Introduction
The family is the nucleus of the society which is responsible for bringing up responsible members of the society. The family plays role in increasing the number of citizens and acts as a basic school where morals and skills are acquired by kids long before they join formal schools. As such, the relationships between the parents and the children are very crucial.
Parents tasked with such a delicate and noble task of bringing up the kids must have proper mental, psychological and physical health to mentor their children. In other words, if parents are not wholly fit, children brought by such parents will probably lack some basic trainings and will have to rely on the formal school education.
Therefore, there is a need to assist all parents and kids in enhancing their relationships so that home environment education was appropriate for achieving the main goal of education to produce better and healthy citizens. Two approaches are employed to foster such relationships. This essay seeks to show how the two approaches can give rise to one approach.
The Two Approaches and Their Significance in Future Career
The two approaches are family life education and coaching psychology. Family life education focuses on the family while coaching psychology focuses on individuals . Family life education involves professional educators who disseminate tenets aimed at enhancing relationships among family members, which later result in positive development of family members, married couple or family as a whole.
As such, family life education assumes the expert-learner model where the educator is the source of knowledge and skills while the family members are the recipients.
On the other hand, coaching psychology aims at enhancing the wellness and achievement in personal life using pre determined models of coaching based on psychological approaches. Coaching psychology assumes a horizontal approach where the individual and the coach are partners who work together for the individual to achieving certain goals in life.
The client is well equipped with knowledge and skills and requires coaching to achieve the desired change in life. Coaching psychology is quite similar to therapy but fundamental differences exist as well.
Efforts are taken to merge family life education and coaching psychology to come up with a client-based approach to the family life coaching. Such an approach applies principles from the family life education and those from the coaching psychology.
Future Career
Family life education has several key areas of focus, which include interpersonal relationships, human sexuality and family resource management, parenting education and guidance, family dynamics among others.
The case study spells out possible combinations of family life education and coaching psychology in family life coaching which assist the future family educator to assume both the expert-learner model as well as the coaching psychology model.
The future family educator must view the client as knowledgeable in what the he/she wants to achieve. In addition, the family educator should appreciate the experience of the client and moderate the change process.
However, the family educator must be keen to impart knowledge where the client lacks such knowledge. The proposed family life coaching is a new field and the family educator has a chance of researching more to enhance the chosen career.
Reference
Allen, K. (2013). A framework for family life coaching. International Coaching Psychology Review , 8 (1), 72-79.