SSBH 201 Social Service-Behavioral Health Field Experience (5 credits)
Prerequisite SSBH 100, SSBH 170, and SSBH 215 with a grade of 2.0 or better, and instructor permission.
Course Description
Career-related work experience, under qualified supervision, allowing you to apply what you’ve learned from your classes in an approved social service setting. This course requires 120 hours of supervised learning activities where you will use skills and knowledge-base as preparation for employment in the social service-behavioral health field.
Course Content
Social service-behavioral health client external work experience
Career options in social service-behavioral health agencies
Interviewing and assessment skills in a social service-behavioral health context
Legal and ethical standards in a social service-behavioral health setting
Helping professions teamwork
Networking, community resources, and resource management
Student Outcomes
- Complete 120 hours of service in a social service agency, with an emphasis on direct client contact, under the supervision of a social services professional.
- Develop an individualized learning plan, which outlines a set of measurable and observable outcomes that will be accomplished by the end of the field experience, in consultation with the agency supervisor and a faculty member of the Social Service/Behavioral Health program.
- Adhere to agency policies, and federal and state laws governing human services.
- Employ socially equitable interviewing and assessment skills in order to connect appropriate social service resources to a client.
- Evaluate the competency of your approach to supporting clients in order to improve your practice.
Degree Outcomes
Effective Communication: Graduates will be able to craft and exchange ideas and information in a variety of situations, in response to audience, context, purpose, and motivation
Intercultural Engagement: Graduates demonstrate self-efficacy in intercultural engagement to advance equity, diversity, and inclusion through reflections and expressions of cultural humility, empathy, and social and civic engagement and action. Further, graduates examine how identities/positionalities such as races, social classes, genders, sexual orientations, disabilities, and cultures impact perceptions, actions, and the distribution of power and privilege in communities, systems, and institutions.
Program Outcomes:
Incorporate an ethic of care in all aspects of practice to insure humane treatment for clients/consumers/patients, regardless of race, creed, diagnosis, wealth, age (develop appreciation social justice).
Maintain the integrity of the client/consumer/patient in order to establish trust.
Access community resources to provide for life and home maintenance stability.
Develop basic interpersonal skills as a foundation to counseling.
Know applicable laws and codes as they relate to counseling and client care.
Integrate an understanding of the broad spectrum of human services.
Lecture Contact Hours 10
Lab Contact Hours 0
Clinical Contact Hours 120
Total Contact Hours 130
Potential Methods
Learning Plan
Time Log
Reflection Journal
Case Study
Self-Evaluation
Field Site Supervisor Evaluation
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