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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
Focuses on program issues of models of service delivery, program evaluation and efficacy studies, policy development, and advocacy in early intervention. Curriculum resources and intervention strategies for infants and toddlers with special needs are reviewed with emphasis on interdisciplinary planning and implementation. Prerequisite: CFS 504 or permission of instructor.
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Examines current theories of family dynamics, communication patterns, and member roles, e.g., siblings, within a particular family systems. Students utilize personal experience as family members to explore the effects of family interactions on individual and family development, adaptation to stressors, and relationships with school, work and other settings. address program competencies. Sites determined according to students' needs and their track within the Birth to Three Program. Five group supervision meetings also required. (Only open to students in the Birth to Three Program.)
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3.00 Credits
Includes historical overview of family systems theories. Differentiates key concepts and their applications to research on families and to therapeutic models, clinical issues and outcomes. Explores families' interdependent relationships and their influence on individuals and subsystems, such as couples.
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Families of children, 0-12, with special needs have legal rights and responsibilities. Explores parent-professional partnerships, informal and formal family support networks, and ways parents, siblings, extended family, and friends contribute to a child's development. Analyzes familycentered care principles as they apply to home, school, medical, and other settings.
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Analyzes family relationships throughout the life cycle as revealed in contemporary novels, plays, and biographies, further informed by research on ethnicity and family systems. Examines ways cultural values, beliefs and practices are embedded in the parenting process and influence children's development, parenting behaviors, and family identities. Fulfills core requirement in multiculturalism.
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3.00 Credits
Draws upon readings in anthropology, sociology and psychology to illuminate different dimensions of family life within and outside the U.S. Explores one's own and other's cultural influences in how families carry out functions across generations. Cross-cultural research informs student projects in which a particular culture is studied in depth. Fulfills core requirement in multiculturalism.
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3.00 Credits
Explores topics including parenthood and adult development, parent-child issues, child-rearing practices, varieties of parenthood experiences, challenges for children and their parents, parents' involvement in their child's learning and the dynamics of family life. Parenting education materials and family support services explored.
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3.00 Credits
Introduces students to contemporary and controversial issues related to the lives of children and families, using the ecological approach as a framework. Interdisciplinary faculty guest speakers select specific issues for analysis and discussion.
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Children's coping skills, styles, and social support can buffer effects of stressors. Explores concepts of resiliency, risk, and vulnerability within a developmental framework. Stressors range from transitions such as starting kindergarten, to threats of loss through divorce, illness, or death, and contending with systematic barriers such as discrimination or poverty.
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3.00 Credits
Investigates ways a child or adult may live "well" with chronic illness. Examines rolesof family members, friends, co-workers, or helping professionals as a potentially empathic and responsive support system, respectful of cultural, economic and age differences. Identifies ways to navigate health care systems. Explores patients as advocates.
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