CAA Newsletter School
Summer
of Social Work (cont.)
2013
Faculty Accomplishments
Norton, C.L., Watt, T., & Penn, A. (In press, accepted 6/27/2013). Exploring the impact of a wilderness-based positive youth development program for urban youth. Journal of Experiential Education.
Wisner, B. L. & Norton, C. L. (In press, accepted 4/2013). Capitalizing on behavioral and emotional strengths of alternative high school students through group counseling to promote mindfulness skills. Journal for Specialists in Groupwork.
Watt, T., & Norton, C.L., & Jones, C. (2013). Applying the strengths perspective to support services for foster care alumni in higher education. Children and Services Review. DOI: 10.1016/j.childyouth.2013.06.002 Youth
Assistant
Professor Awarded Hogg Foundation Research Grant
Posted by Jayme Blaschke University News Service July 24, 2013
Christine Norton, an assistant professor in the School of Social Work at Texas State University, has received a grant from the Hogg Foundation for Mental Health to conduct innovative research in mental health. Norton will use the grant to study the use of adventure therapy, an innovative approach to treatment, on children and families affected by abuse and neglect.
Dr. Christine L. Norton
Norton is among 10 grant recipients in the state. The two-year grants are capped at $19,250 each. The research projects were selected from a pool of 38 proposals from 17 schools across Texas. The goals of this initiative are to increase the pool of junior faculty members doing quality mental health research and to encourage the disbursement of research findings to other researchers, policymakers and service providers through presentations at state and national conferences and meetings. “The foundation is committed to funding promising research that sheds light on various dimensions of mental health,” said Dr. Octavio N. Martinez, Jr., executive director of the Hogg Foundation. The Hogg Foundation advances recovery and wellness in Texas by supporting mental health services, policy analysis, research and public education. The foundation was created in 1940 by the children of former Texas Gov. James S. Hogg and is part of the Division of Diversity and Community Engagement at the University of Texas.