Talks at Twelve: Andrew Turner, Thursday, May 12, 2016
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Exploring the Building Blocks of Disruptive Innovation in Cornell Cooperative Extension
Andrew Turner, New York 4-H Youth Development
Thursday, May 12, 2016
12:00-1:00 PM
Beebe Hall, 2nd floor conference room
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Talks at Twelve: Charles Izzo and Elliott Smith, Thursday, March 10, 2016
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Creating Conditions for Healthy Development in Residential Youth Care Settings: Recent Findings from the CARE Program
Charles Izzo and Elliott Smith, BCTR
Thursday, March 10, 2016
12:00-1:00 PM
Beebe Hall, 2nd floor conference room
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Talks at Twelve: Carol Devine and Elaine Wethington, Monday, February 22, 2016
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Large and Small Life Events among Overweight and Obese Black and Latino Adults in a Behavior Change Trial
Carol Devine, Division of Nutritional Sciences and Elaine Wethington, Human Development
Monday, February 22, 2016
12:00-1:00PM
Beebe Hall, 2nd floor conference room
It is widely believed that stressor exposure can negatively affect health. However, the impact of stressors on health behaviors is not well understood. Professors Wethington and Devine developed an interval life events (ILE) measurement method, which assesses exposure to both major stressors (life events) and minor stressors (hassles), for use in clinical trials or observational studies. They evaluated this method in the Small Changes and Lasting Effects (SCALE) trial. SCALE is a community-based intervention promoting small changes in diet and physical activity among overweight and obese African-American and Hispanic adults to discover how stressors interfere with behavior change or trial participation. In their talk Wethington and Devine will report on their findings.
Professor Elaine Wethington (human development; sociology; Weill Cornell Medicine) studies stress and social support processes across the life course. She is co-principal investigator on SCALE, a weight loss intervention with low income Black and Latino adults in New York City, and co-director and MPI for the Translational Research Institute for Pain in Later Life (TRIPLL).
Professor Carol Devine, Division of Nutritional Sciences at Cornell, studies how food choices over the life course are shaped by life transitions, social roles, and the lived environment. She is co-investigator on SCALE.
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View videos from fall BCTR talks
ShareVideos from our fall events are now online, in case you missed them or want to revisit the events. Videos are embedded below (when possible) and all are permanently archived in our media library.
2015 Iscol Lecture:
Workforce of the Future
October 7, 2015
Reshma Saujani, Founder and CEO, Girls Who Code
2015 Bronfenbrenner Lecture:
The Obama Evidence-Based Revolution: Will It Last?
September 16, 2015
Ron Haskins, Center on Children and Families; Budgeting for National Priorities; Economic Studies, Brookings Institution
Talk at Twelve:
Helping Parents Help Their Teens: Lessons Learned about Parent Stress and Support from Research on Self-injury and Families
November 12, 2015
Janis Whitlock, BCTR, Cornell University
Talk at Twelve:
Trauma-informed Hospice and Palliative Care: Unique Vulnerabilities Call for Unique Strategies
September 10, 2015
Barbara Ganzel, BCTR, Cornell University
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Talks at Twelve: Janis Whitlock
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Thursday, November 12, 2015
Janis Whitlock
BCTR, Cornell University
Fall 2015 Talks at Twelve
ShareThe center is pleased to announce the fall speakers in our Talks at Twelve series. Talks at Twelve are held in the Beebe Hall second floor conference room and lunch is served. These talks are free and open to all. No RSVP or registration is required, but notice is appreciated if a larger group is planning to attend (email pmt6@cornell.edu).
Thursday, September 10, 12:00-1:00pm
Trauma-informed Hospice and Palliative Care: Unique Vulnerabilities Call for Unique Strategies
Barbara Ganzel, BCTR, Cornell University
Thursday, October 8, 12:00-1:00pm
Determinants of Financial Vulnerability in Community-Dwelling Older Adults: A Pilot Research Study
Nathan Spreng, Human Development, Cornell University
Thursday, November 12, 12:00-1:00pm
Helping Parents Help Their Teens: Lessons Learned about Parent Stress and Support from Research on Self-injury and Families
Janis Whitlock, BCTR, Cornell University
Thursday, December 10, 12:00-1:00pm
Spatial Language and Spatial Play in the Early Development of Spatial Skills
Marianella Casasola, Human Development, Cornell University
Talks at Twelve: Marianella Casasola, Thursday, December 10, 2015
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Spatial Language and Spatial Play in the Early Development of Spatial Skills
Marianella Casasola, Human Development
Thursday, December 10, 2015
12:00-1:00PM
Beebe Hall, 2nd floor conference room
This talk is open to all. Lunch will be served. Metered parking is available in the Plantations lot across the road from Beebe Hall. No registration or RSVP required except fo groups of 5 or more. We ask that larger groups email Patty at pmt6@cornell.edu letting us know of your plans to attend so that we can order enough lunch.
