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Forensic Mental Health Workshop in Milwaukee

Forensic Mental Health Workshop

Presented by Dr. Nick Yackovich, Clinical Asst. Professor and Dr. Greg Van Rybroek of the Mendota Mental Health Institute

 

Thursday, June 7 - Friday, June 8, 2012

 

Dr. Nick Yackovich Dr. Van Rybroek and Dr. Yackovich (pictured), two of Wisconsin's foremost experts in Forensic Mental Health, will present three sessions during this two-day workshop:

 

- Forensic Evaluation and Treatment - Clinical, Legal and Policy Issues
- Dangerousness and Commitment- Legal and Policy Issues, Assessment and Placement
- Treatment Strategies and Issues with Forensic Clients

 

Continuing education hours are available: 10 CEHs/1.0 CEUs or 10 hours AMA PRA Category 1 Credits. Fees, location, and more information can be found on the Forensic Mental Health Workshop on the Continuing Studies website.

Ph.D. Student Melinda Kavanaugh Awarded Teaching Fellowship

Melinda Kavanaugh

Congratulations to Ph.D. student Melinda Kavanaugh, who was recently chosen as an L&S Teaching Fellow for 2012-2013. This competitive fellowship chooses 15 teaching assistants from across the L&S disciplines, who have been nominated by their faculty as exceptional teaching assistants in their departments. As part of the fellowship, Melinda will work with the other fellows to train future teaching assistants in the yearly Fall teaching assistant training.

 

Melinda has been a teaching assistant for three years in the Social Work program. Additionally, Melinda taught her own course, Research methods, in the Part-Time M.S.W. Program. She has consistently received excellent ratings from students, and was voted best Teaching Assistant in 2011 by both the students as well as the School of Social Work. 

 

In addition to her teaching load, Melinda is completing dissertation research interviewing youth under the age of 19 who provide care for a parent with Huntington’s disease.  Her work as a clinical social worker in St. Louis at Washington University Medical School Huntington’s Clinic...

2012 Biennial Debra Beebe University Lecture

“Avoiding the Adverse Consequences of Severe Mental Illness: The Utility of Outpatient Civil Commitment”

Dr. Steven Segal

Dr. Steven Segal

May 1, 2012: 4:00 pm, Pyle Center

 

Dr. Steven Segal, who received his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, will deliver the biennial Debra Beebe University Lecture. Dr. Segal is the Milton Florence Krenz Mack Distinguished Professor of Social Welfare at the University of California, Berkeley. He has published over 125 articles and 3 books in the mental health field on community-based care, the mental health self-help movement, and outpatient mental health civil commitments.  

 

Professor Segal has been the recipient of numerous honors and awards, and several grants funded by the National Institute of Mental Health.   Professor Segal has been at the forefront of the efforts...

What's happening at #UWRightNow?

What are you doing right now?


Share your story, or see a 24-hour snapshot of campus at http://uwrightnow.wisc.edu/

We've spotted the School of Social Work several times. See if you can find alumna Dr. Pearson, Ph.D. Student Tora Frank, Professor Aaron Brower or student Megan Minster and her dog, Branson!

 

UW-Madison Students Awarded WCSWE Scholarships

WCSWE Scholarship Winners

Congratulations to B.S.W. student Jannet Arenas (pictured, right) and M.S.W. student Kelli Mackay (pictured, left), winners of the 2012 Wisconsin Council on Social Work Education (WCSWE) scholarships.  WCSWE awards two $500 scholarships each year, one to a B.S.W. student and one to an M.S.W. student, and the awards are “designed to encourage and recognize excellence in volunteerism, scholarship, creative thinking, and writing.”  All social work students in Wisconsin may apply...

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