Students will learn to assess parenting skills using standardized tests, interviews and observations. The major theories regarding how to rear a mentally healthy and socially skilled child will be taught. These will include behavioral, Adlerian and psychoanalytic. Attention will be given to the skilled social worker’s needs in order to manage certain family/parenting problems such as anger, family violence, chemical abuse, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity disorder, divorced and blended family parenting.