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Program Overview

  • Duration

    1 Year (Self-Paced)

    Can be done in 6 months

  • Total Courses

    10

  • Total Credit Hours

    60 Hours

The Human Services program at Southeastern Michigan University is designed to prepare students for careers dedicated to helping individuals and communities overcome challenges and improve their well-being. Students learn about human behavior, social issues, and intervention strategies. They gain practical experience in social work, counseling, and community service. Graduates are equipped to work in various human service organizations, social work agencies, and community outreach programs, where they make a significant impact by providing support, resources, and advocacy to those in need.

Foundations Of Social Services And Client Support:

The College of Social Services begins with a focus on the foundations of social services and client support. Students delve into the principles of social work, counseling, and community services. This foundational knowledge equips them with the skills necessary to assist and advocate for individuals and communities in need.

Practical Experience And Interaction With Clients:

Beyond the classroom, the College of Social Services places a strong emphasis on practical experience and direct interaction with clients. Students have opportunities to engage in internships, conduct counseling sessions, and work with diverse populations. These experiences not only enhance their practical social service skills but also provide valuable insights into the field of social services.

Global Social Issues And International Service Initiatives:

The College of Social Services at Southeastern Michigan University is committed to addressing global social issues and fostering international service initiatives. Our curriculum explores international perspectives on social services and encourages students to engage in service projects with global impact. Additionally, we offer study abroad programs and collaborate with social service organizations and advocates from around the world, enabling students to gain a global perspective on social services.

Interpersonal Practice with Individuals, Families, and Small Groups

This course provide strong historical context for understanding current programs, issues, and policy decisions with an expanded treatment of legal framework of child-welfare services and practice. It takes comprehensive approach to child and family services and policies, covering preventive services, day-care and child development programs, income security, juvenile-justice, and advocacy.

Social Work Policy and Practice (Organization, Community and Society)

This course is the most comprehensive and easy-to-understand introduction to social-welfare system and social welfare policy. It focuses on political aspects of policymaking; major social welfare programs, including public assistance, Social Security, disability, health insurance, and more. It includes information on welfare reform, food stamps, managed care, disability, aging, etc.

Social Work and Human Services

This course offers a comprehensive introduction to the field of human services, with an emphasis on practical application, and increased coverage of multicultural issues. Course provides a comprehensive grounding in the broad range of careers available in the human services, an introduction to skills that are required for those careers.

Statistics for Social Workers

This course focuses on a conceptual understanding of the topic and its contribution to evidence-based practice which requires no prior knowledge of statistics. You learn how to select, calculate, and interpret appropriate statistics applicable to common data analysis situations related to direct practice, administration and planning, and policy making.

Social Work and Substance Abuse

This eloquently simple course provides a “cutting edge” philosophy for those dealing with the assessment, diagnosis, treatment and aftercare of individuals suffering from issues with chemical dependency. Diagnosis and Treatment of Substance Abuse follows the D.E.C.L.A.R.E model of treatment.

Human Behavior and Social Environment

This course is designed to help you chart a knowledgeable course through the complexity of human experience. It will help you explore a select set of theories that will help you understand how individuals and communities develop and interact.

Social Work and Welfare

Provides you with a political perspective on social welfare with definitions of liberal, conservative, and radical positions, to help you better appreciate political context of social welfare programs. It examines values, ethics, and knowledge needed by social workers, as well as exploring social workers' current roles in social welfare programs.

Social Work and Family Therapy

This course is a classic introduction to the field of Family Therapy. By covering all major schools and developments in family therapy, you receive a thorough grounding in the profession. Thorough overview of family therapy, history, types, and future of family therapy is provided in the course.

Advanced Social Work Practice

This course provides you of social work with a one-of-a-kind resource designed to emphasize the many different techniques needed for successful practice. It’s carefully devised to provide you with easy access to the most current information on fundamental skills required for social work practice.

Human Services

This course offers a comprehensive introduction to the field of human services, with an emphasis on history of helping, multicultural aspects that affects the human services framework. Course also details different interventions and approaches used in this human services field.

Cost of Attendance

Tuition Fee Breakdown Cost
MASTERS DEGREE $27,000
Medical Insurance $0.00
Personal Expenses $0.00
Study Materials $0.00
Food Cost $0.00
Total Tuition Fee $27,000
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Eligibility Criteria

Bachelor's Degree or equiv. international education

Credit Hours

60 Hours

Course Duration

1 Year (Self-Paced)

Courses Offered

10

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Interpersonal Practice with Individuals, Families, and Small Groups

Topics Covered in This Course:
  In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
    An introduction to family and child services.
  In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Rights and responsibilities of parents, children, and government.
    Supporting families with day care and child development programs.
  In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
    Family income security.
    Law and procedure: court intervention with children, youth, and families.
  In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Protecting children from abuse and neglect.
    Family preservation.
  In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Foster care: a service for children and their families.
    Families by adoption.
    Case xample: juvenile delinquents: the community's dilemma.
    Professional responsibilities: ethics and advocacy.

