CFS chair awarded a $5.5 million grant from the Office of Special Education Programs | |
Lise Fox, PhD, chair of the Department of Child and Family Studies (CFS), has received $5.5 million from the Office of Special Education Programs of the Department of Education to continue to operate a national technical assistance center on positive social, emotional, and behavioral outcomes for young children with or at risk for disabilities. The National Center on Pyramid Model Innovations will work with state systems, programs, and professionals to implement early childhood, mental health, and behavioral support practices that promote young children’s social-emotional skill development and reduce challenging behavior.
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Aging Studies professor speaks at conference in Sweden | |
Brent Small, PhD, a professor in the School of Aging Studies, gave an invited talk at The Aging Brain: Memory, Plasticity and Dopamine, a conference hosted by the Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, Sweden on Aug. 26. This conference was held in honor of Professor Lars Bäckman, one of Sweden’s most-cited psychologists and Small’s former post-doctoral advisor. His presentation “Minne och Mig: Reflections on Episodic Memory and Lars Bäckman” reviewed research on early changes in memory performance associated with Alzheimer’s disease – work that he had done with Professor Bäckman.
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USF hosts first in-person meeting of the Commission on Mental Health and Substance Abuse
The Commission on Mental Health and Substance Abuse held its first in-person, two-day, quarterly meeting in the Marshall Student Center. The group was established in 2021 by the Florida Legislature to examine the current methods of providing mental health and substance abuse services in the state and to improve the effectiveness of current practices, procedures, programs, and initiatives in providing such services; identify any barriers or deficiencies in the delivery of such services; and recommend changes to existing laws, rules, and policies necessary to implement the Commission’s recommendations. Kathleen Moore, PhD, a research professor in the Department of Mental Health Law and Policy, is a member of the commission. During the first day, key stakeholders spoke on behavioral health issues, and during the second day the four subcommittees presented individual report progress and proposed recommendations. Read more.
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Criminology faculty receive grant to educate Florida law enforcement on cybercrime
Department of Criminology faculty Tom Hyslip, PhD and George Burruss, PhD were awarded a $151,254 grant by Cyber Florida to pay for Florida law enforcement officers to take the department’s cybercrime investigative training program consisting of two courses: Cybercrime Awareness and Introduction to Digital Evidence Recognition and Collection and Undercover Cybercrime Investigations Training. The training will include an evaluation component to measure pre- and post-training knowledge. The training courses are being developed in conjunction with USF’s Office of Corporate Training and Professional Education, a division of Innovation Education, and will be hosted on its online Canvas platform. These two courses are an extension of a project developed in part with seed funds from the College of Behavioral and Community Sciences. The grant will provide essential cybercrime training to 1,440 Florida law enforcement officers.
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Norton, A.L., Chen, A.Z., & Tan, T.X. (2022). Firearms in clients’ homes: Role of clinical mental health counselors’ political beliefs and treatment objectives. Psychotherapy and Politics International, 20(3), 1-18.
doi:10.24135/ppi.v20i3.04
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This event is FREE to all USF faculty staff and students. | |
Free Webinar: Promoting Healthy Behaviors for Kinship Caregivers
Sept., 21, 2:00 p.m. EST
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Learn more about kinship caregiver health and an approach to working with kinship caregivers that emphasizes self-compassion and self-care from School of Social Work Instructor Kerry Littlewood, PhD, MSW. Created by a multi-disciplinary team of doctors and social workers, the Time for Me Toolkit helps peer navigators to support and provide psychoeducation to caregivers around six pillars of health management (Healthy Eating, Being Active, Healthy Sleep, Healthy Coping, Medical Adherence, and Self-Monitoring).
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