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FROM: FPDC Forum RE: Call for Papers - FPDC Collaborative Teaching & Learning and Research Workshop
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4/19/2021 12:19:37 PM
To: Faculty, Staff

FPDC Collaborative Teaching & Learning and Research Workshop

                                                            Generation C (Covid):

Teaching Practices to Accommodate New and Exacerbated Mental Health Issues

            It is arguable that for decades we professionals in higher education have been seeing increasing frequency and levels of mental and emotional health issues in our students. In fact, well before the onset of Covid-19, students were facing the chronic fear of a “shootings in the schools” mentality, the threat of violence in the form of increased cyber and other bullying and harassment and growing disrespect and antagonism prompted by a political climate of hatefulness and corruption. Still, the pandemic has only made these anxieties more pronounced: by forcing students to isolate, feel alienated from their peers, distrust forms of authority at large, and spend extended time without access to proper resources which might help alleviate the strains. This presentation intends to address some of the following topics and questions:

·       Being prepared to handle a student in crisis (how can you become more prepared)?

·       When to refer and who to refer to.

·       Your role in de-escalating/consoling students and setting proper boundaries.

·       What are some key red flags of concern for students in crisis?

·       What to do for personal health after dealing with a student in crisis?

·       Best practices to ensure that your exercises/ activities/ videos/ performances are not putting your students at risk of triggering a traumatic memory?

 

            We seek to gather a team of professionals whose research and/or professional experience qualify them as experts in the field of minimizing or decreasing mental health problems in the classroom and beyond. We are seeking experts in fields such as - but not limited to - the following disciplines who may be able to provide best practices and guidelines, empirically tested protocols, and tools that have proven effective for educational professionals to help improve our students’ holistic learning experience:

Psychiatry, Counseling, Social Work, Psychology, Education (all levels), Sociology

            If your research or practice addresses any of the above areas, please consider submitting to our forum. Date(s) for our session(s) will be scheduled and posted later in the summer after review of submissions and a consideration of prospective conflicts. The workshop session(s) will be scheduled for a Tuesday/Thursday common hour in the fall semester between 11-12, or an early evening between the hours of 4 and 7 pm. Please send us a short abstract of 300 words or less, by May 15th addressing where your area of research and/or practice intersect with our call and questions for consideration. Please include any existing fall conflicts with our potential times.    

Questions? Please send to: JP Staszel staszel@calu.edu or Kim Vanderlaan vanderlaan@calu.edu

To submit your proposal, please send to: FPDC@calu.edu