Issues of vulnerability, particularly appropriate for a life stage are also considered with attention to ethnic, racial and gender issues. This course is the second semester of a two-semester sequence on human behavior and the social environment. At each adult life stage both normal development and ways in which development becomes skewed are presented. Issues of vulnerability particularly appropriate for a life stage are also considered with attention to ethnic, racial, and gender issues. This course examines some of the dilemmas facing women at various points during the life cycle.
Attention is given to minority women throughout the course.
3 semester hours Cross listed as WS 225. This course focuses on topics associated with the break-down of families as social support systems. Topics covered include spouse abuse, child abuse and neglect, child sexual abuse, substance abuse, teenage pregnancy, single parent families. Topics include the disease concept, co-dependencies, theories of addiction and treatment, the role of families in addiction behavior. The course focuses on the social and cultural forces that influence the development of our self-concepts, values, and behavior.