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• HSW 202: Theories of Individual Counseling

  3.00 Credits

  Montgomery County Community College

  
  Professionalization, ethics and the impact of values on the helping process are considered. Special attention is given to evaluation research (accountability), testing and report writing in diverse settings. Students develop their own theory of helping, explain its relationship to existing theories, and demonstrate its application(s).
  ShareHSW 202 - Theories of Individual Counseling

• HSW 203: Assessment & Documentation in Human Services

  3.00 Credits

  Montgomery County Community College

  
  This course is designed to teach students the necessary skills to assess and document client interactions in a human services agency or program. Students will explore the nature of the helping relationship, demonstrate their active listening abilities, learn how to gather information, build treatment plans, and write case notes. Students will also understand case management in a managed care environment, and the legal, ethical and regulatory implications of comprehensive assessment and documentation.
  ShareHSW 203 - Assessment & Documentation in Human Services

• HSW 205: Volunteer Administration

  3.00 Credits

  Montgomery County Community College

  
  This course examines the development and role of volunteerism in a profit-oriented society. Specifically, it is an in-depth exploration of the fundamentals of volunteer organization and management from an administrative perspective. It is designed for those whose work brings them into contact with volunteers, the currently employed volunteer administrator, and the student who will eventually be involved with volunteer management.
  ShareHSW 205 - Volunteer Administration

• HSW 210: Professional Development in Human Services

  3.00 Credits

  Montgomery County Community College

  
  This course is designed to prepare students for the practicum experience through professional self reflection and development. Students will evaluate human service agencies, organizational structures, and funding sources. Students will select a field site, process agency interview, and prepare for supervision in the field. Topics such as self-assessment, document gathering, and certification reviews will be addressed. The development of portfolio management demonstrating interpersonal styles, and program competency will be required. Students must pass this course with a grade of "C" or higher before taking HSW 211.
  ShareHSW 210 - Professional Development in Human Services

• HSW 211: Human Services Practicum

  6.00 Credits

  Montgomery County Community College

  
  A course designed to integrate human services theory within a practical milieu. Through supervised clinical experience, the student begins hands-on training in a community agency. Skills focused upon are: intake interviewing, case management, assessment of client/consumer needs and intervention strategies to meet those needs, individual and group counseling, outreach activities, recording procedures, appropriate use of community referral and networking resources, staff relations, and inter-agency communication, evaluating program services and volunteer participation. Two hundred and eighty hours of recorded clinical experience are required in addition to a one and half -hour seminar every other week. This course is subject to a course fee.
  ShareHSW 211 - Human Services Practicum

• HSW 216: Assessment and Techniques for Children and Youth

  3.00 Credits

  Montgomery County Community College

  
  This course is designed to develop the knowledge and skills in assessing the risk factors in the current situation of the child and/or adolescent. The course will focus upon the youth's educational social, psychological, emotional and physical environment to determine the level of required intervention. Students will learn the techniques needed to assess and reduce risk factors.
  ShareHSW 216 - Assessment and Techniques for Children and Youth

• HSW 219: The Drug and Alcohol Treatment Process: An Introduction

  3.00 Credits

  Montgomery County Community College

  
  Designed to provide a working knowledge of the helping process as it applies to drug and alcohol counseling, students completing this course should be able to: develop assessment and diagnostic skills; formulate appropriate goals, and treatment plans; improve interviewing and intervention skills with drug/alcohol clients; discuss and compare individual, group, and family treatment approaches; describe the levels of service available to drug/alcohol clients and their families; use AA, AL-ANON and other support groups as treatment allies; appreciate the impact of sex, age, ethnicity, race and religion on the treatment process; and understand the American Psychiatric Association's (DSM V) assessment of substance use disorders, anti-social personalities and depression.
  ShareHSW 219 - The Drug and Alcohol Treatment Process: An Introduction

• HSW 220: Introduction to Adjunctive Therapies

  3.00 Credits

  Montgomery County Community College

  
  A survey of adjunctive therapies and activities that enhance the therapeutic process for populations served by human service agencies. Therapeutic modalities include but are not limited to: art, music, movement, dance, poetry, psychodrama and biofeedback.
  ShareHSW 220 - Introduction to Adjunctive Therapies

• HSW 250: Psychology of Aging: Helping Skills In Working With Older Adults

  3.00 Credits

  Montgomery County Community College

  
  This course is an in-depth exploration of psychological theories and their applications to appreciating and working with older adults. Students will have the opportunity to gain an increased understanding of their own personal development and self knowledge in the context of the life cycle and to explore feelings about the aging process. Classroom experiences that focus on enhancing communications skills will be designed to enable students to translate psychological theories and helping techniques to every day family and job-related encounters with older adults. Open to all majors.
  ShareHSW 250 - Psychology of Aging: Helping Skills In Working With Older Adults

• HSW 254: Aging in the United States

  3.00 Credits

  Montgomery County Community College

  
  This course is an in-depth exploration of the current social issues concerning older adults in U.S. society. Students will examine the social needs which confront all older people and those needs of particular sub-groups of the older population such as the frail elderly, women, and minorities. Emphasis will be placed on reviewing the legislation which has led to the creation of programs and services for meeting the needs of older adults and on analyzing the system of services to detect areas of unmet needs, such as the need for "long-term care." Students will have the opportunity to gain an understanding of techniques of advocacy which can be used on behalf of and in concert with older persons. This course is open to all majors.
  ShareHSW 254 - Aging in the United States