SSBH 185 Identity and Values in the Family (3 credits)

2. Describe how power and powerlessness contribute to personal, group, and/or cultural identity.

3. Describe and identify theoretical models related to identity in the family such as Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs, Johari Window, and Minority Identity Model.

4. Describe how family-centered problems, like child abuse, domestic violence, and addictions, influence identity.

5. Explain the dynamics of Family Systems Theory.

6. Describe issues related to children growing up in situations other than their family of origin, particularly as they relate to cross-racial adoption.

Degree Outcomes
Critical, Creative, and Reflective Thinking: Graduates will evaluate, analyze, synthesize, and generate ideas; construct informed, meaningful, and justifiable conclusions; and process feelings, beliefs, biases, strengths, and weaknesses as they relate to their thinking, decisions, and creations.

Responsibility: Graduates will be able to critically examine the relationship between self, community, and/or environments, and to evaluate and articulate potential impacts and consequences of choices, actions, and contributions for the creation of sustainable systems.

Program Outcomes: Develop an appreciation of social justice by incorporating an ethic of care in all aspects of practice to insure humane treatment for clients/consumers/patients, regardless of race, creed, diagnosis, wealth, age.

Lecture Contact Hours 30
Lab Contact Hours 0
Clinical Contact Hours 0
Total Contact Hours 30