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I recently attended the Nonprofit Technology Conference along with other NCFR staff. It proved to be a very worthwhile experience in helping me get a better grasp of all things related to technology and social media.
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Based on strong expressed interest, NCFR has decided to move ahead with the creation of an assessment exam for academic programs. I am pleased to announce that it will be available in fall 2016.
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There will be many sessions at the 2013 NCFR Annual Conference focused on the theme, but two in particular will be centered largely on the concept of prevention.
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Instead of creating large numbers of new exam questions every 3-4 years, I am creating a standing exam committee that will create and approve new questions on an ongoing basis.
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While family life education (FLE) is not yet a widely recognized or understood profession (emphasis on yet), there are myriad opportunities available to those with family-specific degrees. The secret to finding employment is to be able to articulate to a potential employer what FLE is, what a family life educator knows and can do, and the value that someone with a family background can provide to the employer and their agency or organization.
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NCFR has been working to increase awareness and understanding of family science as a discipline, which in turn has implications for family life education.
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Professional Ethics and Practice
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During the spring of my senior year, I had the opportunity to create my own personal stress model under the guidance of my professor, Dr. Janice Weber. Throughout the course Families in Crisis, I was able to demonstrate knowledge of crises theories, as well as form my own personal crisis outline.
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Internal Dynamics of Families
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Each semester, I clearly remember the faces and comments of students as I introduce the topic of domestic violence for the first time. Many students reflect back a combination of disassociation and shame. By the end of our discussions, students are expressing statements of understanding and empowerment.
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Stress surrounds us, in the ordinary and the extraordinary challenges of daily life. Family life educators are likely to be dealing with persons facing stressful situations. Stress is often the motivator to seek family life education as one of the options to manage the situation constructively.
Content Area
Internal Dynamics of Families
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Two students share their perspectives on the importance of faith communities.
Content Area
Religion and Families
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At Samford University, we created a course that combines online content with an extended field trip to Washington, D.C. This article will provide insight into how this course addresses family science and public policy.
Content Area
Family Law and Public Policy
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One of the sweet and often unexpected gifts of lifespan progression is grandparenthood. There is something endearing about that magical moment of holding a baby and knowing that this child is the offspring of the generation that follows us.
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It has been said that every time a child is born a grandparent is also born. This folkloric wisdom rings true, but there is more to it than meets the eye.
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The literature concerning parental disability/chronic illness and family functioning is traditionally a divided field, at odds in methodologies, findings, and implications. Why attempt to teach such a fragmented field? Because it is far too important to overlook.
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Professional Ethics and Practice
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When it comes to grief and bereavement in this age of evidence-based practice, what helps and heals? What can the behavioral sciences and common sense teach us? We have only to look at our shared human history, in folklore and primordial legend, for clues.
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Counseling and Therapy
Internal Dynamics of Families
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Educators cannot prepare students for every possible scenario they will encounter in their professional work with individuals and families; rather, engaging in certain types of activities and assignments facilitates the student developing the skills to be successful in their career, providing their clients with the best care possible.
Content Area
Professional Ethics and Practice
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With each new edition of a book, the slow societal changes become more apparent as they affect parents and their families.
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Parent Education and Guidance
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I'm currently serving as a City Year corps member in San Antonio, Texas. I chose to do an internship that would actually make a difference.
Content Area
Human Sexuality
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This assignment explored not only what it means legally to be a human services professional, but required me to ponder what about my own history, biases, and judgments influences my decision making processes when it comes to difficult ethical dilemmas.
Content Area
Professional Ethics and Practice
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My parenting course equipped me with an understanding of how I was parented, how my parents were parented, and so on through past generations. More importantly, it helped me grasp an understanding of the direction of where parenting practices are headed.
Content Area
Parent Education and Guidance
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In class, we were asked to think about how relationships and interactions such as dating would look for someone who had already been married and had kids with a previous partner. Because many in the class were not parents, I think it may have been most difficult for us to understand parenting in the context of stepfamilies. So during class one day, Dr. Greer conducted an interactive activity.
Content Area
Internal Dynamics of Families
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How are you as parents so happy and peaceful? Ever since our 4-year-olds were in the NICU, people have asked my wife and I variations of this question pretty regularly. It has given us a continual opportunity to reflect upon and to discover so much about life and family that we couldn't have discovered without Nathan and Owen's situation.
Content Area
Internal Dynamics of Families
Parent Education and Guidance
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Like many family science departments, Messiah College's offers a singular course to meet each of many of the 10 content areas, like Parenting or Human Sexuality. When it comes to the Family Life Education content area, however, we introduce elements of the content throughout the curriculum and top it off with a three-credit capstone course during the senior year.
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As a Child Life Specialist working in the field of hospice, I daily encounter children working through their personal journeys of grief.
Content Area
Counseling and Therapy
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