{"id":3097,"date":"2014-04-10T17:00:11","date_gmt":"2014-04-10T23:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/?p=3097"},"modified":"2014-06-10T17:01:07","modified_gmt":"2014-06-10T23:01:07","slug":"social-work-students-professors-present-at-national-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/2014\/04\/10\/social-work-students-professors-present-at-national-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"Social Work Students, Professors Present at National Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/matt-poster-BPD-300x224.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-3098\" src=\"http:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/matt-poster-BPD-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"matt-poster-BPD-300x224\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" \/><\/a>Social Work senior Matt Thompson recently presented a poster at the Baccalaureate Program Director\u2019s (BPD) national conference on social work education.\u00a0 His poster, which was selected to be a part of the student conference within the larger BPD conference, was entitled \u201cWelcome Home: Current Military Pre and Post Separation and Transition Protocol.\u201d\u00a0 This poster provided an overview of current practices that are followed as men and women leave the armed services. As Thompson discussed the poster with conference attendees, he noted areas where policies should be reviewed as well as areas where social work expertise could be utilized to provide more effective services to new veterans.\u00a0\u00a0 Thompson, drawing on his social work education as well as his experience in the military, summed it up this way:\u00a0 \u201cCompassion and caring are not substitutes for action and advocacy.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Assistant Professor of Social Work Julie Hunt and Associate Professor of Social Work Sabrina Sullenberger also presented at the BPD conference. \u00a0Sullenberger co-presented a workshop entitled \u201cHigh-impact Educational Practices in Teaching Social Work Research\u201d with colleagues from Indiana University.\u00a0 \u00a0Hunt\u2019s roundtable presentation was entitled \u201c\u201cIntegrating Spiritual Sensitivity into Cultural Competence Education for our Changing World.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Reflecting on her work at the conference, Hunt said, \u201cIt was an honor to lead a roundtable discussion with a diverse group of colleagues from universities around the country on ways to integrate spiritually sensitive content in their social work curriculum. We had a productive and meaningful sharing of ideas, and their interest in this conversation has continued as we have been corresponding since the meeting, sharing syllabi, and ideas for readings and course assignments.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Social Work senior Matt Thompson recently presented a poster at the Baccalaureate Program Director\u2019s (BPD) national conference on social work education.\u00a0 His poster, which was selected to be a part of the student conference within the larger BPD conference, was &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/2014\/04\/10\/social-work-students-professors-present-at-national-conference\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chs","category-social-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3097"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3097\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3099,"href":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3097\/revisions\/3099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}