coe-staff: Colloquium Invitation: Couples and Family Therapy Tenure-Track Faculty Candidates

[Susan Lofton]

Please mark your calendars for the following colloquium presentations by candidates for Couples and Family Therapy tenure-track faculty search. Each event will be held from 2:00 - 3:30pm in Hedco 230T, including a 1-hour presentation and a 30-minute Q&A session.
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Thursday, February 1: Yaliu He, PhD
Personalizing and Optimizing Intervention Models via a Client-Centered Framework
Many evidence-based preventions and interventions deliver the same treatment to all families despite large variations in individual characteristics, needs, and circumstances. There is increasing recognition that personalized interventions may address individual differences and provide families with treatment that is optimally tailored and adapted over time. In this presentation, Dr. He will describe her work evaluating the effectiveness of two randomized controlled trials that integrated personalized strategies in community settings. These strategies were found to improve the engagement and effectiveness of mental health interventions for children and families from diverse and disadvantaged backgrounds. Methods for building a science of personalized interventions from a client-centered approach will also be discussed.

Dr. Yaliu He is the Madigan Family Clinical Research Postdoctoral Fellow at The Family Institute at Northwestern University. She obtained her Ph.D. from the Department of Family Social Science at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities in 2016. Her research focuses on promoting the healthy adjustment of children, couples and family and reducing mental health disparities through evaluating better targeted and tailored programming. She is also interested in investigating the change processes of couples and family therapy. In addition, she is passionate about training couples and family therapists.


Monday, February 5: Gizem Erdem, PhD
Moving Towards an Ecological Evaluation of Youth Mentoring Programs in Community and School Settings: Outcomes For At-Risk Youth, Parents, and Mentors
Mentoring programs are cost-effective preventive interventions that are widely-used by non-profit organizations and governmental institutions in the US and abroad. Typically, such programs pair at-risk youth with non-parental adult volunteers in community or school settings with the ultimate goal to promote healthy functioning and prevent problem behavior among youth (DuBois & Karcher, 2013; Rhodes, 2005). Meta-analytical studies on the evaluation of mentoring programs suggest small to moderate effect sizes in improving youth's educational, behavioral, and mental health outcomes (DuBois et al., 2002; 2011). However, more research is needed to explore mechanism of change in mentoring programs and program's potential 'spill-over' effects on other developmental contexts such as youth's parents, families, and mentors. In this presentation, I will present key findings from two different research projects. The first study is a longitudinal evaluation of community-based Big Brothers Big Sisters (BBBS) youth mentoring program for 997 low-income youth and their parents across 20 agencies in Canada. The second study examines positive developmental and mental health outcomes of 639 (incoming) college students and 88 student mentors, participating in a school-based peer mentoring program with 12 month post-intervention follow up in Turkey. Drawing on empirical findings of those studies, developmental, dyadic, and systemic effects of mentoring programs for contexts of youth development will be discussed with particular attention to implications for future research and clinical practice.

Dr. Gizem Erdem is an Assistant Professor of Psychology at Koç University in Turkey, a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, and a clinical supervisor. She obtained her B.A. in Psychology from Bogazici University in 2006 and her Ph.D. in Couple and Family Therapy at the Ohio State University in 2014. She was a post-doctoral researcher at University of Illinois at Chicago in 2014 to 2015 and a visiting scholar at Harvard University in Summer 2017. Her research interests include program development and evaluation targeting marginalized populations such as juvenile delinquents, youth in foster care system, and at-risk youth and families in poverty with substance abuse issues.


Susan Lofton | Assistant to Krista Chronister and Ed Kame'enui
Administrative Assistant (Temp), College of Education
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Phone: 541-346-6592
Email: susanl at uoregon.edu<mailto:susanl at uoregon.edu>

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