DBMF 300 Child and Adolescent Issues and Helping Strategies

This course helps counselors, pastors, and parenting champions identify issues that can divide children from their parents and employ the strategies necessary to help families reconnect and thrive.

Textbook readings and lecture presentations

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Course Requirements Checklist

After reading the Course Syllabus and Student Expectations, the student will complete the related checklist found in Course Overview.

Discussions (4)

Discussions are collaborative learning experiences. Therefore, the student will complete four (4) Discussions within this course. The student will post one thread of at least 250 words and then post 2 replies of at least 150 words. For each thread, students must support their assertions with at least 2 scholarly sources in current APA format. The thread should demonstrate course-related knowledge. Each reply must incorporate at least 1 scholarly source in current APA format. Any outside sources cited must have been published within the last five years. Acceptable sources include the textbook, the Bible, and other scholarly sources. (CLO: A, C, D, E).

Movie Review Assignment

The Movie Review assignment provides an opportunity to focus on a movie that relates to child and adolescent issues. Students must interact with the movie’s content in a way that aids understanding of the impact of movies on the counseling process, including a Review, the Therapeutic Implications, and the Personal/Professional Implications of the movie. Please see the specific assignment instructions included with the course materials (CLO: A, C, D).

Bringing Up Girls PowerPoint Presentation Assignment

The PowerPoint Presentation Assignment provides the student the opportunity to display their knowledge of the James Dobson book Bringing up Girls. Along with summarizing 10 chapters, students will reveal what they would like more information on as well as how they connected with the material and in what ways they have grown. Please see the specific assignment instructions included with the course materials. (CLO: A, B, C, E)

Parent Interview Assignment

Students will complete a parent interview with reflections. Part one will consist of 12 questions with answers. Part two will consist of a written reflection that interacts with the responses given by the interviewee (CLO: A, B, E).

Quiz: Bringing Up Boys

Students will complete a quiz that covers the material presented in the Bringing up Boys book. The quiz is open book and is comprised of 50 multiple-choice and true/false questions. The quiz must be completed in one sitting where you are provided with 90 minutes to complete the quiz. Once the quiz is opened, it must be completed; it cannot be saved and resumed at a later time (CLO: A, B, C, D).