Family Dynamics

Course description

From a Child and Youth Care (CYC) perspective, students develop skills to maintain relationships with children, youth and their families by applying principles of relational practice and respect for unique family life space, cultural and human diversity. Students explore family structures, including problems and issues that contemporary families face paying particular attention to the historical and current impact of colonization on Indigenous families. Students examine family development and family functions in the context of environment - work, school and leisure. Students learn to work as members of inter-professional and inter-agency teams to assess the impact of the cultural, economic, physical, emotional, social, spiritual, and/or psycho-social contexts in which children, youth and their families live and function

Students registering for credit courses for the first time must declare a program at the point of registration. Declaring a program does not necessarily mean students must complete a program, individual courses may be taken for skill improvement and upgrading.

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