Specific organic and functional mental disorders will be explored as well as a variety of approaches to assessment, treatment, and health promotion. Focuses on group formation, development of norms, conflicts and controversy, and performance and evaluation. I Provides students the intervention strategies needed for social service work. Includes theory and practice in the cognitive-behavioral, humanistic, Adlerian, transactional analysis, and intervention models. Intervention Strategies II Provides students the crisis intervention strategies used in human service work.
Emphasis is placed on post-traumatic stress syndrome and suicide prevention.
Practicum Provides on-site experience with human service organizations. Seminars assist students to integrate field and classroom experiences. Each practicum placement will reflect students' interests, abilities, and educational goals. Promotes awareness of past developments that lead to the modern technology-based society, and to appreciate the relationship of technological change with economic, cultural, and political factors. History Presents special topics of study in history through workshop, seminar, and independent study formats.