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Tenth
Annual Conference
"Meeting the Challenge: Research In and With
Diverse Communities" January
12 - 15, 2006
Hyatt
Regency Riverwalk San Antonio Hotel
123 Losoya, San Antonio, TX 78205
Phone: (210) 222-1234
Fax: (210) 227-4925
Toll: (800) 233-1234
Printable
Final Program (PDF version)
Program
Schedule
The
SSWR Annual Conference offers a scientific program
that reflects a broad range of research interests,
from workshops on the latest quantitative and
qualitative research methodologies to symposia
featuring studies in child welfare, aging, mental
health, welfare reform, substance abuse, and HIV/AIDS.
Over
500 symposia, workshop, roundtable, paper and
poster presentations
Preconference
workshops (in conjunction with the Institute for
the Advancement of Social Work Research) designed
to enhance methods expertise and grant-writing
skills
Preconference
programs and a networking reception especially
for doctoral students
Registration
Information and Rates
Participant registration
includes all conference materials, refreshment
breaks, President’s Awards Reception on
Friday, breakfast Membership Meeting on Sunday,
as well as entry to exhibits, lectures, papers,
symposia, and workshops. All presenters
(paper and poster) are required to register for
the conference.We urge you to register
as soon as possible, as space is limited. Those
registered before December 1, 2005
will receive the early registration rate. Please
complete the CONFERENCE REGISTRATION form or register
on-line.
Registration
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Registration (before 1/3**) |
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Full-Day
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* Documentation (Student ID)
is required if registering at the student rate.
Please fax or mail copy to Travelink.
** Pre-Conference registration will close
on January 3. Registration received after that
date will be processed on site.
Exhibitor registration
includes an 8’ x 10’ booth space as
well as listing in the program book for 2006 and
in the 2007 registration brochure. See exhibitor
registration pages for additional information.
Note that payment MUST accompany registration
for exhibitors and ad copy.
Hotel
Accomodation
The Hyatt
Regency San Antonio on the Riverwalk,
the official
headquarters hotel for SSWR, is located between
the city’s two major tourist attractions:
the renowned Riverwalk and the historic Alamo.
Situated downtown on the banks of the Riverwalk,
the Hyatt Regency hotel offers a combination of
classic elegance with Old Texan charm and service.
Enjoy nearby attractions or sit in the lobby where
the San Antonio River cascades through the 16
story garden atrium.
Hyatt Regency
San Antonio Hotel
123 Losoya, San Antonio, TX 78205
Phone: (210) 222-1234
Toll-Free: (800) 233-1234
Fax: (210) 227-4925
Reservation Deadline: December
19, 2005
Rate: $159.00, Single/Double; $184 Triple;
$209 Quad (Plus Hotel andOccupancy Taxes, currently
16.75%, subject to change)
Daily parking fees:
Self Parking $14.00 per day (subject to change)
Valet parking $20.00 per day (subject to change)
Check in time is 3:00 p.m. –
Check out time is 12:00 p.m.
To receive the SSWR conference
rate please call the Hyatt Regency San Antonio
at 1-800-233-1234 prior to December
19. Inform the hotel that you are with the Society
for Social Work and Research. Reservation
requests will be confirmed only if accompanied
by one night’s room deposit or if guaranteed
by a major credit card. You can also make online
reservations.
Interest
Group
A variety of informal interest groups
have formed within SSWR. These have included Qualitative
Research, Child Welfare, End-of-Life, Suicide
Prevention, and others. To remain up to date,
a special listserv announcement will be sent this
fall asking for conveners to identify themselves
for pre-existing or proposed new groups. If you
are interested in convening a group, please respond
to this announcement. The list of topics, conveners
and room locations will be listed in the final
program if information is received prior to October
15. Interest groups will meet during lunch breaks
on Friday, January 13 and Saturday, January 14.
Job
Seekers Registry
Students looking for a position
may email a one page CV for inclusion in an on-site
hard copy job seekers registry available for consultation
by employers at the SSWR conference. To facilitate
making interview appointments, please include
on your CV the phone number(s) where you can be
reached at the conference including, if applicable,
your cell phone number.
Email your CVs to Stacey Freedenthal
at Stacey.Freedenthal@du.edu
by
January 2, 2006. Please note that CVs received
after January 2 will not be included in the job
registry book.
Employers, please schedule
your interviews when presentations are not in
session so that participants can attend all sessions.
Deaf
and Hard of Hearing
If you are deaf or hard of hearing
and will require the services of an interpreter,
check the SSWR website for the program schedule.
