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Youth Development Graduate Programs

Master's Degree Course Information

Adolescents and Their Families

University:
University of Missouri University of Missouri logo
Course Number:
HDFS 8234
Credit Hours:
3 credit hours - $610 per credit
Start/End Dates:
January 21, 2025 - May 16, 2025

Overview

Course Description

This course covers adolescent development as it relates to and intertwines with family development; it examines reciprocal influences between adolescents and their families. The study highlights working with youth in relation to the family system.

Contacts

Instructor

Melissa Herzog
Office: 573-884-9845
herzogm@missouri.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

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Textbooks

(REQUIRED) American Psychological Association (2020)
Publication manual of the American Psychological Association
Edition: 7th
ISBN: 978-1433832161
Publisher: Washington, DC: American Psychological Association

(OPTIONAL) Smooth Sailing or Stormy Waters?: Family transitions through adolescence and their implications for practice and policy
Harold, R., Colarossi, L., and Mercier, L.
Edition: Routledge
ISBN: 9780805863055

Course Access

Approximately two weeks before the first day of class at MU, the MU Campus Coordinator will email course access information to students for courses taught by MU. Using the instructions and information in the email, students will be able to activate their Canvas at Mizzou and MU email account. Instructors may restrict course access until the first day of class.

Students needing assistance with setting up their account should contact the MU IT Help Desk at 573-882-5000. If students haven’t received the course access information email, please reach out to the MU Campus Coordinator at mumzonidea@umsystem.edu.

Exam Proctor

This course does not require an exam proctor.

Synchronous Components

This course does not include synchronous components.

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