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The Friday Lunch is a brown-bag event open to all.\u00a0 Cookies and some beverages are provided<\/p>\n
The remainder of this e-mail reports what we know about the schedule for the rest of the semester. We will be sending out announcements each week. If you would prefer not to receive the announcements, please inform Dr. Andrew Lucker, Associate Director of the Center for Policy Studies, by e-mail (andrew.lucker@case.edu<\/a>).<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Dr. Floersch<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0brings almost 20 years of experience in mental health services practice and administration to his research and teaching at the Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences. He joined the MSASS faculty in 1998. In his research, Dr. Floersch utilizes ethnographic and historical-sociological research methods to study case managers at work in the field. He is the author of several articles and his first book, entitled Meds, Money, and Manners was published by Columbia University Press in 2002. In his book, Meds, Money, and Manners, Dr. Floersch makes a provocative inquiry into the undocumented oral narratives of case managers. His research has found that case managers utilize two important forms of knowledge in their practice, disciplinary (or book) knowledge and situated (or practical) knowledge. Case managers learn disciplinary knowledge in college classrooms and training workshops. Disciplinary knowledge focuses on how to help persons with mental illness develop daily living skills, monitor medication, and manage money, among others. Case managers are not formally taught situated knowledge. Instead, they invent it in difficult situations as a way to understand the psychological capacity of clients who are trying to become self-sufficient. In short, Dr. Floersch explains, case managers are inventing and recovering clinical knowledge because the social work curriculum and management training often suppress that knowledge. “We must reintroduce clinical skills into the training of case managers,” he says. “Politicians and the public want persons with mental illness to be self-monitoring good citizens but this is impossible without some kind of self-awareness, which can be learned from a case manager who knows how to clinically structure a helping relationship.” In his current research on youth psychotropic treatment, he extends his research of adult medication treatment to understanding how adolescents and young adults experience psychiatric medications in their daily lifes.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n April 11: David Matthiesen, Associate Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, will lead a discussion on \u201cEnergy and Alternative Energy Policy in Ohio.\u201d<\/p>\n April 18: Megan Whalen Turner fiction writer for young adults and author of,\u00a0Instead Of Three Wishes,<\/em>\u00a0The Thief,<\/em>\u00a0The Queen of Attolia<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0The King of Attolia<\/em>; Anne Ursu is the author of the novels\u00a0Spilling Clarence<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0The Disapparation of James<\/em>, Joe White Luxenberg Family Professor of Public Policy and Chair, Department if Political Science, Case Western Reserve University, will discuss, “Moral Dilemmas in Politics and Fiction.” The Friday Lunch discussions are held on the lower (ground) level of<\/p>\n Crawford Hall.\u00a0 Visitors with mobility issues may find it easiest to take advantage of special arrangements we have made.\u00a0 On most Fridays, a few parking spaces in the V.I.P. lot in between Crawford Hall and Amasa Stone Chapel are held for participants in the lunch discussion.<\/p>\n Visitors then can avoid walking up the hill to the first floor of Crawford by entering the building on the ground level, through the garage area under the building.\u00a0 The further door on the left in that garage will be left unlocked during the period before the Friday lunch.\u00a0 On occasion, parking will be unavailable because of other university events.<\/p>\n For more information about these and other Center for Policy Studies programs, please see\u00a0http:\/\/policy.case.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Jerry Floersch, Ph.D., LISW – Associate Professor of Social Work at Case Western Reserve University Friday April 4, 2008 Insert Joe White text here!<\/p>\n The Friday Lunch is a brown-bag event open to all.\u00a0 Cookies and some beverages are provided<\/p>\n The remainder of this e-mail reports what we know about the schedule for the rest of the semester. We will be sending out announcements each week. If you would prefer not to receive the announcements,<\/p>\n
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\nFriday Lunch and Other Public Affairs Upcoming Topics and Speakers:<\/h3>\n
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\n12:30-1:30 p.m.
\nCrawford Hall – Room 9
\nInamori Center
\nCase Western Reserve University
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