Article archive / September 1, 2016
Originally published: . Volume 7, No. 9. Source pages: 15.
Drs. Charles and Paula Zeanah, Dr. Keyes, Dr. Coulter, Dr. Chaney Louisiana Psychological Assn to Hold Fall Workshop Oct 8
Charles Zeanah, MD, and Paula Zeanah, PhD, will give the keynote addresses, “Is it Ever Too Late? Sensitive Periods in Brain and Behavioral Development,” and “Adverse Childhood Experiences: Implications for All Psychologists,” at the Louisiana Psychological Association Fall Workshop, to be held October 8 at the West Baton Rouge Conference Center in Port Allen, Louisiana.
The Zeanahs will discuss various issues in the clinical, research and policy perspectives on early experience applicable to all clinicians and researchers. Dr. Charles Zeanah is Mary Peters Sellars-Polchow Chair in Psychiatry, Professor of Psychiatry and Pediatrics, and Vice-Chair for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the Tulane University School of Medicine in New Orleans. Dr. Paula Zeanah is the LGMC/OLOL Eminent Scholar Endowed Chair in Nursing and Director of Research at the Picard Center for Child Development and Lifelong Learning, University of Louisiana at Lafayette.
Angela W. Keyes, PhD, Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the Tulane Institute of Infant & Early Childhood Mental Health, and Allison Boothe, PhD, Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Tulane Institute of Infant & Early Childhood Mental Health, will present “Supporting the Development of Young Children’s Social and Emotional Skills Through Mental Health Consultation.”
“Weak Links in School-Related Evaluations: Evidence-Based Practices,” will be presented by W. Alan Coulter, PhD, Director for Education Initiatives at the Human Development Center, School of Allied Health Professions, LSU Health Sciences Center. Coulter will describe characteristics and purposes of needed school- based assessment components and assessing fidelity of implementation of interventions.
Courtland Chaney, PhD, will present, “Unethical Behavior: Understanding Why Good People Do and Repeat Bad Things.” Dr. Chaney is a licensed industrial-organizational psychologist and a certified professional in human resources and was instructor in the LSU Department of Management. He will explore the situations and circumstances that prompt people to act in unethical ways and the psychological dynamics that allow or even encourage people to repeat unethical behavior.
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