Michelle Minyard-Widmann, MS
(909) 558-4547, extension 47072
Email: maminyard@llu.edu
Applicants must meet the School of Science and Technology admission requirements outlined in the University Catalog and give evidence of academic ability, emotional stability, and maturity. The child life specialist MS requires a prerequisite in Statistics from an accredited university. For admission, a group interview and two faculty interviews are required. Preference will be given to students currently enrolled in or who have completed a master's degree program that is equivalent to the MA in family studies or MS in marital and family therapy.
Core courses:
CHLS 504 - Child Life Administration and Program Development (3)
CHLS 506 - Child Life Specialist: Educational and Therapeutic Intervention (3)
CHLS 507 - Child Life Program: Medical Family Issues I (3)
CHLS 508 - Child Life Program: Medical Family Issues II (3)
CHLS 604 - Child Life Internship and Supervision I (3)
CHLS 605 - Child Life Internship and Supervision II (3)
COUN 576 - Exceptional and Medically Challenged Children (3)
COUN 577 - Assessment in Counseling (3)
COUN 678 - Consultation and Leadership (3)
FMST 514 - Cross-cultural Counseling Family Values (2)
MFAM 501 - Research Tools and Methodology I: Quantitative (3)
MFAM 515 - Crisis Intervention Counseling (3)
MFAM 516 - Play Therapy (2)
MFAM 547 - Social Ecology of Individual and Family Development (3)
MFAM 553 - Family Systems Theory (3)
MFAM 568 - Group Process Theory & Procedures (3)
MFAM 584 - Advanced Child and Adolescent Development (3)
MFAM 644 - Child Abuse and Family Violence (3)
RELR 564 - Religion, Marriage and The Family/or equivalent (3)
MFAM Elective (3)
Full time (two years)
First year:
Fall (9 units)
CHLS 504 - Child Life Administration and Program Development (3)
CHLS 506 - Child Life Specialist: Educational and Therapeutic Intervention (3)
RELR 564 - Religion, Marriage and The Family/or equivalent (3)
Winter (8 units)
CHLS 507 - Child Life Program: Medical Family Issues I (3)
COUN 576 - Exceptional and Medically Challenged Children (3)
FMST 514 - Cross-cultural Counseling Family Values (2)
Spring (6 units)
CHLS 508 - Child Life Program: Medical Family Issues II (3)
COUN 577 - Assessment in Counseling (3)
Summer (8 units)
COUN 678 - Consultation and Leadership (3)
MFAM 516 - Play Therapy (2)
MFAM 568 - Group Process Theory & Procedures (3)
Second year
Fall (6 units)
MFAM 515 - Crisis Intervention Counseling (3)
MFAM 584 - Advanced Child and Adolescent Development (3)
Winter (9 units)
MFAM 553 - Family Systems Theory (3)
MFAM 644 - Child Abuse and Family Violence (3)
MFAM Elective (3)
Spring (9 units)
CHLS 604 - Child Life Internship and Supervision I (3)
MFAM 501 - Research Tools and Methodology I: Quantitative (3)
MFAM 547 - Social Ecology of Individual and Family Development (3)
Summer (3 units)
CHLS 605 - Child Life Internship and Supervision II (3)
CHLS 504 Child Life Administration and Program Development
This course introduces students to the history and development of the child life profession. Students also learn about the health-care environment, administrative issues, program development, and outcome assessment process. Students learn how to develop competencies and skills necessary to effectively administer a child life program.
CHLS 506 Child Life Specialist: Educational and Therapeutic Intervention
This course is designed to teach the developmental aspects of play therapy in collaboration with the developmental stages of the child/teen and family in the context of a health-care setting. The course will provide the student with an experiential understanding of play therapy, recreation therapy, education, and practice.
CHLS 507 Child Life Program: Medical Family Issues I
This course is designed to teach the child life student about the childhood disease process and will describe the pathophysiology, symptoms, diagnostic test, and treatment of disease. The student will learn how each disease affects the child and family's behavioral, social, and emotional development and coping strategies.
CHLS 508 Child Life Program: Medical Family Issues II
This course is designed to help the student understand the various theories and practice specific interventions that assist hospitalized children/teens or adult family members when they encounter issues of death, loss, and/or grief. Students will be required to examine how these issues affect them personally and professionally. Students will learn to describe their own epistemology regarding death, loss, and grief. Examination of these issues will be with a family system's perspective in a hospital setting.
