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HS 155 - Chemical Dependency Counseling I: Individuals & Groups (5 Credits)

 

Human Services Program Mission Statement

Clover Park Technical College Human Services Programs teach with a competency-based, hands-on approach to instruction. We strive to graduate students who honor culture, respect diversity, provide ethical services to the community, and endeavor toward personal and academic excellence.

 

Course Description

This course explores learning in a collaborative process that facilitates the client's progress toward mutually determined treatment goals and objectives. Students will learn counseling competencies that will include sensitivity to the client's individual characteristics and culture, the role of the counselor, approaches to counseling and addiction disorders, use of warmth, respect, genuineness, concreteness, and empathy, and the therapeutic use of power and authority. Group dynamics and CD group counseling requirements as per the WAC and RCW will be covered.

 

 

Syllabus_HSCD 155_REV_062023.docx

 

 

  • Instructor:
    • Bryant Watts (He/Him), LMHCA, CCIS-II
  • Instructor's Office Hours: 
    • MON/TUE/THUR/FRI @ 12p - 115p
    • By Appointment (In-Person, Zoom)
  • Class Location:
    • Building 02, Room 112
  • Class Schedule: 
    • MON/WED/FRI - 10am -1150am
    • No class on Wednesday
      • Online (Please see attendance policy below)
  • Instructor's Office: 
    • Building 02, Room 112
  • Telephone: (TBD)
  • Email Address: 
  • Syllabus Revision Date: 01/2023

 

LINK TO CPTC ACADEMIC CALENDAR: CPTC Academic calendar Links to an external site.

  • Adult Learners are responsible for being aware of CPTC calendar dates of importance.
  • The CPTC Academic Calendar is posted above.

 

Considerations: The syllabus is subject to change as per guidance given by the instructor. students will be given due and timely notice to adjust to changes in the syllabus.

 

 

Teaching Philosophy

My teaching philosophy centers on my commitment as an instructor to understand how students learn. By understanding the multiple ways students attain knowledge, I can design learning experiences that build on strengths and supports. Building individual learning strengths and supports enables students to discover their capacity for increasing educational content. This philosophy allows me to design appropriate learning opportunities that promote critical thinking, broadening the individual student's contextual understanding for developing new knowledge. I have come to understand; the learning process is a collaboration of research, discovery, contextual understanding, and engaging the implied and inherent applications of learning opportunities.

 

PREREQUISITES

Completion of a terminal degree associate or higher, or successful completion of HS 222, HS 230, HS 241, and HS 255.

 


*Homework and course loads are created following the WAC.

GRADING SCALE

Grades are assigned as follows:

100-94% A                                                       76-74% C

93-90% A-                                                        73-70% C-

89-87% B+                                                       69-67% D+

86-84% B                                                          66-64% D

83-80% B-                                                        63-60% D-

79-77% C+                                                       59% & below   F

Students receiving a C- or below must repeat the class in order to satisfy the Human Service program requirements for graduation.

Note: The instructor does not award pluses/Minuses (+/-) for grades. In lieu of pluses/minuses the instructor grades up for assignments 

As you are all adult students it is our expectation that you will each be responsible for keeping track of your grades.  Assignments are graded and handed back to students as soon as possible.  Use the attached grade sheet to calculate your grade.

Any student who is receiving a C- or below after midterms will be notified by the Human Services instructors and asked to create a corrective action plan.

Course Summary:

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