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USF College of Behavioral & Community Sciences

January 17 - 23, 2021

 
Research Roundup
Kathy Black (Aging Studies)
Age-Friendly Florida Community Consultation
Sponsor: AARP Florida
5/1/2018-12/31/2021
Amount: $181,299

This grant provides funding for Dr. Black to assist AARP Florida in the management of the statewide network of Age-friendly Communities. The network currently includes 40 communities and continues to grow. Dr. Black provides strategic technical assistance to the communities throughout the phases of onboarding, engagement, planning, action and evaluation. Dr. Black also serves as a liaison to Livable Florida, the Florida Department of Elder Affairs' age-friendly state designation as well as AARP's national network of age-friendly states and communities.
Amber Gum (MHLP)
3/3 Lay-delivered Behavioral Activation in Senior Centers
Sponsor: National Institute of Mental Health
12/15/2020-11/30/2025
Amount: $1,712,366

This five-year, three-site, R01 study involves a randomized controlled trial of behavioral activation delivered by older adult volunteers or master's level clinicians for depressed senior center clients. The hypothesis is that appropriately-trained and supervised older adult volunteers will be able to deliver a streamlined version of behavioral activation, called "Do More, Feel Better," with comparable outcomes for clients' depressive symptoms and functioning as master's level clinicians. This study is being conducted with 96 depressed clients in six local senior centers, in collaboration with Hillsborough County Department of Aging Services. Dr. Kyaien Conner of MHLP is a Co-Investigator. Other collaborating institutions are the University of Washington (PI: Patrick Raue) and Cornell University (PI: Jo Anne Sirey). This fully-powered RCT (combined N = 288) is based on Dr. Raue's successful R34 pilot RCT at UW.
 
 
This Is My Brave: Stories from the Black Community Series to Premiere January 18, 2021
This Is My BraveThis Is My Brave: Stories from the Black Community begins Monday, January 18, 2021 in conjunction with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day, and continues on February 7, 2021.

This series, co-produced by MHLP's Dr. Kyaien Conner, focuses on authentic storytelling from members of the Black community who have experienced mental illness. These stories of recovery, resilience, and hope are shared in effort to combat the stigma surrounding mental illness and discussions of mental health in Black communities nationwide. Learn more about this series here, and reserve your free seat for the streaming events at thisismybrave.org
Sheriece Sadberry to Speak as Part of the RMHC Race and Counseling Series
Sheriece SadberrySheriece Sadberry, PhD, LP, CMPC, will present "From Personal Struggles to Professional Strength in a Diverse World" on January 20 at 100:00am via Microsoft Teams. Dr. Sadberry is a licensed counseling psychologist with areas of specializations in eating disorders, depression, anxiety, and trauma. She is strongly committed to making mental health services accessible to everyone and providing an environment where individuals can function optimally and pursue their life goals. She is a Supreme Court Certified Family Mediator, an executive coach at the Eckerd College Leadership Development Institute (LDI), and provides compensation and pension assessment for the Veteran's Affairs.
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CBCS In The News

Suburban police departments are being flooded with reports of fraudulent unemployment benefit claims: 'It doesn't make a lot of sense.'
Yahoo News (Chicago Tribune)
.troubling to Thomas Hyslip, a cybercrimes expert… this could be an effort to cause mayhem to unemployment programs at state agencies across the country," said Hyslip, an instructor in the Criminology Department at the University of South Florida.

Psychopaths Can Seem Like "Pillars Of Their Community" — How Can You Spot One?
Oxygen
"It's very hard to spot psychopaths because they are very good at blending in," Bryanna Fox, an associate professor at the Department of Criminology at the University of South Florida, told Oxygen.com.

What Incites Groups to Violence?
WWSB (ABC7) - Sarasota
USF Professor and criminologist James Unnever joins us now to talk about what can incite groups of people to escalate to this kind of violence.

New Publication
  1. Fogel, S. J., Lersch, K. M., Ringhoff, D., & Grosholz, J. M. (2021). Returning Citizens and Point of Entry: Is There a Match? Families in Society. doi: 10.1177/1044389420956436
  
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