SFL 460
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Advanced Family Processes
Course Description
Applying evidence-based best practices, processes, and principles in developing personal wellbeing and family strengths. May include communication, reconciliation, ritualization, conflict resolution, honoring agency, trauma, distance regulation, forgiveness, gratitude, physiology and relationships, healthy religious processes
When Taught
Fall and Winter
Min
3
Fixed/Max
3
Fixed
3
Fixed
0
Other Prerequisites
SFL 160 or concurrent enrollment
Title
Learning Outcome 1
Learning Outcome
Analyze how family processes, viewed as dynamic patterns (not fixed traits), influence couple and family functioning.
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Learning Outcome 2
Learning Outcome
Evaluate the quality of family process research and theories explored in class by identifying (a) how processes are studied, (b) which conclusions are supported by evidence, and (c) what factors (e.g., design, sampling, culture, doctrine) should shape interpretation and application.
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Learning Outcome 3
Learning Outcome
Integrate evidence-based principles, social science research, family processes, and gospel principles to foster loving, Christ-centered marriage and family relationships.
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Learning Outcome 4
Learning Outcome
Apply course principles to teach, mentor, or counsel families in personal, professional, and pastoral settings by (a) evaluating one's own relationship processes and (b) preparing to transition from "Enter to Learn" to "Go Forth to Serve" by blessing couples and families.
