SPEAKERS

Dr. Denise Pope
Senior Lecturer at the Stanford University School of Education
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Dr. John Piacentini
Professor of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences in the David Geffen School of Medicine and Director of the Child OCD, Anxiety, and Tic Disorders Program at the Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior at UCLA
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Dr. Greg Jennings
Professor and Coordinator of the School Psychology Program at California State University, East Bay
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SESSION DESCRIPTIONS

Dr. Denise Pope, Stanford University
High Expectation Schooling: What We Know About Student Stress and What We Can Do
Since No Child Left Behind, within political, academic, and applied settings, there has and continues to be a strong emphasis on test scores. Further, with the possibility of merit-based pay, there may be even more pressure from teachers on students to perform academically. Worse, budget cuts have made postsecondary education more competitive and expensive. With funding and state approval at stake, many schools use only test scores to gauge the efficacy and well-being of a school population. In sum, there is increased pressure from multiple scores on students to perform academically.

What is too often overlooked, however, is the students' response to this increased pressure. Student stress and anxiety are prevalent and problematic for student achievement and quality of life. Dr. Pope will address the research and current climate for stress in high-expectations, high-achieving schooling environments to answer two questions: What is stressing these students out? What are the consequences of this stress? The state of research for student stress and what practitioners are experiencing outside the lab will be discussed. Further, Dr. Pope will discuss strategies that schools, parents, and youth can take to cope with and reduce stressors in high expectation schools. To do so, Dr. Pope speaks to changes in policies and practices concerning exams, school schedules, college counseling, advisory, homework, media use.

Dr. John Piacentini,  University of California, Los Angeles
Recognition and Treatment of Anxiety Disorders in Youth with ADHD and LD
This presentation will review the clinical phenomenology, assessment and treatment of childhood anxiety disorders. Special emphasis will be placed on the recognition and treatment of problematic anxiety in children and adolescents with coexisting ADHD and LD.

Dr. Greg Jennings, California State University, East Bay
The Ecology of Resiliency in Diverse and Urban Schools
Student stress is not relegated to high expectation environments. With the threat of violence, depleted resources, and community instability, students in urban and diverse schools face different stressors, but the effects on academic performance and well-being can be equally deleterious. Understanding these stressors and supporting students through stressful periods necessitates inquiry and involvement in multiple layers of a student's environment. Thus, Dr. Jennings takes an ecological approach to address student stress and learning in diverse and urban environments. This session will focus on resiliency as an outcome of support in families and schools (e.g., caring relationships, meaningful participation, and connectedness). In addition, Dr. Jennings will discuss measures of environmental support that buffer against stress. To close, Dr. Jennings will invite questions, thoughts, and reflections from the audience.

SPEAKER BIOs

Denise Pope, Ph.D. is a Senior Lecturer at the Stanford University School of Education. For the past ten years, she has specialized in student engagement, curriculum studies, qualitative research methods, and service learning. She is co-founder of Challenge Success, a research and intervention project that aims to reduce unhealthy pressure on youth and champions a broader vision of youth success. Challenge Success is an expanded version of the SOS: Stressed-Out Students project that Dr. Pope founded and directed from 2003-2008. She lectures nationally on parenting techniques and pedagogical strategies to increase student health, engagement with learning, and integrity. Her book, "Doing School": How We Are Creating a Generation of Stressed Out, Materialistic, and Miseducated Students (Yale University Press, 2001) was awarded Notable Book in Education by the American School Board Journal, 2001. Dr. Pope is a 3 time recipient of the Stanford University School of Education Outstanding Teacher and Mentor Award. Prior to teaching at Stanford, Dr. Pope taught high school English in Fremont, CA and college composition and rhetoric courses at Santa Clara University. She lives in Los Altos, CA with her husband and three children.

Dr. John Piacentini is a Professor of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences in the David Geffen School of Medicine and Director of the Child OCD, Anxiety, and Tic Disorders Program at the Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior at UCLA. Dr. Piacentini has authored over 140 papers, chapters, and books and has received numerous NIH and other grants addressing the etiology, assessment and treatment of childhood anxiety, OCD, tic disorders, and adolescent suicide. He is Chair of the Tourette Syndrome Association Behavioral Sciences consortium, Founding Fellow of the Academy of Cognitive Therapy, and President-elect of the American Board of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology. Piacentini is also Deputy Editor for the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and an editorial board member for several leading psychology journals. He is a frequent lecturer and actively involved in training mental health practitioners how to treat youngsters with anxiety and similar problems.

Greg Jennings, Ph.D. is a graduate of the U.C. Berkeley School Psychology program and Coordinator, School Psychology Program at Cal State East Bay. Dr. Jenningsí current research and professional interests are in studentsí resiliency, the marked capacity of individuals to cope with and overcome setbacks and stressors. He has presented nationally on the role of the school psychologist in promoting student coping and resources through family, school, and community systems. Current research focuses on individual, school, and family sources of resiliency among diverse, urban youth. Dr. Jennings teaches courses in mental health consultation, individual development, assessment, delivery of school psychology services, and supervision. He consults as a school psychologist in the Bay Area.

SCHEDULE

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7:45  Registration, Continental Breakfast, Networking - please arrive early!

8:25 Welcome

8:30 - 9:45 Dr. John Piacentini
Recognition and Treatment of Anxiety Disorders in Youth with ADHD and LD

9:45 - 10:00 Break

10:00 - 11:15 Dr. Denise Pope

11:15 - 12:00 Lunch

12:15 - 1:30 Dr. Denise Pope

1:30 - 1:45 Break

1:45 - 3:00  Dr. Greg Jennings

Mailing Address
Conference Location Info

Event Location
Clark Kerr Campus (CKC) in Berkeley
Phone: 510-642-4444
2601 Warring St. Berkeley, CA 94720-2288

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Driving/Parking
Parking is very limited at the conference venue and will cost $12-15 per day. We have parking spaces for 1/2 the number of attendes so carpool or take public transit. 

We have adjusted the price of the conference to reflect this added expense. Street parking is limited to 2 hours and there are no nearby public lots. Here is a map to the overflow parking if our main lot is full.  If you must drive to the facility, please carpool.  Parking is in the South West lot (on Warring near Derby) and is not guaranteed. Please come by public transportation if you can.

Public Transit
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Conference Mailing Address
UC Berkeley Graduate School of Education
School Psychology Program
4511 Tolman Hall
Berkeley, CA 94720-1670
510/642-4202 (email is preferred)
Attn: School Psychology Conference
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45th Annual Conference

Building School-Family Partnerships: Strategies that Promote Student Success

Friday
April 27th, 2012

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