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Jan 19, 2025
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2022-2023 UMM Undergraduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
Family Coaching and Mentoring Certificate I
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A family coach is someone who provides guidance and support to a client on their goals and helps the family reach their full potential. The coach is not an expert, rather a facilitator of learning and utilizes a strength-based method.
Family Coaching clients may face issues such as:
- New parent challenges
- Teen pregnancy
- School dropout prevention
- Anger or stress management
- Poor communication
- Marriage challenges
- Parenting issues for different stages, such as separation anxiety, depression, or discipline
“Coaching [then] is unlocking a person’s potential to maximize their own performance. A coach helps them learn rather than teaching a new skill” (2002, J. Whitmore).
Students will develop a solid foundation in the theory and practice of strength-based family coaching that assists families to realize their potential and support them to take actions that align goals by helping the families and parents create the life they envision for their family. As a student in the Family Coaching certificate classes, participants will demonstrate key competencies that lead to meaningful and productive client conversations. Upon completion of the certificate, students will be to apply highly effective coaching methodologies to support positive and maintainable changes in others.
Upon completion of Certificate I the student will also be eligible for the Family Coaching and Mentoring Certificate II as well as completing the Associates of Arts in Liberal Studies with a concentration in Mental Health Rehabilitation.
Program Learning Outcomes
Upon completing the Mentoring and Coaching Certificate I program, participants will be able to:
- Express knowledge about the distinct, inter-related aspects of family coaching.
- Demonstrate practical applications for sharing and applying this knowledge for more effective coaching sessions and sustainable results.
- Demonstrate the ability to Integrate successfully how family are affected by distinct internal and external factors, such as personality, resources and skills available, and personal decisions; by context, circumstances and cultural beliefs.
- Demonstrate acquired skills to best coach clients dealing with demanding, stressful, challenging life, work and family demands, expectations and situations, help them support themselves, and build a satisfying, sustainable family model.
- Gain insights about common self-limitations and cultural stereotypes, and how to best apply a coaching skillset to real family circumstances.
- Develop skills to support families and parents develop an empowered, strengths-based approach to life and work demands and challenges.
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Family Coaching and Mentoring Certificate I - 21 Credits
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