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Harris Forum
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As
part of the Harris Visiting Scholar Program, we invite a key figure in the field of child
development to address the public on a topic of relevance
to parents of young children and professionals working with young
children and their families. The program, now in its tenth year,
is recognized for bringing highly regarded national figures in the
infant-toddler field to Minnesota to share their latest research,
practice, and policy work.
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2008 Harris
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2008 HARRIS FORUM
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Attachment, Culture,
Trauma:
Intervention with Ethnically Diverse Families
Thursday, May 22, 2008
Coffman Student Union
Theater
University of Minnesota Minneapolis East Bank
Featured speaker:
Dr. Chandra Ghosh Ippen, University of California, San Francisco
1:00pm to 1:30pm:
Registration
1:30pm to 3:30pm: Lecture and Q&A
Directions and parking information for Coffman Union
About This Year's Forum
As the U.
S. becomes increasingly culturally diverse, there is an urgent need
for infant mental health professionals to learn effective ways to
work with children and families from diverse ethnic, racial, and
socioeconomic backgrounds. Effective approaches need to integrate
multiple aspects of context that are associated with potential
differences in perspectives and goals. This presentation examines
how attachment, culture, and trauma serve as contextual forces that
shape development and perspective and offers a diversity awareness
model that can be used to understand diversity related conflicts
that arise in clinical work and within systems.
Participants will:
- Become familiar with core concepts
related to trauma and diversity.
- Learn about and be able to
identify two theoretical models relevant to working with
families from diverse backgrounds.
- Learn about and be able to
describe a clinical diversity training model that can be used to
discuss potential conflicts that can arise during intervention.
A video recording of this Forum will be
available on this web site after the event.
About the Speaker
Chandra Ghosh Ippen, Ph.D. is Clinical Research Coordinator
of the Child Trauma Research Project at UCSF and the Early Trauma
Treatment Network, a member of the National Child Traumatic Stress
Network (NCTSN). She has worked on seven longitudinal studies and
has conducted treatment outcome research on the effectiveness of
psychosocial interventions with Spanish-speaking children and
parents. She is co-author of the published randomized trial that
documents the efficacy of Child-Parent Psychotherapy with a
multi-ethnic sample of preschool children who witnessed domestic
violence. She is also co-author of Losing a Parent to Death:
Guidelines for the Treatment of Traumatic Bereavement in Infancy and
Early Childhood (2003) and Rainbow of tears, souls full of hope:
Cultural issues related to young children and trauma, which
discusses the importance of incorporating a cultural focus when
working with young children who have experienced trauma. She serves
on the Cultural Competence Consortium of the NCTSN and is head of
the NCTSN accelerated project to develop a searchable Measure Review
Database.
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Registration
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Pre-registration
is now closed due to very high enrollment. You may register
on the day of the event but we cannot guarantee space for all.
Please note we are also recording the event for online access later
this summer. We appreciate the interest in this program and hope to
make it as widely available as possible.
CEUs will be available at the
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Questions?
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Contact Sara Zettervall at 612-625-2252 or
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PAST HARRIS FORUMS
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2007 Harris Forum - Wednesday, March 7, 2007
Children's Risks and
Children's Rights:
Perspectives on Resilience and Prevention
1:00pm to 3:30pm,
Minnesota History Center, St. Paul, MN
Guest speaker:
Professor Charles W. Greenbaum, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
About The
Lecture
The basic goal in this
lecture was to present a conceptual framework for the prevention of
risks to psychological development in children and adolescence. Dr. Greenbaum utilized three theoretical frameworks for this task:
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an elaboration of
Bronfenbrenner's Ecological Systems Theory
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theories of coping such as
those explicated by Rutler, Gamezy, Lazarus and Folkman
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theories of prevention
stemming from research in public health.
Research on the effects of
violence in the Middle East conflict, of violence in schools, and of
the effect of prenatal exposure to heroin illustrate the factors
leading to resilience or continued damage to psychological
development. Dr. Greenbaum drew implications from this research
for building a conceptual framework for prevention of trauma to the
developing person. Finally, he discussed the psychological,
professional, and political factors that impede the adoption of
prevention programs and possible ways of overcoming these obstacles,
including the possibilities inherent in an agenda for children's
rights.
