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As I have delved deeper into my undergraduate courses, my perspective of human development and of this major has been transformed completely. We do not simply learn theories and statistics regarding families and child development. We are given the theories as a framework, or a basic foundation for the ultimate learning experience that is life itself.
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Human Growth and Development Across the Lifespan
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In his book, Play: How it Shapes the Brain, Opens the Imagination, and Invigorates the Soul, clinical researcher Stuart Brown observes that "one of the hallmarks of play is that it appears purposeless. But the pervasiveness of play throughout nature argues that the activity must have some purpose after all."
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Human Growth and Development Across the Lifespan
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Too often when we family life educators in the hinterlands make presentations or conduct workshops for parents and teachers in the community, it stops there.
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Human Growth and Development Across the Lifespan
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The advocacy work to promote evidence-based parenting and family education continues to move forward. I continually learn of local, state, national and international efforts to promote the profession and the science of parenting and family education programs as a method to improve the health and well-being of individuals, families, communities and economies.
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Professional Ethics and Practice
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Sometimes people ask which journals would publish qualitative research related to families. We asked this question at the QFRN Business Meeting in 2010, and got several ideas.
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Research
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This list of resources from reputable organizations can help families, educators and anyone working with children talk to kids about tragedies and violence.
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Families and Individuals in Societal Contexts
Human Growth and Development Across the Lifespan
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As chair of the upcoming NCFR annual conference, I am very proud of the all that NCFR members and section leaders have accomplished over the past few months. Thanks to you, I think the upcoming conference promises to be a very meaningful experience for all who attend. I hope that you will travel to Vancouver, stay, and participate actively!
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I have talked with authors whose initial reaction to reviews is emotional, and some who are not quite so affected. Here I present excerpts from my interviews with four leading scholars. You might compare your experiences of criticism with theirs. A bit of social comparison can be illuminating.
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Research
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Relationship expert, Benjamin Karney from UCLA, discusses couples and stress. Dr. Karney writes, "Reuben Hill first pointed out in his classic and influential Family Stress Theory, the impact of any specific stressor on a relationship is likely to depend on the broader landscape of additional stressors the couple faces and the resources available to cope with them."
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Family Health
Internal Dynamics of Families
Interpersonal Relationships
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To help individuals and society cope with [divorce], we need to move beyond sweeping generalizations about the "average" outcome of divorce and conduct more fine-tuned investigations into the full range of family processes and events that increase the risks of damage or augment the resilience of children and adults.
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Families and Individuals in Societal Contexts
Internal Dynamics of Families
Interpersonal Relationships
Parent Education and Guidance
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Research has consistently demonstrated that children and adults who go through a divorce experience declines in subjective well-being and physical health, on average.
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Families and Individuals in Societal Contexts
Internal Dynamics of Families
Interpersonal Relationships
Parent Education and Guidance
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Conventional wisdom and research strongly suggest that when divorced parents can eventually co-parent, protect their children from their unresolved conflicts, incorporate authoritative parenting skills and maintain good mental health, their children have a good chance to fare well in the long term. These are ideal goals for any family, not just those of divorce. But, during the stressful period prior to the separation-and often for several years afterward-even the most dedicated parents are unsteady.
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Counseling and Therapy
Families and Individuals in Societal Contexts
Interpersonal Relationships
Parent Education and Guidance
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The Career Mystique embodies the work ethic. It epitomizes the American Dream.
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Families and Individuals in Societal Contexts
Family Resource Management
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A focus on relational competence, developmental relationships, psychosocial support, and resilience offers a useful relational and developmental perspective on aging that considers multiple processes that may vary over time as individuals, families, and organizational life are socially embedded.
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Human Growth and Development Across the Lifespan
Internal Dynamics of Families
Interpersonal Relationships
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I recently completed an internship for my family therapy master's degree at the Family Studies Center of the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, where I gained extensive experience in identifying community and family strengths, reframing seemingly hopeless situations, and practicing the art of circular questioning. Most importantly, I learned to relish being emotionally and physically close to those on the brink of life and death.
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Counseling and Therapy
Internal Dynamics of Families
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There are many fundamental shifts in how people do relationships in industrialized nations, and the increase in the prevalence of cohabitation instead of marriage or prior to marriage would be near the top of the list. The mystery is this: The belief that cohabiting prior to marriage lowers one's odds of divorce has no evidence going for it, yet it is a strongly held belief.
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Families and Individuals in Societal Contexts
Internal Dynamics of Families
Interpersonal Relationships
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An important way in which the family field benefits society is that our research and theory can illuminate everyday taken-for-granted relationship life in ways that enrich, empower, educate, and perhaps entertain the general public. Take couple bed-sharing. Tens of millions of adult couples in the United States share a bed, but until recently not much was written about it in the academic literature or the popular press.
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Internal Dynamics of Families
Interpersonal Relationships
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Housework has been a gold mine for research. Searching Sociological Abstracts online identifies more than 1,000 articles on the topic. The twenty-first century, however, has taken research in a new direction. There are now more studies on how couples in other countries divide the work around the house, including studies of non-Western societies such as China. Instead of simply putting couples' housekeeping under a microscope, researchers are switching to a wide-angle lens.
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Families and Individuals in Societal Contexts
Family Resource Management
Internal Dynamics of Families
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The NCFR board made the following statement at the NCFR annual meeting on Nov. 8, 2013 (revised Nov. 23, 2015).
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The Board of Directors of the National Council on Family Relations (NCFR) welcomes the U.S. Supreme Court decision that extends the Constitutional right of civil marriage to same-sex couples across our nation.
(The statement originally was made June 29, 2015, and was revised Nov. 23, 2015.)
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