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Nova Southeastern UniversityNSUWorksCAHSS Graduate SGA Dialogues College PublicationsSpring 2-1-2008Spring 2008Graduate School of Humanities & Social SciencesFollow this and additional works at: http://nsuworks.nova.edu/shss_dialogsThis Article is brought to you for free and open access by the College Publications at NSUWorks. It has been accepted for inclusion in CAHSSGraduate SGA Dialogues by an authorized administrator of NSUWorks. For more information, please contact nsuworks@nova.edu.NSUWorks CitationGraduate School of Humanities & Social Sciences, "Spring 2008" (2008). CAHSS Graduate SGA Dialogues. Book 12.http://nsuworks.nova.edu/shss_dialogs/12New Director for BTI  We are happy to announce that Dr. Arlene Brett Gordon has been named Director, Brief Therapy Institute with the Department of Family Therapy.  For the past year, Dr. Gordon has served as Interim Director, BTI, and has made sig-nificant contributions to the clinical training of students and community outreach.  As Director, Arlene will focus on enhancing student clinical services, develop clinical trainings, and expand community projects and trainings. Arlene has her Ph.D. in Family Therapy from NSU and a M.S. in Elementary Education from Queens College, City University of New York.  For the past 7 years, Dr. Gordon has developed and trained professionals and parapro-fessionals in solution-focused family support.  She has a clinical practice in Delray Beach. Congratulations Dr. Gordon! You make up proud!  Volume 1, Issue 3 February 2008 SHSS DIALOGS Editor- in-Chief:  Raquel  C .  Escudero   vraquel@nova.edu Lisa Palmer, a doctoral candidate in the Department of Family Therapy at the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, proposed in October her dissertation titled “Drive to ‘Self-Starvation’: Qualitative Exploration of Narratives Amongst Eating Disordered Immigrant Women of Color to the U.S.”  As a licensed family therapist, certified hypnotherapist, and mediator, Palmer has extensive experience working in a variety of mental health settings including at sev-eral inpatient, residential and outpatient facilities for eating disorders and chronic psychiatric issues.  Palmer is known for establishing the first ethnicity, culture and identity group in the U.S. at a renowned treatment facility, where her work in the eating disorder area and beyond has been attractive to numerous magazine and television publications.  She recently completed an article for publication next month in the Journal of Feminist Family Therapy.  Additionally, Palmer founded the website www.MyEDHelp.com which includes network resources and referrals for eating dis-order recovery.  Palmer specializes in working with teenagers and adults, serving as the clinical di-rector of the WISE Program (Women's Institute for Sensible Eating), an intensive outpatient eating disorders treatment program at Hollywood Pavilion in Flor-ida.  Palmer has been working with Ronald Chenail, Ph.D., Patricia Cole, Ph.D., and Shelly Green, Ph.D., at SHSS on her dissertation research project. SHSS Student Working with Immigrant Women Are you a Starbucks connoisseur? Then take advantage of the new Starbucks Frequent Buyer Card. With this card you will be able to purchase nine hot or cold bever-ages and get the 10th one on the house. Join other Starbucks enthu-siasts as they enjoy their favorite beverages and get the 10th free.  What are the benefits?  1. The card is free, so you’ll have one less thing to pay for.  2. Every time you purchase your favorite beverage, present your card to be checked off. Accumulate nine beverages and the 10th is free.  3. It’s easy to get, just ask your cashier.  4. There is no service charge for the card.  5. The card can be used with any form of payment, cash, credit, debit or Shark Card declining balance.  This is one of many more promo-tions that Chartwells will be imple-menting throughout the semester. Be sure to stop by Outtakes Cuisine for two-for-one specials on select items. Page 2 Starbucks Frequent Buyer Card now available  SHSS DIALOGS houses the Community Resources, Partnerships, and Solutions (CRPS), a project funded by a grant through the Bureau of Justice    Assistance, U.S. Department of Justice. CRPS provides workshops, training, and other services within the multicultural communities in South Florida. CRPS focuses on family and youth violence preven-tion through community enhance-ment, the building of social capital and greater cultural understand-ings.  Recently, CRS/CRPS offered work-shops for young people on anger management and stress manage-ment; offered training to agencies such as Covenant House to         enhance conflict management skills; and offered community workshops on cultural understand-ings and family violence. CRS/CRPS participated in Conflict Reso-lution Day activities at NSU and is part of the South Florida Task Force of involved agencies and groups providing various commu-nity events to bring greater  awareness to the problem of Family and Domestic Violence. Judith McKay, J.D., Ph.D., is the director of CRS and the principal  investigator of the CRPS project.  For more information, please call 954-262-4237. Community Resolution Services Reaches Out  Community Resolution Services (CRS) at the Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences (SHSS) offers training and work-shops, as well as mediation and facilitation services and conflict coaching to individuals, families, groups, and agencies to resolve conflicts on the NSU campus and in the broader community.   CRS offers professional opportuni-ties in the community for students who want to practice mediation, facilitation, reconciliation, consen-sus building, consulting, policy   dialogs, and training delivery     beyond the classroom.  