Family Life Education: Principles and Practices for Effective Outreach - Softcover

Duncan, Stephen (Steve) F.; Goddard, H. (Harold) Wallace

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1412979080 ISBN 13: 9781412979085

Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc, 2010

Synopsis

Drawing on the best scholarship and their own years of professional experience, the authors of this thoroughly updated edition begin by discussing the foundations of family life education and encourage readers to develop their own outreach philosophies. The book then helps readers learn principles and methods for reaching out to the public and how to form and use community collaborations and use principles of social marketing to promote programs. The Second Edition contains five new chapters on education for personal well-being, marriage and relationship education, parenting education, sexuality education, and narratives of family life educators. The authors′ practical, hands-on experience is used to demonstrate how readers can put principles from the latest and best scholarship into action and reinforced with the Interactive Explorations sections throughout.

About this title

About the Author:

Stephen F. Duncan is a professor in the School of Family Life at Brigham Young University.  He received a Masters degree in Family Sciences (Family Life Education emphasis) from Brigham Young University and a Ph.D. in Family Studies from Purdue University. He has authored or coauthored numerous outreach publications for lay audiences and professionals, written hundreds of articles for newspaper columns, been interviewed numerous times for television, radio, and magazine outlets, and directed nationally recognized outreach family life education programs. He served as an Extension Family Life Specialist at Auburn University in Alabama for 5 years and held a similar position at Montana State University for over 7 years. At BYU he teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in family life education and directs outreach projects for the School of Family Life. He directs the Forever Families website (www.foreverfamilies.byu.edu) and was content director for Real Families, Real Answers, a Rocky Mountain Emmy Award-nominated documentary series appearing on public television channels nationwide. He has certification as a Family Life Educator.

Dr. Duncan has actively contributed to the scholarship of family life education, authoring numerous articles on outreach programs and evaluation, many of which have appeared in leading family life education outlets. He serves or has served on several editorial boards, including Family Relations, Journal of Couple and Relationship Therapy, and Family Science Review. 

Review:

"Excellent for use by university instructors teaching family life education and program development courses. The book′s strength is the focus on bridging theory and research with actual practice, something much needed in the family life education field. This is a good book for both university instructors as well as practitioners working with family life education programs."

(Brent A. McBride 2004-09-07)

"A big strength is the authors. . . .they are two excellent family life educators with a great depth of experience in this area."

(Charles A. Smith 2004-09-07)

This book will make a valuable contribution to teaching faculty in Family Life Education."

(Karen DeBord 2004-09-07)

About this edition

• Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1412979080
• ISBN 13: 9781412979085
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 496