Fall 2021 Behavioral Healthcare Graduates Honored at Pinning Ceremony
Last Thursday, 11 graduates of the behavioral healthcare major in the Department of Mental Health Law and Policy received their pins in the MHC Atrium. The students were surrounded by faculty, mentors, family, and friends as they were celebrated and honored for their accomplishments. Overall, 38 students were identified as eligible to graduate from the program this semester and were placed in over 20 different field placement agencies. Graduates were invited to wear their pins on their regalia during USF Commencement, which was held Friday and Saturday. Want to see more pictures from the event? Find them on our Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter!
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2021 Sportsperson of the Year: Tom Brady
Sports Illustrated
"Ross Andel, director of the School of Aging Studies at USF, notes that routines and good habits are essential for optimal aging. A Bucs fan, Andel sees Brady and his defiance of time and is unsurprised."
'Banking While Black': Police video shows how cashing a paycheck led to handcuffs
KTSP(ABC) - Minneapolis
"Fridell, who is also a professor at the University of South Florida, says those biases are often unconscious — a point that's highlighted in her training..."
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Justice for All: The Rise of Black Santa
Spectrum News-13 (Orlando)
"Joining us right now is Dr. Kyaien Conner, Assistant Professor of mental health law and policy at the University of South Florida..."
Athletes can suffer from intimate partner violence, too | Column
Tampa Bay Times
Stephanie Rosado is a doctoral student at the University of South Florida's School of Social Work and is a student member at-large on the Executive Committee of the Alliance of Social Workers in Sports (AWIS).
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Prophater, L. E., Fazio, S., Nguyen, L. T., Hueluer, G., Peterson, L. J., Sherwin, K., Shatzer, J., Branham, M., Kavalec, A., O'Hern, K., Stoglin, K., Tate, R., & Hyer, K. “Alzheimer's Association Project Vital: A Florida Statewide Initiative Using Technology to Impact Social Isolation and Well-Being.” Frontiers in Public Health, vol. 9, 2021, doi:10.3389/fpubh.2021.720180. | |
Smith, C.E. & Lee, S. (2021). Identifying diverse forms of (un)healthy sleep: Sleep profiles differentiate adults' psychological and physical well-being, Social Science & Medicine, doi:10.1016/j.socscimed.2021.114603 | |
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Kathleen Moore, PhD (MHLP)
Evaluation of Family Dependency Treatment Court (FDTC)
Sponsor: Hillsborough County 13th Judicial Court
11/16/2021-9/30/2022
Amount: $71,250
Family Dependency Treatment Court (FDTC) is an innovative program that addresses substance use problems for parents who are in Dependency Court working toward reunification. The program provides a team of professionals working together to support parents in achieving goals of successfully completing their case plan and reunification. The University of South Florida's Department of Mental Health Law and Policy serves as the evaluation team to monitor client outcomes as well as program outcomes during the course of this program. The evaluation will include information obtained through client interviews (baseline, 6- and 12-month follow-up), court observation, judicial and client chart reviews, as well as case staffing meetings in order to monitor the following goals of the study:
- Increase percentage who complete treatment and successful graduation from FDTC
- Increase percentage of clients who achieve permanency with parents or caregivers
- Reduce/eliminate misuse of drugs
- Increase positive parent/child interactions
- Increase psychosocial functioning
- Decrease mental health and trauma symptomatology
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Micah E. Johnson, PhD (MHLP)
Scientific Training in Addiction Research Techniques (START) for gifted future investigators from historically underrepresented and underserved backgrounds
Sponsor: University of Vermont
9/30/2021-3/31/2022
Amount: $286,074
The Scientific Training in Addiction Research Techniques (START) program is a comprehensive research education program dedicated to enhancing diversity, equity, and inclusion among substance misuse research early-career investigators, including doctoral candidates, postdoctoral researchers, and early-stage assistant professors. START trainees will utilize the data from the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) Study (www.ABCDstudy.org). The ABCD Study is the largest long-term study of brain development and child health in the United States. It has produced a robust database and international network of prolific scholars. START trainees will participate in hybrid training curriculum to gain the skills needed to conduct research using the ABCD study and be successful independent substance misuse researchers.
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Svetlana Yampolskaya, PhD (CFS)
Evaluation of Nurturing Parenting Program and Family Intensive Treatment (FIT)
Sponsor: Casey Family Programs
11/1/2021-12/31/2021
Amount: $18,770
The study will examine outcomes for child welfare-involved parents who participated in the Nurturing Parenting Program and child-welfare-involved parents with substance abuse issues who received Family Intensive Treatment. The outcomes for both groups of parents will be compared to those who received services as usual. This longitudinal study will employ a quasi-experimental design and utilize administrative databases.
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Kristin Kosyluk, PhD, and Jerome Galea, PhD (MHLP)
Disclosure deliberation using chatbot technology
01/2022-12/2022
CBCS Internal Grant Award
College students with mental illness are at a risk for a host of negative outcomes, including poor academic performance and drop out. A significant factor influencing such outcomes is the stigma surrounding mental illness and the internalization of this stigma by students living with mental illness. Disclosure of one's mental illness to obtain needed supports has been shown to promote positive outcomes (i.e. reduced self-stigma, decreases in stigma-related distress and decreases in symptoms). Up To Me is an evidence-based, internalized (self-) stigma reduction program that helps participants to be deliberate regarding disclosure decisions and to craft an effective disclosure story they choose to disclose. We propose to conduct formative and summative work using human-centered design methods to adapt this intervention for mobile delivery using chatbot technology. We will assess the Up To Me's chatbot feasibility, acceptability, and preliminary effectiveness for reducing self-stigma among college students living with mental illness.
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Nathan C. Higgins, PhD (CSD)
Functional spatial segregation in auditory scene analysis
01/2022-07/2022
CBCS Internal Grant Award
Separating speech from competing sounds in noisy acoustic scenes is one of the remarkable feats of the healthy auditory system, and one often compromised with age-related hearing loss. Our ability to separate sounds is facilitated when sound sources are distributed across space but little is known about the perceptual boundaries listeners rely on to separate signal from noise. Proposed experiments build on a well-established experimental paradigm involving auditory scene analysis and will provide a foundation to improve an NIH R01 application for its second submission. The full R01 expands these ideas to free field listening environments with speech comprehension measures and dynamic control of hearing aids. Participant groups will be normal-hearing and hearing-impaired listeners. The present study will establish the effectiveness of underlying binaural cues and the neural response patterns in a controlled listening environment (over headphones), and demonstrate laboratory proficiency in the area.
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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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