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The following lectures are planned as part of the School’s 2008 summer series. All members of the community are encouraged to attend.
Dennis Miehls, Ph.D., L.I.C.S.W.
This lecture describes how relational theories of supervision and one aspect of contemporary trauma theory coalesce to offer a conceptual shift in supervision theory and practices. The lecture gives a brief overview of the concept of parallel process in supervision; then, a critique of this literature questions the universality of parallel processes in supervision. The characteristics of supervision, when framed in relationship theories, are offered. Last, the lecture describes how the understanding of trauma theory’s triadic self of victim-victimizer-bystander is a useful construct in understanding impasses in supervisory relationships. Supervisory vignettes are utilized to illustrate the theoretical constructs.
Dennis Miehls, Ph.D., L.I.C.S.W., Associate Professor; Chair, Human Behavior in the Social Environment Sequence Smith College School for Social Work. Dr. Miehls is a social work academician and clinician who synthesizes developmental theories in his teaching and clinical work. He has published extensively on couple therapy and social work identity and specializes in couple therapy. Dr. Miehls is presently finishing a manuscript for a new text on Relational Theory in social work and he has also published articles on supervision theory, from a relational model. Dr. Miehls received his B.A. from the University of Western Ontario, his M.S.W. from Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Ontario and his Ph.D. from the Smith College School for Social Work.
Leo Weinstein Auditorium – Wright Hall
Monday - June 2, 2008, 7:30 P.M.
Kyle Pruett, M.D.
Thanks to the Decade of the Brain and a host of new non-invasive research techniques, we need to hold tight to climb today’s steep learning curve enlightening the growth and maturation of even the youngest children. Gene and environment interaction studies are featured weekly in major print media outlets, while co-parenting struggles entertain talk-show audiences. This lecture will highlight the more useful and clinically applicable findings of this wave of new research to bring the student of behavior up to date about what makes understanding child development our most powerful harbinger of human relationships.
Kyle Pruett, M.D., Professor of Child Psychiatry, Yale Child Study Center. Dr. Pruett has been a distinguished educator at the graduate, undergraduate and distance-learning level for three decades and has served the Yale Child Study Center as Director of Medical and Undergraduate Studies and member of the School of Medicine’s Curriculum Committee. He is an international expert and forensic consultant on child, parental and family development, paternal involvement, children’s mental health, creativity and the effects of trauma, media and divorce on young and very young children. He is the founder of the Yale Conference on Fatherhood, and the Harris Professional Development Network for Training in Early Intervention and Research, and was co-chair of the Child Custody Conflict Placement Committee of the Child Study Center and the Yale Law School.
Leo Weinstein Auditorium – Wright Hall
Monday - June 9, 2008, 7:30 P.M.
Caitlin Ryan, Ph.D. A.C.S.W., - Brown Clinical Research Institute Lecturer
The Family Acceptance Project (FAP) is a participatory community research, intervention and education initiative that has studied health and mental health outcomes of family acceptance and rejection on the well-being of LGBT youth and young adults. Findings are being used to develop family-related interventions, educational materials and approaches to increase family support to improve the health, mental health and well-being of their LGBT children; to inform public policy and family policy; and to improve the quality of care that LGBT young people receive in a wide range of settings, including care of out-of-home youth. This presentation will discuss the methods, initial findings and implications for practice and policy that are changing the approach to care for LGBT children and adolescents.
Caitlin Ryan, Ph.D., M.S.W., A.C.S.W., Director of Adolescent Health Initiatives, César E. Chávez Institute, San Francisco State University. Dr. Ryan’s research, program and policy development work span nearly 35 years, beginning in the lesbian and gay health movement in the 1970s, through the emergence of the AIDS epidemic in the early 1980s, to the development of a new model of family-related care for LGBT adolescents. She was named NASW's national “Social Worker of the Year” in 1988 for her contributions to the AIDS epidemic and the social work profession.
Leo Weinstein Auditorium – Wright Hall
Monday - June 23, 2008, 7:30 P.M.
