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Session: Social Work Poster Session
3365.0: Monday, November 8, 2004: 4:30 PM-6:00 PM
Poster
Social Work Poster Session
This poster session presents a range of studies. Two focus on factors associated with diverse cultural and racial backgrounds related to end of life issues and how health care policy changes have differentially affected diverse people. Three posters focus on health and mental health issues related to pregnant women, maternal/infant, and child populations. Two focus on youth population; specifically judges' percdeptions of CASA volunteers effectivenss in juvenile abuse, and homeless youth resiliency. One poster focuses on the role of spirituality in rehabiliation for an aging population. Another poster focuses on affecting change through advocacy tools. The final poster focuses on social work curriculum development for service delivery and collaborative multidisciplinary practice.
Learning Objectives: Attendees will understand factors associated with diverse cultural and racial backgrounds related to end of life issues and how health care policy changes have differentially affected diverse people. Attendees will understand the Edinburgh post-natal depression screen. Attendees will understand the development of site appropriate case management models. Attendees will understand how to replicate the childhood insurance outreach program. Attendees will be able to describe the functions and responsibilities of a court-appointed special advocate for children volunteer. Attendees will be able to develop an initial plan for meeting the needs of homeless youth. Attendees will be able to describe critical information regarding spiritual issues for healthcare professionals working inthe aging and rehabilitation arena. Attendees will know how to utilize advocacy tools to positively affect change. Attendees will understand recommendations for curriculum implementation to adequately prepare social workers for multidisciplinary integrated care.
Board 1Watchdogs for Children: Examining Judges’ Perceptions of CASA Volunteers Effectiveness in Juvenile Abuse and Neglect Cases
Jewel S. Goodman, MPA, Kofi Amanin, MS, Holly Beard, MPA, Stacey B. Plichta, ScD
Board 2Impact of research site differences on case management service delivery to mothers of medically high-risk infants
Laura Barnickol, JD, MSW, Jocelyn A. Hirschman, MPH, Janell F. Fuller, MD, Minerva Esparza, LCSW, Elaine Mister, RN, BSN, Julie Justicz, JD
Board 3Institutionalized racism and classism in health care: Meta-analytic evidence of their existence in America, but not in Canada
Renee R. Parsons, BSW, Kevin M. Gorey, PhD, MSW, Uzo Anucha, PhD, Reza Nakhaie, PhD
Board 4Social Work curriculum development for service delivery and collaborative multidisciplinary practice *
Elaine Jurkowski, PhD, Charla J. Lautar, PhD, Tsukasa Okino, MSW
Board 5Project Access: The final analysis of successful childhood insurance outreach
Judith G. Watman, ACSW, LSW, Nancy L. Rothman, EdD, RN
Withdrawn -- Targeting Depression in Pregnant and Post-partum women of Pinellas County, Florida
Dorothy M. Miller, MSW, LCSW
Board 6Homeless Youth Resiliency and the Social Environment
Bart W. Miles, PhD, Debra M. Hernandez Jozefowicz-Simbeni, MSW, PhD
Board 7Role of Spirituality in Rehabilitation for an Aging Population
Joan M. Carlson, MSW, Pamela S. Chally, PhD, RN
Withdrawn -- Evaluation of the Influence of Race and Socio Economic Status in "Coping" with End of Life Issues
Michele R. Wise-Wright, BS, MS
Board 8New professionals' tools for advocacy
Anna Lyn N Whitt, MPH, MSW
See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information.
Organized by:Social Work

The 132nd Annual Meeting (November 6-10, 2004) of APHA