Human Services: Specialized Helping Approaches
Award Type: Certificate of Accomplishment
Recipients of the Specialized Helping Skills Certificate will possess a set of interconnected skills and knowledge that go beyond and enhance the interpersonal helping skills and knowledge that the other Human Services certificates provide. the skills and knowledge that they will gain fall under the following three rubrics: (1) Happiness, Thriving, and Ability to Cope; (2) Consciousness and Alteration of Conscious States; and (3) Additional Evidence-Based Helping Skills.The graduate of the Certificate of Accomplishment in Human Services: Specialized Helping Approaches will:
- Happiness, Thriving, and Ability to Cope: Graduates will be able to list practices associated with positive emotion, life satisfaction, and personal thriving; know how to deal effectively with their own emotions and the emotions of others; and possess skills for creating positive mental states in themselves and others.
- Consciousness and Alteration of Conscious States: Graduates will understand the human need to alter mental and emotional states; be able to list methods that people use for doing so; grasp the difference between constructive, healthy methods, and destructive, unhealthy ones; and be able to practice methods that engender constructive, healthy mental and emotional states.
- Additional Evidence-Based Helping Skills: Graduates will gain a set of helping skills that are gentle and non-confrontive and that introduce clients to the benefits of a lifelong personal recovery program.
Program Requirements
A total of 15 units is required for the certificate.
| Course Number | Course Title | Units |
|---|---|---|
| HUSV 112 | Motivational Interviewing and Nonconfrontational Approaches | 3.0 |
| HUSV 126 | Meditation, Mindfulness, and Stress Reduction | 3.0 |
| HUSV 127 | Emotional Intelligence | 3.0 |
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| PSY 127 | Emotional Intelligence | 3.0 |
| HUSV 128 | Positive Psychology | 3.0 |
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| PSY 128 | Positive Psychology | 3.0 |