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Parenting with Intellectual Disabilities slides
This presentation examines the unique challenges faced by indivi duals who are parents and who have an intellectual disability

Date Posted: Monday, August 10, 2009
Authors: Susan L Parish
Applicable Courses: Family and Child Policy, Family and Child Practice, Mental Health Policy, Mental Health Practice, Practice with People with Disabilities, Practice with Women
Topics: Children and Families, Diverse Populations, Mental Health

HIV+ Prison Inmates: Mental Illness and Considerations for Release Planning slides
This presentation examines rates of depression in incarcerated HIV+ inmates and discusses risks and results of mental illnesses for HIV+ releasing inmates

Date Posted: Tuesday, June 30, 2009
Authors: Anna Scheyett, Sharon Parker, Carol Golin, David Wohl, Carrie Pettus Davis, Becky White
Applicable Courses: Discrimination and Inequality, Health Policy, Health Practice, Mental Health Policy, Mental Health Practice, Practice with People with Disabilities
Topics: Diverse Populations, Health, Mental Health

It’s Just That Much Harder: Multilayered Hardship Experiences of Low-Income Mothers With Disabilities slides notes
The current study conducted six focus groups with low-income, disabled mothers who were receiving disability income transfer payments. It investigated the low-income, disabled mothers’ experiences, perspectives, coping strategies and resistance techniques, while focusing on how to relieve hardships and challenges, by changing policy.

Date Posted: Monday, September 08, 2008
Authors: Susan L Parish, Shawn Cassiman, Sandra Magana
Applicable Courses: Child and Adolescent Practice, Discrimination and Inequality, Family and Child Policy, Family and Child Practice, Health Policy, Practice with People with Disabilities, Practice with Women
Topics: Children and Families, Diverse Populations, Health

Extending Assertive Community Treatment to Criminal Justice Settings: Origins, Current Evidence, and Future Directions slides notes
This presentation is based on a paper that explores the evidence of Assertive Community Treatment (ACT), FACT (ACT for forensic populations, and FICM (intensive case management for forensic populations) in preventing recidivism among persons with severe mental illness (SMI)

Date Posted: Tuesday, August 19, 2008
Authors: Gary Cuddeback, Piper Meyer, Joseph Morrissey
Applicable Courses: Mental Health Policy, Mental Health Practice, Practice with People with Disabilities, Violence and Anti-Social Behavior
Topics: Mental Health

Juggling and Struggling: A Preliminary Study of Work-Life “Balance” among Mothers Raising Adolescents with Developmental Dis slides notes
The current qualitative study examined how mothers of adolescents with developmental disabilities balance work and family responsibilities

Date Posted: Tuesday, August 19, 2008
Authors: Susan L Parish
Applicable Courses: Child and Adolescent Development, Child and Adolescent Practice, Discrimination and Inequality, Family and Child Policy, Family and Child Practice, Health Policy, Health Practice, Practice with People with Disabilities
Topics: Children and Families, Health

Research to Teaching Initiative
School of Social Work
University of North Carolina
CB# 3550, 301 Pittsboro Street
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3550

If you have any questions, comments or suggestions, please contact:

Anna Scheyett
Clinical Associate Professor
School of Social Work
 (919) 962-4372
amscheye@email.unc.edu

This project is supported by the Distance Education Initiative, Office of the Provost, UNC-CH, and by the School of Social Work, UNC-CH.