Making Healthy Families by
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This course meets the qualifications for 10 hours of continuing education units
We are pleased and honored to offer courses by Gayle Peterson, LCSW, Ph.D, a renowned family therapist, prenatal and child development specialist.
Making Healthy Families examines the creation and growth of healthy,
functional families throughout developmental stages of the family life cycle.
Family life stages, from "Becoming a Couple," to "Becoming Parents,"
and "Raising Adolescents." are explored. It educates therapists to
enable them to guide parents about the predictable stresses of family life transitions,
and offers guidelines and hands-on exercises for achieving a healthy adjustment
in each stage of family life, from becoming a couple, through pregnancy, birth,
childhood and adolescence. Each life stage of the family is discussed, incorporating
leading edge research to teach the clinician about what constitutes a healthy
family. Loss, divorce and stepfamilies are also discussed in depth.
Learn what makes families work - from structure and communication to family
style and characteristics of healthy marital relationships. Cutting edge research
is enlivened through real-life questions about marriage, family, child development
and parenting that have been answered by Dr. Peterson.
Making
Healthy Families is based on grauduate and
post graduate clinical courses on The Family Life Cycle at John F. Kennedy University
and California Institute for Integral Studies.
(Adapted from the Back
Cover)
Learning Objectives This 10 unit course will help clinicians :
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"Peterson
covers all stages of the family unit from becoming a couple to raising teenagers
in order to help parents understand and efficiently negotiate the normal, varied
stages of the family life cycle. Of special value is a chapter on troubleshooting
tips to help parents anticipate their own predictable stress points on the family
life cycle. Making Healthy Families is highly recommended for parents at all
stages of parenthood, marriage and family counselors, as well as students of
psychology." Wisconsin Book Watch, March 2000
This course meets the qualifications for 10 hours of continuing education units
Board of Registered Nursing (#13620) maintains responsibility for the program. |
This course consists of a post-test based upon reading the text. The online portions include a Forum for discussion and the post-test. There is no online material to read. After you pass the post-test, you may print out your own certificate. |
Cost - $110 for 10 ces +
$23.95 text + shipping & handling
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Table of Contents
Part I Becoming a Couple
CHAPTER
ONE: Creating Your Garden
Resolving prior stages of the family life cycle
Fortifying Your Couple's Bond
Five Dimensions of Family and Marital Health
CHAPTER TWO : How Does Your Garden Grow?
Seven Characteristics of Healthy Families
Family structure: Who is in charge?
Balancing kids and marriage
CHAPTER
THREE : Pregnancy and Childbirth
Empowerment and choice in childbirth
What Contributes To Self Esteem In Birthing Women?
Pregnancy loss
Part
II Becoming Parents
CHAPTER FOUR : Tilling Your Garden
Cultural influences on motherhood, and creating a parenting "team"
Redefining relationships after baby arrives
Couple's identity and new family formation
Placing Love In Equal Relationship To Work
CHAPTER
FIVE : Communication and Conflict
Recovering the relationship after an affair
Listening
and empathy
Exercise: Exploring your childhood experience
Communication under pressure: Conflict and compromise
Exercise: Identifying your discussion-busters!
Exercise: Overcoming destructive patterns
CHAPTER SIX : Sex and Healing in Marriage
Cultural programming about sexual intimacy
The Healing Potential of Marriage
Exercise: Recognizing potentials for healing
CHAPTER SEVEN: What Is "Good Enough" Parenting?
Attunement And Self-Esteem In Child Rearing
Healthy attunement or over-identification?
Guidelines for handling your child's anger
Guidelines for helping children recover from loss or trauma
Part III Crisis and Transformation on the Family Life Cycle
CHAPTER
EIGHT: Raising Adolescents
Changing the parent-child relationship
Parenting during adolescence
Contracting for life with your teenager
Teaching values to adolescents
CHAPTER NINE : Divorce: Choices in growth and pain
Is divorce always damaging to children?
Helping kids cope with divorce
Dealing with visitation
CHAPTER TEN: Making Healthy Stepfamilies
Characteristics of healthy remarriage
Establishing family rituals
Keeping children out of the middle of conflict
CHAPTER ELEVEN: Trouble-shooting
and Preventing Predictable Pitfalls
Exercise: Predicting your sensitive stages on the family life cycle
Can
wife and husband have an "equal" relationship?
Web Wisdom
Bibliography and Resources
We do adhere to the American Psychological Association's Ethical Principles of Psychologists. Our courses are carefully screened by the Planning Committee to adhere to APA standards. We also require authors who compose Internet courses specifically for us follow APA ethical standards. Many of our courses contain case material, and may use the methods of qualitative research and analysis, in-depth interviews and ethnographic studies. The psychotherapeutic techniques depicted may include play therapy, sandplay therapy, dream analysis, drawing analysis, client and therapist self-report, etc. The materials presented may be considered non-traditional and may be controversial, and may not have widespread endorsement within the profession. www.psychceu.com maintains responsibility for the program and its content. |
Gayle
Peterson, LCSW, PhD is a family therapist
specializing in prenatal and family development. She trains professionals
in her prenatal counseling model and is the author of An Easier Childbirth,
Birthing Normally and her latest book, Making Healthy Families.
Her articles on family relationships appear in professional journals
and she is an oft-quoted expert in popular magazines such as Woman's
Day, Mothering and Parenting. She is a clinical member of
The Association for Marriage and Family Therapy and a Diplomate with
the National Association of Social Work. She also serves on the advisory
board for Fit Pregnancy Magazine. |
More
courses by Dr. Peterson:
Body-Centered Hypnosis
for Pregnancy and Childbirth Video Course
Please also visit Gayle Peterson's website
888-777-3773
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