This book helps to promote awareness of SAD in the youth/young adult population. It is a useful reference book for practitioners especially counselors, therapists, and psychologists because of the information provided about symptoms, assessment tools, and various treatment methods.
Social Policy for Effective Practice, a text in the New Directions in Social Work series, offers a clear yet comprehensive explanation of the policy making process.
The best introduction to Solution Building in Couples Therapy is the quote "it's so simple, it is almost complicated." This book is a practical, readable book built on clinical observations that helps us understand a new paradigm.
Anyone who works with families, teens or pre-teens needs to read this book and ponder deeply on what Bazelon has written. How can we prevent bullying? What can we do when we witness bullying? How do we support and advocate for kids who are being bullied?
Talk to Me First is a must-have for every professional, and for every family seeking to take on these important life issues to best equip their children for their futures.
If, like me, you are new to the field of family violence prevention, these two volumes will give you a thorough introduction.
These books address the family life education content areas of Families and Individuals in Societal Contexts and Internal Dynamics of Families, and both books could serve as useful resources for family life educators teaching parent education to share with families with school-age children.
This book would be appropriate for young children in families coping with many illnesses associated with chronic pain. While the parent copes with pain, fatigue, frustration and forgetfulness, children can learn to understand, be patient, and help out around the home.
Seven active CFLEs and NCFR members contributed their knowledge and expertise to the CFLE program by participating in the development of the new CFLE exam test form.
Blended families: I am pondering what it really means to me as a family life educator. What does it mean to all our fellow professionals concerned with family life in its many forms and contexts?
If I could give one piece of advice to other family life educators, it would be to find the population about which you are passionate, and learn all you can in every situation. My career started off on a winding road, but through perseverance, I am now in a position where my passion and skills align.
by Risa J. Garon, LCSW-C, BCD, CFLE
The National Family Resiliency Center provides many services to children (ages 3 and up) and adults. Since we practice an ecological approach, which is so much a part of family life education, we view our service delivery as just one part of helping families.
Each of us finds our career in our own unique way, and sometimes our career finds us. I thought I knew exactly what I wanted to do at age 16: I wanted to help people. But life threw me a few curveballs and I took the road less traveled.
Deeply affected by the loss of both my parents through illness when I was a young mom, I became increasingly interested in hospice care and the powerful effectiveness of this comprehensive approach for assisting dying patients and their families during irreplaceable, precious last days together on earth.
The family life education approach made so much sense for a new case manager like me, who spent most of the day attempting to help clients in such crises as unemployment, homelessness, food insecurity, family conflict, domestic violence, or parenting challenges. I realized that there is a place for you and me next to other helping professionals.
There was no straight path in the early years of my career as I found my way into parenting education.
Although I swore I would be a lawyer someday, it was a Human Sexuality college class that changed the course of my life.
Often one's professional career path is the result of a combination of life events; some desired and planned, others just happen. For me, it began with a knock on the door. Through tears, a close family friend shared with me that she had been raped on a date earlier that evening and didn't know what to do or where to turn.
For this article, I am going to share information about my career path as a consultant and trainer for the Ohio Center for Deaf-Blind Education (OCDBE) where I have worked with families of children with special needs.
NCFR has hosted the Professional Resource Library for several years now and the number of resources has grown to more than 1,700. If there a book, textbook, or curriculum, or other resource you've found to be especially relevant to your work, check to see if it is posted. If not, suggest to us to add it to the library.
I want to share the story of Certified Family Life Educator (CFLE), Justin Petkus, and his effort to get the profession of family life education more widely recognized and understood within the Head Start program in Michigan. It's a wonderful example of what can be accomplished with a focused effort.
NCFR's newest publication, Family Life Education: The Practice of Family Science, is yet another collection of invaluable information provided by multiple experts in the field.
This book explores the consequences of mass incarceration on children in the U.S. over the past several decades from a sociological and research perspective and provides some possible solutions to improve outcomes for this population. I hope that many in our field will read it in order to begin addressing the complex issues it raises for this rapidly growing target population of children at risk.
Children's Encounters with Death, Bereavement, and Coping was prepared as a resource for caregivers "who seek to help children as they attempt to cope with death-related issues." The comprehensive nature of this excellent work is evident in the selection and content of the twenty-two chapters, sorted by salient themes.