Select the sessions you wish to attend and send
a list to:
Patty Couch, Conference Coordinator
Travelink, Inc.
30 Garfield St., Suite C
Asheville, NC 28803
Fax 828-252-8589
E mail: sswr@trvlnk.com
Although the number of interpreters available
is limited, SSWR will try to provide this resource
to those who need it. If you need access to an
interpreter, please identify yourself and your
session preferences by December 9. Since there
may not be a sswr san antonio 2006 sufficient
number of interpreters to meet the demand, this
information will allow conference planners to
honor as many requests as possible.
Things
to Do in San Antonio
The Alamo: The museum contains
relics and mementos from the Republic of Texas
and offers narration on the fall of the Alamo.
Hours: 9am-5:30pm Monday-Saturday, admission is
free, donations accepted.
Buckhorn Saloon & Museum
(318 E. Houston): Voted the “2002 Best Attraction”
by the Downtown Alliance/San Antonio Discover
more than 120 years of history – Texas style.
Hours: 10am-5pm Sunday to Thursday; 10am-6pm Friday
and Saturday. Admission $10.99 adults, $9.99 seniors,
$7.99 children.
King Williams Historic Area:
A 25 block area near downtown on the south bank
of the San Antonio River. In late 1800s the King
William District was the most elegant residential
area in the city.
La Villita: A unique arts and
crafts community with shops, working artists,
restaurants and a post office. Shops open daily
10am-6pm.
Market Square: Browse through
the 32 shops at “El Mercado”,
an area patterned after an authentic Mexican market.
Hours: 10am-6pm. Free admission.
Attire
January temperatures in San Antonio are average
highs of 62.3 degrees and daily lows near 41.6
degrees. Average rainfall is 1.66 inches. An umbrella
and a raincoat should always be close at hand
for an occasional shower.We recommend that you
dress in layers for the conferences. Remember
that air conditioned rooms can be chilly. Be sure
to pack your camera.
Special
Sessions
Presidential
Plenary
Friday 4:00 pm – 5:45 pm
Investigating Culture And
Context In Diverse Communities:
Findings From The Latino And Asian American Study
Dr.Margarita Alegria
Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Director,
Center for
Multicultural Mental Health Research, Harvard
University.
Dr. David Takeuchi
Professor, School of Social Work and Department
of Sociology
University of Washington
Distinguished
Achievement Award
Ruth G.McRoy, MSW, Ph.D.
University of Texas
The Aaron
Rosen Lecture
Friday 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm
John Landsverk, Ph.D.
Children’s Hospital of San Diego
Special
Session in Memory of Dr. Carol Mowbray
Saturday 4:00 pm – 5:45 pm
Special
Session
Race, Poverty and “Human” Disasters:
Lessons for Social Work
Research from the Aftermath of Hurricane Katrina
Day and Time to be Announced
Conference
Highlights
Workshops
• Maximizing Participation in Longitudinal
Research: Effective Strategies for Recruitment
and Retention
• An Introduction to Item Response Theory
• Brief Screening Measures for Research
and Practice
Roundtables
• Frontiers of Transdisciplinary Social
Work Research
• Standards for Quality in Grounded Theory
Research
Symposia
• Preventing Childhood Problem Behavior
in School Settings: Findings from Three Controlled
Investigations
• Methodological Innovations in Research
on LGBT Populations
• New Directions in Homelessness Research:
Innovative Methods and Findings
• African American Adolescent Males: Mental
Health Experiences and Self-Destructive Behavior
• Inside the Black Box: Factors Contributing
to Effective Group Work
• Social Work Research on Drug Abuse in
Diverse Populations
Papers
• Partner Violence, Drug Use and HIV Risk
among Low Income, Urban Women
• Foster Children’s Entry into Intensive
Mental Health and Residential Care Settings
• Intimate Partner Violence and HIV Sexual
Risk in Latino Gay Men
• Spiritual Well-Being in Health-Related
Quality of Life for Older Chronically-Ill Adults
• Perceptions of Child Protective Services
among Urban American Indian/Alaska Natives
• Using Concept Mapping to Develop an Instrument
for Agency Evaluation
• Young African American Fathers and Their
Children: Dimensions of Paternal Involvement
• Resilience in Maltreated Children
• Screening for Serious Mental Illnesses
in Substance Dependent Populations
• Treatment of Acute Psychosis without Antipsychotics:
Two-Year Soteria Outcomes
• Explanations for Racial-Ethnic Disparities
in School Suspension
Preconference
Sessions
Thursday,
January 12, 2006
These sessions are intended to give participants
(from doctoral students to senior researchers)
information on research funding priorities, strategies
for building a successful research career and
opportunities to connect with federal staff and
experienced, funded researchers. Look for Updated
Information available Fall 2005 – www.iaswresearch.org.
