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Conference Highlights
SSWR
17th Annual Conference
Social Work for a Just Society: Making Visible the Stakes
and Stakeholders
January 16-20, 2013
Sheraton San Diego Hotel and Marina
San Diego, CA
The
SSWR Annual Conference offers a scientific program that
reflects a broad range of research interests, featuring
studies in child welfare, aging, mental health, welfare
reform, substance abuse, HIV/AIDS, organizations and
management, poverty and social policy, research and
design measurement, and more. Annual conference events
and activities include:
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Presidential plenary and awards presentation, invited
symposia, and over 500 symposia, workshop, roundtable,
paper, and poster presentations.
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Over 40 exhibitors including universities, publishers,
non-profit organizations, foundations, and government
agencies
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Earn up to 28.5 hours of Continuing Education Units
(CEU) (additional fee)
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30+ special interest groups convene (all welcome)
Due
to the large number of presentations at the conference,
only a small sample of the workshops, roundtables, symposia,
and papers are highlighted below.
Workshops
• Engaging Students as Researchers
• Publishing Research in Peer-Reviewed Journals:
Talk with the Editors
• Journal Editors’ Forum on Publishing Qualitative
Research
• Using Technology to Support Research Fidelity
• Measurement Development and Analysis for Research
with Diverse Populations
• Distress Screening in Cancer
• Publishing Rigorous Qualitative Research
• Measuring the Implementation of Social Work
Interventions
Roundtables
• Advancing Social Work Research with Transgender
Clients Through Innovative Collaborations
• Neighborhood Metrics and Measures
• Social Work’s Contribution to Community
Integration for Individuals with Serious Mental Illness
• Making the Stakes and Stakeholders in Child
Maltreatment Visible
• The Role of Reflexivity in the Generation of
Knowledge
• Sharing Leadership and Leveraging Their Competencies
to Implement Evidence-Based Practices
Symposia
• Recovery and Mental Illness
• Midwest Evaluation of the Adult Functioning
of Former Foster Youth
• Incorporating Historical Time Into Research
on LGBT Populations
• Asset-Based Strategies for Enhancing the Well-Being
of Children and Youths
• Risk and Protective Factors in Rural Youth
• Immigrant Youth Development
• The Impact of Immigration Policies within Latino
Communities
• Revealing the Stakes of Prison and Jail Reentry
Intervention
Papers
• Parents’ Involvement in an Evidence- Based
Child Mental Health Program
• Investigation of the Role of Country and Workplace
Patriarchal Closure and Egalitarian Policies and Practices
• Street Victimization and Mental Health Consequences
Among Homeless Youth
• Mobilizing Urban Community Members to Ensure
Poverty-Impacted Youth Have Access to Evidence-Based
Prevention Programs
• The Effect of Recent Social Protection Changes
in the Palestinian Territories On the Poor
• Challenges of Providing Case Management to Domestic
Minor Victims of Sex Trafficking
• Gender and Race/Ethnicity in Sexual Orientation-Motivated
Bias Crimes
• Availability of Medicaid-Covered Substance Abuse
Treatment Services
• Need, Access, Utilization and Outcomes of Post-Adoption
Services for Adoptive Families
• Fathers’ Supports and Challenges to Prevent
Child Exposure to Domestic Violence
• Validation of the Attitudes Toward Disabilities
in Social Work (ADSW) Scale |
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