The Ten CFLE Content Areas

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The Ten CFLE Content Areas
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10 Family Life Content Areas

• Families in Society
• Internal Dynamics of Families
• Human Growth Development over the Life Span
• Human Sexuality
• Interpersonal Relationships

• Family Resource Management
• Parent Education and Guidance
• Family Law Public Policy
• Professional Ethics
• Family Life Education Methodology
• PLUS

Academic Internship
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1. Families in Society

• Marital choice
• Cross-cultural and minority families

• Kinship
• Changing gender roles
• Demographic trends
• Historical issues
• Work-family relationships
• Societal relations Structures and functions
• Cultural variations
• Dating
• Courtship

SFL 370 OR 354
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2. Internal Dynamics of Families

• Internal social processes
• Communication
• Conflict management
• Normal family stresses
• Family crises
• Special needs in families

SFL 160
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3.Human Development over the Life Span

• Prenatal
• Infancy
• Early and middle childhood
• Adolescence
• Adulthood
• Aging

SFL 210 AND 334
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4. Human Sexuality

• Reproductive physiology
• Biological determinants
• Aspects of sexual involvement
• Sexual behaviors

• Sexual values and decision-making
• Family planning
• Sexual response
• Sexual dysfunction
• Influence on relationships

HLTH 436
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5. Interpersonal Relationships

• Self and others
• Communication skills
• Intimacy
• Love
• Romance
• Relating to others

SFL 335 PLUS SFL 223 OR SFL 224 OR SFL 325
(formerly 329)
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6. Family Resource Management

• Goal-setting decision-making
• Development allocation of resources
• Social environment influences
• Life cycle and family structure influences
• Consumer issues and decisions

SFL 260
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7.Parent Education and Guidance

• Parenting rights and responsibilities
• Parenting practices/processes
• Parent-child relationships
• Variation in parenting solutions
• Changing parenting roles over the life cycle

SFL 240
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8. Family Law and Public Policy

• Family and the law
• Family and social services
• Family and education
• Family and the economy
• Family and religion
• Policy and the family

SFL 461 OR 489
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9. Professional Ethics

• Ethics of Professional Practice
• Formation of values
• Diversity of values in pluralistic society
• Examining ideologies
• Social consequences of value choices
• Ethics and technological change

SFL 480 OR 498
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10. Family Life Education Methodology

• Planning and implementing
• Evaluation
• Education techniques
• Sensitivity to others
• Sensitivity to community concern

SFL 498
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11. Academic Internship

• What is an internship?
• A work related experience dealing with the family
  in a variety of settings which is enhanced by
  course work and results in academic credit.
  http//familylifeinternship.byu.edu/

SFL 399R