Social work policy and practice (Organization, community and society)

Topics Covered in This Course:
  In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Politics, rationalism, and social welfare.
    Government and social welfare.
  In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Defining poverty: where to begin?
    Preventing poverty: the social insurance programs.
  In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
    Helping the -deserving poor-: aged, blind, and disabled.
    Ending welfare as we knew it: temporary assistance for needy families.
  In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Fighting hunger: nutrition policy and programs in the
    Improving health care: treating the nation's ills.
  In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Changing paradigms in the poverty wars: victories, defeats, and stalemates.
    Providing social services: help for children, the elderly, and people with mental illness.
    Challenging social welfare: racism and sexism.
    Implementing and evaluating social welfare policy: what happens after a law is passed.

Social work and human services

Topics Covered in This Course:
  In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Human services: a new direction.
    A history of helping.
    Human service workers: agents of change.
  In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Human services: identifying problems and causes.
    Human services boundaries: special populations, special systems.
  In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
    Medical/psychiatric approaches and the person in need.
    Behavioral approaches and the person in need.
  In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Psychotherapy and the person in need.
    Integrating contemporary strategies, personal relationship skills, and the supervisory process.
  In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Problem assessment, planning, brokering.
    Inspiring change in human service clients
    Case management: cornerstone for human services.
    Crisis intervention.
    Social intervention: prevention through environmental change.
    Social control, human rights, ethics, and the law.

Statistics for Social Workers

Topics Covered in This Course:
  In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Introduction.
    Frequency distributions and graphs.
  In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Measures of central tendency and variability.
    The normal distribution.
  In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
    The basics of hypothesis testing.
    Sampling distributions and testing the null hypothesis.
  In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Selecting a statistical test.
    Correlation.
  In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Regression analyses.
    Cross-tabulation.
    Tests and analysis of variance.
    Other contributions of statistics to evidence-based practice.

Social Work and Substance abuse

Topics Covered in This Course:
  In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Introduction: declare therapy.
  In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
    An overview.
  In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
    Basic methods.
  In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
    The initial interview.
  In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Diagnosis/treatment.

Human Behavior and Social Environment

Topics Covered in This Course:
  In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Human behavior and the social environment -hbse- and paradigms purposes, foundations, and assumptions.
    Traditional and alternative paradigms.
    Paradigm thinking and social work knowledge for practice.
  In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Traditional/dominant perspectives on individuals.
    Alternative and possible perspectives on individuals.
  In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
    Perspectives on familiness.
    Perspectives on groups.
  In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Perspectives on organizations.
    Perspectives on community-ies-.
  In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Global perspectives and theories.
    Putting it all together: toward more comprehensive and complex views of humans and knowledge about us.

Social Work and Welfare

Topics Covered in This Course:
  In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Competing perspectives on social welfare.
    Social welfare: basic concepts.
    Social work as a profession.
  In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Generalist social work practice.
    Responses to human diversity.
    Religion and social work.
  In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
    Poverty and ndash;the central concept.
    The nature and causes of poverty.
    The development of antipoverty programs.
  In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Child welfare.
    Crime and criminal justice.
    Health care.
  In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Mental health and developmental disability.
    Housing, homelessness, and community development -by robert d. leighninger, jr-.
    Aging

Social Work and Family Therapy

Topics Covered in This Course:
  In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
    - the evolution of family therapy and #8195;
    - lessons from the early models: group process and communications analysis and #8195;
    - the fundamental concepts of family therapy and #8195;
  In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
    - bowen family systems therapy and #8195;
    Chapter6- strategic family therapy
    Chapter7- structural family therapy
  In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
    - experiential family therapy
    - psychoanalytic family therapy
    Chapter10- cognitive behavioral family therapy
  In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
    - family therapy in the twenty-first century
    - solution-focused therapy
    Chapter13- narrative therapy
  In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
    - integrative models
    - comparative analysis

Advanced Social Work Practice

Topics Covered in This Course:
  In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
    The domain of the social work profession.
  In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Merging person with profession.
  In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
    Merging the person's art with the profession's science.
  In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
    The roles and functions performed by social workers.
  In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Guiding principles for social workers.
    Practice frameworks for social work.
    Facilitating change through decision making.

Human Services

Topics Covered in This Course:
  In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Human services: a new direction
    A history of helping
    Human service workers: agents of change
  In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Human services: identifying problems and causes
    Human services boundaries: special populations, special systems
  In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
    Medical and psychiatric approaches and the person in need
    Behavioral approaches and the person in need
  In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Psychotherapeutic approaches and the person in need
    Integrating contemporary strategies, personal relationship skills, and the supervisory process
  In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Problem assessment, planning, and brokering
    Case management: the cornerstone for human services
    Inspiring change in human services clients
    Crisis intervention
    Social intervention: prevention through environmental change
    Social control, human rights, ethics, and the law
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