MRFL 201: Coaching Today’s Children and Adolescents: Issues and Strategies

This course addresses the contemporary issues most common to both raising and counseling children and adolescents and provides appropriate treatment strategies for effective familial change. Developmental stages, learning styles, personality factors and social influences are examined, as well as the efficacy of community counseling resources and programs.

Module 1:
MFRL 201-101: Welcome and Course Introduction
MFRL 201-102: Helping Others Find Significance in Life
MFRL 201-103: Starving for Relationships: Attachment Wounds and Love Hunger
MFRL 201-104: Finding Strength through Adversity
MFRL 201-105: Talking About Self-Esteem
Module 2:
MFRL 201-201: Teaching Girls to be Ladies
MFRL 201-202: Bringing Up Girls: Puberty to Adolescence I
MFRL 201-203: Bringing Up Girls: Puberty to Adolescence II
MFRL 201-204: She Calls Me Daddy I
MFRL 201-205: She Calls Me Daddy II
MFRL 201-206: Reserve Forces and Kids
MFRL 201-207: No Place to Hide
Module 3:
MFRL 201-301: Asperger’s, ADHD, ASD, ODD: Working with Families of Special Needs Children
MFRL 201-302: Walking the Thin Line: Health, Diets and Eating Disorders
MFRL 201-303: Teenage Attitudes
MFRL 201-304: Coping with Anxiety
Module 4:
MFRL 201-401: Raising Boys: Routine Panic I
MFRL 201-402: Raising Boys: Routine Panic II
MFRL 201-403: Family Manipulation
MFRL 201-404: Teens: Choose Battles Carefully
Module 5:
MFRL 201-501: Bringing Up Boys – Session 1
MFRL 201-502: Adolescent Identity Development and Self-Esteem
MFRL 201-503: Moms and Sons
MFRL 201-504: Bringing Up Boys
Module 6:
MFRL 201-601: Complex Oppositional Defiant Disorder and Explosive Children I
MFRL 201-602: Complex Oppositional Defiant Disorder and Explosive Children II
MFRL 201-603: Wounded Spirits
MFRL 201-604: Rough Water
Module 7:
MFRL 201-701: The Epidemic of Child Abuse
MFRL 201-702: Examining Addictive Behaviors I
MFRL 201-703: Examining Addictive Behaviors II
MFRL 201-704: Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
MFRL 201-705: Hallway of Doors
Module 8:
MFRL 201-801: Connecting with Kids through the World of Play
MFRL 201-802: Teach Kids to Write
MFRL 201-803: Teach Kids to Work