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Grand Rounds Panel Discussion: Disabilities and Mental Health
November 18, 2022 @ 12:00 pm - 1:15 pm
Panel Discussion: Disabilities and Mental Health
Description:
This will be an interactive panel presentation & discussion. We encourage you to email questions in advance to echewitt@wisc.edu
Articles:
Jour of Counseling Develop – 2011 – Livneh – Psychosocial Adaptation to Chronic Illness and Disability A Primer for
‘I Am Not The Doctor For You’: Physicians’ Attitudes About Caring For People With Disabilities
Patient and Coworker Mistreatment of Physicians With Disabilities
Learning Objectives:
• Examine disability history in the US and how the medical field has influenced disability frameworks
• Discuss the concepts of ableism, ableist language, and microaggressions experienced by disabled individuals in order to recognize and influence personal behavior
• Explain common psychological reactions to disability
• Select appropriate interventions to facilitate adaptation to disability
About the Speakers:
Mari Magler, J.D., is the director of the McBurney Disability Resource Center at UW–Madison. She has worked in the field of disability and disability advocacy since 1994 and in higher education since 2005. Magler is passionate about disability justice, access and inclusion. She earned her Juris Doctor from Hamline University School of Law, and her bachelor’s in linguistics from Metropolitan State University. She co-authored “The Mentor’s Companion: A Practical Guide to Mentoring” and “A Plan for Mentorship of Educational Interpreters in Minnesota.”
Susan Miller Smedema, Ph.D., CRC, LPC is a professor and current Chair in the Clinical Rehabilitation Counseling / Rehabilitation Counselor Education program at the University of Wisconsin –Madison. Prior to working at UW-Madison, she taught at Florida State University and the University of Northern Iowa. As of May, 2020, Dr. Smedema has published 48 peer-reviewed journal articles, written 9 book chapters, and presented 23 times at national conferences, including the National Council on Rehabilitation Education and the American Counseling Association’s annual conferences. She is a four-time winner of the American Rehabilitation Counseling Association Research Award, serves on the editorial board of Rehabilitation Counseling Bulletin, and is a board member for the National Council on Rehabilitation Education.