family

An exploration of difficulties experienced by children (up through age 12) and their parents as understood from the perspective of healthy development and biblical guidelines for parenting. Emphasis will be on incorporating parents in the intervention process, supporting their primacy as God’s intended agents for discipling children toward spiritual, emotional, and behavioral health. Additional topics will include interviewing, assessment, treatment planning, how children learn, parent training programs, and research support for biblical wisdom on child rearing.

Students will learn to develop a biblical/theological template for working with marriages and families. Both theory and techniques of a systemic perspective to marriage and family counseling are presented. This course introduces students to the classical and modern therapeutic models for marriage and family counseling.