Reflections on Family Life Education: A Profession More Essential Now Than Ever Before
Family Life Education is an extremely valuable and often overlooked road to understanding and coping.
This column was inspired by the book Wisdom for Parents. Key Ideas From Parent Educators, edited by the late Robert E. Keim, Ph.D., CFLE, and Arminta Jacobson, Ph.D., CFLE. This book, which helps to fund the CFLE Scholarship, includes the shared knowledge and experience of many Family Life Educators, most of them CFLEs. Wisdom for Family Life Educators provides an opportunity for CFLEs to share the wisdom they have acquired after many years in the practice of Family Life Education.
The author of this issue’s Wisdom for Family Life Educators column, CFLE SaraKay Smullens, MSW,LCSW,BCD,CGP, made two contributions to the Wisdom for Parents book, addressing the concepts of courage and loyalty in the family. In this article she shares her insight and perspective on the relevance of Family Life Education within the practices of social work and therapy and its value in addressing, rather than pathologizing human experiences.