USF College of Behavioral & Community Sciences

October 11 - 17, 2020

Two CBCS Faculty Receive USF 2020 Outstanding Research Achievement Awards

Michelle Arnold, PhD, AuD, Assistant Professor (CSD) and Khary Rigg, PhD, Associate Professor (MHLP/FMHI) were two of 19 USF faculty members whose research set standards in a wide array of disciplines and are new recipients of the university's 2020 Outstanding Research Achievement Award.

The annual awards nominations are submitted by deans, department chairs and center and institute directors and are reviewed by members of the USF Senate Research Council. Each faculty member receives $2,000 with the award in recognition of their achievements for the 2019 calendar year.

Dr. Arnold is a principal investigator for the Auditory Rehabilitation and Clinical Trials laboratory. Dr. Arnold's research focuses on increasing access to hearing healthcare for older and vulnerable adults. In 2019, her work was published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery, the top-ranked journal in her discipline. Her article on hearing aid use among Hispanic/Latino adults in the U.S. was also featured in a dedicated JAMA Network podcast in April 2019. Dr. Arnold also submitted two major extramural grants as PI: An Early Career Research R21 to the National Institutes on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders and another to the Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute.

Dr. Khary Rigg's research focuses on the prevention and treatment of substance use disorders, particularly among vulnerable populations. In 2019, Dr. Rigg authored nine peer-reviewed articles in top ranked journals such as International Journal of Drug Policy, Drug & Alcohol Dependence and Psychology of Addictive Behaviors. One of his articles was cited more than 50 times in 2019, while another was the most downloaded paper in the Journal of Ethnicity in Substance Abuse. In addition, two of his other studies were commissioned for policy briefs by the Carsey Institute of Public Policy and the Lerner Center for Public Health Promotion. He also helped secure over $2 million in Centers for Disease Control funding and received the 2019 Early Career Achievement Award from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. His research also was covered widely in national news outlets, such as US News & World Report, Playboy Magazine, the Lynne Freeman Radio Show, Women's Day Magazine and the UK Daily Mail.

MHLP Associate Professor Participates in National Gun Violence Research

Florida is one of six states of focus for a study recently funded by the National Collaborative on Gun Violence Research (NCGVR) titled: "A Multi-State Evaluation of Extreme Risk Protection Orders (ERPOs): Implementation, Outcomes, and Jurisdictional Variation." The Principal Investigators are April Zeoli from Michigan State University School of Criminal Justice and Shannon Frattaroli from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Six states were chosen for this study that vary in their policy and cultural context: California, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Maryland, and Washington. Annette Christy, Associate Professor in the Department of Mental Health Law & Policy, will focus on the Florida site with Dr. Zeoli and Jeffery Swanson, Professor in Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Duke University School of Medicine. Language allowing for risk protection orders was included in the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Public Safety Act passed in 2018 and is now in statute (F.S. 790.401). Some people refer to these as red flag gun laws. These laws involve temporary suspension of access to guns. The focus of this study is on how ERPOs are being used and whether ERPO laws are associated with reduced suicide risk.

SW Student Wins 2020 BLS Scholarship

Better Living for Seniors Hillsborough is pleased to announce the 2020 scholarship recipient, Ms. Allison Clark. Ms. Clark is currently attending USF's School of Social Work and plans to graduate in the Spring of 2021. When asked about her career and educational goals for the future, she states, "It is my hope as a soon-to-be social worker that I can help end the challenges that seniors face in the pursuit of a living a full, happy life. I intend on working with my local government as a social worker in the Aging Services Department because of my experience with working with this population. Pursuing my social work degree and winning this scholarship means I can take care of someone's grandparent for them in ways they may not be able to."

Ms. Clark has interned at Brandon Regional Hospital and Manatee County Parks and Natural Resources Department. She has also worked as a caregiver at Brookdale Senior Living in Manatee County.

CBCS Interdisciplinary PhD Students Present at Virtual Conference

College of Behavioral and Community Sciences Interdisciplinary Ph.D. students, Michelle Beekman and Jennifer Tran, presented virtually at the Coming Together for Action 2020 conference on October 7. Coming Together For Action is an interdisciplinary conference on behavioral health, social justice, and healthier communities. This conference is hosted by the Global Alliance for Behavioral Health and Social Justice. For more than 100 years, the Global Alliance (formerly the American Orthopsychiatric Association) has played a leading role in developing an understanding of behavioral health concerns in their social context. Ms. Beekman and Ms. Tran are both members of the Stigma Action Research (STAR) Lab in the Department of Mental Health Law & Policy (MHLP), which is directed by their mentor, Dr. Kristin Kosyluk.

