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NECHA Annual Meeting:
Making Waves in College Health
October 29-31 ~ Wentworth by the Sea
2014 agenda
D-5: SHE DELIVERS SO YOU CAN, TOO! The Condom Fairy Program: A Novel Strategy for Promoting Healthy
Sexual Behaviors
Abstract: While most campuses provide condoms to students through outreach and “fish bowls,” research and CDC guidelines suggest that these distribution strategies are limited. In addition, privacy concerns and embarrassment interfere with students’ condom access. This session will describe a novel program that meets CDC recommendations, addresses barriers, and provides unique opportunities for health education. Outcomes associated with implementing a large-scale, ‘snail mail’ delivery service of safer sex supplies and health promotion materials will be discussed.
Katharine Mooney, MPH, CHES
Wellness Coordinator Boston University CNE (Nursing): 1.5
D-6: A Practical Approach to Cognitive Behavioral Treatment of Academic Performance Anxiety
Abstract: Anxiety associated with performance situations is a normal and adaptive part of emotional functioning that actually serves to enhance the performance. However, an excessive amount of anxiety, either in anticipation of or during the performance can be disruptive and counter-productive. Students can be vulnerable to perceiving academically evaluative situations as threatening in several different aspects of performance such as test-taking, paper-writing, and course-related discussions/activities. Estimates of the prevalence of functionally impairing test anxiety range from 20-35% in studies of college student populations (Naveh-Benjamin, Lavi, McKeachie, & Lin, 1997; Zeidner, 1998). Such anxiety is a combination of physiological over-arousal, worry, and emotion-driven coping behaviors that occur during performance situations. This program will present how to formulate excessive academic performance anxiety as a target of treatment from a cognitive behavioral (CBT) perspective. The presentation will also cover how to design and implement treatment that is specifically driven from the CBT case formulation. Evidence-based interventions will include cognitive challenging from a socratic questioning method, stress management interventions, mindfulness-based interventions, and exposure with response prevention.
Lisa Smith, PhD
Associate Professor and Director Boston University
Caroline Kerns, MA
Clinical Fellow, Center for Anxiety and Related Disorders (CARD) Boston University
CME: 1.5; CNE (Nursing): 1.5; PsyCE: 1.5; NBCC: 1.5; NASW: 1.5
General ~ General ~ General 1:00-2:00pm
General Session: The Sexual Violence on Campus and School's' Obligations under Title IX of the
Education Amendments of 1972 (Title IX)
Abstract: Thursday’s general session will examine the importance of addressing sexual harassment and sexual violence on school campus. Civil rights attorney, Kate Upatham will describe a school's required response to student-on-student sexual violence, explain schools' procedural requirements under Title IX, describe appropriate educational and prevention programs and strategies, and provide examples of remedies. The session will cover such questions as:
· which employees are obligated to report incidents of possible sexual violence to school officials;
· what are the reporting responsibilities of school employees who provide or support the provision of counseling, advocacy,
health, mental health, or sexual assault-related services to student
· who have experienced sexual violence;
· what information is a responsible employee obligated to report about an incident of possible student-on-student sexual
violence;
· what should a responsible employee tell a student who discloses an incident of sexual violence, and more.
During this presentation, issues of confidentiality and a school's obligation to respond to sexual violence, such as what factors should a school consider in weighing a student's request for confidentiality will be reviewed.
Kate Upatham, JD
Civil Rights Attorney, US Department of Education, Office for Civil Rights (OCR) CME: 1; CNE (Nursing): 1; PsyCE: 1; CHES: 1; MCHES: 1; AAFP: 1; NBCC: 1; NASW: 1
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