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The NYU-ECNU Institute for Social Development at NYU Shanghai (the Institute) hosted a 3-day training workshop titled "Trauma-Informed Care and Practice" from March 11 to 13, 2016. This was the sixth training workshop that the institute has provided since its inception.  Dr.

Most of us have been told by a teacher or parent, “If you lie down with dogs, you will get up with fleas” or (近朱者赤、近墨者黑) -- basically, ‘one takes the color of one’s company.’ It turns out this is also true of antisocial behavior and depression among adolescents, who gradually spend more and more parentally unsupervised time being influenced for greater or for worse, by their friends.

Child aggressive behaviors take many different forms. Reactive and proactive aggressions are two forms among many. Reactive aggression usually happens when one is provoked and emotional, thus react in an aggressive way. Proactive aggression happens when one uses aggression to achieve certain goals such as to gain a high status.

NYU-ECNU Institute for Social Development at NYU Shanghai (the Institute) hosted a two-day training workshop on Social Work Practice with Older Adults on October 24-25, 2015.  Dr. Tazuko Shibusawa, Associate Professor at Silver School of Social Work and Collaborating Faculty of the Institute, was invited to provide the training and shared her knowledge and skills in geriatric care.

Studies by the Institute's Co-Director Wen-Jui Han are examined in an article describing the effects that nonstandard parent schedules can have on child development.

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The International Summer Graduate School of “Contemporary Urbanization and Social Governance”, co-sponsored by NYU-ECNU Institute for Social Development at NYU Shanghai (the Institute) and Department of Sociology at School of Social Development at East Normal China University (ECNU), was held from July 14 – 26, 2015 at ECNU Minhang Campus.

The Institute co-hosted, together with the Department of Sociology and the Research Center of Social Development at Jilin University and the School of Social Development (SSD) of East China Normal University (ECNU), a Forum on Sociology of Development with the theme of “Urban and Rural Development and Social Governance” at the 2015 Chinese Sociological Association (CSA) Annual Conference, held

NYU-ECNU Institute for Social Development at NYU Shanghai (the Institute), co-sponsored by the Shanghai Social Worker Association (SSW) hosted a two-day intensive training workshop on Palliative and End of Life Care on June 28th – 29th, 2015. Dr. Susan Gerbino, the Clinical Professor of NYU Silver School of Social Work, together with Dr.

“Concepts and Practices in Social Service, 2015 Summer Summit on Senior Citizen Welfare in China” was held in Shanghai on June 15th – 16th, 2015, sponsored by China Welfare Institute and the Committee of Social Aging Service of the China Federation of Social Workers, and co-sponsored by the NYU-ECNU Institute for Social Development at NYU Shanghai among others. Mr.

NYU-ECNU Institute for Social Development at NYU Shanghai, co-sponsored with Shanghai Social Worker Association and the Social Work Department at East China Normal University (ECNU), hosted a two-day intensive training workshop on U.S. Mental Health Services on May 23th – 24th, 2015.

The NYU-ECNU Institute for Social Development at NYU Shanghai, together with the Research Institute of Anthropology at ECNU, co-sponsored a seminar presented by Dr. Máximo Badaró in Anthropology on March 24, 2015 at ECNU Minhang Campus. Dr.

The NYU-ECNU Institute for Social Development at NYU Shanghai hosted its Social Development Seminar of the Spring 2015 Semester in March, 2015, both in Pudong and Zhongbei Campus. Prominent researcher from the University of Washington, Dr.