http://www.buffalo.edu/news/list-page.html?key=d-socialwork en-US Copyright 2008, University at Buffalo 2008-05-17T10:20:57-04:00 apage@buffalo.edu apage@buffalo.edu http://www.buffalo.edu/news/9311 Nancy J. Smyth, dean of the University at Buffalo School of Social Work, has been elected to a two-year term as president of the St. Louis Group, an association of the country's outstanding graduate schools of social work. 2008-04-14T00:00:00-04:00 93110009 http://www.buffalo.edu/news/9238 International trauma expert Bessel van der Kolk, known for his ability to appeal to audiences with or without technical background on the effects of trauma on the body and mind, will conduct a day-long training session on May 2 sponsored by the University at Buffalo's School of Social Work. 2008-03-19T00:00:00-04:00 92380009 http://www.buffalo.edu/news/9191 A grassroots cyberspace campaign by a graduate student in the University at Buffalo School of Social Work to raise money for research on a cancer from which she is recovering has earned her top-10 honors in a national online charity fund-raising competition and raised more than $30,000 for a charity dedicated to raising awareness and research funds related to the cancer. 2008-02-28T00:00:00-04:00 91910009 http://www.buffalo.edu/news/8781 The bridge collapse in Minneapolis this week raises fears about personal safety in most of us, especially those who have suffered past traumas or from personal safety phobias, according to a University at Buffalo expert on post-traumatic stress disorder. 2007-08-03T00:00:00-04:00 87810009 http://www.buffalo.edu/news/8436 The School of Social Work at the University at Buffalo has entered into an agreement with the Buffalo Public Schools to provide specialized group treatment and violence-prevention programs to help students who have been suspended return to their regular classrooms. 2007-02-15T00:00:00-04:00 84360009 http://www.buffalo.edu/news/8428 Future students who are seeking a degree from the University at Buffalo School of Social Work will have access to more scholarship assistance, thanks to a bequest gift for $423,701 from alumna Jean Schumacher Cook. 2007-02-12T00:00:00-04:00 84280009 http://www.buffalo.edu/news/7938 Mental-health professionals representing a variety of fields will gather in Buffalo on June 1-3 for the Second International Interdisciplinary Conference on Clinical Supervision, an interdisciplinary conference devoted to clinical-supervision theory, practice and research. 2006-05-10T00:00:00-04:00 79380009 http://www.buffalo.edu/news/7927 The risk of violence is a reality for most social workers in practice today, says a nationally regarded social work educator who will present a workshop sponsored by the University at Buffalo School of Social Work titled "Risk Assessment, Violent Clients and Practitioner Safety" on May 12 in the Holiday Inn Amherst. 2006-05-01T00:00:00-04:00 79270009 http://www.buffalo.edu/news/7904 Despite their feminist leanings, social workers and their female college assistants wound up falling back on "moralistic, age-based standards of appropriate sexual interest and behavior" when it came to mentoring a group of middle-school girls, according to research co-authored by an assistant professor in the University at Buffalo School of Social Work. 2006-04-18T00:00:00-04:00 79040009 http://www.buffalo.edu/news/7893 Recent incidents of student fighting in the Buffalo Public Schools point to a disturbing problem facing schools across the U.S. It's an issue that the University at Buffalo School of Social Work is addressing, thanks to several programs it has developed to defuse and prevent school violence. 2006-04-06T00:00:00-04:00 78930009