Symposium Information
"Be the Change"
25th National Symposium on Doctoral Research in Social Work
and
4th Student Poster Presentation
March 28, 2013
8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Third Floor, Ohio Union
Keynote Address
"Social Empathy: Using Interpersonal Skills to Effect Change"
Dr. Elizabeth Segal
Dr. Elizabeth A. Segal is a social policy analyst with a background in professional social work. She currently holds the position of Professor in the School of Social Work at Arizona State University. She has served on the faculties of three major universities and spent a year as a Congressional Fellow in Washington, DC through the American Association for the Advancement of Science. The focus of her scholarship has been on understanding our social welfare system and the impact of public policies and programs on disenfranchised populations, particularly poor families, and others who suffer from social inequities.
Serving as a legislative fellow provided first-hand experience in public policy-making, which has informed her writing. A number of her publications are in-depth analyses of social welfare policies, with particular emphasis on poor women and children, welfare reform, homeless youth, rural homelessness, and economic inequality. She has authored several books including a comprehensive text on social welfare policy analysis and public programs, as well as an introductory text for entry into the social work profession. In addition, Dr. Segal was a co-founder of The Journal of Poverty, which provides a scholarly forum for discussions on poverty and inequality from numerous perspectives and disciplines.
Dr. Segal’s current research is on social empathy, the application of empathic insights into creating social welfare policies and programs that promote social and economic justice. She has begun work on creating a compendium of methods to teach social empathy and an instrument to measure people’s inclination towards social empathy. The goal is to develop the instrument for use as a tool to gauge the effectiveness of methods designed to teach empathy.
Administratively while at Arizona State University, Dr. Segal served as Interim Director of the School of Social Work from 1998-2000 and again in 2010, held the position of Associate Dean of the College of Public Programs in 2005-06, and has been the director of the Doctoral program from 2000-01, 2002-05, and 2012-2013.
Symposium Schedule
- 8:30 - 9:00 a.m. - Arrival
- Welcome Desk - near Cartoon Room and Round Meeting Room
- agendas and information
- CEU information, sign-in, forms, evaluations
- Class sign-in sheets
- Volunteer and presenter check-in
- Suzanne M. Scharer Room
- Students First and Student Organizations
- Light Continental Breakfast
- Welcome Desk - near Cartoon Room and Round Meeting Room
- 9:00 - 9:30 a.m. - Welcome - Cartoon Room
- Dr. Tom Gregoire, Dean
- Dr. Theresa Early, Director, Ph.D. Program
- 9:30 - 10:30 a.m. - Keynote Address - Cartoon Room
- Dr. Elizabeth Segal - Social Empathy: Using Interpersonal Skills to Effect Change
- 10:45 a.m. - 12:15 p.m. - Doctoral Research Presentations
- Session 1 - Child Welfare Workers - Cartoon Room 1
- HaeJung Kim - Public Child Welfare Worker's Safety Experiences: Predictors and Impact on Job Withdrawal Using a Mixed Method Approach
- Abigail Kauffman Wyche - Responding to the Child Welfare Workforce Crisis Here and Now: A Constructivist Approach to Understanding Supervision
- Session 2 - Underserved Populations
- Anat Anais Bar - The Experiences of Underserved Minority Battered Women
- Kerry Fay Vandergrift - Social Work Perspective on English Language Learners Entering Special Education
- Session 1 - Child Welfare Workers - Cartoon Room 1
- 12:00 - 4:00 p.m. - Posters available for viewing - Round Meeting Room
- 12:15 - 1:45 p.m. - Lunch on your own - Check out the Ohio Union Dine & Shop options
- 1:45 -3:15 p.m - Doctoral Research Presentations
- Session 3 - The Social Work Profession
- Nancy Levitan Poorvu - When Social Workers Have Serious Physical Illnesses: A Mixed Methods Exploration of Changes in Self and Ethical Dilemmas
- John Thompson - Rethinking the Clinical vs. Social Reform Debate: A Dialectical Approach to Defining Social Work in the 21st Century
- Session 4 - Risk and Protective Factors in Adolescent and Young Adults
- Shandra Forrest-Bank - The Relationship between Child and Adolescent Risk and Protective Factors and Racial Microagression, Ethnic Identity, and Well-Being in Young Adulthood
- Maria Pagan-Rivera - Family Support and Parental Monitoring as Protective Factors in Preventing Depression and Alcohol Use among Mexican American Adolescents
- Session 3 - The Social Work Profession
- 3:30 - 4:00 p.m. - Poster Presentations and Judging
- 4:15 - 4:45 p.m. - Closing Remarks, Poster Awards and Reception
Learn by Doing! - Volunteer for the Symposium and Poster Presentations
Gain conference experience without having to travel. Undergraduate, MSW, and PhD students are invited to assist with the symposium. There are many tasks that you can do to support the symposium, such as assist with sessions, welcome and direct guests, take photographs, and make sure the event runs smoothly. For more information or to volunteer, contact Jessica Linley at linley.8@buckeyemail.osu.edu. Or register on-line via VolunteerSpot.
Information for Attendees
- Transportation and Traffic Management
- CampusParc - Ohio Union South is the visitors' garage attached to the Ohio Union
- Continuing Education - The symposium offers CEUs: Keynote = 1; each session = 1.5
- Student Class Sign In Sheets available
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