EXTRA CREDIT OPPORTUNITY FOR FIRST EXAM- PSY 215 & 101

The Ammerman Campus' Ninth Annual Mental Health Awareness Day provides students with a wide range of information concerning mental health issues and psychological disorders.  It will take place on Wednesday, October 8th from 9:30am until 1:30pm in the Babylon Student Center.

 

Workshops on a variety of issues will be offered.  This year the current planned workshops are:

 

•             Heroin: The Long Island Epidemic, by Steve Chassman, LICADD, 9:30 a.m.

•             The Biology of Psychopathology, by Professor Joe Vollaro, 9:30 a.m.

•             Dating and Domestic Violence 101, SCCADV, 9:30 a.m.

•             Veterans: Diagnoses, Treatment, and Suicide Prevention, by Nancy Olsen, Northport VAMC, 11:00 a.m.

•             GLBT 101:  presented by Stephanie Buxbaum, LIGALY, 11:00 a.m.

•             The Biology of Addiction,  Professor Mike Mangino, Nursing Program, 11:00 a.m.

•             How to Stay Calm and Centered with Mindfulness Practice, Nina Thorne, MBSR – Long Island, 12:30 p.m.

 

Mental health agencies which will have information and resources available include:

 

•             Long Island Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence (LICADD)

•             Response Hotline (Suicide Prevention and Crisis Intervention)

•             Federation of Organizations (NYS Mental Disabilities)

•             FEGS Positive Space Program (HIV counseling)

•             Suffolk County Coalition Against Domestic Violence (SCCADV)

•             National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI)

•             Mather Hospital Eating Disorders Program

•             Victims Information Bureau of Suffolk (VIBS)

•             Northport V.A. Medical Center

 

In order to receive extra credit, a student will need to attend one of the lectures, obtain a minimum of one other source on the topic, and write a 1-2 page paper on it (following APA format!). Due date for the assignment is 10/22/2014.

 

Please let me know if you have any questions.