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HECOL 612

Family Challenges

3 units

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
    required
  • Mate, G. (2012). Addiction: Childhood trauma, stress and the biology of addiction. Journal of Restorative Medicine, 1 (1) (2012), pp. 56-63
    unspecified
Fall 2018

Topics

  • Introduction & Course Overview Canadian Families
  • Homelessness
  • Substance abuse
  • Mental Illness
  • Family Violence
  • Canadian Child Welfare
  • Family Intervention Techniques: Bowen Family Systems Therapy
  • Strategic Family 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

  • On‐line Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse. (2007). Substance Abuse in Canada: Youth in Focus. Ottawa, ON: Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse pp. 2 - 22. Retrieved from http://www.ccsa.ca/Resource%20Library/ccsa-011521-2007-e.pdf ↗
    unspecified
    ISBN 0115212007
  • Online Ward-Griffin, C., Schofield, R., Vos, S., & Coatsworth-Puspoky, R. (2005). Canadian families caring for members with mental illness: A vicious cycle. Journal of Family Nursing, 11(2),
    unspecified
  • 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
    unspecified
  • Stewart, D. E., MacMillan, H., & Wathen, N. (2013). Intimate partner violence. Canadian Journal of Psychiatry. Revue Canadienne De Psychiatrie, 58(6), 1-15
    unspecified
  • 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
    unspecified
  • 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), 128. doi:10.1080/00207594.2013.765571
    unspecified
  • Nichols, M. P. (2013). Family therapy: concepts and methods. Boston: Pearson. Chapter 4
    unspecified
  • Nichols, M. P. (2013). Family therapy: concepts and methods. Boston: Pearson. Chapter 5
    unspecified
  • Nichols, M. P. (2013). Family therapy: concepts and methods. Boston: Pearson. Chapter 6. Narrative Family Therapy
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  • Nichols, M. P. (2013). Family therapy: concepts and methods. Boston: Pearson. Chapter 12. Submit Literature Review Assignment
    unspecified
  • Nichols, M. P. (2013). Family therapy: concepts and methods. Boston: Pearson. Chapter 9
    unspecified
  • Nichols, M. P. (2013). Family therapy: concepts and methods. Boston: Pearson. Chapter 11
    unspecified
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