HECOL 412
Family Challenges
Fall 2022
Topics
- Introduction & Course Overview Canadian Families
- Substance abuse
- Mental Health Issues
- Family Violence
- To increase awareness of non-normative family challenges
- To create an understanding of how various non-normative family challenges impact family functioning, processes, and interactions
- To provide an understanding of the Canadian child welfare policy
- empirically-supported systemic and behavioral models for intervening with both the couple and family
Readings
- Nichols, M. P. (2016). Family therapy: concepts and methods. Boston: Pearson
- needs with Accessibility Resources, 1‐80 Students’ Union Building (email: arrec@ualberta.ca; phone: 780-492-3381)ISBN 7804923381
- Mate, G. (2012). Addiction: Childhood trauma, stress and the biology of addiction. Journal of Restorative Medicine, 1 (1) (2012), pp. 56-63
Fall 2019
Topics
- Introduction & Course Overview Canadian Families
- Homelessness
- Substance abuse
- Mental Illness
- Family Violence
- Canadian Child Welfare
- Families in Later Life
- Bowen Family Systems Therapy
- Structural Family Therapy Narrative Family Therapy
- Cognitive Behaviour Therapy
- Solution Focused Therapy Course Conclusion
- Develop an in-depth understanding of non-normative family challenges
Readings
- ISBN 0115212007
- Leslie, K. (2008). Youth substance use and abuse: challenges and strategies for identification and intervention. CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal, 178(2), 145–148. Activity: Watch the video Lost Childhood: Growing up in an alcoholic family
- Yamashita, M., & Forsyth, D. (1998). Family coping with mental illness: an aggregate from two studies, Canada and United States. Journal of the American Psychiatric Nurses Association, 4(1), 1-8
- Stewart, D. E., MacMillan, H., & Wathen, N. (2013). Intimate partner violence. Canadian Journal of Psychiatry. Revue Canadienne De Psychiatrie, 58(6), 1-15. Activity: Watch the video Home Fire on domestic violence and intergenerational trauma
- Bala, N., Finlay, J., De Filippis, R., & Hunter, K. (2015). Child welfare adolescents and the youth justice system: Failing to responding effectively to crossover youth. Canadian Criminal Law Review, 19(1), 129-151
- Trocmé, N., Fallon, B., Sinha, V., Van Wert, M., Kozlowski, A., & MacLaurin, B. (2013). Differentiating between child protection and family support in the Canadian child welfare system's response to intimate partner violence, corporal punishment, and child neglect. International Journal of Psychology, 48(2),
- Online resources Kerr Robertson, G. (2014). Transitions in later life: a review of the challenges and opportunities for policy development. Working with Older People: Community Care Policy & Practice, 18(4), 186–196
- Bailey, W. A., & Gordon, S. R. (2016). Family caregiving amidst age-associated cognitive changes: Implications for practice and future generations. Family Relations, 65(1), 225–238
- Nichols, M. P. (2013). Family therapy: concepts and methods. Boston: Pearson. Chapter 4
- Nichols, M. P. (2013). Family therapy: concepts and methods. Boston: Pearson. Chapter 5
- Nichols, M. P. (2013). Family therapy: concepts and methods. Boston: Pearson. Chapter 6
- Nichols, M. P. (2013). Family therapy: concepts and methods. Boston: Pearson. Chapter 12
- Nichols, M. P. (2013). Family therapy: concepts and methods. Boston: Pearson. Chapter 9
- Nichols, M. P. (2013). Family therapy: concepts and methods. Boston: Pearson. Chapter 11
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026–2027
- HECOL 412 FAMILY CHALLENGES · Reading-list link; contents not retrieved ↗
- 2014-Fall-HECOL-412-LECTURE-A1 ↗2014
- 2015-Fall-HECOL-412-LECTURE-A1 ↗2015
- 2016-Fall-HECOL-412-LECTURE-A1 ↗2016
- 2017-Fall-HECOL-412-LECTURE-A1 ↗2017
- 2018-Fall-HECOL-412-LECTURE-A1 ↗2018
- 2019-Fall-HECOL-412-LECTURE-A1 ↗2019
- 2022-Fall-HECOL-412-LECTURE-A1 ↗2022
- Additional readings are supplied through the course LMS. Partial automated extraction.
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