Spring Course

PSYCLN 571A (SLN 18964)

CBT for Children and Adolescents with Anxiety Related Disorders

2 credits, C/NC

Thursdays, 2-4:50pm

Our PSYCLN 571 Course on CBT for Anxiety and TF-CBT is open for Spring 2019 quarter. This is the last year we are offering this course through our course series. Starting this Fall, students will have the opportunity to take the course through our Certificate Program. More details to follow. If you could let your departments know as well as students who might be interested that would be great! I’ve had the instructor, Dr. Won-Fong Lau Johnson, prepare a description of the class below. Please send out as you see fit! It is open to all disciplines, but they do need to email Dr. Johnson at (fongj8@uw.edu) directly for approval to register and receive an add-code.

Course Description: CBT for Children and Adolescents with Anxiety Related Disorders. The upcoming PSYCLN 571 course for Spring 2019 will provide students with an in-depth, hands-on introduction to evidence-based, cognitive behavioral *treatments (CBT) for children and adolescents with anxiety-related disorders, with an emphasis on treating child traumatic stress.  The course will highlight specific components of treatment that are common across most cognitive-behavioral interventions, with specific training provided in Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT).  Students will learn the fundamentals of how to assess and treat anxiety and trauma in children.  The course will also focus on adaptations to match client presentation, ethnicity, culture, socioeconomic status, and treatment setting. This course will include an integration of theory and practice. The cognitive and behavioral techniques that compromise most of evidence-based treatments for children and families will be presented in assigned readings, via the web-based training program, and modeled during class meetings.  A significant part of the course will involve opportunities for practice (e.g., role-plays, modeling in the classroom in a fun and supportive atmosphere. Practicing skills as homework will also be encouraged.  A goal of the class is for students to achieve competency on a subset of the skills via in-class skills demonstrations, and feedback from both the instructor and students will be given. Students will also be required to complete the TF-CBT Web online training program in TF-CBT. Still have questions? For entry code or questions, please contact the course instructor, Won-Fong Lau Johnson at fongj8@uw.edu.

Vern Harner is teaching SOC W 598: Social Work Practice with Trans & Queer Communities this spring again! The class will meet Thursdays from 2:30-5:20 and is 3 credits. It is open to MSW students and BASW students or students from other departments with instructor approval–please email Vern to chat about that!
The class offers readings at the foundational and advanced levels and is focused on multi-level practice. Topics include structural oppression, identity development, transitioning, system-engaged youth and adults, family support, gender euphoria etc as well as reviewing/discussing current terminology, frameworks, and policies.  Vern encourages folks who are newer to queer/trans topics to consider the course!
Please email Vern Harner (vharner@uw.edu) with any questions.

Dr. Evan Kanter and Dr. Amy Hagopian are offering a UW public health class in Spring 2019, “War and Health.” The course received a rating of 4.8 (out of 5) last spring, one of the top-rated courses of the quarter!

It’s offered through two departments, and both in undergrad and graduate levels: HSERV & Global Health 415/515.*

The 4-credit course meets Mondays & Wednesdays, 10 to 11:20, in Health Sciences auditorium K069, and on Fridays from 10 to 10:50, in South Campus Center 301.

Dr. Kanter is an MD PhD neuroscientist and psychiatrist who has worked at the VA to counsel veterans with PTSD. He’s also served as president of the national Physicians for Social Responsibility. Dr. Amy Hagopian has led projects to measure war-related mortality and morbidity in Iraq. To bring these subjects to life, students entering the class will each select a “study war” (your own personal war!) to serve as a case example of topics we explore. The Friday discussion circles will include representatives of a number of wars to compare and contrast. Graduate students in the course will serve as discussion leaders.
If you were born in the 1990s or later, the U.S. has been at war during your entire sentient life! It’s among the most important determinants of health, if not directly (through mass killings), then indirectly (through diversion of resources, creating a culture of violence and militarism, undermining health and education systems, spurring refugee migration, and more).

Course limited to 60 students. Contact Dr. Amy Hagopian for the syllabus.

*[SLN 14585 for G H 415, SLN 15000 for HSERV 415; SLN 14600 for G H 515; SLN 15005 for HSERV 515.]

