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A high level multi-sector delegation from the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands met with researchers from Western Michigan University to discuss on-going projects directed at the childhood obesity epidemic that has captured the attention of governments around the world. A multidisciplinary team of College of Education faculty have teamed up with the CNMI public school system to offer a program to primary caregivers that has the potential to impact childhood obesity through household behavioral changes. These faculty are Mozhdeh Bruss, Joseph Morris, Linda Dannison, Tim Michael, Brooks Applegate, Andrea Smith, and Judy McGowan representing dietetics, adult education, psychology, exercise science, early childhood, parent education, program development and evaluation, research methodology, and teacher education. Other faculty members including Lonnie Duncan, Suzan Ayers, and James Lewis from the College of Education and Amy Curtis from the College of Health and Human Services will participate in upcoming meetings discussing multifaceted and multilevel aspects of childhood obesity in the CNMI and exploring strategies for its reduction and prevention. The project is supported by the Larry L. Hillblom Foundation, CNMI Public School System, and Western Michigan University.
The Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies in partnership with Springer Publishing Company, has selected the Social Problem-Solving Inventory for Adolescents developed by Drs. Marianne Frauenknecht, professor, and David R. Black from Purdue University to be included in the current multi-volume series on assessment instruments titled the “Clinical Assessment Series: Practitioner's Guide to Empirically-Based Measures of Social Skills.” Each series features a specific clinical problem area and presents a comprehensive compendium of measurement devices available to disseminate empirically validated instruments as broadly as possible to researchers, academicians, and clinicians. Editors commented, “Many instruments were included in our review of adolescent social skills assessment measures and the Social Problem-Solving Inventory for Adolescents stands out as an excellent example.”
