-January 24, 2020-
“Graduate-Student Struggles”
A Student-Led Discussion on Self-Care
12pm – 1pm, HPNP G-114
It’s hard enough living though these fractious times, but being a graduate student (or intern or postdoc) persists to be a challenge in and of itself. Lean in with us for another discussion of how to engage in the kind of self-care we are often recommending to the people we treat.
Graduate School Can Have Terrible Effects on People’s Mental Health
Why We Need to Talk More About Mental Health in Graduate School
November 8, 2019
Awake to Woke to Work:
Building a Race Equity Culture
12pm-1pm, HPNP G-103
In this session we will engage and support UF faculty and students in bold conversation on the tactics and tools that drive action to combat structural racism within an organization’s culture. We will have facilitated conversation on the role that leaders play, as well as management and operational best practices that can drive progress on race equity given UF’s continued work on issues of diversity, inclusion, and equity.
Please join us to hear recent research from Equity in the Center, shared in an interactive forum to promote learning and empower participants to move from intention to action as they address the adaptive challenge of building a Race Equity Culture at UF.
October 25, 2019
Healthcare in Translation:
A Discussion with Carma Bylund
12pm-1pm, HPNP G-103
Dr. Carma Bylund is an Associate Professor at UF’s Department of Public Relations and the Division of Hematology & Oncology. As a behavioral scientist with international expertise in healthcare communication and education, she will be hosting today’s colloquium discussing working with interpreters in our healthcare system. Dr. Bylund’s research collaborations have generated more than $7 million in grant funding, primarily from the National Cancer institute. At UF, her Communication in Healthcare Lab has several research and teaching collaborations with the College of Medicine, UF Health, and across the University
Please join us to hear recent research and discuss training considerations for healthcare providers in working with interpreters.
September 20, 2019
At the Crossroads of Failure:
A Discussion on How Failure Interacts with Personal Identity and Social Norms
12pm-1pm, HPNP G-114
This colloquium will be an open forum discussion on how aspects of failure interact with diverse personal identities, from gender to training level to culture. The Education and Advocacy Committee will be moderating the discussion through the introduction of research abstracts delineating trends relevant to the nature of failure and the role it plays in everyday life. Additional resources are available via the links below.
Please join us to hear your fellow students and colleagues discuss their experiences and unique perspectives.
The Confidence Gap – Women and Fear of Failure
The Importance of Stupidity in Scientific Research
Dealing with Impostor Syndrome When You’re Treated as an Impostor
August 30, 2019
Equal Access Behavioral Health Clinic:
A Refresher on “Free Therapy Night”
12pm-1pm, HPNP G-103
The Equal Access Behavioral Health Clinic (formerly known as Free Therapy Night) is a free community mental health clinic developed in partnership between Clinical Health Psychology and Counseling Doctoral students nearly a decade ago.
This colloquium is designed to introduce the department – students, interns, and faculty alike – to the clinic, its leadership, opportunities, and most importantly, the community it serves. Please join us to hear your fellow students and colleagues speak on their experiences, future directions, the clinics, and opportunities for the department.
Learn More Here
May 17, 2019
A Discussion about Sexual Harassment
April 26, 2019
A Discussion about Poverty + Food Drive
March 15, 2019
Book Discussion: Dopesick by Beth Macy
As part of a month of colloquium focused on the Opioid Crisis, we will be discussing the book Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors and The Drug Company That Addicted America by Beth Macy.
An instant New York Times and indie bestseller, Dopesick is the only book to fully chart the devastating opioid crisis in America: “a harrowing, deeply compassionate dispatch from the heart of a national emergency” (New York Times) from a bestselling author and journalist who has lived through it
In this masterful work, Beth Macy takes us into the epicenter of America’s twenty-plus year struggle with opioid addiction. From distressed small communities in Central Appalachia to wealthy suburbs; from disparate cities to once-idyllic farm towns; it’s a heartbreaking trajectory that illustrates how this national crisis has persisted for so long and become so firmly entrenched.
Beginning with a single dealer who lands in a small Virginia town and sets about turning high school football stars into heroin overdose statistics, Macy endeavors to answer a grieving mother’s question-why her only son died-and comes away with a harrowing story of greed and need. From the introduction of OxyContin in 1996, Macy parses how America embraced a medical culture where overtreatment with painkillers became the norm. In some of the same distressed communities featured in her bestselling book Factory Man, the unemployed use painkillers both to numb the pain of joblessness and pay their bills, while privileged teens trade pills in cul-de-sacs, and even high school standouts fall prey to prostitution, jail, and death.
Through unsparing, yet deeply human portraits of the families and first responders struggling to ameliorate this epidemic, each facet of the crisis comes into focus. In these politically fragmented times, Beth Macy shows, astonishingly, that the only thing that unites Americans across geographic and class lines is opioid drug abuse. But in a country unable to provide basic healthcare for all, Macy still finds reason to hope-and signs of the spirit and tenacity necessary in those facing addiction to build a better future for themselves and their families.
Hear an NPR interview with the author here
January 18, 2019
Student led discussion on self-care
It’s hard enough living though these fractious times, but being a graduate student (or intern or postdoc) continues to be a challenge in and of itself. Join us for a discussion of how to practice the kind of self-care we are often recommending to the people we treat.
