Family Life Education: Principles and Practices for Effective Outreach / Edition 3

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

Overview

Drawing on the best scholarship and their own years of professional experience, Stephen F. Duncan and H. Wallace Goddard provide a practical, how-to guide to developing, implementing, evaluating, and sustaining effective family life education programs. This thoroughly updated Third Edition of Family Life Education: Principles and Practices for Effective Outreach begins by discussing the foundations of family life education and encourages readers to develop their own outreach philosophies. Readers then learn principles and methods for reaching out to the public and how to form and use community collaborations and -principles of social marketing to promote programs.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781483384573
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	05/26/2016
Edition description:	Third Edition
Pages:	520
Product dimensions:	7.40(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.00(d)

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.

H. Wallace (Wally) Goddard is retired from being a Family Life Specialist at the University of Arkansas Cooperative Extension Service. His earlier experience included serving as an Extension Family and Child Development Specialist at Auburn University for over 6 years, during which time he developed Principles of Parenting, a broad parenting program that has been adopted by several states, and The Great Self Mystery, a youth identity program that has been adopted by national organizations. He was also one of four scholars invited to develop the National Extension Parent Education Model, which is the base document for all extension parent education. He writes monthly columns for several Web magazines on various family subjects and has authored general audience family books.

In addition to work in Extension, he also provided content expertise to Stephen R. Covey when he wrote The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Families. Experience in both university and business settings has provided a wealth of background in family life education. He also has graduate training in instructional psychology and certification as a Family Life Educator.

During 14 years of work with the University of Arkansas Cooperative Extension Service, he developed a television series for public television, programs on parenting, personal well-being, and parenting and worked on the national team that developed a model of couple relationships. Many of his programs can be seen at: http://uaex.edu/health-living/personal-family-well-being/

He has served as chair of the Education and Enrichment section of the National Council on Family Relations, the premier family professional organization in the world, and is an NCFR Fellow and recipient of the Margaret E. Arcus Outstanding Family Life Educator Award.

Table of Contents

Foundations of Family Life Education
Chapter 1: Historical and Philosophical Perpectives
Defining Family Life Education
A Brief History of Outreach Family Life Education
Evolution in the Dissemination of Scientific Knowledge about Families
Varied Approaches or Roles in Family Life Education
Developing a Working Philosophy for Outreach Family Life Education
Development of Family Life Education Programs
Chapter 2: Designing Comprehensive Family Life Education Prevention Programs
The Science and Profession of Prevention
Prevention Education Models in FLE
A Comprehensive Model for the Design of Family Life Prevention Programs
Assessing Elements of Program Quality in Existing Programs
Characteristics of Strong, Sustainable Family Life Education Programs
Chapter 3: Principles of Program Evaluation
Evaluation as Friend and Foe: Stereotypes and Opportunities
Establishing the Target: Vision and Goals
Developing a Vision
Getting Specific: Program Goals and Objectives
An Example of an Evaluation Framework in Parenting
Defining the Kind of Information Needed: The Evaluation Questions
The Logic Model Approach to Evaluation
Innovations in Evaluation
Using Evaluation Data
Implementing Family Education Programs
Chapter 4: Designing Effective Instruction
Component Display Theory
First Principles of Instruction
Chapter 5: Engaging an Audience
The Art of Teaching
What Changes People? Challenging Ideas from Personality Theories
Relationships as the Basis for Helping
Practical Applications
Chapter 6: Teaching Skills and Tools in Family Life Education
Select Methods for Family Life Education
Chapter 7: Working with Diverse Audiences
Sensitizing to Differences
Diversity of Learning Styles
Ethnicity and Values
Skilled Dialogue
Group FLE Examples
Programming for Diversity
Content and Contexts for FLE Programs
Chapter 8: Education for Personal Well-Being: Flourishing People Make Better Family Members
Models of Well-Being
The Practical Messages of Positive Psychology
Educational Frameworks
Chapter 9: Marriage and Relationship Education
Early Beginnings of Marriage and Relationship Education
Current Theoretical and Empirical Foundations and Models for Practice
Examples of the Three Emphases: Foundational Processes for Enduring Marriages
Educational Frameworks
Programs and Approaches
Effectiveness of Marriage and Relationship Education
Extension Service Programs and Results
Creating Your Own Marriage and Relationship Education Program
Challenges for the Future and Future Directions
Chapter 10: Parenting Education
History and Current State of Parenting Education
Understanding Effective Parenting
Understanding Effective Parenting Education
Theoretical Models of Parenting Education
Qualities and Competencies of an Effective Parent Educator
Effective Delivery Formats
Populations Served By Parenting Education
Effectiveness of Parenting Programs
Evaluating Parenting Education Resources and Curricula
Conclusion and Future Challenges
Chapter 11: Sexuality Education
Sexuality Education Historical Overview
Why Is Sexuality Education Important?
Contemporary Theoretic al Perspectives Used in Programming
Sexuality Education Programs
Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention
Youth Development Programs
Child Sexual Abuse Prevention
Parent-Based Sexuality Education
Best Practices in Sexuality Education
Chapter 12: Family Life Education on the Technological Frontier
The Technological Landscape
Assessing the Credibility of Online Programs for Family Life Education
Developing Online Programs for Family Life Education
Chapter 13: Working with the Media in Family Life Education
Mass Media and Outreach Family Life Education
Understanding Traditional Media: Walk a Mile in its Shoes
Working with Traditional Media: Playing on the Same Team
Writing Guidelines
Media Interviews
Using Social Media in FLE
Chapter 14: Writing for the Lay Audience
Purposes of Written Material
Tips on Writing
Examples of Effective Writing
Chapter 15: Creating Effective Collaborative Partnerships
Defining the Collaborative Process
Advantages of Collaboration
Challenges to Collaboration
A Community Linkages Framework
Assessing the Effectiveness of Your Collaboration
Getting Started: Steps for Creating Effective Collaborative Partnerships
An Example of an Effective Family Life Education Collaboration
Chapter 16: Marketing Family Life Principles, Practices, and Programs
The Social Marketing Mix
Crafting Marketing Messages to Foster Change
Chapter 17: Narratives of Family Life Educators
Where Do Family Life Educators Work? Venues, Settings, & Profiles
Profiles
Pathways into the Profession of FLE - The Authors
Chapter 18: Helping Others Find Their Place in Family Life Education
Great FLE Mentors We Have Known
Scholarship on Mentoring: The Science and the Art
Helping FLEs Along Their Journey
Voices from the Field: What Some FLEs are Doing as Mentors
What Departments and Others Can Do
Chapter 19: Improving the Practice of Family Life Education
Professionalization of Family Life Education
Program Rigor
Program Effectiveness
Marketing of FLE Principles, Practices, and Programs
Reaching Diverse, Underserved Audiences

Editorial Reviews

Duncan and Goddard provide an in-depth coverage of the essentials needed by the educator who seeks to provide learning experiences that are responsive to the need of those who see to plan and evaluate outreach education programs. Educators are guided from conceptualization and planning strategies, to implementation strategies, to evaluation and revision strategies for outreach efforts.

Janis L. Henderson

"Duncan and Goddard provide an in-depth coverage of the essentials needed by the educator who seeks to provide learning experiences that are responsive to the need of those who see to plan and evaluate outreach education programs. Educators are guided from conceptualization and planning strategies, to implementation strategies, to evaluation and revision strategies for outreach efforts."--Janis L. Henderson

From the Publisher

"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. Mc Bride

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

Karen De Bord

"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

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

Karen DeBord

"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