Methods I. Introduction to basic objectives, skills, tasks, and activities essential to generic human services. Educationally directed field instruction is introduced via field experience in selected human services agencies. Human Behavior and the Social Environment. Application of the social system model to the behavioral aspects of societies, communities, organizations, groups, the family, and the person. Continuing study and refinement of basic processes, skills, and professional activities essential to the entry level of human services practice.
Content includes casework interventive methods, group work, and community practice.
Educationally directed field experience, with block placements in selected social welfare agencies, incorporating field instruction by qualified practitioners. Limited to the human services major. Combines selected readings, reports, research, and group projects with analysis and discussion of situations encountered by the student human services worker in field experience. To be taken concurrently with HS 4066,4076. Death and Dying.