CRS is the largest practicum site for students in the Department of Conflict Analysis and Resolution and the Department of Multidisci-plinary Studies at SHSS. It also Volume 1, Issue 3 One of our very own, Mark Davidheiser, Ph.D has been  nominated and ap-pointed Editor of Global Ethnographic, Associate Editor of African Journal of Political Science and International Relations, and Executive Committee member of the Organisation for Intra-Cultural Development.  Also, one of Dr. Davidheiser’s articles of mediation, race, and culture also ap-peared in the January  issue of Peace and Change.  CONGRATULATIONS!    Congratulations Dr. Davidheiser!! Alumni Spotlight  Judith Adelson, Ph.D., an alumna of the Department of Family Therapy at the Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences, serves as an assistant pro-fessor of sociology at Lynn University. She has dual licensure as a clinical social worker and family therapist, and is also a licensed supervisor and registered nurse.  Adelson and her sociology students reached out to community. They formed a caravan to Boynton Beach to assist in the construction of two homes sponsored by Habitat for Humanity.   Adelson is a member of the  National Association of Social Workers, American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy, and American Sociological Asso-ciation.  Page 3 Five DCAR students - Paloma Ayala Vela, Denese Edsall, Alison Hall, Patrick Hiller, and Mamyrah Prosper – accompanied by DCAR Associate Professor J. P. Linstroth, attended and presented a research paper titled “Hyphens of belonging: ethnicity and community among Haitians, Cubans and Guatemalans in the United States” at an international conference on Ethnicity, Belonging, Biography and Ethnography hosted by the Georg-August-Universitat in Goettingen Ger-many. This conference was held December 7th-9th, 2007. Also in attendance and part of the group was Dr. Julia Chaitin, formerly an Assistant Professor within DCAR, who is now a Senior Lecturer at the Sapir College in Israel.  This research on identity and belonging among immigrant groups in the United States, specifically South Florida, is funded by a research grant from the Hum-boldt Foundation and the Nova Southeastern University’s President’s Research and Development Grant which were received in the 2006-2007 academic year. The funding for the conference trip was made possible through a Dean’s Grant at SHSS and by the Humboldt Foundation.  For our DCAR students and faculty the trip provided the heady combination of having the opportunity to participate in a forum with several academically sound scholars and practitioners and the thrill of being in a foreign country. For some, it was their first time presenting at and/or attending an academic conference and for others it was their first time visiting Germany.  The highlights of the conference include keynote presentations by Dan Bar-On who discussed the concept of a “bridging nar-rative” for addressing the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, Floya Anthias on the “intersectionality” of gender, ethnicity, and class in the conceptualisation of identity formation, and Ann Phoenix on transnational biographies created by those who have ex-perienced “non-normative” childhoods.  The breakout sessions were also note-worthy. Our group presentation was extremely well received and generated questions and discussion even days afterwards. Individual presentations by J. P. Linstroth: “Al Norte: cognition, memory, and identity among Guatemala/Maya living in South Florida” and Julia Chaitin: “Identities in peace and conflict: belonging among Israeli and Palestinian émigrés to the United States” were insightful and instructive and a welcome contribution to the proceedings. Our research will not stop there; our conference presentation is currently being revised for submission to well know aca-demic journals. We anticipate completion by the end of February 2008. We are also in the initial stages of writing a book on our research findings that we aim to submit for publication by the end of 2008. DCAR goes to abroad to Goettingen, Germany From the Dean’s Desk their new classification for Community Engagement, an elective classification based on voluntary participation by institutions.  According to the Carnegie Foundation, "Community En-gagement" describes the col-laboration between higher learning institutions and their larger communities on both local and global levels for the mutually beneficial exchange of knowledge and resources in a context of part-nership and reciprocity.  "Curricular Engagement" represents institutions where teaching, learning and schol-arship engage faculty, stu-dents and community in mu-tually beneficial and respect-ful collaboration.  "Outreach & Partnerships" includes in-stitutions with compelling   Hello everybody!    I hope you have had a mo-ment to reflect on your ac-complishments in the past and plans for the new year.    I attended the annual meet-ing of the Council of Gradu-ate Schools in December and learned further from the Car-negie Foundation for the Ad-vancement of Teaching on evidence of one or both of two approaches to community engagement.   The Sherman Library at NSU is a fine example as a joint use facility.  The SHSS Stu-dent Association is another shining example.  Our stu-dent association has raised over $31,000 for an endowed scholarships fund for com-munity outreach, presenting its first award at the February Institutes Social.  I would like to take this opportunity to recognize our students, col-leagues, and alumni for their enduring commitment to col-laborative initiatives and in-terdisciplinary undertakings!    Have a great 2008!  Dean Honggang Yang, Ph.D CHECK US OUT ON THE WEB. . HTTP: / /SHSS.NOVA.EDU/DIALOGS/ 

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