[Prevscilist] "Social-Emotional Intervention Research as Justice" | Ballmer Colloquium by Dr. Charis Wahman

[Atika Khurana]

The Ballmer Institute for Children’s Behavioral Health and College of 
Education invite you to attend the colloquium by open-rank tenure track 
faculty candidate, Dr. Charis Wahman

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Date & time: *Wed. 12/6 @ 10am-11:30am (PST)*

Zoom link: 
https://uoregon.zoom.us/j/93074568779?pwd=V2V1aTR2QS9pRkZ0RXRMTHNtYit2dz09**

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*Colloquium title: *Social-Emotional Intervention Research as Justice

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*Colloquium Abstract: *The field of early childhood special education is 
recognized for conducting social-emotional intervention research 
designed to improve the quality of life for the children and families we 
serve. However, our field has been criticized for approaches that are 
inconsistent with the values and beliefs we articulate as central to our 
scientific practice. As such, a shift in our endeavors is warranted. 
Given the specific calls within the field to engage in human centered 
social-emotional intervention research, Wahman and colleagues (2023) 
posit five guidelines to enhance our implementation science and I will 
discuss these guidelines as it relates to my own research agenda. These 
guidelines are (a) understand the historical and immediate context of 
clients served; (b) incorporate best practices in assessment to reduce 
bias; (c) center children’s and families’ voices in social validity 
measures; (d) address confounding variables to fidelity of 
implementation; and (e) examine racial/ethnic diversity in team composition.

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*Candidate bio: *Charis Lauren Wahman is an assistant professor of 
special education at Michigan State University and a Board-Certified 
Behavior Analyst-Doctoral (BCBA-D). She is also affiliated faculty in 
School Psychology. Using implementation science principles, her research 
focuses on evaluating the effectiveness of evidence-based behavioral 
interventions in early childhood classrooms. She also examines the 
experiences of families whose children have significant social and 
emotional needs. Her research aims to understand the contextual factors 
that hinder or enhance children’s behavioral health outcomes while 
improving the quality of school-based intervention services for young 
children and family-professional partnerships. Her empirical and 
practitioner-oriented work has been published in journals such as 
/Remedial and Special Education/, /Children and Youth Services Review/, 
/Education and Treatment of Children/, /Topics in Early Childhood 
Special Education/, /Psychology in the Schools/, /Early Childhood 
Education Journal/, /Young Children /and /Young and Exceptional Children/.
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