3247.0 Educating a public health social work workforce to promote social justice

Monday, November 8, 2010: 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Oral
Session Objectives: 1) Discuss the role of social work in promoting social justice 2) Describe the relevance of social inequalities in policy reform 3) Identify the implications of prevention based programs on public health
Moderator:
Tammy Thomas, MSW, MPH

12:30pm
Renters for life: Ensuring healthy housing that supports physical well-being for all of our communities
Derek R. Smith, MPH/MSW, Gabriela Lemus, Edith Cabuslay, MPH and Scott Morrow, MD, MPH, MBA
     
12:45pm
Youth transitions in bullying and victimization status: A latent class analysis
Anne Powell, PhD, Daniel Brisson, PhD, Kimberly Bender, PhD, Shandra Forrest-Bank, MSW and Jeff Jenson, PhD
  
1:00pm
Cash assistance and social justice from the perspective of low-income mothers: Community participation to change the dialogue on welfare policies
Jenny Rabinowich, BA, Ashley Ortiz, Imani Sullivan, Jennifer Breaux, MPH, CHES, Mary Welsh, BA and Mariana Chilton, PhD, MPH
  
1:15pm
Social work interest in prevention: New findings from an ongoing content analysis of the professional literature
Betty J. Ruth, MSW, MPH, Jamie Wyatt Marshall, MSW, MPH, Esther Hill, MSW, MPH, Laura Ann Taranto, MSW, MPH and Sarah Sisco, MPH, MSSW
     
1:30pm
An examination of occupational health phenomena: Secondary traumatic stress, compassion fatigue and burnout among social workers in Montana
James Caringi, PhD, Eric Hardiman, PhD, Patricia Weldon, Hee Chul Kim and Laurie Strand
  

See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information.

Organized by: Social Work
Endorsed by: APHA-Committee on Women's Rights, HIV/AIDS

CE Credits: Medical (CME), Health Education (CHES), Nursing (CNE), Public Health (CPH)

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