Abstract
The author has designed and practiced the family life education (FLE) program for families with handicapped members. The participants of this program were 37 mothers who have physically handicapped or mentally retarded children in total. The purpose of this paper was to evaluate implemented FLE program and discuss about future tasks for program development. The evaluation intended to investigate the satisfaction and effectiveness of participants on the program. Although the results showed a certain degree of satisfaction and effectiveness, the following procedures are necessary to further program development : (1) To allocate more time for participants to discuss about issues concerning the family relationship in the program design. (2) To promote the group cohesion of participants not only by activating interactions between them, but also by composing group of members who have some points of similarities (i.e., age of mothers or children). (3) To promote the mutual learning between group members by adopting experiential learning methods in such circumstances as allowing them express their own feelings or thoughts freely. (4) To compose a systematic program design by having the relation between themes of each session.
