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Coming from a large and intricate family comprised of high school sweethearts, stepfamilies, and half-siblings, I found Dr. Lucier-Greer's approach to teaching memorable. Being able to apply class information to my own life has had a significant impact.
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Internal Dynamics of Families
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By creating a family life education program, I was able to understand more clearly the tenets of FLE—education, prevention, and collaboration—and the goals it has in mind to educate families. Taking part in this process was a personal growth experience as it allowed me to pour my passions and personal interests into a very useful and concrete tool for families.
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For an assignment, we were placed into groups to research what was considered sexual assault and identify the steps to take if a person was a victim of sexual assault. I wanted to do all I could to make sure that individuals were aware of what is considered abuse. If I could help save one person's life, or spare them the agony, it would be worthwhile.
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Human Sexuality
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Places of worship then become witnesses to humanity's joys and sorrows. They are the spaces where we celebrate new life and new love. Much like a family system shelters an individual family member, the places of worship provide both the emotional and spiritual shelter to families and communities.
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The purpose of the research project was to inform new students, freshman and junior transfers, about the university's sexual assault policy. We wanted to find out what they knew about the policy and how we could raise awareness. We started by reviewing the results from a previous class's findings on the same topic.
Content Area
Human Sexuality
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In one classroom activity, our professor was placing students into new environments at different times without giving the students say in the matter. This reflects the experience children entering stepfamilies and blended families encounter: confusion, lack of control and major readjustment.
Content Area
Internal Dynamics of Families
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About a dozen students pooled their observations in the following student responses to Professor Gallagher's class dealing with the issue of Domestic Violence. They reported on the problem from various angles, and importantly found new insights based on their class discussions. Contributions have been merged and grouped into themes.
Content Area
Interpersonal Relationships
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My desire for students is to have a transformative experience where they come away different in some way. I think that this type of learning is facilitated by seeing, experiencing, and engaging classroom material. I want students to have a solid understanding of the empirical literature as well as a person-level perspective to understand how family-level changes impact the experiences of adults and children in stepfamilies.
Content Area
Internal Dynamics of Families
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During 2012, I decided to involve the students in my Human Sexuality classes in a needs assessment project related to our school's newly created and implemented sexual assault policy.
Content Area
Human Sexuality
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A healthy individual may struggle finding a family-work balance, but imagine the challenges when a chronic illness is added to the mix.
Content Area
Families and Individuals in Societal Contexts
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During the summer of my junior year, I participated in a five-day learning excursion to Washington as part of a class in Family Law and Public Policy. Our introduction started with the questions: "Why are family law and public policy important?" and "How are policies implemented?"
Content Area
Family Law and Public Policy
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Catch up on the latest accomplishments in the CFLE professional community.
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Francesca Adler-Baeder was awarded a $10 million grant to study the Alabama Healthy Marriage and Relationship Education Initiative, and more CFLE news from this fall.
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James J. Ponzetti, Jr., has edited an interdisciplinary series of textbooks focused on evidence-based practice in family life education, and more CFLE news from this winter.
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What is beyond the boundaries of family life education, or what does it not include? Our analysis examined three common and overlapping professional roles: family life education, family therapy, and family case management.
Content Area
Professional Ethics and Practice
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Discipline. Money. Time. Relationships. These are just a few of the aspects of family life affected by family values. Family values are a thread that easily ties family education and spirituality together. Very early in my work with families, it became clear to me that I needed to learn more about the importance, role, and transcendence of values for families in all stages of the life cycle as well as find ways to help families both identify and pass on their values.
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I'm well aware of the impact of TV and movies in providing family life education, whether incidentally or purposefully. But I had not been aware of the term "entertainment education."
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Pursuing a degree in family studies has turned out to be more of a blessing to my ministry than I expected. But there is a story that leads up to this and it started with the question: "What do you want to be when you grow up?"
Content Area
Families and Individuals in Societal Contexts
Human Growth and Development Across the Lifespan
Interpersonal Relationships
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At my Head Start home visiting program in Michigan, we have successfully brought intentionality to the home visiting role, labeled our department identity, developed a plan to ensure family needs are met by the appropriate professional, and now recognize a CFLE as a qualified member of our multidisciplinary Head Start team.
Content Area
Professional Ethics and Practice
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Despite the demonstrated success of existing relationship curricula, the importance of adapting content and delivery for targeted populations must not be overlooked. When we choose our programs and identify the clients we are serving, we should certainly ask the question, "Does it fit?"
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NCFR is undertaking a concerted effort to increase the resources available to those practicing in the field of family science. The Job Analysis survey process provided valuable data regarding employment settings and structure, practice areas, funding sources, demographics and more.
Content Area
Professional Ethics and Practice
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The take home message from our study is simple: Though we found only five states with actual written legislation addressing who is authorized to deliver parenting education for divorcing couples, all five were written in a way that would include CFLEs with varying levels of education.
Content Area
Family Law and Public Policy
Parent Education and Guidance
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Parenting coordination is still a relatively new professional field that has not been clearly defined as to the qualifications or scope of authority of those providing the service. If you're a CFLE interested in this area, you will need a working knowledge of the CFLE content areas, training in mediation and other conflict resolution processes, willingness and patience to work with high conflict families, familiarity with family laws or statues in your state, (particularly as they pertain to divorce and child custody), and a network of family law professionals, who are familiar with what the CFLE can offer their clients.
Content Area
Parent Education and Guidance
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