RMHC Hosts Coffee Hour with Fulbright Scholar
As part of its continuing Counseling & Society Series, the Rehabilitation and Mental Health Counseling (RMHC) program hosted Fulbright Scholar Dr. Ming Hung Wang, CRC for a coffee hour and presentation. Dr. Wang shared the history of disability rights movement in Taiwan along with the evolution of the special education and vocational rehabilitation systems, both modeled after systems in the United States. He also shared cultural facts and anecdotes about Taiwan and engaged in a lively discussion about education, disabilities, and vocational rehabilitation with current RMHC students, visiting Fulbright Scholar Olesya Volkova, Fulbright Faculty Advisor Dr. Darlene Demarie, and Director of RMHC and former Fulbright Scholar Dr. Chih-Chin Chou.
Dr. Wang is a professor from the Graduate Institute of Rehabilitation Counseling at the National Changhua University of Education in Taiwan. The USF RMHC is hosting five visiting scholars from his university in March as part of an ongoing partnership of cultural and scholastic exchange.
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ABA Master's Student Receives 2022 BCOTB Fellowship
Kayla Coogle, a student in the Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) Online Master’s Program, received a fellowship offered through BCOTB in Tampa. The fellowship provides a two-semester stipend for a student who can work 20 hours per week at BCOTB as their practicum placement, and then is willing to work at BCOTB after graduating from USF.
BCOTB has been one of Tampa’s leading providers of ABA therapy services for sixteen years. With the goal of improving the lives of children with autism by providing tools to bring about meaningful and positive changes in behavior, BCOTB therapy is designed to assess and treat both problem behavior and pre-academic and social skill deficits in an ongoing evaluation of each child’s individual needs.
ABA Program Director Dr. Ray Miltenberger and ABA Online MA Program Coordinator Dr. Anthony Concepcion, along with BCOTB President Kelley Prince (USF '05), presented Kayla the fellowship funds to be used toward completing her degree. Kayla’s plans upon graduation are to continue working in a clinical setting focused on younger children with autism.
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ABA Doctoral Student Wins 2022 ABAI Paper Competition
USF doctoral candidate Daniel Kwak, MA, MS, BCBA was selected by the Association for Behavior Analysis International (ABAI) as the winner of the 2022 Scholarly Contributions to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Paper Competition. Kwak demonstrated an especially notable commitment to DEI in behavior analysis and has been invited to present his research titled "Cultural responsiveness in assessment, implementer training, and intervention: A systematic review" at the 2022 ABAI conference in Boston.
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Free Student Tickets Being Offered for Synapse Summit | Synapse is offering free tickets for USF students to attend its upcoming summit on Feb. 17 in Amalie Arena. Over 5,000 attendees, including innovators, creators, and investors from around the region, participate in the Synapse Summit, a day of celebrating and exploring the Florida innovation community. Students can use this link to sign up for a student scholarship or a volunteer position at the event. | |
Nominations Now Being Accepted for 2022 CBCS Faculty and Student Awards
Nominations are now being accepted for the following awards:
- Faculty Awards
- Outstanding Research Award
- Outstanding Teaching Awards (One will be designated for tenure track faculty and one for instructors.)
- Outstanding Graduate Mentor Award
- Outstanding Service Award
- Student Awards
- Outstanding Graduate Student Research Award
- Outstanding Graduate Student Teaching Award
- Outstanding Undergraduate Research Award
Please click here for further details and considering nominating deserving colleagues and students. Nominations are due to Devon Weist (dlweist@usf.edu) by February 28.
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"This Is My Brave" rolls out a college edition
WFLA (NBC)
"Dr. Kristin Kosyluk Ph.D., an Assistant Professor of Mental Health Law & Policy and Director of the STigma Action Research (STAR) Lab..."
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How to recover from a sleepless night
Discover Magazine
"Soomi Lee, a professor of aging research at the University of South Florida, agrees. She says that trying to play catch up when you didn't get enough sleep the night before causes..."
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Chamberlain, A. W., Boggess, L. N., & Fisher, T. (2022). Traveling Alone or Together? Neighborhood Context on Individual and Group Juvenile and Adult Burglary Decisions. Crime & Delinquency.
doi:10.1177/00111287211067177
Dembo, R., Wareham, J., Schmeidler, J., & Wolff, J. (2021). Assessing the validity of self-reports of marijuana use among adolescents entering the juvenile justice system: Gender differences. Substance Use & Misuse, 57(1), 145–156. doi:10.1080/10826084.2021.1995757
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Ngo, F. T., Jaynes, C. M., Cochran, J., & Piquero, A. R. (2021). Low self-control, the adventurer personality, and victimization: A tourism evaluation. Victims & Offenders, 1–27. doi:10.1080/15564886.2021.2014008 | |
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Kimberly Johnson, PhD (MHLP)
State Opioid Response Technical Assistance (SORTA)
Sponsor: University of Missouri
9/30/2021-9/29/2022
Total Award Amount: $130,000
This funding extends an effort to support the Pinellas County Opioid Task Force in reducing overdose deaths through providing consultation on developing and implementing model-based decision support tools. In this project, we are working with researchers from Northwestern University to develop an agent-based modeling tool that uses community level data to predict the impact of various community interventions known to reduce overdose. This tool will help the task force make decisions about how to deploy limited resources efficiently. Modeling tools have been applied to many business problems and to other public health issues but have not previously been applied toward addressing substance use problems. The output from this contract will be a guidance document for communities interested in adopting modeling tools to improve decision making regarding resource allocation for addressing overdose deaths.
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SAVE THE DATE
Human Trafficking Data and Research World Summit
Using Numbers to Drive Action
When: March 4, 2022, 9 a.m. - 5 p.m. US/Eastern
Where: USF St. Petersburg campus
Join other industry leaders from around the world for this special one-day event to share information and discuss how we can better collect and analyze data to combat human trafficking.
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Appropriate Care and Treatment Study | |
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The study team at the University of South Florida Department of Child and Family Studies is conducting a national online survey of former youth residents of residential treatment facilities and their parents and caregivers to understand their experiences and perspective of the care received by the facilities. The types of facilities include programs such as therapeutic boarding schools, wilderness camps, addiction treatment centers, residential treatment centers, and boot camps.
The survey will be completed online via a web-based survey link. The information shared will be anonymous and cannot be linked to individuals in any way. We will create a report based on the answers provided by all survey participants to inform policymakers, parents, teens, and treatment providers with the goal of improving services and regulations. The survey will take about 15 minutes to complete.
If you are a parent of someone who attended a residential program as a teenager between 2017 and 2021 you are invited to complete the parent survey.
If you are a young adult who attended a residential program as a teenager between 2017 and 2021 you are invited to complete the young adult survey.
Follow this link to learn more about study eligibility and to complete the survey: https://www.usf.edu/cbcs/cfs/research-training/surveys/index.aspx
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