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Show Family confab scheduled ST. GEORGE Caring for Children and Their Families, a one-day conference sponsored by the Dixie Medical Center Social Services Department, Depart-ment, will be Oct. 8 in St. George. Dixie College and the Southern Utah State College Department of Behavioral and Social Sciences are conference co-sponsors. Registration will be from 8:15 to 8:45 a.m. in the Dixie College Student Union Sun Room. Following a welcome and introduction of presenters presen-ters by Gordon Storrs, Dixie Medical Center Administrator, participants par-ticipants will go into small group seminars. Tuition for the conference con-ference is $15 for all day, or $6 per session. Registration can be completed through Eva Beatty, Dixie Medical Center Social Services, 544 South 400 East, St. George, 84770. Beatty or Daphne Dalley, coordinator coor-dinator of conferences and workshops at SUSC, 586-7853, can be contacted for additional information. in-formation. Seminar topics include Beyond Burnout, Birth Defects, Sexual Abuse, Neonatal Death, Diabetes Mellitus, Trauma and Bonding, Marriage Enrichment, Child Abuse, Impact of Chronic and Acute Illness on a Family System and Developing Social Competence in School Aged Children. During the day, workshop participants will have an opportunity to attend several seminars. Guest presenters include in-clude Dr. Gary Taylor, supervisor of social services at Primary Children's Medical Center; Dr. Nancy Cantor, a pediatric psychologist serving both as a consultant in am-bulai)ry am-bulai)ry services at Prima ry Children's Medical Center and as an academic and research psychologist in behavioral pediatrics at the University of Utah Medical Center; and Thomas G. Harrison, coordinator of the Child Sexual Assault Team at Primary Children's Medical Center. Also, Marin Sands, the Pediatric Oncology and Diabetic Team Social Worker at Primary Children's Medical Center, |