Joanne Corbin, M.S.S., Ph.D. - Hazel Augustine Series Lecturer
This lecture explores the concepts of individualism and collectivism in clinical practice. Application of these concepts will be made to the speaker’s work and research in Northern Uganda. Implications for practice in the U.S. will be discussed. This lecture will aid social workers’ integration of culturally syntonic practices into their work.
Joanne Corbin, M.S.S., Ph.D., Associate Professor; Chair, Research Sequence, Smith College School for Social Work. Dr. Corbin’s most recent work focuses on children in situations of armed conflict, specifically, the reintegration experiences of formerly abducted children in northern Uganda. She has worked extensively in the field of mental health since 1979, focusing on the psychosocial issues of children, adults, and families and systemic work with public school systems. She has also explored cross-cultural issues in mental health through her work at Mathari Hospital in Nairobi, Kenya and through participation in the "Health Promoting Schools" conference in Capetown, South Africa. She received her B.A. from Wellesley College, her M.S.S. from Bryn Mawr Graduate School of Social Work and Social Research and her Ph.D. in Epidemiology from Yale University.
Leo Weinstein Auditorium – Wright Hall
Monday - June 30, 2008, 7:30 P.M.
Hye-Kyung Kang, Ph.D., M.S.W., M.A.
This presentation examines the history of U.S. immigration and naturalization policies to understand its impact on current U.S. population pattern and racial dynamics. U.S. immigration policies reflect the social, political, and economic dynamics of the nation and often serve as a mechanism to meet and control labor and population needs. This lecture will present an overview of these policies from 1790 to 2003 with clinical examples to illustrate how they produced immigrants of color as racialized (non)citizens. The impact of these policies on the current immigration debates as well as clinical implications will be discussed.
Hye-Kyung Kang, M.A., M.S.W., Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Smith College School for Social Work. As a social worker, Dr. Kang has worked in the fields of immigrant/refugee mental health, domestic violence, sexual assault, and community organizing for over a decade. Her research focuses on immigrant communities, immigrant identity, and minority social and mental health disparity. She is a Korean-American immigrant.
Leo Weinstein Auditorium – Wright Hall
Monday - July 14, 2008, 7:30 P.M.
Salman Akhtar, M.D. - Annual Conference and 90th Anniversary Celebration Keynote Lecturer
This talk will focus upon the nature and form of prejudice, that is, what constitutes prejudice, and how prejudice becomes evident. It will seek to deconstruct the conventional definition of prejudice which rests upon the triad of ignorance, hostility, and externalization. Following this, a new manner of organizing the symptomatology of prejudice will be presented and the complex interplay of intrapsychic and societal factors, including group regression and revisionist use of history by narcissistic and paranoid leaders will be discussed. Four novel concepts that will be especially highlighted include unmentalized xenophobia, villain hunger, propaganda addiction, and messianic sadism. The talk will conclude with a demonstration of how a prejudiced mind and a psychotherapeutic mind differ and the attitude one needs to have towards one's own vulnerability to prejudicial attitudes.
Salman Akhtar, M.D., Professor of Psychiatry at Jefferson Medical College and Training and Supervising Analyst at the Psychoanalytic Center of Philadelphia. Dr. Akhtar is a Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and the American College of Psychoanalysis. He is the author of seven books including Regarding Others (2007) as well as five others currently in press. Dr. Akhtar’s more than 250 scientific publications also include 25 edited books – most recently The Crescent and the Couch (2008) and The Unbroken Soul (2008) – and four others currently in press. Dr. Akhtar has delivered many prestigious addresses and lectures and is the recipient of numerous literature and publication awards. He is the Scholar-in-Residence at the Interact Theatre Company in Philadelphia and has published six volumes of poetry.
Leo Weinstein Auditorium – Wright Hall
Friday - July 18, 2008, 7:30 P.M.
