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Applied Human Behavior
Description: This course seeks to integrate traditional child development theories with the most current research on how to support positive character and intellectual development in order to encourage individuals entering the helping profession to use a strengths-based perspective when engaging in direct practice with children, adults and families dealing with challenging life events and resulting maladaptive behaviors. Coursework emphasizes current collaborative research between the psychology and social economics fields of study. Students will engage in dynamic discourse about the importance of building key character traits in order to enhance emotional and intellectual intelligence in childhood and further into adulthood. Direct practitioners in the mental health field today use the expression, "We live in a co-occurring world." Substance abuse is a social, medical and mental health epidemic today that has significant implications for both individuals and communities. This course explores the primary and secondary biological and social causes of substance use, abuse, and addiction. Students will then evaluate the tertiary impacts of substance abuse and addiction on the larger community and society as a whole. Furthermore, students will become acquainted with the most common methods of intervention and treatment today including Motivational Interviewing, Cognitive Behavioral Treatment, and 12 Step models. Letter grade only.
Units: 3
Sections offered: Fall 2024
Prerequisite: ENGY 102 and Pre- or Corequisite: AHBY 365
Applied Human Behavior
Term : Spring 2018
Catalog Year : 2017-2018
AHBY 420 - Addictions, Recovery And Resiliency
Description: This course seeks to integrate traditional child development theories with the most current research on how to support positive character and intellectual development in order to encourage individuals entering the helping profession to use a strengths-based perspective when engaging in direct practice with children, adults and families dealing with challenging life events and resulting maladaptive behaviors. Coursework emphasizes current collaborative research between the psychology and social economics fields of study. Students will engage in dynamic discourse about the importance of building key character traits in order to enhance emotional and intellectual intelligence in childhood and further into adulthood. Direct practitioners in the mental health field today use the expression, "We live in a co-occurring world." Substance abuse is a social, medical and mental health epidemic today that has significant implications for both individuals and communities. This course explores the primary and secondary biological and social causes of substance use, abuse, and addiction. Students will then evaluate the tertiary impacts of substance abuse and addiction on the larger community and society as a whole. Furthermore, students will become acquainted with the most common methods of intervention and treatment today including Motivational Interviewing, Cognitive Behavioral Treatment, and 12 Step models. Letter grade only.
Units: 3
Sections offered: Fall 2024
Prerequisite: ENGY 102 and Pre- or Corequisite: AHBY 365