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Apr 25, 2024
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SSMH 100 Introduction to Human Services (5 credits)
Distribution Area Fulfilled General Transfer Elective
Course Description
A survey of social service field history, philosophy, theory, and exploration of career paths, values, education, and skills needed.
Student Outcomes
1. Define what is meant by the term “human services” and Identify characteristics associated with the effective human services worker.
2. Summarize Maslow’s model of hierarchical needs and explain the potential relationship between human needs and the role of professional helping.
3. Discuss the concept of adult development, both in the context of her or his own learning and in relation to human service work with adults.
4 Discuss a range of motivations for why people enter the helping fields, reflect upon his or her own reasons for considering a career in this field, and make a basic assessment about his or her own motivations.
5. Identify and explain key principles of a systemic approach to understanding human behavior, such as general systems theory.
6. Identify key people and events which have come to be associated with the historical development of professional helping in the United States and discuss the role of each.
7. Identify the degree to which the formal history of human services and mental health appropriately credits the contributions of all groups of people.
8. Reflect upon the development of professional human services in the context of human needs, human motivation, history, and social conditions.
9. Demonstrate a basic understanding of the psychological theoretical foundations of human services, including defining “theory,” defining “hypothesis,” explaining how concepts are operationalized in the testing of hypotheses, as well as identifying and explaining key concepts and constructs as used in various theories, which have been influential in human services (Freudian, behavioral, cognitive behavioral, family systems, and humanistic).
10. Identify and discuss the strengths and limitations of each of the theory discussed including; Freudian, behavioral, cognitive behavioral, family systems, and humanistic.
11. Articulate how divergent theoretical approaches have been integrated into the present-day field of human services.
12. Describe the personal qualities and competencies that are associated with effective service to others and Identify ways in which specific competencies can and have been integrated into models for teaching human service skills.
13. Explain the significance of the development of competency-based approaches in human services.
14. Describe how increased knowledge of, and understanding about, diverse groups of people can contribute to competence in working with them.
15. Define “crisis” from a human services perspective, distinguish development and situational forms; describe phases of crisis; and, identify some of the skills and principles associated with managing crisis.
16. Summarize the range of jobs available in the fields of social service and mental health, including educational requirements, training opportunities, earnings, availability of positions, and salaries.
17. Identify those personal values which might provide motivation to serve others in the fields of social service and mental health.
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