This list of scholarly articles from NCFR is provided to help families, educators, researchers, and practitioners educate themselves and others on matters related to the systematic oppression and the persistence of both individual and institutional racism in our society.

ACEs are potentially traumatic events that can have negative, lasting effects on health and well-being Experiencing events or conditions that cause stress to the maturing brain can negatively affect development in childhood and have implications for health in adulthood.

According to Lang, “small teaching” is a strategic approach to teaching based on the premise that students can experience powerful, meaningful, and lasting learning from brief learning activities, as well as uncomplicated interventions or modifications to instructional design and delivery.

Recently students in my HDFS 434 Family Life Education at the University of Nevada, Reno (UNR), developed a FLE Poster Session to showcase their work and promote the NCFR approved status of our HDFS program.

I began as an elementary school teacher on a military base where all of my students had parents who were deployed. It quickly became clear to me that teaching was much more about nurturing my students’ emotional health than strictly sticking to reading, writing and ’rithmetic.

The Career Coaching Handbook is a useful tool for advisers, vocational counselors, high school counselors and others who may guide and support persons in narrowing down their career search.

This volume underscores the rationale for the change in nomenclature from Family Studies to Family Science. The 12 chapters and 21 authors represented here offer some new directions in relationship research and new approaches to long-standing areas of interest.

Understanding the impact of trauma and engaging in trauma-informed practice are two steps by which FLEs support families who face challenges and system disruptions resulting from experiences of trauma.  

Even if an individual has not personally experienced trauma, learning about these impactful events can inspire emotional reactivity, empathic engagement with traumatized individuals and their reports of traumatic experiences, or vicarious traumatization.

Four graduate students who attended the Family Science Association’s Teaching Family Science conference share reactions and learnings from Dr. Debra Berke’s presentation on trauma, self-care, and the family science educator.

Read the most recent issue of CFLE Network, all about the topic of Trauma-informed Education.

Read the fall 2016 CFLE Network, all about the topic of Global Family Life Education.

A collection of resources including organizations, websites, journal articles, books, tip sheets, etc., suggested by the authors of the articles in the winter 2016 CFLE Network.

Sustaining and growing an existing approved CFLE academic program is not easy in these uncertain times. It often requires creativity, as well as attentiveness and persistence.

Although we might think of commuter marriage as an unconventional type of marital arrangement, it is one that affects the whole family. Due to Given the increasing numbers of couples adopting this arrangement, it is helpful to understand how researchers have studied commuter marriage, some of their major findings, and the implications for family practitioners.

The effects of long-distance caregiving on one’s emotional and physical health are well documented. A caregiving situation characterized by unpredictability, sudden crises, or uncontrolled medical setbacks can contribute to caregiver risks for depression, anxiety and sleep problems.

Military service places particular and extraordinary demands on its employees and their families, most notably because of extended periods of separation due to SM deployments

Approximately 1.2 million children experience their parents’ divorce each year in the United States, and the number is higher when considering children who are born into cohabiting relationships that dissolve.

At any time more than 2% of U.S. children under age 18 have a parent who is incarcerated.

People migrating to the U.S. may leave their families—spouse, children, aging parents, and extended family—in their home country, leading to the creation of transnational families who “do family” at a distance.

Changes in global labor markets have driven the feminization of migration from Latin America, increasing the number of mothers leaving children behind as they migrate to find work. Simultaneously, immigration policies have decreased the permeability of borders leading these transnational families to be separated for longer periods.

It is estimated that more than 100,000 students around the world study abroad at the high school level each year with approximately 28,000 students coming to the United States. 

The 2018 conference theme for the Northwest Council on Family Relations was “Promoting Healthy Families Through Policy: Challenges and Opportunities.” Approximately 75 students, faculty, and professionals attended the conference at Central Washington University in Ellensburg, Washington, on April 13.

My research areas of interest included child/adolescent/family mental health, men in families, single-parent families, family assessment, and family health nursing. These interests led to research studies and many articles and books on these topics from 1970 through 2018.