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Human
Services > Concentrations
Clinical
Services Concentration
The Clinical Services Concentration
is designed for students with interests in
providing direct services within public, nonprofit,
and private agencies serving children, families
and adults.
Administration
and Family Policy Concentration
The Administration and Family Policy
Concentration is designed for students with
interests in developing and administering
human service programs, as well as making
societal changes through advocacy and social
policy.
The program has the following
expected competencies for students, which
will vary depending upon a student's concentration:
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Understand
and discuss the ethical issues facing human
service professionals.
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Understand
how to work effectively with diverse populations
in terms of ethnicity, ability, economic
background, and wellness, in the context
of communities.
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Understand
development across the lifespan, normative
developmental transitions, and at-risk situations.
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Understand
family processes, family diversity, and
family transitions, and the risk and resiliency
factors of healthy family functioning
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Identify different
approaches to intervention, including prevention,
promotion/empowerment, and treatment.
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Develop the
ability to integrate field experience with
academically acquired knowledge and skill
as well as related professional literature.
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Demonstrate
self-development regarding personal values,
motivation, orientation toward human services
work and interpersonal relations.
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Demonstrate
information management skills such as obtaining,
organizing, disseminating, and evaluating
information using computer skills throughout
placement activities and the completion
of course requirements.
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Understand
the relations between theory, research,
and practice.
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Demonstrate
skills for working with people in groups,
helping to establish clear goals and achieve
optimum results.
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Have the skills
of a counselor, helping clients resolve
problems in a manner that promotes growth
and independence.
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Be able to
function as a community liaison, working
with sectors of the community to identify
community needs and deliver services to
meet those needs.
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Be able to
function as a supervisor, encouraging and
enabling other workers to make best use
of their abilities on behalf of the clients.
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Act as a change
agent -- planning, researching, and promoting
programs to improve human service delivery.
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Understand
the structuring and functioning of human
service agencies.
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Know how to
assess needs of populations at different
stages of the life cycle.
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Be able to function as a researcher or
policy analyst, dealing with individual
and family related issues in governmental,
business, legal or social service settings.
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