University Daily Kansan, July 6, 1983
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Mental health center to offer workshops in interrelationships
By MELISSA BAUMAN
Staff Reporter
A series of summer workshops ranging from self-assertion to child development will be conducted by the Bert Nash Community Mental Health Center, a spokesman for the health center said yesterday.
The center will offer the first of the workshops, "Mothers and Infants," from 10 to 13:30 a.m. tomorrow at the center, 336 Missouri St., Suite 202.
PAT DAVIS, community education information specialist for the center, said that because of low enrollment some of the classes, including "Mothers and Infants," might be rescheduled and that people could call the center at
843-9192 for enrollment and confirmation of dates.
"Mothers and Infants" is a discussion group for mothers of babies six months or younger. It will meet today, July 14, 21 and 28.
"Parents, Toddlers and Preschoolers" is a workshop offered for parents with slightly older children. It is held on Tuesdays from 9 p.m. Aug. 9, 12, 30 and Sept. 6.
Davis said the class was designed to give basic child development and child reshaping information and to form an understanding of how children within that age bracket.
Davis said that the workshop would teach parents what was normal for children of these ages so that they could guide their children more easily.
FOR INSTANCE, she said, learning
that rebellion is normal for a two-year-old child might help the parent understand him and deal more effectively with the child.
She said that instructors would try to pick problem areas specified by the group and to find ways to help parents deal with the problems.
Another class aimed at parents is titled "Helping Your Child Adjust to Divorce," and will meet Aug. 9 and 16. Times for this class will be announced later, Davis said.
Davis said that the class consisted of discussion and films that dealt with problems that children of divorced parents faced during arrangements, anger or anxiety.
Not all of the center's classes are designed for parents, Davis said. Some
are aimed at helping adults solve personal problems.
"SELF-ASSERTION" meets in two sections. The first will be from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. July 12, 19, 26 and Aug. 9. The second will be from 8:10 to 11 p.m. Aug. 12, 19 and 26, Sept. 2.
"Self Assertion" teaches people to use the most appropriate communal language.
She said the class showed both timid and aggressive people how to express what they want in a direct way to help avoid misunderstanding.
The health center also will offer a class on how to clarify goals, titled *Choices and Changes*. It will meet on Tuesday, June 14, 21, 28, and Aug. 11, 18 and 25.
Davis said this class helped people who were at a transition in their lives to
assess their goals, to analyze their strengths and to use these strengths to their advantage.
APPROPRIATE MEMBERS for "Choices and Changes," Davis said, would be middle-aged women going back to work or someone wanting to change jobs. But, she said, it is not really a career counseling class.
Dealing with stress is the subject of "Imagery, Music and Relaxation," which will meet from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Aug. 16, 23, 30 and Sept. 6.
Davis said the course taught participants to relax by using music and guided imagery — a technique that teaches people to visualize a place or situation and imagine that they were there.
A family weekend workshop for
divorcing or divorced families is scheduled for Sept. 9 and 10.
Interested people must be interviewed, and the cost will be assessed according to a family's income, number of dependents, and need for counseling. Davis said
"By next July the program will have to be able to make it on its own," she added.
THE HEALTH CENTER has been offering the summer workshop program since last July, Davin said, when received a two-year federal block grant.
Davis said that the center decided what classes to offer through community feedback.
Grad student recieves music award
By MARY ANN COSTELLO Staff Reporter
When he got the first hint last May that something good was afoot, Charles Foerschlerr, Kansas City, Kan., graduate student, was putting gas in his car. A KU professor of music sanctioned by on his way to campus.
Seeing Foerscher at the gas station,
the professor called out, "Congrat-
ulations!"
Each of the workshops has a registration fee, Davis said.
“As soon as he realised I didn’t know what he was congratulating me for.”
POERSHILCH, A TENOR who is studying voice in the School of Fine Arts, son learned that he would be the first recipient of the Kathryn L. Nelson
The $4,000 award was established in May by Nelson and the KU Endowment Association. Nelson is the widest of the three schools, and the Graduate School from 1944-63.
The award goes to a KU senior or graduate student majoring in music.
Foerschler said he was nominated for the award by a committee of KU music and voice professors.
He said the award was intended to help further the career of the recipient.
Foerscher, who will complete a master's degree in voice performance this summer, said he would use some of his training to cover expenses when he travels to auditions.
KU professor emeritus publishes autobiography
Fritz Heider, KU professor emeritus of psychology, recently had his autobiography, "The Life of a Psychologist," published.
The University Press of Kansas last month published the book, which was compiled from journals that Heider had been keeping since
Heider is famous for developing
the attribution theory, which is now used in social psychology.
That theory states that when something happens, such as a loud noise, people react to what they see. That is why the noise of the noise, not the noise itself
Heider taught at the University of Kansas from 1947 until 1966.
A 12-year-old girl was thrown from her bicycle in front of Allen Field House about 10 a.m. yesterday and was taken to Lawrence Memorial Hospital for suspected head injuries, Capt. John Courtney of the Kansas University Police Department, said yesterday.
Girl falls from bike on Naismith Drive
The girl, John Godinez, daughter of Caroline Godinez, 1001 Holiday Dr., was treated and released yesterday from Lawrence Memorial Hospital.
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