LIFC 302 Marriage Coaching

An examination and analysis of professional coaching applications that serve marital relationship concerns. The course covers marital issues from a Christian worldview with special attention given to a biblical foundation of marriage coaching and differences between coaching and counseling models.

As a basis for their work, marriage coaches should have a thorough understanding of coaching models, theory, and application. This understanding serves to heighten the coaches’ effectiveness in formulating effective coaching strategies and in aiding in the delivery of advice in an efficient and timely manner.

Textbook readings and lecture presentations/notes

Regular readings will be assigned to allow the student to complete the reading of the required texts within each Module: Week allotted for the course. (CLO: A, B, C, D)

Course Requirements Checklist

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

Discussions (4)

Discussions are collaborative learning experiences. Therefore, the student is required to post 1 thread of 250–500 words and 2 replies of 150–250 words each for each Discussion. For each thread, the student must support his/her assertions with professional resources in APA format. Each reply must incorporate support from the course materials. (CLO: A, B, C, D, E, F)

Article Review Assignments (2)

For each Article Review Assignment, the student will critically analyze an article, discussing the methods, results, and discussion of the article. Each Article Review Assignment will contain the student’s review of an empirical research article published within the last 5 years with citation and reference of the article in current APA format following the Article Review Template provided. Each review must be 500–700 words. (CLO: A, B, C, D, E, F)

Annotated Bibliography Assignments (2)

For this assignment, the student will write a 700-word annotated bibliography on three journal articles. This assignment must strictly adhere to current APA format. This assignment will enable the student to explore an area of interest in the field of marriage coaching in an in-depth manner and provide the student with practice expressing his/her content knowledge in writing. The paper must include at least 3 relevant, empirical, peer-reviewed research sources (written no earlier than 2005), in addition to the course textbooks and the Bible. (CLO: A, B, C, D, E, F)

Quizzes (4)

The quizzes will cover the assigned reading. Each quiz will be open-book/open-note, contain 30–50 multiple-choice and true/false questions, and have a time limit of 1 hour and 30 minutes. (CLO: A, C, D)