Stress and Resilience in Families Across the Lifespan

Examines family stress and resilience across the life cycle from psychological, sociological, and biosocial perspectives. Topics include parenting, poverty, violence, work-family balance, aging, and health.

offering recorded3 credits
Recorded instructors · Spring 2027 No instructors listed

Summary

What you’ll be able to do

  • Critically evaluate internal family processes, including parenting and parent-child relations, couples and family relationships across generations and family health and well-being (e.g., mental health, substance abuse, wellness, child maltreatment)

  • Apply various theories, models, and perspectives on family stress and resilience across the lifespan to their understanding of families in stress and crisis

  • Apply research and application of these models to specific contemporary topics relevant to individual and family functioning, including risk and resiliency processes

  • Evaluate current issues and areas of investigation in the field of family stress and resilience and their application to ‘real world’ challenges

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HDFS 316

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Spring 2027

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Spring 2027

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Examines family stress and resilience across the life cycle from psychological, sociological, and biosocial perspectives. Explores research relating to normative and non-normative family stress and resiliency factors. Topics include parenting, poverty, violence, work-family balance, aging, health and wellness and others.

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Topics

  • Parenting, poverty, violence, work-family balance, aging, and health and wellness.
  • Normative and non-normative family stress and resiliency factors.

Skills

  • Critically evaluate internal family processes, including parenting, parent-child relations, and family health.
  • Apply theories, models, and perspectives on family stress and resilience across the lifespan.
  • Apply research and models to contemporary topics regarding individual and family functioning.

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HDFS 316 · Spring 2027

Stress and Resilience in Families Across the Lifespan

Recorded 2026-10-14
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