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HUMAN SERVICES PROGRAM
OBJECTIVES
Upon completion of the Human Serivces Program, students will demonstrate
mastery of the knowledge, skills, and attitudes that characterize the
Human Services profession.
- Origins and Theoretical Orientations of the Helping Professions.
All students will be able to explain the origins of the human service
profession, the value base of the profession, and discuss issues that
will impact its growth.
- Theories and Techniques of Human Service Social and Clinical Interventions.
All students will be able to identify and critically evaluate the
major theories and techniques of social and clinical intervention and
their relevance to the helping profession.
- Systems Theory. All students will be able to use a range ot
theories to explain human systems: families, small groups, organizations,
and social systems.
- Social and Developmental Theory. All students will be able
to use medical, social, and psychological models of human behavior to
identify the conditions that promote and impede attainment of optimal
human functioning.
- Basic Communication and Technology Literacy. All students will
demonstrate competencies in literacy and technical writing, methods
of research and measurement, and computer literacy.
- Knowledge and Respect for Cultural Diversity. All students
will demonstrate cultural sensitivity and multicultural awareness.
- The Twelve Core Functions of a Counselor/The Eight Counseling Skill
Groups. Counseling students will demonstrate proficiency in the
Twelve Core Functions of a Counselor and the Eight Counseling Skill
Groups.
- Community Organizing and Public Policy Development. Social
Service students will demonstrate proficiency in the skills of community
organization, the development of social policy and human service issues
that are unique to the urban environment.
- Treatment Planning. All students will demonstrate proficiency
in the strategies for planning and implementing social and clinical
interventions.
- Personal Growth and Committment to Good Mental Health. All
students will demonstrate a high level of personal self-awareness, an
enhanced understanding of the mechanisms of social communication, increase
their awareness of inevitable sources of interpersonal conflict, and
have become more goal-oriented and strateigic in their interactive behavior.
- Working with Special Populations. Through completion of the
various concentrations and specialties offered in the program, students
will demonstrate effective intervention skills with special populations:
the bereaved, the chemically dependent, children, etc.
- Critical Thinking and Analytical Skills. All students will
demonstrate the full range of competencies in critical thinking and
higher order analysis necessary for the Human Services profession.
- Professional Identity and Committment to Life-Long Learning.
Students will be able to articulate their identity as human service
professionals and formulate a plan for ongoing professional development.
- Ethical Competence. Students will be familiar with the Codes
of Ethics of the major professional organizations that regulate the
helping professions.
Assessment of Students' Mastery of Educational Objectives
The assessment process of the Human Services program consists of: 1)
Performance in each course in the program; 2) Annual Assessment Seminar
in which students will continue to develop the Human Services Portfolio
and complete the Annual Assessment Interview; 3) the Comprehensive Assessment
of Mastery of Educational Objectives (CAMEO) administered as part of HSV
495 Practicum; and 4) a Survey of Human Services Alumni. The results of
each of these assessment tools are shared with all Human Services faculty
and anonymously with students. This information will be used to guide
the annual program review and plan program revisions. Students receive
written instructions for and begin the Human Services portfolio as part
of HSV 100. Portfolio Review is part of the Annual Assessment Interview.
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