HSP 4100 - Gerontology for Human Service Professionals

2(2 + 0)

Prerequisite: HSP 1010, HSP 2030 and HSP 2040

This course focuses on the ways in which human services professionals can provide counseling for aging persons. This is a skills-based course that uses the basic clinical skills learned in interviewing classes but expands these skills toward working with the aged. The course will also give students an opportunity to work with aging individuals in a human service capacity. The major developmental aspects of aging will be reviewed.