CHIP Lecture Series, Fall 2015
“Interconnecting School Mental Health and Positive Behavior Support”
Mark Weist, PhD, University of South Carolina
12:30 - 1:30pm
Co-Sponsors:
UConn Neag School of Education
UConn Center for Public Health and Health Policy
Center for the Study of Culture, Health and Human Development
UConn College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
UConn Department of Human Development and Family Studies
UConn Department of Occupational and Environmental Medicine and the Center for the Promotion of Health in the New England Workplace
UConn Marketing Department, UConn School of Business
UConn Rudd Center for Food Policy & Obesity
UConn School of Business
UConn School of Medicine, UConn Health
UConn School of Social Work
Location
Video Conference Room 204, 2nd floor
J. Ray Ryan Building, 2006 Hillside Road
University of Connecticut, Storrs Campus
For directions and maps, see http://www.chip.uconn.edu/about/directions-to-chip/.
Accessibility: elevator available in building lobby on ground floor.
Web Stream
You can view this talk streamed live during the lecture – or archived after the lecture – here.
About the Speaker
Mark D. Weist received a Ph.D. in clinical psychology from Virginia Tech in 1991 and is currently a Professor in Clinical-Community and School Psychology in the Department of Psychology at the University of South Carolina (USC). He was on the faculty of the University of Maryland (UM) for 19 years where he helped to found and direct the Center for School Mental Health (csmh.umaryland.edu), one of two national centers providing leadership to the advancement of school mental health (SMH) policies and programs in the United States. He has edited nine books and has published and presented widely in SMH and in the areas of Positive Behavioral Interventions & Supports (PBIS), interconnecting SMH and PBIS, trauma, violence and youth, evidence-based practice, and cognitive behavioral therapy. With the Clifford Beers Foundation (CBF) and the UM he started the journal, Advances in School Mental Health Promotion (now published by Routledge of Taylor & Francis and edited by Sharon Stephan). He Chairs the Advisory Board for CBF, helped to found the School Mental Health International Leadership Exchange (SMHILE), and is helping to lead the 9th World Congress on the Promotion of Mental Health and Prevention of Emotional and Behavioral Disorders, to be held in Columbia, SC (and sponsored by USC and CBF), September 8 – 11, 2015 (see www.mhworldcongress2015.org).
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