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Andrew Mrkvicka
Affiliate Faculty
Social Work
Expertise:
- Child welfare
- Abuse and neglect
- Interfamilial sex abuse
- Secondary trauma
- Compassion fatigue
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Ann Obermann
Assistant Professor
Social Work
Expertise:
- Family therapy
- Mental health
- Adolescent development
- Child welfare
- Family engagement
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Annie Butler
Professor, Interim Chair of the Department of Hotel Management
Human Services and Counseling
Expertise:
- Ethics
- LGBTQ issues
- High-risk adolescents and youth
- Gang issues
- Addictions and recovery
- Drugs and school districts
- Underage drinking
- Addictions (Substance abuse and behavioral addictions such as gambling and sex)
- Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (a trauma therapy)
- Grief
- Domestic violence
- Dating violence
- Multicultural
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AnnJanette Alejano-Steele
Professor, Interim Associate Vice President
Office of Graduate Studies
Expertise:
- Child psychology
- Equity issues in the classroom
- Multicultural service learning
- Cross-cultural psychology
- Gender and diversity
- Psychology of gender
- Psychology of women
- Human trafficking (including sex and labor)
- Women's health
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Christian Itin
Professor
Social Work
Expertise:
- Experiential education
- Experiential practice
- Adventure education
- Adventure therapy
- Older adult workforce development
- Group work
- Leadership
- Adolescent practice
- Family practice
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Dawn Matera Bassett
Professor
Social Work
Expertise:
- Mental and Behavioral Health across the lifespan
- Policy
- First Generation students and higher education
- Secondary and Vicarious trauma in clinical and child welfare workforce
- Barriers and building access to services in rural and underserved areas
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Eileen Starr
Assistant Professor
Social Work
Expertise:
- Clinical work with children, youth and families
- Conflicted communities (sectarian violence in Northern Ireland)
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Elisa Fadum-Montoya
Affiliate Faculty
Social Work
Expertise:
- Family couples and individual therapy
- Mental health crisis evaluation
- Bariatric psychosocial evaluation
- Mental health assessment
- Suicide/homicide/grave disability assessment
- Child welfare
- Difficult teenager/parent relationships
- Trauma therapy
- Grief and loss
- Eating disorders
- Child abuse/neglect and crisis assessment
- Intervention and goal setting
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JaLisa Williams
Lecturer
Social Work
Expertise:
- Mindfulness based interventions for race based trauma
- Black generational healing
- Yoga
- Social justice
- Radical pedagogies
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Jessica Retrum
Chair and Associate Professor
Social Work
Expertise:
- Aging
- Social isolation in later life
- Mental health in later life
- Social network analysis
- Inter-organizational partnerships
- Palliative care social work
- Hospice social work
- Social work with older people
- Loss
- Family therapy
- Social work
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