Spatial skills contribute to a number of important abilities—navigation, building from instructions, or imagining an object’s appearance from a different angle. In a one-month study, Dr. Casasola found that providing spatial language as preschool children engaged in constructive play (e.g., building with blocks) yielded greater gains in their spatial skills than constructive play alone. In a Head Start training study, she found that constructive play provided a better context for acquiring spatial language than other play activities (e.g., arts and crafts, book reading). These findings point to a synergistic relation between spatial language and constructive play in the development of young children’s spatial skills and suggest an accessible, cost-effective approach to promoting spatial skills and spatial language in preschool children.
Marianella Casasola is an associate professor of human development in the College of Human Ecology. She received her Ph.D. (2000) and M.A. (1995) from the University of Texas at Austin, and her B.A. (1992) from the University of California at Berkeley. She has been associate editor of Developmental Psychology since 2012 and a board member of the Cognitive Development Society since 2013. Casasola’s talk reports on work done as a BCTR Pilot Study Grant recipient. She is also a current BCTR Fellow, one of three in the program’s inaugural year.
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Determinants of Financial Vulnerability in Community-Dwelling Older Adults: A Pilot Research Study
Nathan Spreng, Human Development
Thursday, October 8, 2015
12:00-1:00PM
Beebe Hall, 2nd floor conference room
This talk is open to all. Lunch will be served. Metered parking is available in the Plantations lot across the road from Beebe Hall. No registration or RSVP required except fo groups of 5 or more. We ask that larger groups email Patty at pmt6@cornell.edu letting us know of your plans to attend so that we can order enough lunch.
Financial exploitation of the aged is an emerging public health problem that requires surveillance, education and intervention. The goal of this BCTR pilot project is to begin to determine the social, cognitive, and neurobiological risk factors for financial exploitation in older adults and develop an assessment tool. This will serve a long-term goal of identifying individuals who are vulnerable to financial exploitation, thereby facilitating prevention or intervention efforts. In his talk Nathan Spreng will cover the beginning stages and insights emerging from pilot work on the project.
Dr. Nathan Spreng is an assistant professor and the director of the Laboratory of Brain and Cognition in the Department of Human Development at Cornell University. His research into neurocognitive aging examines large-scale brain network dynamics and their role in cognition. Currently Dr. Spreng is investigating the link between memory, cognitive control, and social cognition and the interacting brain networks that support them. In doing so he hopes to better understand cognitive and neuroscience processes as they change across the lifespan, including the factors that render older adults vulnerable to financial exploitation.
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Trauma-informed Hospice and Palliative Care: Unique Vulnerabilities Call for Unique Strategies
Barbara Ganzel, Visiting Fellow, BCTR
Thursday, September 10, 2015
12:00-1:00PM
Beebe Hall, 2nd floor conference room
Hospice and palliative care populations may be uniquely vulnerable to trauma and stress-related disorders. Trauma reactivation due to normal aging may combine synergistically with medical trauma at the end of life, particularly in the presence of chronic pain, anxiety, delirium, or dementia. This in turn will negatively impact patient mental health, well-being, and reported pain, with important consequences for patient care. Assessment of prior trauma is recommended in hospice and palliative care, along with the development of trauma treatment strategies appropriate to these populations.
In her talk Dr. Ganzel will share some of her findings and observations learned from her work at Hospicare of Ithaca.
After receiving her Ph.D. in Human Development at Cornell, Barbara Ganzel did postdoctoral work in integrative neuroscience at the Sackler Institute at Weill Cornell Medical College in NYC. Her pre- and post-doctoral research was supported by National Research Service Awards from NIMH to study trauma-related sensitization of the stress response in nonclinical populations. She continued this work as director of the Lifespan Affective Neuroscience lab at Cornell. In 2013, she entered a clinical respecialization program to focus on stress/trauma at end-of-life. Dr. Ganzel currently works with a national collaboration of clinicians to develop palliative treatments for trauma, anxiety, and pain in hospice patients.
This talk is open to all. Lunch will be served. Metered parking is available in the Plantations lot across the road from Beebe Hall. No registration or RSVP required except fo groups of 5 or more. We ask that larger groups email Patty at pmt6@cornell.edu letting us know of your plans to attend so that we can order enough lunch.
ShareGarbarino’s “Listening to Killers” Talk at Twelve video online
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For twenty years James Garbarino has served as a psychological expert witness in criminal and civil cases involving issues of trauma, violence, and children. A former student of Urie Bronfenbrenner's, his approach is to consider the ways developmental processes are shaped by the human ecology in which they occur. On February 9 Garbarino delivered a BCTR Talk at Twelve based on his recent book, Listening to Killers: Lessons Learned from My Twenty Years as a Psychological Expert Witness in Murder Cases. In his talk he recounted specific stories from killers' lives and crimes, serving to demonstrate the ways that untreated early emotional and moral damage can create violent adults. Video from the talk, Listening to Killers: Bringing Developmental Psychology into the Courtroom in Murder Cases, is now available to view online on our YouTube channel, and is embedded below.
In a Cornell Chronicle story about this work and the talk, Garbarino noted,
Most killers should be understood as traumatized children who inhabit and control the minds, hearts and bodies of adult men.
James Garbarino is a Cornell professor emeritus of human development and the Maude C. Clarke Chair in Humanistic Psychology at Loyola University in Chicago.
Garbarino book goes inside the minds of murderers - Cornell Chronicle
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