Matthew Powers (Associate Prof., Communication) will offer a 5-credit graduate seminar, COM 597 A “Interviewing for Social Research” this spring on MW from 10:30 a.m. to 12:20 p.m.

“Interviewing for Social Research” is a methods class that introduces students to the strategies, issues and challenges associated with conducting interview-based research. Students will learn by doing: weekly exercises will help class members to design, develop, conduct, analyze and write-up an interview-based study. Course readings will immerse students in key debates regarding the use of interviews in social research.

Below is a tentative plan for the terrain we will cover over the 10 week quarter. The syllabus is still being made, but I am happy to share it with anyone when it’s complete.

Week 1: Course Overview, Identify RQ for quarter
Week 2: Validity and reliability in interview research
Week 3: Ethics and IRB
Week 4: Recruitment & sampling strategies
Week 5: Preparing for interviews
Week 6: Conducting interviews
Week 7: Issues that arise during interviews
Week 8: Preparing and organizing interview data
Week 9: Analyzing interview data
Week 10: Reporting interview data

If you have questions, don’t hesitate to get in touch. My email is mjpowers@uw.edu

Best,
Matt

NSG 511 Prevention Issues in Community Health (3 cr.)

**It’s not too late to register for this course! First class is 1/16.
This course is open to graduate students. It may be of particular interest to those in nursing, medicine, public health, education, social work and psychology.

In this course we will examine both theoretical and practical aspects of implementing community-level prevention programs and policies to promote health and prevent health disorders. This interdisciplinary overview of community prevention approaches will focus on the social determinants of health and health disparity reduction among vulnerable populations. The course involves analysis of community and population preventive strategies across the life course, with a focus on the design and presentation of a prevention approach to a community health problem of interest to the student. The roles of prevention leader and consumer of prevention information are emphasized.

Class takes place on Wednesdays 2:30 to 5:30 pm

HOWEVER Five classes (half of the classes) are on-line activities
rather than classroom attendance

In-person classes: 1/16; 1/30; 2/13; 2/27; 3/13

For more information contact: Carole Hooven PhD

Dept. Psychosocial and Community Health – University of Washington School of Nursing

Email: chooven@u.washington.edu

PUBPOL 570: Foundations of Social Policy

Instructor: Bill Zumeta
Meets: Mondays and Wednesdays, 4:00pm – 5:20pm
Description: This course is an introduction and overview of the broad field of social policy (within the U.S. primarily). The course will provide an overview of structural factors affecting the nature and evolution of social policies in the U.S. as well as some coverage of recent developments in demography, inequality and politics that are affecting social policy issues and policymaking today. We will consider the role of policy analysis tools and instruments in the social policy sphere and offer at least an overview of American approaches in the various specific policy areas that fall under the broad umbrella of social policy including: income transfer and antipoverty policies; policies relating to families and social services; health, housing and criminal justice policies (these three will be touched upon fairly briefly); and education policies from early childhood through postsecondary education.

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To all students interested in health equity and social justice:

• Do you see things in the communities you work with and/or are a part of that you wish were different?
• Do you want to help change the systems that produce health disparities?
• Are you ready to take action?

Join experienced Sound Alliance community organizers and students from across the Health Sciences this fall in UCONJ 624. We will develop your skills in advocacy and community organizing for health equity. Participate in different campaigns that work upstream to address the social determinants of health.

• Learn the fundamentals of advocacy, organizing, and their ability to impact health.
• Apply skills, gain confidence, & collaborate around a community-driven goal.
• Work with local leaders to engage in community driven listening campaigns.
• Address the social & structural injustices that contribute to & perpetuate health disparities.

Course details:

UCONJ 624A, SLN: 21515
Winter quarter 2019
Thursdays 5:30-7:20pm
Classroom: TBD

Course Description:
The University of Washington eScience Institute offers this winter school for policy, social and management scholars. This course is open to students and lecturers in Global/Public Health, Public Policy, Social Sciences, Social Work, International Relations and Business Management departments who are interested in developing basic skills and knowledge of the tools used in data science.

There are no prerequisites to take this course and there are no credits offered. Faculty, undergraduate students and graduate students are welcome to apply.

