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This course involves a study of families under stress, including the many external and internal influences that play a role in determining a family’s experience of stress.  An ecological model will be used to understand potential risk factors that pose problems for families, along with protective factors that help families to be resilient. Focus will be maintained to learn ways to help families under stress.

This skill based course prepares students to effectively use interpersonal communication skills associated with helping individuals and families in a variety of settings. Role playing will be one of the primary learning methods. These skills are especially valuable for students planning to enter a human service profession, counseling/therapy, or planning to pursue graduate studies.

Â鶹¾«Æ·ÔÚÏß²¥·Å will apply what they have learned in the major by teaching family life education. Â鶹¾«Æ·ÔÚÏß²¥·Å will also create a professional portfolio of the professional activities associated with the educational program.

The essence of this course is to learn how to promote and protect both the optimal well-being of children and the core strength of the family unit at all levels in society. To do this, students will use a bioecological systems approach to discern potential harm and/or benefit to children and families and effective solutions at each level. These levels or systems include the micro, meso, exo, macro, and chronosystems. Additionally, this course is multidisciplinary in that utilizes the fields of sociology, family studies, child development, political science, philosophy, and communications. Related skills such as researching, writing, speaking, and social media will be taught. Child and family advocacy will teach students why the family is the most humane, economical, and powerful system known for building competence and character in people. Finally, the course equips students to see how the majority of challenges that children and families face are connected or interrelated, and thus the solutions are similarly correlated.

The focus of this course is on the interaction between social science, moral systems, public policies, and gospel doctrines relating to the well-being of children and families.

This course is designed to give students the nature and effects of specific drugs from all major classes on human beings from the physiological, psychological, and sociological viewpoints.