Health
Chair: Jennifer Putney (Simmons College)
APM Assignment: 2017–2019
Co-Chair: Shanna Burke (Florida International University)
APM Assignment: 2017-2019
This Track focuses on new knowledge/skills/ethical issues in education, policy, intervention/treatment, and supervision/administration at individual, family, group, and community levels in health care. Health care includes prevention, screening, assessment, treatment/intervention, rehabilitation, policy, and evaluation in the specializations of public health, physical health, mental health, and behavioral health across diverse settings, problems, and populations. Topics include risk/resilience, health disparities, genetics, alcohol and other drugs, mental health and mental illness, intimate partner violence, community violence, cognitive and behavioral disabilities, physical illness, interdisciplinary collaboration, institutional restructuring, job satisfaction, burnout, and turnover.