School for Social Work > Faculty > Resident Faculty > Dennis Miehls

			DENNIS MIEHLS, Ph.D. Associate Professor; Chair, Human Behavior in the Social Environment Sequence
			Send E-mail
			(413) 585-4198
			Lilly Hall Room 213 Smith College School for Social Work Northampton, MA 01063

Education

B.A., University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario
M.S.W., Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario
Ph.D., Smith College, Northampton, MA.

Professional Interest Areas

Relational Theory and Clinical Social Work Practice

Clinical Supervision Theory

Trauma and its Impact on Couple Relationships

Social Work Pedagogy and Issues of Diversity

Intersubjective Theory in clinical process

Selected Recent Publications and Presentations

Goldstein, E., Miehls, D. & Ringel, S. (in process). Advanced clinical social work: Relational Principles and techniques.

King Kennan, E. & Miehls, D. (in press). Third space activities and interpersonal change processes: An exploration of ideas from psychological and social theories. Clinical Social Work Journal.

Miehls, D. (under review). Contemporary trents in supervision theory: A shift from parallel process to relational and trauma theory. The Clinical Supervisor.

Miehls, D. and Basham, K. (2004). Object relations couple therapy with trauma surviviors, Handbook of stress, trauma, and the family. New York: Taylor Francis Publishers.

Miehls, D. (2005). Illustrative applications: Counseling and psychotherapy in racial-cultural psychology. In R. Carter (Ed.), Handbook of Racial-Cultural Psychology and Counseling. New York: John Wiley and Sons.

Basham, K., and Miehls, D. (2004). Transforming the legacy: Couple therapy with survivors of childhood trauma. New York: Columbia University Press.

Basham, K., and Miehls, D. (Eds.) (2004). Special Issue: Pedagogy and Diversity. Smith College School for Social Work, 74(2).

Miehls, D. (2004). Cacophony, polyphony or fugue: Exploring sociocultural concepts with social work students. Smith College Studies in Social Work, 74(2), 427-448.

Miehls, D., and Moffatt, K. (2000). Constructing social work identity based on the reflexive self.  British Journal of Social Work 30(3), 339-348.