About Professor Greenbaum
Charles W. Greenbaum
(pictured here with his granddaughter Naa'ma) was
born in Germany and emigrated to the United States as a child. He
received his BA degree from Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, his
Master's degree from Columbia University, and his Ph.D. in social
psychology from New York University. He has lived in Israel since
1963. He is James Marshall Emeritus Professor of Social Psychology at
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where he founded the Martin and
Vivian Levin Center for the Normal and Psychopathological Development
of the Child and Adolescent, and where he is currently co-Head of the
Irving Harris Early Child Development Training Center. He has also
taught and done research at Duke University, Durham, NC and Tufts
University, Boston, MA. He is volunteer chairperson of Defense for
Children International (Israel Section), a children's rights
organization. His research interests are in social development and in
protection of children from exposure to environmental risks,
particularly stress, violence, and drugs. He is active in developing
programs for training professionals, particularly in the medical and
nursing fields, in screen children and counseling parents in order to
detect and prevent developmental problems.
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Photos from 2007 Harris
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Don Fraser and Dr. Greenbaum |
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Christopher Watson and Amy Susman
Stillman |
From left to
right:
Karen Cadigan, Richard Weinberg, Charles Greenbaum, Judy Greenbaum,
Christopher Watson, Martha Farrell Erickson, Byron Egeland, Amy Susman
Stillman |
Resources
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2007 Harris Forum Presentation slides
Full screen, 58
pages, 2.5MB, pdf file
Handout
(6 to page), 10 pages, 2.6 MB, pdf file)
2007 Harris Forum Transcript
A transcript of this event
will be made available.
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2006 Harris Forum - Thursday, May 4,
2006
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Making Early
Education Opportunities
Work for Kids and Teachers:
Professional Development and Classroom Observation
Minnesota History Center, St. Paul, MN
345 Kellogg Boulevard, St. Paul, Minnesota
May 4, 2006 from 12:30 to 3:30pm
Keynote Speaker
Presentation description
Presentation, full transcript, and Brown Bag handouts
History of Harris Forum |
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Keynote Speaker
Robert C. Pianta,
Ph.D.
Novartis Professor of Education and Professor of Psychology
Director, Center for Advanced Study of Teaching and Learning
University of Virginia
Charlottesville, VA |
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Presentation
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It is widely recognized that young
children learn through the social and instructional supports
provided in relationships and interactions they have with adults in
early childhood education settings. This presentation drew on
the largest sample of standardized observations of early education
settings to be collected to date to provide a national perspective
on the nature and quality of early learning opportunities offered to
young children across the country.
Results were presented that
demonstrate the value of instructional and emotional dimensions of
child-teacher interactions for closing early achievement gaps. In
addition, it was shown that providing early childhood
educators with professional development support and feedback based
on observing their interactions with children can lead to
improvements in classroom quality and children's early academic and
social skills.
2006 Harris
Forum transcript and presentation handouts:
Brown Bag Lunch presentation
handouts, Developmental Science and Education: Results from
the NICHD Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development, Bob
Pianta, Ph.D.
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History of Harris Forum
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Previous
Harris Visiting Scholars and Forum topics: |
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2007
More information
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Professor Charles W.
Greenbaum, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Children's Risks and
Children's Rights:
Perspectives on Resilience and Prevention
March 7
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2006
More information
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Bob Pianta, Ph.D.,
Director, Center for Advanced Study of Teaching and Learning,
University of VirginiaMaking Early
Education Opportunities
Work for Kids and Teachers:
Professional Development and Classroom Observation
May 4 |
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2005 |
Linda Mayes, Ph.D., Yale Child Study Center
"Minding the Baby: A Reflective Parenting Program"
May 5 |
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2004 |
Jack
Shonkoff, M.D., Brandeis University
"From
Neurons to Neighborhoods: Closing the Gap Between What We Know & What We
Do to Support the Development of Young Children"
April 1
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2003 |
Samuel J. Meisels, Ed.D., The Erikson Institute
"Myths and Realities of Early Childhood Assessment and
Accountability"
May 15 |
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2002 |
Mary Dozier, Ph.D., University of
Delaware
"Intervening with Young Foster Children: Targeting Three Critical
Needs"
May 2 |
2001
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Joy Osofsky,
Ph.D., Director, Violence Intervention
Program for Children and Families; Louisiana
State University
"Violence Exposure and Young Children:
Prevention and Intervention, Linking Mental
Health and Law Enforcement"
May 31 |
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2000 |
Drs. Carolyn and
Philip Cowan, University of California,
Berkeley
"The Early Years of Becoming a Family: Marriage,
Parenting & Child Development"
May 23-26 |
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1999 |
Dr.
Kyle Pruett, Yale Child Study Center
"A New View of Raising Young Children:
The Role of the Father in Current
Co-Parenting Practices"
April 28 |
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1998 |
Dr.
David Olds, University of Colorado
"Home Visiting: Research and Practice"
May 28 |
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