CHS 150 Foundations of Human Services Counseling
3 hours
The course examines the roles and functions of human service professionals working in various service delivery systems. The course uses culturally responsive, inclusive, and anti-racist values and attitudes to explore the history of human services, its foundational values, ethical standards, theoretical frameworks, and generalist interventions. Major emphasis is placed on understanding structural power and key historical, political, and psychosocial dynamics in various practice settings, while raising students’ awareness of their own power, cultural biases, and privilege through self-reflection and experiential exercises. Students will have the opportunity to practice participatory learning and action, to ask open-ended questions, observe and engage in active listening skills. They will integrate the knowledge, theory, skills and professional behaviors that are concurrently being taught in the classroom through 10 hours of field education observation and/or participatory learning and action activities.
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Formerly CSL 150 Foundations of Human Services Counseling