8 courses with the subject HMS, each shown exactly as we captured it from the college's catalog, with every element we hold. Where the wording looks broken, that is our reading of the catalog, not the college's text.
Introduces human service agencies, roles and careers. Presents a historical perspective of the field as it relates to human services today. Additional topics include values clarification and needs of target populations. Lecture: 3 hours per week.
Studies the hospice concept emphasizing the management of providing services associated with terminal illness, while providing human services for the family as well as the patient. Explores the unique role of each member of the hospice care team as to how each assists the patient and family in coping with the effects of the illness. Emphasizes understanding grief and loss. Focuses on the dying person and emphasizes the social and moral aspects of death and dying. Lecture: 3 hours per week.
Provides an understanding of functions and dysfunctions within the family. Emphasizes the development of effective skills through an interpersonal/interactional approach to family intervention. Lecture: 3 hours per week.
Provides an historical overview of selected cultural and racial groups. Promotes understanding of group differences and the impact on counseling services. Lecture: 3 hours per week.
Examines the process of aging; its implications in relation to health, recreation, education, transportation, meaningful work or activity and to community resources. Emphasizes experiencing the aging process, facilitating retirement and application of the helping relationship to work with older adults. Lecture: 3 hours per week.
Provides knowledge, skills and insight for working in drug and alcohol abuse programs. Emphasizes personal growth and client growth measures in helping relationships. Stresses various methods of individual and group techniques for helping the substance abuser. Lecture: 3 hours per week.
Expands knowledge and skill in working with the substance abuser. Focuses on assisting substance abusers in individual and group settings and explores client treatment modalities. May provide opportunities for field experience in treatment centers. Lecture: 3 hours per week.
Focuses on the process for interviewing substance abuse clients. Includes intake, assessment, handling denial and ending the interview. Teaches skills for writing short-term goals and treatment plans with emphasis on accountability. Examines various reporting devices. Lecture: 3 hours per week.
Source: Brightpoint Community College's catalog, linked per course · table learning_unit · CourseShelf publish 59
