2005 Building Strong Families Conference
Handouts from Workshop Presentations
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Concurrent Workshop I

• Learning About Family Life and Societal Issues Through Service Learning Courses: Focus on Children and Elders (Mary E. Henry)
• Family Dynamics (Sally Kraus and Angie McKee)
• Why Would a Father Desert His Children? (David W. Appleby)

• Medication: A Bandaid Approach to Families in Transition? (Denise Anderson)
• Poverty Looks Like Me (Rebecca Pettit)
• The Transition to Parenthood: The Intergenerational Transmission of Parenting Through Parents' Mental Representation of Attachment (Erin Boyd-Soisson)

Concurrent Workshop III

• Impact of Immigration on Individuals/Families Across the Life Course (Bahira Sherif-Trask, Laura Thompson Brady, Wei Qui, & Dorit Radnai-Griffin)
• Using College Infrastructures to Create Parenting Center (Lou Aymard)

Concurrent Workshop IV

• Strengthening Families in Transition (Elizabeth Park, Sara Phillips, Flori Willard, Linda Sherwood, & Chris Wichtendahl)
• The Journey of Adoption: Transitions in Conversation Along the Way (Maryellen B. Miller)
• The Significance of Grief Work in the Family Transition Process (Rev. Herbert L. Bomberger)