UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — The Social Science Research Institute's Child Maltreatment Solutions Network is hosting an in-person conference, “Biological Embedding of Caregiving Adversity,” in 129 HUB-Robeson Center on the University Park campus, on Friday, Nov. 15, from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Interested attendees can register now.
Presentations will be geared towards a diverse audience including researchers, practitioners and caseworkers to facilitate the fastest uptake of these innovative methods. Researchers, practitioners, postdoctoral fellows and trainees, undergraduate and graduate students are encouraged to attend, and breakfast and lunch refreshments will be provided. A virtual attendance option is available for those unable to attend the conference in-person and there is a minimal registration fee for students.
Additional information about parking and lodging is available here.
There will also be a poster session during a networking reception at the end of the afternoon. Submissions are for the poster session are currently open until Sept. 1, and space is limited. There is an award for best student poster, and poster presenters will be provided with conference registration including meals.
Speakers for the conference include:
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Ruth Feldman, the Simms-Man Professor and director of the Center of Developmental, Social, and Relationship Neuroscience at Reichman University in Israel, director of the Irving B. Harris public clinic for young children and their families, and adjunct professor at the Yale University Child Student Center.
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Mary Dozier, the Unidel Amy E. duPont Chair and professor of psychological and brain science at the University of Delaware.
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Erika Lunkenheimer, professor of psychology, associate director of the Child Maltreatment Solutions Network and Social Science Research Institute co-funded faculty member.
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Assaf Oshri, professor of human development and family science at the the University of Georgia.
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Elizabeth Skowron, professor of psychology at the University of Oregon and head of the Family Biobehavioral Health Lab.
"This conference will showcase work at the cutting edge of biological research in the caregiving context, as well as its application to intervention, allowing us to better understand how childhood adversity is biologically embedded,” said Lunkenheimer, who is also a conference organizer.
The Social Science Research Institute, the Biobehavioral Health Department and Human Development and Family Studies Department in the College of Health of Human Development, the Child Study Center at Penn State and the Psychology Department in the College of the Liberal Arts sponsoring this event.