Spring 2024-2025

This course is designed to equip students to understand adolescent and family issues at a deeper level and to respond to issues of brokenness and pain in a way that truly promotes health and wholeness. Class time will be built around lectures supplemented by case study evaluations and group discussions. Students will be evaluated based on reading reports, a real-life adolescent profile, statistical analysis and the deep exploration of a contemporary adolescent issue as a final summary project. Specific topics such as eating disorders, substance abuse, depression, self-harm, suicide and anxiety will be discussed.