Graduate School Can Have Terrible Effects on People’s Mental Health, from The Atlantic, Nov. 27, 2018
November 16, 2018
An Interview with Joan Flocks
Joan Flocks is the Director of Social Policy for the Center for Governmental Responsibility (CGR). She teaches courses and publishes in the areas of social justice lawyering, poverty law, and environmental justice. She was previously an assistant professor at the UF College of Medicine and before that worked for many years as a legal services attorney in Florida. She has worked as a project manager, consultant, and investigator on several environmental justice and community-based participatory research projects, focusing on topics including farmworker occupational and environmental health, farmworker housing, community health assessment, TANF recipient health perspectives, worker eye safety, worker reproductive health, and community vulnerability and resiliency. She has been involved both internationally and domestically in applied projects and presentations to governmental agencies on diverse topics such post-political settlement resolution, conflict resolution, substandard housing, and community environmental health. She received her M.A. in Latin American Studies and her J.D. from the University of Florida.
October 19, 2018
Psychologists as Advocates for Social Justice
Nancy Wright and Dr. Bob Guenther
Nancy Wright is a sole practitioner in Gainesville, Florida, focusing primarily on Medicaid home and community-based services for adults and children with disabilities and the elderly. She is also works with Three River Legal Services as Director of the UF Health Senior Medical-Legal Partnership, a project with UF Shands to identify and provide legal services to vulnerable older patients with unmet legal needs impacting health. Her legal advocacy has included successful administrative hearings, rule challenges, state court appeals and federal lawsuits under both the Medicaid Act and the Americans with Disabilities Act. She has co-counseled with both Disability Rights Florida and Southern Legal Counsel in federal actions challenging both the Agency for Persons with Disabilities and the Agency for Health Care Administration in their operation of Medicaid Waiver programs.
September 21, 2018,
Communicore C1-17
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
By Matthew Desmond
Available on Amazon ($12)
Available at UF Smathers Library
Join us for a discussion of this powerful book about the toll of evictions of all aspects of life. Here is a recent article about Matthew Desmond and his more recent work if you don’t have time to read the entire book:
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/04/07/upshot/millions-of-eviction-records-a-sweeping-new-look-at-housing-in-america.html?action=click&pgtype=Homepage®ion=CColumn&module=MostEmailed&version=Full&src=me&WT.nav=MostEmailed
And a link to an interview of Matthew Desmond on NPR (8 minutes long):
https://www.marketplace.org/2018/04/09/economy/eviction-desmond-princeton-housing-crisis-rent
And another interview with Terry Gross on Fresh Air (36 minutes long) and a quick summary of the interview highlights
https://www.npr.org/2018/04/12/601783346/first-ever-evictions-database-shows-were-in-the-middle-of-a-housing-crisis
August 17, 2018
Time to Level Up on Presence and Belonging
We are very lucky to have Antonio Farias, the first chief diversity officer at the University of Florida, come speak to our department next Friday, August 17 at noon in room C1-3 as part of the Education and Advocacy colloquium series. Please join us to hear an interesting take on what a diversity officer does and his goals for our university.
You can read more about him here:
http://news.ufl.edu/articles/2018/05/uf-taps-proven-leader-as-its-first-chief-diversity-officer.php
July 20, 2018
Communicore, C1-17
How to Facilitate Conversations with Patients About Current Events
The news cycle seems to incredibly fast these days and current events often involve tragic, traumatic incidents. Join us for a discussion of how to help patients cope with the news and how to take care of ourselves while helping them. We will connect you with supportive resources for these kinds of conversations. Discussion led by Education and Advocacy Committee Members.
Join us on the third Friday of each month from 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM for the Education and Advocacy Colloquium Series. Future topics include learning about specific underserved populations such as diverse racial, ethnic and religious groups; LGBTQ specific concerns and issues; understanding bias in a historical context; and how to become a successful advocate. If you have a topic suggestion, are interested in working with our large and active committee, or have an idea for a guest speaker, please contact us!
April 2018:
Inclusive Care: Addressing Health Disparities in the Transgender Community
A panel discussion on the intersection of mental health and physical health in the Transgender community, current issues, and tools for fostering inclusive clinical care. Panel Members: Dr. Anyaliese Hancock-Smith (UF Medical Psychology & Psychiatry), Dr. Emma Moss (Radiology , Shands Hospital) and Dr. James Super (School of Human Development and College of Education). Organized and moderated by Gabriel Cartagena, B.A.
March 2018:
When Needs Go Unmet: How Poverty and Food Insecurity Impact Healthcare + Food Drive
Our accomplished guest panel discussed food insecurity and how that impacts how they interact with patients as well as how poverty can impact health outcomes. Panel members included Catherine Campbell, PhD, MPH, CPH (Post-doctoral Associate, UF/IFAS Extension Family Nutrition Program), Lee Collopy, LCSW (Transitions of Care Clinic, Internal Medicine), Carol Lewis, Ph.D. MPH, CPH (Clinical Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry), and Amy Sheer, MD, MPH (PGY-3 Resident, Department of Medicine). In addition, the CHP Department collected an incredible amount of food and toiletries for the UF Field and Fork Pantry: fieldandfork.ufl.edu.
February 2018:
Power Dynamics: Patient and Provider Perspectives
Our hot topic discussion this month focused on how to negotiate power dynamics as a Psychologist in an Academic Health Center. Many of our female faculty and trainees shared stories about practicing in different parts of the dynamic.