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Social Work faculty in the news!!!!
Nan Van Den Bergh, an Associate Professor in the School of Social Work at Florida International University, was named Health Care Social Worker of the Year “in honor of your outstanding work and daily commitment to the Social Work Profession” by the Florida Chapter of the Society for Social Work Leaders in Health Care (SSWLHC). The award was presented at the Awards Ceremony at the Social Work Conference 2008, in Deerfield Beach, sponsored by the Society and the Florida Chapter of the National Association of Social Workers. The SSWLHC vision is “to model and promote excellence of social work leadership in health care.” More information on the organization is available at http://sswlhcfl.org/.
Eric F. Wagner, Ph.D., a Professor in the School of Social Work at Florida International University, served as the drug abuse expert for the Expert Group Meeting on Goals and Targets for the World Programme of Action for Youth: Youth in Civil Society and Youth and their Well-being, 19-21 May 2008, United Nations Headquarters, New York City. The meeting was organized by the Division for Social Policy and Development, United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs. The primary outcome of the meeting was a set of goals and targets presented in a report to the United Nations General Assembly for its consideration. Dr. Wagner directs FIU’s Community-Based Intervention Research Group (C-BIRG), an interdisciplinary research group devoted to the design, implementation, and evaluation of community-based interventions for adolescent substance use and related problems.
CriticalThinkRx, a free web-based critical curriculum on psychotropic medications for practitioners in child welfare and mental health, was launched officially on June 11 at Florida International University. A creation of David Cohen, Ph.D., a Professor in the School of Social Work at Florida International University, and Inge Sengelmann, MSW, the curriculum is publicly-funded by the Attorneys General Consumer and Prescriber Grant Program, and fully evidence-based. Its unique approach, based on the "First, do no harm" principle and stressing alternative empirically-based views to conventional ideas about drugs, animates the 8-module course which contains over 600 slides, as well as references and a study guide for individual or group study. Aiming to raise the level of competence of practitioners and make their decisions about drug- related issues accountable to clients and society, the course will soon be offered for 12 CE credits for counselors, psychologists, and social workers, and is freely available at www.CriticalThinkRx.org
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