Description
This class will focus on the skills necessary for students working with families of adjudicated youth. This class will offer a strength based approach to providing support and skills building for the family of adolescents and will highlight the characteristics of the family system, influences on behavior and the changing family.
Students will learn to use an integrated, systemic approach to engage family groups characterized by the adolescent dynamic. The impact of economic stress, divorce, family conflict, abuse and neglect, and legal issues on the family system and adolescent behavior will be explored.