Ms. Beekman, whose program of research focuses on understanding and combatting stigma surrounding mental illness among high school students, delivered an oral presentation titled, "Teens and School Stakeholders Contribution to the Modification of a Contact-based Mental Illness Stigma and Suicide Reduction Program for High Schools." Co-presenters included Ms. Tran, Ms. Katie Torres (undergraduate student and members of the STAR Lab), and Dr. Kosyluk. The presentation can be accessed here.

 

Ms. Tran's program of research focuses on understanding and utilizing narrative as a tool for change, with a particular focus on intersecting stigmatized identities (i.e. LGBTQ+ and mental illness identities) and policy change. Ms. Tran presented a poster titled, "Integrative Review of Stigma Resistance of Individuals with Concealable Identities," summarizing the preliminary findings of an ongoing integrative review of the literature on stigma resistance being conducted by the STAR lab (led by Dr. Kosyluk, MHLP) and other partners, including Dr. Kyaien Conner of MHLP, Dr. Ruthie Firmin of Brown University, Dr. Philip Yanos of John Jay College of Criminal Justice at the City University of New York, and fellow doctoral students, Ms. Erica Anderson, and former USF Public Health Masters student, Ms. Shaheedah Salaam (currently a doctoral student at University of Wisconsin Milwaukee). The poster presentation can be accessed here.

Research Roundup

Kathy Hyer (SAS)
ADRD Training Program
Sponsor: Florida Department of Elder Affairs
7/1/2020-6/30/2021
Amount: $80,996

The mission of the ADRD training program is to improve the care of individuals with ADRD who receive services from nursing homes, assisted living facilities, home health agencies, adult day care centers, and hospice care facilities. The ADRD training program is designed to ensure that agency/facility staff members who have regular contact with, or provide direct care to, persons with ADRD receive the appropriate ADRD-related training.

The major goals of the ADRD training program are:

  1. Approval of the trainers who educate agency/facility staff on issues relating to ADRD; and
  2. Approval of the ADRD training curricula to be used in the training of the agency/facility staff who have regular contact with or provide direct care to persons with ADRD.

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Karen L. Fingerman, PhD to Speak as Part of the Distinguished Lectureship in Aging

Karen L. Fingerman, PhD, will present "Getting Out of the Family: Weaker Ties in Late Life" on Friday, October 30, 2020 at 1:00 pm. Dr. Fingerman is a Professor of Human Development & Family Sciences at the University of Texas (UT)- Austin, oversees the Graduate Portfolio in Health and Aging at UT-Austin, and is the founding director of the Texas Aging & Longevity Center. She studies adult development and aging. Her research has asked how relationships with family members, friends, and acquaintances change from young adulthood to old age, with particular attention to emotional qualities of ties and support exchanges. She has published over 150 scholarly articles and chapters on families and friends in late life. Her research has drawn on experience sampling, daily diary, electronically activated recorders (EAR) survey methods, observational techniques, experimental paradigms, and salivary hormone data collection techniques. The National Institute on Aging (NIA) has funded her work for over 20 years. Dr. Fingerman's prior work has been funded by the Brookdale Foundation, the MacArthur Foundation Network on Transitions to Adulthood and the MacArthur Foundation Network on an Aging Society.

This will be a Microsoft Teams presentation. Click here to join the presentation at the appropriate time.

ABA Thesis Defense

Title: "A Systematic Review of Antecedent- and Consequence- Based Interventions for Vocal Stereotypy"
Student: Christine Roeper
Date: October 20, 2020
Time: 1:00pm
Location: Microsoft Teams Meeting
Conference ID: 474 187 458#

CBCS Doctoral Dissertation Defenses

Title: The Role of Non-Secular Involvement Towards a Comprehensive Community Approach for Addressing Opioid Use Disorder
Student: Amanda Gene Sharp
Program: Behavioral and Community Sciences
Date: Wednesday, November 4, 2020
Time: 12:00pm
Location: Join Zoom Meeting
Meeting ID: 871 4303 6243 Passcode: 256256

CBCS In the News

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The Ledger
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to work on," said Dr. Lindsay Peterson, a researcher with the University of South Florida School of Aging Studies. "It helps us ...

Police challenge: Acknowledging and overcoming implicit bias
RRStar.com
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Police Challenge: Acknowledging And Overcoming Implicit Bias
Northern Public Radio
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New Publications
  1. Black, K., & Jester, D. J. (2020). Examining Older Adults' Perspectives on the Built Environment and Correlates of Healthy Aging in an American Age-Friendly Community. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 17(19), 7056. doi:10.3390/ijerph17197056
  2. Moore, K., Sharp, A., Alitz, P., Yampolskaya, S., Kleinman, M., Carlson, M., & Argerious, A. (2020). Reconsidering success for an integrated family dependency treatment court. Children and Youth Services Review, 114, 105037. doi:10.1016/j.childyouth.2020.105037
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