Family Research Consortium IV

Summer Institute
 

Fourth Annual Summer Institute
Riding the Currents: Families, Mental Health, and Economic Change

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Photo credits (clockwise from top):
M. Belinda Tucker, E. Ann Burhans,
Grace H. Chung, Leila Molina
The Family Research Consortium (FRC) IV conducts an annual Summer Institute to promote interchange among scholars in the field of family mental health. Modeled after the sessions held by previous Family Research Consortia, the Institute is motivated by the belief that significant advances in the field can be facilitated by a forum that allows for dissemination, evaluation, and discussion of important new findings and new developments in research design, methods, and analysis. The Summer Institutes include formal plenary addresses, smaller workshop format presentations, poster presentations, mechanisms for proposal development, and opportunities for networking among participants. Previous sessions have attracted scholars and clinicians at all stages of development. Approximately 200 scholars, including presenters and representatives of government and foundation funding agencies, are expected to attend.

The goals of this year's Institute:

  • To examine how economic change resulting from both naturally occurring circumstances and experimental interventions affects mental health, family relationships, and family processes.
  • To explore diversity (e.g., ethnic, cultural, geographic) in familial and individual responses to challenging economic circumstances, including the social and contextual conditions that may exacerbate or buffer effects on mental health.
  • To consider these issues through a developmental lens and at multiple levels of analysis for differential effects on children, adolescents, and adults.

The Institute will highlight scientific issues relevant to practice, assessment, prevention and intervention, as well as provide opportunities for more formal professional and career development. The Summer Institute is funded by the National Institute of Mental Health, with additional support from the Foundation for Child Development, and the Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior at UCLA.

Program Summary
Co-Conveners: Ann C. Crouter, Vonnie C. McLoyd, Cheryl A. Boyce

Thursday - June 21, 2007
  7:30 - 8:30am   Continental Breakfast
8:00am - 5:00pm Registration
8:30 - 9:30am Welcome, Overview, Goals, Introduction of Participants
9:30 - 10:00am NIMH Opening Remarks - Cheryl A. Boyce, Ph.D.
The Economics of Framing Family Research for Translation
10:00 - 10:15am Refreshment Break
10:15 - 11:00am Plenary Session - Vonnie C. McLoyd, Ph.D.
Implications for Welfare Experiments for Parent and Offspring Mental Health
11:00 - 11:30am Plenary Discussion moderated by M. Belinda Tucker, Ph.D.
11:30am - 1:00pm Lunch
1:15 - 2:00pm Plenary Session - George W. Howe, Ph.D.
Job Loss and Its Effects on Couples and Families
2:00 - 2:30pm Plenary Discussion moderated by Xiaojia Ge, Ph.D.
2:30 - 3:00pm Refreshment Break
3:00 - 4:30pm Concurrent Afternoon Workshops
Workshop 1
Cheryl A. Boyce, Ph.D., Victoria S. Levin, M.S.W., LeShawndra N. Price, Ph.D.
Writing a Successful NIH Grant Application and Navigating Your Way Through the Review Process
Workshop 2
Michael Spencer, Ph.D.
Examining Contextual Variations in Poverty and Socioeconomic Status Among Asian Americans in the United States
Workshop 3
Patricia O'Campo, Ph.D.
Residential Neighborhoods and Mental Well-Being: Methods for Comprehensively Measuring Area Characteristics
4:30 - 5:30pm Set up Posters
(All posters must be removed by 9:30pm)
5:30 - 7:00pm Poster Presentations & Reception
Friday - June 22, 2007
  8:00 - 9:30am   Foundation Panel Breakfast
Kimber Bogard, Ph.D., Foundation for Child Development
Debra J. Pérez, Ph.D., Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Jocelyn V. Sargent, Ph.D., W. K. Kellogg Foundation
8:00am - 5:00pm Registration
9:30 - 10:15am Plenary Session - Velma McBride Murry, Ph.D.
Linking Socio-Contextual Stressors and Poverty to Rural African American Families' Mental Health, Parenting, and Child Competence
10:15 - 10:45am Plenary Discussion moderated by Ann C. Crouter, Ph.D.
10:45 - 11:00am Refreshment Break
11:00 - 11:45am Plenary Session - Hirokazu Yoshikawa, Ph.D.
Using Mixed Qualitative/Quantitative Data in Developmental Science and Policy Evaluation
11:45am - 12:15pm Plenary Discussion moderated by Andrew J. Fuligni, Ph.D.
12:15 - 1:45pm Lunch
2:00 - 3:30pm Concurrent Early Afternoon Workshops
Workshop 4
Renya Ramirez, Ph.D.
At What Cost? The Social Impact of American Indian Gaming in California
Workshop 5
Linda Marie Burton, Ph.D.
Complex Family Structures: Conceptualization and Measurement in Ethnographic Research on Low-Income Families
Workshop 6
E. Michael Foster, Ph.D.
Economic Analyses of Programs for Children and Youth
3:30 - 4:00pm Refreshment Break
4:00 - 5:30pm Concurrent Late Afternoon Workshops
Workshop 7
Stephen A. Matthews, Ph.D.
Making the Most of Geographic Information in Family Research
Workshop 8
Maureen Perry-Jenkins, Ph.D.
Following Working-Class Couples Longitudinally: Lessons from the Field
6:30 - 8:30pm Family Research Consortium IV Dinner
Saturday - June 23, 2007
  8:00 - 9:00am   Continental Breakfast
8:00 - 10:00am Registration
9:00 - 9:45am Plenary Session - Charles R. Martinez, Jr., Ph.D.
Adaptation to Change and Behavioral Health Outcomes Among Latino Families in Emerging Communities
9:45 - 10:15am Plenary Discussion moderated by Teresa D. LaFromboise, Ph.D.
10:15 - 10:30am Refreshment Break
10:30 - 11:15am Plenary Session - David T. Takeuchi, Ph.D.
Floating Downstream, Swimming Upstream: Economic Life and Mental Health Among Asian Americans
11:15 - 11:45am Plenary Discussion moderated by Margarita Alegría, Ph.D.
11:45am - 1:15pm Lunch
1:30 - 3:00pm Concurrent Afternoon Workshops
Workshop 9
Ann C. Crouter, Ph.D., E. Benjamin Goodman
Using the Occupational Information Network (O*Net) in Family Research: A Guided Tour
Workshop 10
Margarita Alegría, Ph.D., Harold W. Neighbors, Ph.D., David T. Takeuchi, Ph.D.
The NSAL and NLAAS: New Datasets to Investigate Mental Health Issues Among Diverse Racial and Ethnic Groups in the United States
3:15 - 4:00pm Discussion, Future Direction & Conference Closing


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