USM Summer Psych Institutes To Cover:

Spectator identification with teams
Anti-social behavior in children
Body image
Dying with dignity

Sean McCann, head of the U.S. Olympic Committee’s Sports Psychology team, will give the opening, morning session at USM’s annual Sports Psychology Institute, at 9:30 a.m., Wednesday, June 27, with a talk on the role of sports psychology in the 2000 Summer Olympics. Other topics to be covered during the three-day institute,
Wednesday - Friday, June 27-29, include meeting mental challenges in sports, spectator identification with teams, and handling anxiety in competition.

Treatment of anti-social behavior in children and preventing youth violence is one of the topics to be covered in sessions during the Child Psychopathology Institute, Wednesday - Friday, June 20-22. Other topics include the effects of divorce on children and depression in adolescents.

Body image, panic disorder, and social phobia are among session subjects during the Adult Psychopathology Institute, Wednesday - Friday, July 11-13.

The Health Psychology Institute, Wednesday - Friday, July 18-20, will include sessions on dying with dignity, rheumatoid arthritis and helping patients succeed with exercise plans.


Time/Date: Sessions for all institutes run between 9:30 a.m. to 12 noon and 1 to 3:30 p.m.

Place: All institutes will be held in Luther Bonney Auditorium on USM’s Portland Campus.

Contact: For more information, call USM Psychology Professor William Gayton, director of the psychology institutes, at 780-4251 or call USM’s Summer Session at 780-5617. For more help, call Bob Caswell at USM’s Office of Media Relations at the numbers listed at the top of this advisory.