HSERV 312 - Methods in the Helping Process - Teacher’s Center

3 credits

Accompanies HSERV 263 Human Services Field Experience 2 and provides continued opportunity for students to integrate field work experience with the social systems approach to helping. The class learns the basic skills of the helping process, including interviewing techniques. Students examine their own value systems, strengths and weaknesses, and how these may affect their interpersonal relationships in a multicultural society. They analyze their field settings, use of helping skills, behavioral concepts, and they assess the utility and limitations of the tools of the human service worker.