8:30 am – 12 Noon
Social Work Research Career Development
Jerry Flanzer (NIDA), Suzanne Heurtin-Roberts
(NCI), Denise Juliano-Bult (NIMH), Peggy Murray
(NIAAA), Stephane Philogene (OBSSR), Sid Stahl
(NIA) and colleagues
Building and sustaining a funded
research career has many phases. This session
will focus on getting your research career launched
at the
National Institutes of Health (NIH) as well as
the importance of being mentored and being a mentor.
During the plenary and breakout sessions
NIH staff, and experienced mentees and mentors
will discuss skills, strategies, mechanisms, and
lessons learned to develop, sustain and advance
these relationships to build social work research
career capacity and advance the contributions
from social work research.
12 noon - 1:00 pm Lunch
Box Lunches Available
1:15 pm – 3:45 pm
Special Research Topics
These afternoon sessions will address specific
federal priorities, initiatives, and opportunities
for social work research. Invited agencies include
several NIH institutes and the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention (CDC).
CDC Research Priorities and Opportunities
Gwendolyn Cattledge, Injury Center, and colleagues
Genomics Discovery: Exploring the Relevance
to Social Work Research
Colleen McBride and Laura Koehly, National
Human Genome Research Institute
Spirituality and End Of Life (EOL) Research
Peggy Murray (NIAAA), Sid Stahl (NIA), and
Mercedes Bern-Klug, University of Iowa
Addressing Health Disparities through
Community-Based Participatory Research
Stephane Philogene (OBSSR), Suzanne Heurtin-
Roberts (NCI)
Drug Abuse Research Advances
Jerry Flanzer (NIDA and colleagues)
Preconference
Workshops
Thursday,
January 12, 2006
Registration fees will be $150 for the
all-day workshops and $100 for the half-day workshop.
Register early— space is limited!
9:00 am – 4:00 pm All-Day
Workshop
Behavioral and Social Intervention
Research
Presenters: Mark Fraser (UNC-Chapel Hill),
Nabila El-Bassel,
Dan Herman, and Allen Zweben (Columbia University)
The workshop, intended primarily
for junior investigators and advanced doctoral
students, will address essential conceptual, methodological
and practical issues involved in planning and
carrying out research on psychosocial interventions.
Major topics will include: applying social and
behavioral theories to intervention development
and testing; conceptualizing, developing, standardizing
and piloting an intervention model to address
various health conditions, social problems, and
risk
behaviors; addressing ethnic, minority, and gender-specific
issues in intervention studies; critical issues
in implementing intervention studies.
12:30 pm – 4:00 pm Half-Day
Workshop
Methods of Longitudinal
Data Analysis
Presenter: Daniel Nagin (Carnegie Mellon University)
A developmental trajectory describes
the course of a behavior over age or time. The
aim of this half-day workshop is to provide an
overview of a group-based method for analyzing
developmental trajectories. The technical underpinnings
of the method will be summarized and specialized
software for estimating the models will be briefly
discussed. However, the central focus will be
on presenting and elaborating upon actual examples
of the method’s distinctive capabilities.
These include
the capability to (1) identify rather than assume
distinctive groups of trajectories, (2) estimate
the proportion of the population following each
such trajectory group, and (3) relate group membership
probability to individual characteristics and
circumstances. In addition, two important extensions
of the method will be discussed—the capability
to add time-varying covariates to trajectory models
and the capability to estimate joint trajectory
models of distinct but related behaviors. The
former provides the statistical capacity for testing
whether a contemporaneous factor, such as an experimental
intervention or a non-experimental event like
pregnancy, deflects a preexisting trajectory.
The latter provides the capability to study the
unfolding of distinct but related behaviors such
as childhood problem behavior and adolescent drug
abuse.
2:00 pm – 4:00 pm Special
Workshop for Doctoral Students and
Junior Faculty (no fee required)
How to Give a Successful
Scientific Talk
Presenter: Janet B.W.Williams (Columbia University)
Preparing a scientific paper for
presentation is very different from writing a
paper for publication; the public speaker must
offer more to the audience than they can get from
reading a manuscript. The presentation must be
entertaining as well as cogent and well-paced.
This workshop will provide guidelines for preparing
and presenting an effective presentation of a
scientific paper. Participants should come prepared
to give a 3- 5 minute talk on a topic of their
choosing (preferably scientific, but not necessarily).
Gentle group critiques will be provided.
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