Provides an introduction to family systems theory. Provides students with knowledge and skills to work from a family systems perspective with adults, adolescents and children in a wide variety of settings that include individuals, couples, several members of a family, peer groups, work associates, schools, classrooms, organizations, and churches. Assessment and intervention from a creative arts perspective are examined within this context.
The course will acquaint the student with family systems theory applied within creative art therapies. Students will examine the use of creative arts therapies within the family system. The course is applicable to those in various social ministry including pastoral care and chaplaincy by giving them a creative framework from which to work with all levels of the family (adults, adolescents, and children). Students will learn creative ways to resolve issues within the church and society, including those who are already part of the church, and those who do not follow Christ.
This course will acquaint the student with various techniques and approaches toward working with families of origin, families of creation, and the church family. This course will be practical, valuable, and highly applicable to any Christian practitioner.
This course will rest on the fact that all Christians are sons of God and have been born again into his family. The course will not only address family systems theory from a traditional secular perspective, but also from the Christian perspective that we are to love one another and consider all Christians to be our brothers and sisters in Christ.
This course will be missional by reminding students that every non-believer is potentially a future son or daughter of God, to equip students for approaching non-believers as future family members, and to encourage students not to grow weary in doing good, for in time they will reap a harvest that will result in new members being added to the family.
This course will address creative arts therapies in the context of family systems. Family systems include members of all ages that sometimes are mixed (children, adolescents, and adults). The creative arts therapies studied in this context will specifically examine how the creative arts therapies can transcend all levels of communication within the family system.
This course is practical in the sense that families exist in every church and in every culture, therefore students will come across the family unit often in their practice. It is also practical in that the Christian church is described in the Bible to be the family of God. The class will encourage students to see their flock as a family and to approach challenges within the family from a family systems perspective.
This course is practical in the sense that families exist in every church and in every culture, therefore students will come across the family unit often in their practice. It is also practical in that the Christian church is described in the Bible to be the family of God. The class will encourage students to see their flock as a family and to approach challenges within the family from a family systems perspective.
Creative arts, by nature and definition, is an experiential medium. Students will be equipped to take the lessons learned from the course and apply them directly in their church or missionary assignments.