Please apply here. The deadline to apply is January 4th. Application decisions will be made by January 15th.

Here is the event: https://escience.washington.edu/events/winter-school-on-data-science-tools/

Schedule:
Class 1: Friday, January 25th (9 am – 1:00 pm)
R and RStudio: This class will introduce students to R programming language. It will give an overview of the R data structures, mainly the data frame. The emphasis will be on the statistical capabilities of R, as well as its visualization tools.

Class 2: Friday, February 1st (9 am – 1:00 pm)
Python and Jupyter: This class will give an overview of Python simple data structures (list, tuple and dictionary). The emphasis will on the data cleaning and pre-processing capabilities, as well on some basic data scrapping.

Class 3: Saturday, February 9th (9 am – 1:00 pm)
Reproducible Environments: This last class will teach students how to combine R and tools like Latex (for document management), Github (for organizing data repositories) and Zotero (to manage references) to prepare a reproducible paper.

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ENTRE 579A: Grand Challenges for Entrepreneurs (4 credits).

SLN: 14392 (email for add code)

Mondays, 3:30-6:50pm

Course Description:  Grand Challenges for Entrepreneurs (Entre 579) explores big problems and opportunities facing society, ranging from healthcare and education, to poverty.  The course examines how solutions to these massive challenges can be researched, validated, and implemented using such entrepreneurial tools such as design thinking, business models, and lean entrepreneurship.  The class works best when there are students from across campus in it.

Students in the class will develop an  entrepreneurial mindset; when others see insurmountable problems, entrepreneurs look for opportunities to use technology and innovative thinking to solve real world problems. An entrepreneurial perspective is also a wonderful way of thinking in order to tackle new opportunities in entrepreneurship, whether it is in government, NGOs or for-profit companies. A key feature of this class is the interdisciplinary students from across campus.  If you have any questions, please email Professor Emily Pahnke at eacox@uw.edu

To Enroll, please email: MBA Registration <mbaregis@uw.edu> and cc Professor Pahnke, eacox@uw.edu.

UCONJ 624: Interprofessional Community Organizing Course (1 credit)

To all students interested in health equity and social justice:

• Do you see things in the communities you work with and/or are a part of that you wish were different?
• Do you want to help change the systems that produce health disparities?
• Are you ready to take action?

Join experienced Sound Alliance community organizers and students from across the Health Sciences this fall in UCONJ 624. We will develop your skills in advocacy and community organizing for health equity. Participate in different campaigns that work upstream to address the social determinants of health.

• Learn the fundamentals of advocacy, organizing, and their ability to impact health.
• Apply skills, gain confidence, & collaborate around a community-driven goal.
• Work with local leaders to engage in community driven listening campaigns.
• Address the social & structural injustices that contribute to & perpetuate health disparities.

Course details:

UCONJ 624A, SLN: 21515

Winter quarter 2019

Thursdays 5:30-7:20pm

Classroom: TBD

FAMED 556 Spanish for Health Professionals (1)

14724 A

T 530-650P

HST  T739

Open  18/  40E CR/NC

THIS COURSE IS OPEN TO MEDICAL STUDENTS AND GRADUATE HEALTH SCIENCES STUDENTS WHO HAVE AN INTERMEDIATE KNOWLEDGE OF SPANISH

PREREQUISITE: DEPARTMENT PERMISSION. CONTACT FMCLERK@UW.EDU

Instruction in interviewing/history taking Spanish-speaking patient. Prerequisite: Spanish fluency at intermediate level; current graduate health science student; permission of course coordinator. Credit/no-credit only. Offered: Sp.

View course details in MyPlan: FAMED 556

Registration is now open for Winter quarter Interprofessional Active Learning Series (iPALS) events. iPALS is an opportunity for students from across the health sciences to prepare themselves to practice effectively on interprofessional teams, through actively engaging together about topics of interest in healthcare and population health.

See below for Winter session topics and student registration links.

