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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.”
The following award winners from the Alumni Academy: Deborah (Armock) Schafer, Paula Serra, Dennis Mayer, Al Widner, Richard Ames, and Susan Duda-Osborne.
The WMU
Athletic Training Alumni Reception will be held during the NATA Convention, June 19 from 5-8 p.m. in St. Louis.
The student honor groups PEK and SPASM and the graduate teaching assistants from the Department of Health, Physical Education and Recreation “jumped in the lake” for the first-ever WMU Polar Plunge on Saturday, Feb. 23, benefiting Special Olympics Michigan Area 16. The Plunge is a national fundraiser sponsored by the WMU Western Student Association and efforts from the local law enforcement.
Community health education professor Robert Bensley was recently appointed as a Research Associate with the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University. Since spending six months in South Africa supported by the Fulbright Senior Scholar Award, he has been actively involved in internationalizing experiences for the community health education curriculum and exploring avenues for collaborative research between WMU and NMMU. Research associate appointments are open-ended positions and individuals are considered to be permanent academic staff members of the NMMU for the purposes of research administrative support and research funding. Bensley, with his NMMU colleagues, is currently pursuing a number of community and research-related opportunities in South Africa.
