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  1. Understanding Emotional and Mental Health Concerns of Youth in the Child Welfare System: Assessment Tools and Evidence-Informed Interventions

    April 8, 2016 - 9:00am to 12:15pm

    This training will examine practice theories and strategies for working directly with diverse groups of children, adolescents living with emotional or behavioral challenges, and their caretakers. This training will emphasize evidence-informed assessment strategies and interventions that address children or adolescents within their social contexts (e.g., peer group, school, family, neighborhood). The interaction between environmental risk factors, protective factors, promotive and developmental factors as they contribute to coping, resiliency, and disorder will also be addressed. This training will utilize role playing, small and large group discussions, and visual displays.

    Registration for this course is closed. Visit the CE Course Catalog for more offerings.

  2. Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy and Exposure and Response Prevention for Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) and OCD Related Disorders

    April 8, 2016 - 9:00am to 5:00pm

    This is a practical application mini-course focusing on the exposure and response prevention treatment of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. Also,in the treatment of panic disorder, behavioral exposure therapy for internal and external panic cues, and cognitive restructuring. Cognitive-behavioral assessment methods will be infused throughout the course. The course will also include demonstrations and role-plays, session video tapes and interactive classroom instruction.

    Registration for this course is closed. Visit the CE Course Catalog for more offerings.

  3. CASC Info Session

    April 8, 2016 - 12:00pm to 12:30pm

    Interested in learning more about the Community Action and Social Change minor? Come to this info session to learn more about the CASC community, what CASC is and what it can offer you in your undergraduate program, the types of courses you'll take, and the available opportunities for CASC students after graduation! 

  4. Indigenous and Political Influences on Intimate Partner Violence Policies and Prevention Work in Aotearoa (New Zealand)

    April 8, 2016 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm

    "Indigenous and Political Influences on Intimate Partner Violence Policies and Prevention Work in Aotearoa (New Zealand)"

    by Professor Daniel Saunders, Ph.D., University of Michigan School of Social Work

    New Zealand has been a world leader in the development of child custody laws designed to protect survivors of intimate partner violence (IPV) and their children.  It has also been a leader in the development of indigenously-based, restorative justice practices with possible applications to IPV. Professor Saunders will share some highlights of his four month Fulbright Scholars project in New Zealand in which he studied its history of IPV policy reform and its prevention programs influenced by indigenous Maori culture.

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  5. Poverty Workshop- Poverty and mental health: Untangling the causation-selection issue

    April 8, 2016 - 12:00pm to 1:30pm

    During this talk, Prof. Marilyn Sinkewicz, Assistant Professor of Social Work, will discuss findings from her current paper, which explores two different theories, with very different policy implications, that have emerged to explain the reciprocal and reinforcing relation between psychopathology and socioeconomic status: social causation (poverty leads to mental illness) and social selection (mental illness leads to poverty). The study she will discuss uses nationally representative longitudinal data to examine causation and selection processes and their relative predictive value over the adult life course.

    Lunch will be provided. Please note any dietary needs in the RSVP comments

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  6. Strengthening the Huddle: An Interdisciplinary Panel Discussion on Athletes and Mental Health

    April 8, 2016 - 1:00pm to 3:00pm

    The Social Work & Sport Association (SWSA) is holding a Mental Health and Sports Panel. Panelists inlcude Barb Hansen, Will Heininger, Tom George and Kent Bernard.

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