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2024 Spring Course Info
Crises Across the LifespanFamily DynamicsFamily Resource ManagementFoundations and Principles of Family and Community ServicesInterpersonal RelationshipsParenting EducationProgram Administration and ManagementProgram Design, Evaluation, and ImplementationResilience in Families
2023 Fall Course Info
Crises Across the LifespanFamily DynamicsFoundations and Principles of Family and Community ServicesInterpersonal RelationshipsLifespan DevelopmentParenting EducationProgram Administration and ManagementProgram Design, Evaluation, and ImplementationResilience in FamiliesFamily Policy
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Spring 2024 Course Information
Crises Across the Lifespan
Course Description
This course provides students with resources related to managing stress and coping with crises across the lifespan to use in their own lives and the lives of families they serve. Students learn about the biopsychosocial nature of stress; methods of coping with stress, anxiety, and conflict; and models of effective family functioning in the presence of stress and crises.
Contacts
Instructor

Ginger Welch
gwelch@okstate.edu

Campus Coordinator

For course access questions, contact the teaching university’s campus coordinator. For enrollment questions, contact your home university campus coordinator.
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Disability Support Services

To request accommodations for this course, contact the disability support office at your home university. You must register each semester and for each course. Read more about the Great Plains IDEA process for requesting accommodations.

Textbooks

Adverse and Protective Childhood Experiences: A Developmental Perspective
Jennifer Hays-Grudo PhD and Amanda Sheffield Morris PhD
Edition: 1st
ISBN: 1433832119
Publisher: American Psychological Association

Determined
Robert Sopolsky
ISBN: 978-1847925541
Publisher: Bodley Head

Course Access
 
Approximately three weeks prior to the beginning of the semester, students will receive preliminary course information from the Oklahoma State campus coordinator listed below. One week prior to the beginning of the semester, students will receive an email with their login name and password. OSU's online courses are facilitated by Canvas.
 
Brianna Cooper-Kordinak for Agricultural Education, Animal Science, and Grassland Management. 
Rae Ann Montgomery for Dietetics, Early Care & Education, Family & Community Services, Family & Consumer Sciences Education, Family Financial Planning, Gerontology, and Merchandising. 
Exam Proctor

This course does not require an exam proctor.

Synchronous Components

This course does not include synchronous components.

Faculty
University Members
Members of the Great Plains IDEA are universities accredited by a regional accrediting agency recognized by the U.S. Department of Education. Member universities recruit, admit and graduate students, teach in an academic program and contribute to the leadership and maintenance of the alliance. Membership in the alliance is a selective process that engages institutional leadership at all levels.
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Hannah Adame's headshotAs a full-time high school Ag teacher, FFA Advisor, and two-sport coach, I excelled in the flexibility and structure of the Great Plains IDEA program. This program has allowed me to balance my school workload with my profession and responsibilities at the school. I have also benefited from the ability to apply what I am learning to my classroom and have shared my teaching experiences with classmates to create an integrated, immersive learning experience for others and myself.

– – Hannah Adame, Family and Consumer Sciences Education Graduate,
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