Children and Adolescents Category

Building Strong Families: Guidelines For Developing Programs

3 CE Hours
288 members have taken this course

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About the Course

This course presents guidelines for the design and development of programs to help interested unwed parents acquire the skills and knowledge they need to form and sustain a healthy marriage. The guidelines presented are intended to be flexible and revisable based on the needs of the organizations sponsoring them. The Building Strong Families program is the cornerstone around which this course is constructed.

This course is based on the reading online article, Building Strong Families: Guidelines For Developing Programs created by Hershey, Alan M., et al.

Publication Details

Publication Date: August, 2004

Course Material Author

Hershey, Alan M., et al.

Hershey, Alan M., et al. authored the material only, and was not involved in creating this CE course. They are identified here for your own evaluation of the relevancy of the material this course is based on.

Target Audience

This course is recommended for health care professionals, especially psychologists, counselors, social workers, and nurses who seek knowledge about program development and implementation for assisting unmarried parents to develop healthy relationship skills. It is appropriate for all levels of participants' knowledge.

Learning Objectives

After taking this activity, you should be able to:

  1. 1 Explain what BSF programs entail.
  2. 2 Identify the context and circumstances of unmarried parents.
  3. 3 Become familiar with the workings of the BSF program model.
  4. 4 Be able to implement a BSF program that suits specific situations.

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Material Authors

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Commercial support

There is no commercial support for this distance-learning course.

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Florida Board of Clinical Social Work, Marriage and Family Therapy and Mental Health Counseling (FL CSW, MFT, MHC)

3 CE credit hours
Eligible until Mar 27th, 2027
Impact CE, a service of CE Learning Systems, is approved by the Florida Board of Clinical Social Work, Marriage and Family Therapy and Mental Health Counseling (Provider # 50-315).
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Florida Board of Psychology

3 CE credit hours
Eligible until Mar 31st, 2031
Impact CE, a service of CE Learning Systems, is approved by the Florida Board of Psychology (Provider # 50-315).
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Article: Building Strong Families: Guidelines For Developing Programs

This public domain article is reproduced from the Mathematica Policy Research

Article: Building Strong Families: Guidelines For Developing Programs

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Course Details

3 CE Hours
Reading Online
Course 100955

Profession Group

  • Behavioral Health

Availability

This course is retired. It is no longer available.

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