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HDFS 434 - Risk and Resilience Across the Lifespan

  • 3 credits
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This course focuses on why some individuals are at high risk for poor developmental outcomes, and why certain individuals fare well despite such risks or adversities. The course has a strong developmental emphasis because resilience is viewed as a process, the results of which may not be manifest for years, that is in reference to stage-related outcomes or competencies. There is an ecological emphasis because protective and vulnerability factors often reside in families, schools, neighborhoods, and communities.

Course Learning Objectives:

  1. Describe the key concepts and principles of resilience theory and practice in human development and family studies.
  2. Evaluate divergent views on the definition and operationalization of resilience.
  3. Explain risk and protective factors at each stage of development from birth to late adulthood.
  4. Describe personal attributes that influence the odds of resilient functioning.
  5. Explain how the contexts in which individuals are embedded may shape their adaptation to adversity.
  6. Explain resilience as involving mutually beneficial, reciprocally influential relations between a person and his or her context.
  7. Evaluate interventions and policies with and on behalf of children, adolescents, adults, families, and communities from a resilience framework.
  8. Exhibit effective written communication skills related to risk and resilience across the lifespan.

Prerequisite

HDFS 375 (Lifespan Intervention and Prevention Science); Completion of 60 credits.

Textbooks and Materials

Please check the CSU Bookstore for textbook information. Textbook listings are available at the CSU Bookstore about 3 weeks prior to the start of the term.

Instructors

Jaime Rotner
Jaime Rotner

9704913971 | jaime.rotner@colostate.edu

Jaime Rotner is an instructor in the HDFS deparment. She has been teaching various courses for 13 years. Her areas of interest are early childhood and adolescent development, parenting, relational proceses, attachment and risk/reslience.

Colorado State University
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