Advanced Module
Welcome to the Advanced Module of the “Family Resilience E-Learning Certificate Course”!
This module highlights the theoretical framework of family resilience with the coverage of three domains: family belief systems, organizational patterns, and communication/problem-solving processes, which hint you how to identify the components of family resilience in daily life. After completing the Advanced Module, you will be equipped with the knowledge of the nine components which can foster you to enhance family resilience.
Outline of the Advanced Module
This module encompasses three domains and each domain is composed of three units. In total there are nine units. Each unit takes 60 to 75 minutes to complete. The content of each unit is listed as below:
Domain 1: Family Belief Systems
Unit 1: Making meaning of adversity
- Knowing about family belief systems and the meaning of adversity
- Understanding the growth mindset and the fixed mindset, and making use of the growth mindset to enhance family resilience
- Learning to expand the growth mindset and making meaning of adversity through daily life activities
Unit 2: Positive outlook
- Knowing about optimism and hopefulness
- Understanding the impact of being optimistic and hopeful onto enhancing family resilience through the sharing of family stories
- Learning how to nurture yourself with optimism and hopefulness
Unit 3: Transcendence and spirituality
- Knowing about the concepts of transcendence and spirituality through real stories
- Learning the techniques of self-compassion and experiencing mindfulness exercise
- Making action plans to foster transcendence and spirituality
Domain 2: Organizational patterns
Unit 4: Flexibility
- Self-reflection on views towards changes
- Enhancing family’s flexibility starting from adjustment to small changes in daily life
- Identifying each family member’s role and function and developing one’s potential of functional capacity to compensate for each other
Unit 5: Connectedness
- Enhancing companionship within families
- Expressing care and concern to family members with the Five Love Languages
Unit 6: Social and economic resources
- Self-reflection on attitudes and barriers to seek help
- Identifying the supportive network of one’s family
- Exploring community resources, and tailor-making a pack of resources for one’s family
Domain 3: Communication/Problem-solving Processes
Unit 7: Clarity
- Understanding frequent communication barriers within families
- Understanding the impact of vagueness in expression onto family communication
- Fostering family communication through acquiring the skills of We-Message
Unit 8: Open emotional expression
- Knowing about emotion and the importance of emotional expression
- Fostering companionship via learning about how to identify emotions
- Learning how to communicate while taking care of others’ emotions; enhancing family members to express their feelings and emotional needs
Unit 9: Collaborative problem solving
- Understanding the pattern of decision-making within families
- Self-reflection on one’s family “pattern of decision making”
- Learning about collaborative problem solving to enhance family resilience