses. Students will spend 12 hours per week in a field placement related to their area of interest for the purpose of learning to work directly with clients. In addition, students will meet with a faculty supervisor for a 45 minute conference every other week for the purpose of planning and reviewing their field experience. This course can only be taken with BHHS 293 or with special permission of the Curriculum Coordinator. Prerequisite:    BHHS 194 (Grade of C or Better) and BHHS 195 (Grade of C or Better)
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  • BHHS 295: Independent Practicum

    2.00 Credits
    Community College of Philadelphia

    This is a special practicum course for students eligible to complete two certificates within the BHHS Curriculum. For the purpose of learning to work directly with clients, students will spend 12 hours per week in a field placement related to their interest in completing a second certificate. In addition, students will meet with a faculty supervisor for a 45 minute conference every other week for the purpose of planning and reviewing their field experience. This course can only be taken after completing of BHHS 194, 195, 291, 292,293 and 294. In addition, permission of the Curriculum Coordinator is needed.
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