CHLS 604 Child Life Internship and Supervision I
The student will work with children/teens and families in a hospital and/or related setting under the supervision of a certified child life specialist. The student will be accumulating the 480 hours required for the certificate...Special attention will be given to legal, ethical, moral, educational, cultural, spiritual, and gender issues as these issues relate to their work with children/teens and families.
CHLS 605 Child Life Internship and Supervision II
The student will work with children/teens and families in a hospital and/or related setting under the supervision of a certified child life specialist. The student will be required to complete the 480 hours required for the certificate. Special attention will be given to legal, ethical, moral, educational, cultural, spiritual, and gender issues as these issues relate to their work with children/teens and families.
COUN 576 Exceptional and Medically Challenged Children
Study of the determinants, characteristics, problems, and adjustments of individuals who deviate markedly from the norm in their mental, physical, emotional, or social aptitudes, traits, and tendencies. Emphasis on education, hospital care, and career planning.
COUN 577 Assessment in Counseling
Development of competencies and understandings for selecting, administering, and interpreting the major types of standardized tests and inventories used in psychology and education. Theoretical principles and issues presented with hands-on applications. Practicum required.
COUN 678 Consultation and Leadership
Study of school organization and relationships to other systems and consultants in education, career, and mental health. Emphasis on human relations, leadership development, professionalism, legal/ethical mandates, team building, and advocacy for school counselors.
FMST 514 Crosscultural Counseling Family Values
Structure and function, changing patterns, future in urban society. Relationship of changes in society to widespread family problems. Familiarity with a wide range of social and ethnic backgrounds including but not limited to people of color, Asians, Native Americans, and Hispanics.
MFAM 501 Research Tools and Methodology I (quantitative)
Current social research methods, practice in the use of techniques, consideration of the philosophy of the scientific method, and familiarization with MFAM test instruments
Prerequisite: An introductory course in statistics as an undergraduate research methods course.
MFAM 515 Crisis-Intervention Counseling
Experiential course in which theory, techniques, and practices of crisis intervention are presented, with special attention to the development of the basic communication skills of counseling. Areas included which are intended to contribute to the development of a professional attitude and identity is confidentiality, interprofessional cooperation, professional socialization, and organization. Therapeutic tapes also presented covering topics such as death and dying, incest, spousal abuse, and rape. Laboratory required.
MFAM 516 Play Therapy
Experiential course designed for practitioners and graduate students to learn how to apply play therapy techniques in dealing with childhood problems such as molestation, physical abuse, depression, trauma, and family conflict.
MFAM 547 Social Ecology of the Individual and Family Development
Study of human individual development and its relationship to the family life cycle from birth through aging and death of family members. Biological, psychological, social, and spiritual development discussed in the context of family dynamics involving traditional two-parent families, alternative partnerships, single parents, blended families, and intergenerational communities.
MFAM 553 Family Systems Theory
Review of Bowen theory, theory of family systems. Introduction to family psychotherapy as an outgrowth of the theory. Students examine their own families of origin.
MFAM 568 Group Process Theory and Procedures: Theories in MFAM Therapy
Major theoretical approaches surveyed include individual theories, marital groups, network, and family therapy groups. Group laboratory experience provided wherein students apply theory to practice and develop group leadership skills.
MFAM 584 Advanced Child and Adolescent Development
Psychodynamics' involved in child and adolescent problems with respect to the family relationship. Demonstration of a variety of counseling approaches to the treatment of children and adolescents with emphasis on diverse settings (e.g. education, hospital, and agency)
MFAM 644 Child Abuse and Family Violence
Definition and incidence of physical and emotional abuse, neglect, sexual molestation, dynamics of family violence, and offender and non-offender characteristics. Treatment of children, adolescents, the family, and adults abused as children. Treatment modalities, including individual, group, and family therapy. Ethical and legal issues, referral resources, multidisciplinary approach to child abuse, assessment, interview techniques, and confidentiality.
RELR 564 Religion, Marriage and the Family/or one religion course of choice
The family in theological, historical, and ethical perspectives with a Christian assessment of contemporary theories regarding the family.
MFAM/FMST/COUN Elective
Student can take a 3 unit elective of his or her choice. Permission of the program coordinator.
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Last Revised: Thu, Jun 29, 2006