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Andrew Mrkvicka
Adjunct 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 (Trauma Therapy)
- Grief
- Domestic Violence
- Dating Violence
- Multicultural
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AnnJanette Alejano-Steele
Professor
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
Associate 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
Adjunct 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
Adjunct Professor
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 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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