Gary L. Bowen, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill; Elaine Anderson, University of Maryland; Jane Gilgun, University of Minnesota; Shirley M. H. Hanson, Emeritus, Oregon Health Sciences University; Leigh Leslie, University of Maryland; Terrance Olson, Brigham Young University; Stephen Small, University of Wisconsin-Madison
This session will define Evidence-based Practice (EBP), its history and development, and its current application in family science and social work, including pros and cons. Panel members will discuss the application of EBP to areas of central concern to NCFR members: youth development, school success, family life education (marital and family enrichment), and training of family life and social work professionals.
Contemporary family life educators must operate in a wide range of settings and with increasingly varied populations and families. In the second edition of their successful Family Life Education, Powell and Cassidy expertly expose readers to the diverse landscape of the field while laying a comprehensive, practical foundation for future family life educators. The authors broad overview of the field features a blend of theory and practice, with full chapters on sexuality education, marriage education, and parent education-areas that have received evaluation and certification attention.
Each chapter in Families in a Global Context describes customary types of family patterns within each country's social organization and culture. Important social, economic, political, and other trends are explored in detail, and major ethnic, religious, or other subcultures are noted emphasizing marriage and family patterns that differ from the more typical ones. The book is extensively referenced and includes tables to clearly present data.
A complete guide for family members facing the practical and emotional issues that arise in seeking nursing home care and who are learning to be "the family member" of someone in a nursing home or senior's housing.
Core resources include, It's My Life: Employment Guide, Apartment Hunt, Creative Life Skills Activities, Developing your Vision while Attending College, I Can Do it! A Micropedia of Living on Your Own, I Know Where I am Going (But Will My Cash Keep Up?), It's Perfectly Normal, Life Skills Activities for Special Needs Children, Preparing Adolescents for Young Adulthood (PAYA), and may more resources available at low cost.
For the first time in my life, I just found out that I've been way out on the leading-edge of a trend! Long before it became fashionable! CNN is reporting that thrift store shopping is catching on in the middle class.
Sesame Street Workshop includes a number of initiatives designed to help prepare children for the challenges that await them by addressing a wide range of developmental needs, from the basics of ABCs and 123s to life lessons about health, safely, getting along, and coping with loss.
