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  • FAMS 3050: Clinical Skills for Helping Professions

    3.00 Credits
    Utah Valley University

    Prerequisite(s): University Advanced Standing. Introduces basic clinical skills for helping professionals, including biopsychosocial evaluation, psychometric screeners, and safety assessments for life and relational stress and general mental health symptomatology. Investigates best-practice skills for evaluating individual and family situations and outcomes. Explores self-compassion and self-care for competent and ethical practice. Examines new and evolving clinical approaches for individuals and families served by helping professions.
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  • FAMS 3100: Career and Graduate School Preparation

    3.00 Credits
    Utah Valley University

    Prerequisite(s): University Advanced Standing. Emphasizes the development of skills necessary to apply for employment and/or graduate school in the field of family studies. Includes resume writing, cover letters, basic interview skills, preparation of application packages, and networking skills used with school and community resources to find employment and/or graduate school opportunities.
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  • FAMS 3250: Applied Parenting

    3.00 Credits
    Utah Valley University

    Prerequisite(s): (ENGL 2010 or ENGL 201H with a C grade or higher) and University Advanced Standing. Exposes students to classical and contemporary parenting theory, research, and practice. Focuses on the application of the guidance of children. Includes the study of parenting concepts, challenges, risks, and alternatives while considering the social, physical, emotional, intellectual, and spiritual environments of the child.
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  • FAMS 3300: Trauma-Informed Care

    3.00 Credits
    Utah Valley University

    Prerequisite(s): University Advanced Standing. Introduces trauma-informed care in working with vulnerable populations (e.g. addictions, adoption, domestic violence, abuse & neglect, military service, emergency management, etc.). Explores a broad range of neurobiosocial factors that influence the development and presentation of trauma in individuals, and will explore several frameworks used to identify the ways that trauma may present in those for which we serve. Investigates current evidence-informed frameworks and modalities for conceptualizing trauma. Requires a foundational knowledge of human development and family systems.
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  • FAMS 3500: Family Demography

    3.00 Credits
    Utah Valley University

    Prerequisite(s): University Advanced Standing. Explores family life, modern and historical, through the lens of population science. Focuses on how patterns of fertility, mortality, and migration have shaped global and domestic family life and projections for the future of families.
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  • FAMS 3800: Early Development in Families

    3.00 Credits
    Utah Valley University

    Prerequisite(s): (ENGL 2010 or ENGL 201H with a C or higher) and University Advanced Standing. Studies physical, social, emotional, and cognitive development from conception through adolescence. Emphasizes normal child development within family, social, and cultural contexts.
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  • FAMS 3850: Adult Development and Aging

    3.00 Credits
    Utah Valley University

    Prerequisite(s): (ENGL 2010 or ENGL 201H with C or higher) and University Advanced Standing. Explores the dynamic process of adult development from emerging adulthood to death. Focuses on current adult developmental research and theory and the development of adults within and without the family system. Includes the examination of physical, familial, emotional, and social development.
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  • FAMS 4040: Secondary Data Analysis

    3.00 Credits
    Utah Valley University

    Prerequisite(s): PSY 3110; FAMS 3020; (ENGL 2010 or ENGL 201H with a C or higher); and University Advanced Standing. Focuses on research in the academic discipline of Family Studies. Teaches how to use the tools of research as a problem solving resource in real-life and applied settings. Includes how to form a research question or hypothesis, develop a proposal, create measurement, and apply for IRB approval. Requires completion of a research project.
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  • FAMS 4300: Family Dispute Resolution

    3.00 Credits
    Utah Valley University

    Prerequisite(s): COMM 3410 or instructor approval; and University Advanced Standing. Builds on fundamentals learned in the basic mediation course. Reviews research and theories on family dynamics and conflicts. Examines the most effective mediation approaches, techniques, and skills for resolving family disputes. Presents information on specialized family mediation situations such as family mediation divorce, parent/teen, adoption, elder care. Prepares students to effectively participate in family mediations by utilizing an interactive workshop format with role-play, observation, and actual mediations.
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  • FAMS 4400: Family Policy

    3.00 Credits
    Utah Valley University

    Prerequisite(s): (FAMS 240G or PSY 1010 or SOC 1010) and (ENGL 2010 or ENGL 201H with a C grade or higher) and University Advanced Standing. Creates an understanding of the role of family professionals as advocates for the institution of the family. Covers family theories and research methods which aid in critically analyzing current policy development and implementation patterns in Utah and the United States. Utilizes the developmental theory in support of advocacy for family members in all their diverse structures, ages, and life stages. Canvas Course Mats $53/VitalS applies.
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