A this discipline course at Arizona Christian University.
This course reviews the diagnosis criteria for physical, developmental, and intellectual disabilities. The challenges, growth areas, and strengths of individuals living with a disability will be reviewed. Students will learn the impact a disability can have on individuals and how each member within the family is uniquely impacted by the diagnosis. How families with a disability are impacted by society, culture, and their community will also be reviewed. Finally, this course will review how marriage and family therapists can support the mental health treatment of the individual and family facing a disability.
Engage the Course Material
Build a working understanding of introduction to disability and families as the course's central subject.
Apply Discipline Methods
Use the methods, vocabulary, and frameworks of the discipline to address course problems.
Connect Course Content
Connect this course's content to broader work in the discipline and related fields.
Demonstrate Course Competencies
Demonstrate the specific competencies the course is designed to develop.
A Biblical Worldview treats the liberal arts — language, history, ideas — as serious territory worth careful study. This course is shaped by that conviction.
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