Lai Wan Cecilia Chan, B.Soc.Sc., M.Soc.Sc., Ph.D., R.S.W., J.P. - Lydia Rapoport Lecturer
The integrative clinical social work approach is built on the strengths of counseling in the West and Eastern philosophies of harmony from Chinese Medicine. Model building: The SMART (Strength-oriented, Meaning-focused Approach to Resilience and Transformation) Empowerment Model adopts Chinese concepts of stagnation, over-attachment, physical and emotional blockages as reasons for imbalances. Intervention Strategies: A flexible and integrative intervention of body-mind-spirit approach of empowerment is being applied to college students, patients, women of divorce and victims of loss. Creative use of expressive arts, dance and body movement, meaning reconstruction narratives, acupressure and massage are adopted. Presentation: Clinical case materials, video of the clinical process of working with a client through the SMART will be presented. Practical tips and techniques will be shared.
Professor Cecilia L. W. Chan, B.Soc.Sc., M.Soc.Sc., Ph.D., R.S.W., J.P., Si Yuan Professor in Health and Social Work, Department of Social Work and Social Administration; Director, Centre on Behavioral Health; and Associate Director, HKJC Centre for Suicide Research and Prevention, The University of Hong Kong. Dr. Chan is renowned for her creative innovations of integrating eastern concepts into her integrative therapy, and her work on psychosocial oncology, end-of-life and bereavement care, as well as her SMART model of empowering clients in transforming loss and trauma. She has been an invited speaker to named lectures, keynotes and plenary lectures to international conferences. She has published more than 200 articles and book chapters, and serves on the editorial boards of ten international journals. Dr. Chan will be the International Keynote Speaker to IWG Symposium in Boston, September 2008, and ADEC, April 2009.
Leo Weinstein Auditorium – Wright Hall
Monday - July 28, 2008, 7:30 P.M.
David Burton, Ph.D. and Susan Donner, Ph.D.
Two major trends are converging in the United States. The aging population is significantly increasing and the use of sophisticated technologies are being used more widely in assisting with tasks of daily living. The National Science Foundation is interested in this convergence and funded a grant written in collaboration between UMASS Computer Science Department and the Smith College School for Social Work to begin to look at assistive technologies that could potentially help elders age in place (remain living at home.) In the first part of this project, the major role of the researchers at the School for Social Work has been to conduct focus groups in which participants are exposed to technologies, all visual in nature, and to ascertain the meanings that these technologies may have in the life of elders. This lecture will focus on the meanings that emerged about the technologies and the potential ways in which technology is seen as both problematic and enhancing of the well-being of elders.
David Burton, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Smith College School for Social Work. Dr. Burton has worked in the field of sexual aggression for nearly 20 years, as a clinician working primarily with adolescents and children. Dr. Burton researches the childhood victimization and etiology of child, adolescent and adult sexual abusers - current research interests include trauma histories of sexual abusers, nonsexual criminality of sexual abusers, attachment, cognitive behavioral theory and treatment, effectiveness of treatment for adolescent sexual abusers, and racial discrimination of sexual abusers. Currently Dr. Burton is a case consultant for adolescent abusers and works with foster parents who house abusers at Northeast Center for Youth and Families, Inc.
Susan Donner, Ph.D., Professor and Associate Dean, Smith College School for Social Work. Dr. Donner’s areas of interest are primarily practice and field work. She has taught in both the M.S.W. and Ph.D. programs in practice and in human behavior and has served as the Associate Dean under three different deans. She has written on self-psychology, intersubjectivity, racial and social identity, and issues facing field education. Dr. Donner joined the Smith/UMASS Research Team on a National Science Foundation Grant in 2006, looking at empowerment of elders through assistive technologies and has become interested in the meaning of technology in people’s lives. Dr. Donner received her B.A. from the University of Massachusetts - Amherst, her M.S.W. from Simmons College School for Social Work, and her doctorate from the Smith College School for Social Work.
Leo Weinstein Auditorium – Wright Hall
Monday - August 4, 2008, 7:30 P.M.
Leo Weinstein Auditorium is handicapped accessible. For individual disability accommodations please contact Lindsay Wilson in the Office of the Dean at 413-585-2769 or at deanasst@email.smith.edu at least three weeks in advance of the lecture. |
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