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Stephen T. Russell will present, "LGBTQ Youth Health & Resilience." 
11:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. - Bavaro Hall, Holloway Hall (Rm 116). Free and open to the public.

This talk is co-sponsored by the UVA Department of Women, Gender & Sexuality; and the UVA Engaged Youth Initiative.

Stephen T. Russell is the Priscilla Pond Flawn Regents Professor in Child Development and chair of the Department of Human Development and Family Sciences at the University of Texas at Austin.

LGBTQ issues and rights have emerged as a major public and political focus over the last decades. Most attention – both in public discourse and in scholarship – has been on the urgent vulnerabilities that characterize the lives of many LGBTQ youth and adults. Yet, in the context of important disparities that demand our attention, most LGBTQ youth grow up to be happy, contributing members of their communities. In this presentation Russell will present a collection of new studies that identifies and documents the role of structural, interpersonal, and personal resources that create and support resilience in the lives of LGBTQ young people. He will consider the implications of these findings for efforts to create social change for social justice.

Russell studies adolescent development, with an emphasis on adolescent sexuality, LGBT youth, and parent-adolescent relationships. Much of his research is guided by a commitment to create social change to support healthy adolescent development. He is chair of the Board of Directors of the Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States (SIECUS), was an elected board member (2005-2008) and fellow of the National Council on Family Relations and full member of the International Academy of Sexuality Research, and was President of the Society for Research on Adolescence (2012-2014).

This talk is part of the Curry Research Lectureship Series - It is free and open to the public. Bagels & Coffee will be served.


UPCOMING YOUTH-NEX TALKS & EVENTS

Thursday, Sept. 28

 
Jonathan Zimmerman, Ph.D. - Professor, History of Education, Univ. of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education
You Can't Say That: Teachers and Controversial Issues in American Schools
Youth-Nex Special Presentation - Free and open to the public. 
NOTE SPECIAL START TIME: 12:00 p.m. Bavaro Hall, Holloway Hall (Rm 116)
In 2003, during a fifth-grade current-events lesson about the United States’ newly begun war in Iraq, a student asked Indiana teacher Deborah Mayer if she had ever attended an anti-war protest. Mayer told the class that she had driven by such a protest a few days earlier, and had honked her horn in support. Her school board declined to renew Mayer's contract, noting that she had deviated from the board's approved curriculum. And four years later, a federal appeals court upheld the board's decision on similar grounds. Across the country, Mayer's defenders decried the apparent assault on her "academic freedom." But K-12 teachers in America have never enjoyed such freedom in a manner that university academicians would recognize. During wartime especially, school boards and courts have discouraged or blocked teachers from engaging their students in an open, critical dialogue about controversial ethical and political issues. Zimmerman’s talk will explore these restrictions, the fate of the teachers who broached them, and the implications of this history for contemporary democracy.


Friday, Oct. 13

John R. Weisz, Ph.D., ABPP - Professor, Department of Psychology, Harvard University
Personalizing Youth Psychotherapy
Curry Lectureship Series - Free and open to the public. 
11:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. - Bavaro Hall, Holloway Hall (Rm 116)
Five decades of research have produced scores of empirically tested treatments for youth mental health problems and disorders. These evidence-based treatments (EBTs), most focused on single disorders or problem domains (e.g., depressive disorders), have shown respectable effects in randomized controlled efficacy trials in which treatment conditions are optimized for research. However, the EBTs do not fare as well when compared to usual clinical care with clinically referred youths treated in everyday practice. One reason may be that referred youths are often more complex than the treatments designed to help them. Most young people referred for treatment have multiple problems and disorders, and their treatment needs may shift over time. This challenge may be addressed by flexible, personalizable, transdiagnostic intervention approaches. One example, the Child STEPs Model, uses a modular treatment protocol derived from the psychotherapy evidence base and guided by decision flowcharts. Navigation through treatment is informed by a web-based system that monitors each youth’s treatment response week-by-week. Multisite randomized trials of this system, applied to youths with anxiety, depression, and conduct problems, have shown STEPs outperforming both usual clinical care and standard EBTs, on measures of youth clinical symptoms and diagnosis. STEPs and related approaches may provide a bridge linking the rich evidence base of clinical science to the complexity of referred youths in everyday clinical care.
 




OCT 26 & 27, 2017
THE SIXTH YOUTH-NEX CONFERENCE
YOUTH ACT: SOCIAL JUSTICE, CIVIC AND POLITICAL ENGAGEMENT — #YouthAct17
(The conference is free, by invitation-only, and capacity is limited. If you are receiving this email from Youth-Nex, you are invited sign up here!  For questions, contact Ellen Daniels: edaniels@virginia.edu)

Special Workshop Added to ConferenceSeparate sign-up required. Go to the main conference page, click on registration form.
"WHAT NOW? A CRITICAL CONVERSATION ABOUT COMMUNITY HEALING, BLACK YOUTH ENGAGEMENT, SOCIOPOLITICAL CONTEXT, AND POLICY"
This workshop will be facilitated by Association of Black Psychologists Student Circle (ABPSISC).
It will offer a healing space for all, yet will focus on the importance of an Afrocentric approach, amplifying voices of Black students. While also thinking about allies and collaboration (Jewish, LGBTQ, among others) we will focus on the roles of Black college students in activism on their campus and in their communities. We will also discuss strategies to engage in activism on campus, strategies to balance academic demands with social engagement, and we will emphasize the importance of engaging in self-care. We will provide a healing space centered on undoing the residual psychological effects of white terrorism and internalized oppression in Black communities; and provide recommendations to turn the feelings, thoughts, and insights into policy and action steps. Separate sign-up required — go to the main conference page and click on the registration form. 
 
Thursday, Nov.16
  
Jessika Bottiani, Ph.D., M.P.H. - Assistant Professor of Education, Curry School of Education
Amanda Nguyen, Ph.D., M.A. - Assistant Professor of Education, Curry School of Education
Catherine P. Bradshaw, Ph.D., M.Ed. - Professor, Associate Dean for Research and Faculty Development
Getting Under the Skin: Exploring Physiological Indicators of Program Engagement in the Early Adolescent Coping Power Program
YN Works In Progress Meeting
12:30 p.m. - 1:45 p.m. - Ruffner Hall, Rm 206
Advances in wearable technologies highlight the potential of physiological measures as an emerging, objective approach to assess youth engagement in preventive interventions; however, limited research has examined how discrete indicators of physiological arousal, such as heart rate variability and galvanic skin response, correspond to engagement. In this Youth-Nex Works-in-Progress talk, we will present initial study findings on how physiological measures of arousal corresponded with traditional measures of youth and clinician rated engagement across 10 sessions of Coping Power (Lochman & Wells, 2004), a school-based, indicated preventive intervention that targets youth with aggressive behavior problems using a clinician-facilitated, weekly small group format. Implications for the utility of physiological measures to assess youth engagement in preventive interventions, as well as challenges that arose in the preparation of these data for analysis, will be discussed. (Lunch will be served.)
Part of the YN WORKS IN PROGRESS SERIES - (Works In Progress Meetings are primarily for Ph.D. students & faculty. Others who are interested, please contact Ellen Daniels: edaniels@virginia.edu)
 
Check out our new website, launched Sept. 5, and bear with us as the transition from old to new continues. There will be much more Youth-News to come in the coming weeks. Stay tuned!

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