Spring 2025 SOWK 487w Class 03 Weekly Email
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I hope that you all have a wonderful weekend. The following is the course content for week three.
Unit Introduction and What You Will Learn
In week three, we continue to learn about working with families. We move beyond assessment and understanding to how we can work with families and some skills for enhancing relationships. Students will read chapter 15 of Hepworth et al. (2022). Next, we will dive into family engagement and first- and second-order strategies for families.
The agenda will be as follows:
- Review the family system framework
- Discuss family engagement
- Practice with starting services
- Implementing first/second order strategies
Unit Assignments
Read
- Hepworth et al. (2022) Chapter 15 Enhancing Family Functioning and Relationships
A-01: Class Engagement and Attendance
Attend Class
A-02: Reading Engagement and Check-in Questions
W-03 A-02 Reading Questions is due before the class on Wednesday.
Unit Resources
Attached to this week’s course page are three handouts. I will bring copies to class, but they include Time-outs, Fifteen Fair Fighting Rules, and Validating vs. Invaliding Statements. Last week we spent time reviewing Applying Family Systems Framework Assessment. We will continue to use to during class.
All of the presentations for this class can be found at https://presentations.jacobrcampbell.com. This week’s slides are Spring 2025 SOWK 487w Week 03 - Enhancing Relationships and Working with Families.
You can find the recording of all of our classes in the lecture videos tab for this course. This week’s video is at [Spring 2025 SOWK 487w - Week 03]().
To-Do Lists
- A-01: Class Attendance and Engagement Attend class
- Read Hepworth et al. (2022) Chapter 15
- Complete W-03 A-02 Reading Questions