2024 SSWR Annual Program Meeting
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University of Denver Education Sessions
Thursday, January 11
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Virtual Poster
Topic: Solution-Focused Brief Therapy in Community-Based Clinical Services: A Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Studies
Speaker(s): Professor Johnny Kim
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Friday, January 12
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Virtual Poster(s)
Topic: Trauma, Peer Support and Stress: A Path Analysis on Mediating Effects of Coping Among Young Adults Experiencing Homelessness
Speaker(s): Associate Professor Anamika Barman-Adhikari and Professor Kim Bender
Session linkTopic: Promoting Youth Social-Emotional Development through Animal-Assisted Interventions: A Qualitative Analysis of Youths' Perspectives
Speaker(s): Research Associate II and PhD Student Erin Flynn, Research Associate II Marisa Motiff, Research Fellow Ashley Taeckens and Research Associate Professor Kevin Morris
Session linkTopic: Impacts of an Engaged Mindfulness on Women Residents in a Community Correctional Facility: A Focus Group Narrative Analysis
Speaker(s): PhD Student My Ngoc To and Associate Professors Shannon Sliva and Miriam Valdovinos
Session linkTopic: How Do Victim-Offender Dialogue (VOD) Participants Transform through the VOD Process? a Narrative Analysis of One VOD Dyad
Speaker(s): Associate Professors Shannon Sliva and Miriam Valdovinos
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8:00 - 9:30 a.m.
Topic: Risk-Related Outcomes and Gender Detransitioning: Interpersonal Coercion, Structural Barriers, or Identity-Related Reasons?
Speaker(s): Professor Eugene Walls and PhD Student Brendon Holloway
Session linkTopic: Associations of Suicide Attempts and Gender Identity Conversion Therapy Among Transgender and Non-Binary Individuals System
Speaker(s): Professor Eugene Walls and PhD Student Brendon Holloway
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9:45 - 11:15 a.m.
Topic: Narrative Analyses of Justice Processes
Speaker(s): Associate Professor Shannon Sliva
Session linkTopic: "It's so Internalized, and It's so Personal": MSW Students' Experiences Increasing Critical Consciousness on Weight Stigma
Speaker(s): Assistant Professor Erin Harrop and PhD Students Sarah Sullivan, Megan Doyle and Brendon Holloway
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12:30 - 1:30 p.m.
Topic: Abolitionist Social Work
Speaker(s): Assistant Professor Sophia Sarantakos
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2:00 - 3:30 p.m.
Topic: Invited Symposium I: Resisting Regression: Safeguarding Social Work Science in the Face of Anti-DEI and Anti-Democratic Initiatives
Speaker(s): Assistant Professor Autumn Asher BlackDeer
Session linkTopic: Mutual Aid & Solidarity Work: Challenges and Possibilities for Social Work
Speaker(s): Assistant Professor Sophia Sarantakos and PhD Student Colleen Cummings
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3:45 - 5:15 p.m.
Topic: Brief and Brilliant Session
Speaker(s): Associate Professor Shannon Sliva
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5:30 - 7:00 p.m.
Topic: Bridging Theory, Research, and Practice with Logic Models to Advance Smart Decarceration
Speaker(s): Assistant Professor Sophia Sarantakos
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Saturday, January 13
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Virtual Poster
Topic: "I Just Wanted the Same Treatment As Everybody Else": Patients Experiences of Weight Stigma in Higher Levels of Care for Eating Disorders
Speaker(s): PhD Students Sarah Sullivan and Hannah Norling and Assistant Professor Erin Harrop
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8:00 - 9:30 a.m.
Topic: "I Need You to Show up for Me": The State of Mentorship for Underrepresented Minoritized Social Work Ph.D. Students and Junior Faculty and Our Hopes for the Future
Speaker(s): Assistant Professors Autumn Asher BlackDeer and Tyrone Hamler
Session linkTopic: Everybody's Sick Here: Neglected Healthcare Needs Among Colorado Prisoners
Speaker(s): Associate Professors Shannon Sliva and Jeffrey Lin and PhD Student Tyler Han
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9:45 – 11:15 a.m.
Topic: Mental Health Stigma
Speaker(s): Assistant Professor Erin Harrop and PhD Students Sarah Sullivan and Hannah Norling
Session linkTopic: What Is Social Work's Role in a Just Transition: Exploring Implications for Research and Practice
Speaker(s): Associate Professor of the Practice Rachel Forbes
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12:30 – 1:30 p.m.
Topic: Addressing Weight Stigma
Speaker(s): Assistant Professor Erin Harrop
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4:00-5:30 p.m.
Topic: Finding Our Space: The Voices of Women in the Field of Fatherhood
Speaker(s): Associate Professor Inna Altschul
Session linkTopic: Telling a Different Story: Highlighting Gender Euphoria in Transgender and Nonbinary Communities
Speaker(s): Professor Eugene Walls, Assistant Professor Erin Harrop and PhD Student Brendon Holloway
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Sunday, January 14
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Virtual Poster(s)
Topic: The Impact of Guaranteed Income on Locus of Control and Hope Among People Experiencing Homelessness: A Mixed-Methods Randomized Control Study
Speaker(s): Professor Daniel Brisson and Research Assistant Stephanie Locke
Session linkTopic: Environmental Justice and Professional Practice: A Survey of Social Workers in Three U.S. States
Speaker(s): Associate Professor Lisa Reyes Mason and PhD Students Colleen Cummings and Sierra Roach Coye
Session linkTopic: "Working within Broken Systems": A Qualitative Inquiry of Moral Injury Amongst Healthcare Social Workers Using Street-Level Bureaucracy Control Study
Speaker(s): PhD Students Pari Shah Thibodeau and Aprille Arena and Clinical Professor Michael Talamantes
Session linkTopic: Trailblazers for Change: Uncovering the Impact of the 1970s CSWE Multicultural Task Forces in Steering Social Work Towards Anticolonialism, Antiracism, and Abolitionism
Speaker(s): Assistant Professor Autumn Asher BlackDeer
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8:00 – 9:30 a.m.
Topic: Advancing Climate Action through an Intergenerational Justice Framework
Speaker(s): PhD Students Colleen Cummings and Carson De Fries and Associate Professor Leslie Hasche
Session linkTopic: Uncovering and Recovering Latinx Perspectives on Social Work History - a Latcrit (Latino critical race theory) Approach
Speaker(s): Professor Deb Ortega
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9:45 – 11:15 a.m.
Topic: Politics and COVID: Exploring the Complex Relationships between Partisanship, Policies, and COVID-19 Health Outcomes
Speaker(s): Associate Professors Jennifer Greenfield and Chiara Piovani, Visiting Teaching Assistant Professor Hinckley Jones-Sanpei and Teaching Associate Professor Lapo Salucci
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