A One Health Clinic for Persons Experiencing Homelessness with their Animals

Friday January 25, 2019

10:30am-12:20pm in South Campus Center 221

Register for January 25, 2019 iPALS session: https://catalyst.uw.edu/webq/survey/tbrazg/364813

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Positive & Proactive Healthcare for Older Adults Across the Cognitive Continuum

Tuesday March 5, 2019

3:30-5:20pm in South Campus Center 316

Register for March 5, 2019 iPALS session: https://catalyst.uw.edu/webq/survey/tbrazg/364820

Space is limited. Please sign up ASAP!

HSERV 555 Health Disparities, F 12:30 – 2:20, SLN 15390

Focuses on health disparities and health inequity in the United States. Course will cover both theoretical and empirical approaches to understanding patterns of health across social groups, with a focus on designing research and public health programs to addressing health disparities.

We have seats open in NUTR 512 United States Food Systems Policy taught by Jennifer Otten in WIN 2019. The course meets T Th, 1:00 – 2:20 in THO 125.

This course offers a broad introduction to food and nutrition policies in the United States and their impacts on population health. Real-world controversies and debates are used to illustrate policy principles, research tools, and policy analysis. It is taught with an undergraduate section, NUTR 412.

It is open to students from the following schools / colleges: Built Environment, Environment, Public Health, and Public Policy & Governance. Any others with interest may contact Susan Inman (206-685-9435) for access.

Space is still available in EDPSY 528, Achievement Motivation in Education with Matthew Kim. Please see the attached flyer for details.

EDPSY 528 Flyer WIN 19

The Graduate School is pleased to announce a new course for the Winter quarter entitled:

“Breaching Borders: Intersectional pathways towards equity and justice”

We invite graduate students, faculty, and staff from all disciplines to participate in this interdisciplinary course which seeks to engage and breach the boundaries between our various intersecting identities, and how these identities interact across issues of equity and social justice. Inspired by Gloria Anzaldúa’s concept of “borderlands”, we introduce the concept of “breaching” to invite participants to engage with, resist, and transgress across these invisible lines that have been constructed to divide us (e.g. gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity, language, ability, mental health, and nation/states). The course will work as a collaborative space to explore the meaning of such identities in our lives and society, and strategize for fostering intersectional pathways towards equity and justice.

Please see the attached flyer for more information, and distribute widely across your department/unit.

You may email Saejin Kwak Tanguay (sjk119@uw.edu) with any questions.

Winter 2019 Course Flyer

PUBPOL 569 A: Race & Public Policy (SLN 19560)

Instructor: Laura Evans, PhD

Meets: Tuesdays, 2:30pm – 5:20pm

This course analyzes racial disparities in social, economic, and political outcomes. In the course, students will examine the ongoing consequences of historical and institutional racism; evaluate contemporary racial attitudes and their consequences for policy and management; and consider the policy and management alternatives to reduce racial bias and race‐based disparities.

PUBPOL 570 A: Foundations of Social Policy (SLN 19561)

Instructor: Bill Zumeta, PhD

Meets: Mondays & Wednesdays, 4:00pm – 5:20pm

This course is an introduction and overview of the broad field of social policy primarily within the U.S. The course will provide an overview of structural factors affecting the nature and evolution of social policies in the U.S. as well as some coverage of recent developments in demography, inequality and politics that are affecting social policy issues and policymaking today. We will consider the role of policy analysis tools and instruments in the social policy sphere and offer at least an overview of American approaches in the various specific policy areas that fall under the broad umbrella of social policy including: income transfer and antipoverty policies; policies relating to families and social services; health, housing and criminal justice policies (these three will be touched upon fairly briefly); and education policies from early childhood through postsecondary education.

PUBPOL 598 C: Citizen Behavior Change for Social Good: The Social Marketing Approach (SLN 19569)
Instructor: Nancy Lee

Meets: Wednesdays, January 9, 16, 30, February 6 from 10:30am – 12:50pm

This 1-credit course provides an in-depth and hands-on introduction to Social Marketing, a proven citizen behavior change discipline first distinguished in the early 1970s. It has had a profound impact on influencing citizen behaviors for social good, ones that:

• Improve public health: Tobacco, HIV/AIDS, Obesity, Immunizations, Physical Activity
• Prevent injuries: Traffic and Pedestrian Safety, Workplace Safety, Drowning Prevention
• Protect the environment: Water Quality, Water Conservation, Air Quality, Alternative Transportation, Energy Conservation, Waste Management, Fish and Wildlife Habitats, Stormwater Runoff
• Contribute to communities: Blood Donation, Crime Prevention, Literacy, Voting, Homelessness
• Enhancing financial well-being: Retirement savings, College funding, Checking accounts for the poor.

