Webinars

Getting Researchers and Clinicians to Play Nice Together:
Building a Bridge to Span the Gap Separating Practitioners and Researchers
David Balk, PhD, FT
Wednesday, August 18, 2010

Webinar Time:
1:00 - 2:30 p.m. EDT
12:00 - 1:30 p.m. CDT
11:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. MDT
10:00 - 11:30 a.m. PDT
7:00 - 8:30 a.m. HADT
What time does the webinar begin where I am?

Counselors, psychologists and social workers depend on the work of researchers to inform their practice. Seasoned therapists understand that pulling from a multitude of current grounded theory gives their clients the best chance for a healthy life. Researchers depend on counselors, psychologists and social workers to utilize and inform their work. They strive to develop grounded theory to provide for their consumers, the therapists. Those on both ends of the spectrum strive for common ground.

This webinar will provide practical methods researchers and practitioners can use to increase collaboration and bridge the gap.

Learning Objectives:
In this webinar, Dr. Balk will:

1. Delineate the fundamental ways humans gain knowledge and the ways of gaining knowledge most typically used by practitioners (and by researchers as well)
2. Indicate the criteria that separate scientific knowledge from other forms of knowing.
3. Summarize the divide between practitioners and researchers for how the other learns what they know and disdain for what they know.
4. Integrate the approaches identified for bringing research into the world of practice and for getting researchers and practitioners collaborating.

About your instructor:

David E. Balk is a Professor at Brooklyn College where he directs Graduate Studies in Thanatology.  His research has examined adolescent bereavement over the death of family members and friends.  He is collaborating with colleagues at different universities to establish the prevalence and severity of college student bereavement.  Balk is Associate Editor and Book Review Editor of the peer-reviewed journal Death Studies, and Editor-in-Chief of the 2007 publication Handbook of Thanatology: The Essential Body of Knowledge for the Study of Death, Dying, and Bereavement.  With Charles Corr, he has edited for Springer Publishing Company Adolescent Encounters with Death Bereavement, and Coping and Children’s Encounters with Death, Bereavement, and Coping. Balk feels strongly that bridging the gap separating practitioners and researchers is both a practical and moral imperative for ADEC.

CE Credits: 1.5
Nursing Contact Hours: 1.5

Cancellations for this session will be accepted through end of business on Monday, August 16, 2010. Registrants who cancel within that time will receive a refund, minus a $10 service fee. Cancellations received after that day will not be refunded.