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HSCD - Chemical Dependency Assessment & EVAL (3 Credits)

 

Human Services Program Mission Statement

Clover Park Technical College Human Services Programs teaches 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

Students will be introduced to various industry-standard screening, evaluation, and assessment tools for adolescents and adults. Students will be able to determine a client's readiness for treatment and change and understand the appropriate levels of care. ASAM placement and the stages of change will be focal topics.

 

Syllabus_HSCD 277_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 23/111

Class Schedule: 

    • WED - 730p -10p
    • No class on MON/TUE/THUR/FRI
      • Online (Please see attendance policy below)

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.

 

Course Text (Required Reading)

  • Summers, N. (2016). Fundamentals of case management practice: Skills for the human services (5th ed.). Boston, MA: Cengage Learning.
  • ISBN: 978-1-305-09476-5

 

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 what I have come to understand; the learning process as a collaboration of research, discovery, contextual awareness, 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.

 

Program Outcomes

  • Program Outcome #1:  Use therapeutic communications in professional relationships.
  • Program Outcome #2:  Apply counseling theories and techniques in the human service field.
  • Program Outcome #3:  Develop personal and client behavioral health and wellness strategies.
  • Program Outcome #4:  Use effective case management skills and documentation.
  • Program Outcome #5:  Develop strategies for treating and intervening on behalf of victims of violence.
  • Program Outcome #6:  Integrate cultural competency standards into delivering the human service field.
  • Program Outcome #7:  Apply proper ethical and legal guidelines for the confidentiality of client information.

 

 

Learning Outcomes

  • Objective 1: Understand standard screening, assessment, and evaluation tools, methods, procedures, and interpretations for adult and adolescent clients.  
  • Objective 2: Demonstrate competency in client treatment placement regarding the ASAM levels of care.                                                                                                                                                                                                       
  • Objective 3: Conduct and interpret mock client assessments.   
  • Objective 4: Differentiate between screening and assessment, and evaluation procedures. 
  • Objective 5: Identify and evaluate the six dimensions of ASAM placement. 

 

 

Core Abilities: 

  • Communication
  • Personal/Professional-Responsibility
  • Critical Thinking/Problem-Solving
  • Information/Technological Literacy

Course Summary:

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