Family Dynamics and Community Resources

Catalog description

School counselor candidates will acquire effective strategies to develop positive relationships between school, community and family. Candidates will learn effective ways to include family members as active contributors in their child's education and well being. Family influences on the child's academic, career and personal/social success will be addressed. Candidates will learn how to consult and create collaborative teams to include school personnel, families and community agencies in supporting success for all students. Candidates will examine concepts of family dynamics, range of family dynamics and dysfunction requiring referral and utilization of community resources. The course will explore diversities inherent in families and focus on ways of relating to families who differ from others in age, race, ethnicity, economics and family form and function.