Showing events starting from December 1, 2013 up to December 31, 2013

December 5, 2013 - 1:00 PM to 2:30 PM ET

Fall 2013 Lecturer Advisory and Review Committee meeting.

December 5, 2013 - 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM ET

Fall 2013 Student Services Administrative Group meeting.

December 6, 2013 - 10:00 AM to 1:00 PM ET

We invite all Social Work Students to join us for an end of term Student Study Break!
Come relax, grab a snack, and/or take a moment for self-care.

Light refreshments will be provided and a computer will be available if you care to complete Course Evaluations.

December 6, 2013 - 10:00 AM to 2:00 PM ET

An admissions representative will be coming to Central Michigan University's Graduate School Fair to share information on U-M's MSW and PhD programs. For more information, contact [email protected].

December 6, 2013 - 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM ET

We are happy to offer mindfulness meditation to support the wellness of our community.

Please join us on Friday December 6, 2013 for two sessions of mindfulness meditation from 12-12:30 PM and 12:35-1:05PM in B742. No experience is necessary. Enjoy taking a moment to sit, relax, and breathe!

Mindfulness is a practice of becoming fully present in the here and now, bringing attention and awareness into the moment. In the busy and distracted consumer culture that is prevalent in the modern United States, this practice may seem irrelevant or impossible. Yet an abundance of research shows numerous benefits of mindfulness practice that include stress reduction and increased resilience. Mindfulness has also been shown to alter neural pathways and to improve the effects of mood disorders (Farb et al., Pg. 320, 2007). Indeed, mindfulness has many benefits to offer our fast-paced and over-stressed American society.

The faithful guide will be Joe Reilly, MSW. He has been a mindfulness practitioner and student of Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh since 2004. In the summer of 2011 Joe spent three weeks in Plum Village, Thich Nhat Hanh's meditation center in southern France, as part of a Special Studies course on sharing mindfulness with children, sponsored by Professor Edie Lewis and the Office of Global Activities. Joe is excited to share the practice of mindfulness with the School of Social Work community as an effective means of supporting the wonderful and challenging lives of social workers. Meditations will be offered in a secular, non-religious way and are open to people from all faith and non-faith traditions.

This sessions will begin promptly at 12pm and 12:35pm. It will consist of a 20-minute guided sitting meditation. All are welcome to attend.

Source: Farb, N. A. S., Segal, Z. V., Mayberg, H., Bean, J., McKeon, D., Fatima, Z., & Anderson, A. K. (2007), "Attending to the present: Mindfulness meditation reveals distinct neural modes of self-reference." SCAN, 2, 313-322.

December 6, 2013 - 12:00 PM to 2:00 PM ET

For the past several years, the IRB-Health Sciences Board, which reviews most of the IRB applications from the School of Social Work, has been conducting "IRB on the Road" sessions to help researchers navigate the IRB process. No formal presentations are given, but rather staff are available for consultation within the units. The goal of these sessions is to strengthen relationships with researchers while helping to create an enhanced understanding of both the IRB process and the eResearch submission process. Deb Schild is our current liaison at the IRB.

These sessions are typically well attended, so we would like to ask you to "register" for a 15-minute time period by e-mailing Deb ([email protected]). This will cut down on your waiting time in case there are several people in line before you. You will want to do this BEFORE Deb arrives, as she will be in consultations after her arrival. Of course, if you don't schedule a meeting time, you can still stop by to see if she has time to meet with you.

December 9, 2013 - 10:00 AM to 1:00 PM ET

We invite all Social Work Students to join us for an end of term Student Study Break!
Come relax, grab a snack, and/or take a moment for self-care.

Light refreshments will be provided and a computer will be available if you care to complete Course Evaluations.

December 9, 2013 - 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM ET

Surveys are effective tools in getting information from participants, community members, and stakeholders in your evaluation or applied research project.  But, how do you go about deciding what survey to use and what questions to ask?

This Evaluation Lunch 'n' Learn event will discuss survey design as well as selecting and locating appropriate standardized scales.  At the end of the workshop, you will know:

When to use standardized scales and where to find them

How to select the appropriate standardized scale for your needs

How to create your own survey and what types of questions to ask

Feel free to bring your own lunch.

This event is sponsored by the Curtis Center Program Evaluation Group.