{"id":7505,"date":"2019-07-24T15:46:46","date_gmt":"2019-07-24T20:46:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/?p=7505"},"modified":"2019-07-24T15:46:46","modified_gmt":"2019-07-24T20:46:46","slug":"msw-program-welcomes-its-first-frederick-douglass-summer-scholar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/2019\/msw-program-welcomes-its-first-frederick-douglass-summer-scholar\/","title":{"rendered":"MSW Program Welcomes Its First Frederick Douglass Summer Scholar"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Raymond Adams is on the WCU main campus this July teaching one of the master of social work program\u2019s required courses, Mental Health: A Recovery Approach. A Ph.D. candidate in the social work program at Jackson State University (MS), an Historically Black College and University (HBCU), he is the first\u00a0WCU Frederick Douglass Institute Summer Scholar<\/a>\u00a0to work with WCU\u2019s\u00a0Graduate Social Work Department.<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cAlthough it\u2019s a really fast-moving course taught in five weeks,\u201d he says, each of the 18 students \u201cseeks to become more knowledgeable about the\u00a0DSM<\/em>\u2013<\/em>5<\/em>\u00a0[the latest edition of the\u00a0American Psychiatric Association\u2019s\u00a0Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders<\/em>], treatment, and potential interventions.\u201d<\/p>\n

The course examines major childhood, adolescent, and adult mental health disorders holistically, using a bio-psycho-social-cultural-spiritual and recovery\/resiliency\/capacity-building template for analysis. Adams explains that he\u2019s \u201cunderpinning the course with theory that\u2019s becoming more galvanizing: intersectionality plus critical race theory. We need to treat the whole person so I teach students to meet clients where they are \u2013 to walk alongside the patients. This helps them understand how the environment affects the individual.\u201d<\/p>\n

Through this teaching fellowship, he draws a parallel to Frederick Douglass\u2019 life as a public figure who enlightened and transformed American society. He sees his role as the MSW program\u2019s inaugural Douglass Scholar as \u201ca natural step toward ensuring that master-level social work students remain cognizant to their role as change agents.\u201d<\/p>\n

Adams\u2019 academic background suits this course, notes his WCU mentor, MSW Professor Gwenelle O’Neal: His \u201cresearch presents a practical description of implementing health information through community-based organizations and focuses on survivor strategies. His presence in our department offers our faculty and students\u00a0exposure to theory, demographics, and potential outcomes that contribute to the collective impact the social work profession seeks for citizens.\u201d<\/p>\n

On Wednesday, July 24, Adams will present his research on the intersection of spirituality, mental well-being, and social networks among rural African American prostate cancer survivors. His presentation takes place at the University\u2019s Center City campus at 701 Market Street, Room 6, from 7 to 8 p.m.<\/p>\n

At Southern Arkansas University, Adams has served as a tenure-track faculty member in the undergraduate social work program since 2014. Using his experience here, he hopes \u201cto form courses back at Southern Arkansas, maybe develop courses around mental health diagnoses that specifically use the theoretical frames of George Engel\u2019s biopsychosocial-spirituality model.\u201d<\/p>\n

Adams hopes to continue his career at Southern Arkansas upon successfully defending his doctoral dissertation this October. He resides in Monroe, LA.<\/p>\n

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This article was written and published by West Chester University (https:\/\/wcupa.edu\/communications\/newsroom\/2019\/07.18Adams.aspx)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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