It should be noted that Social Marketing is not the same as Social Media, which is only one tactic in the Social Marketer’s toolbox for behavior change for social good.

PUBPOL 599 E: Advanced Program Evaluation (SLN 19575)

Instructor: Carlos Cuevas, PhD

Meets: Thursdays, 2:30pm – 5:20pm

This course aims at preparing students to address performance monitoring and evaluation of programs they find already in progress when they enter professional practice, as well as familiarizing them with advanced topics in program design and evaluation. It does have a strong emphasis on implementation/process evaluation since this area of evaluation work seems dominant in professional practice. Students will have taken PUBPOL 526 Program Evaluation, and ideally advanced multivariate analysis. Please contact the instructor at cecuevas@uw.edu if you have questions regarding prerequisite requirements.

There are 5 spaces open in JSIS 578 A: Cross-Cultural Religious Literacy with Chris Seiple. This course meets on Mondays in winter 2019 from 11:30a-1:20p.

Finding solutions to global challenges demands different perspectives, as well as partnerships among individuals and institutions who do not share the same values. How does one build unity without uniformity across sectors—each of which possess believers and faith-based actors—in order to effectively lead in complicated times? Through theory, case study and the practical experience of both the instructor and the students, this course understands and wrestles with the role of religion in context—at least as an underexamined analytic factor, and perhaps even as tremendous force for the common good – and seeks to teach the skill sets of evaluation (self & contextual), communication, and negotiation as a means to mutual literacy and respect across cultures and countries.

To all students interested in health equity and social justice:

• Do you see things in the communities you work with and/or are a part of that you wish were different?
• Do you want to help change the systems that produce health disparities?
• Are you ready to take action?

Join experienced Sound Alliance community organizers and students from across the Health Sciences this fall in UCONJ 624. We will develop your skills in advocacy and community organizing for health equity. Participate in different campaigns that work upstream to address the social determinants of health.

• Learn the fundamentals of advocacy, organizing, and their ability to impact health.
• Apply skills, gain confidence, & collaborate around a community-driven goal.
• Work with local leaders to engage in community driven listening campaigns.
• Address the social & structural injustices that contribute to & perpetuate health disparities.

Course details:

• UCONJ 624
• Winter quarter 2019
• Thursdays 5:30-7:20pm
• Classroom: TBD

Contact Leonora Clarke at clarkel@uw.ed for an add code or with questions! 

This course will be open to all graduate students in Period II registration, beginning on Monday, November 19, with no add codes needed.

COM 597 D: Special Topics – Family Communication, Kristina Scharp, TTh 10:30-12:20, 5 credits

All families are discourse dependent. This means that every family requires communication to create a shared family identity. Yet, some families are more discourse dependent than others. When families lack blood or legal ties and/or deviate from cultural expectations, they require more communication to construct what it means to be a family both for themselves and to people outside of the family. In this course, we will not only explore the central theories and major processes that serve as the foundation for family communication, but also interrogate the ideologies that render certain families as more discourse dependent than others. Consequently, we will focus on the three “R’s” of (post-nuclear) family theorizing: remaking, resistance, and resilience. In doing so, we attend to the ways post-nuclear families are marginalized and stigmatized – both in public policy and in hearts and minds.

Below are some topics we will cover in this course:
Central Theories
·      Communication Privacy Management Theory
·      Family Communication Patterns
·      Intersectionality
·      Relational Dialectics Theory
Major Processes
·      Conflict and Divorce
·      Estrangement and Marginalization
·      Supportive Communication
·      Uncertainty Management
Discourse Dependent Families
·      Adoption and Foster Care
·      Arranged Marriage and the Diaspora
·      Infertility, Miscarriage, and Childfree Couples
·      Language Brokering

For questions, please feel free to contact Dr. Scharp at kscharp@uw.edu.

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