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Dean and Elizabeth Marting Treuhaft Professor
Dr. Jacobs is the Dean and Elizabeth Marting Treuhaft Professor and the Director of the Contemplative Clinical Practice Advanced Certificate Program at the Smith College School for Social Work. She has taught primarily within the research and practice sequences. Her areas of professional interest include religion and spirituality in social work clinical practice and organizational behavior. She has written and presented extensively on the topic of spirituality in social work. In 2001 she was elected to the National Academies of Practice as a distinguished social work practitioner. Dr. Jacobs received her B.A. from Sacramento State University, her M.S.W. from San Diego State University, her doctorate from the Heller School of Brandeis University, and her training as a spiritual director from the Shalem Institute for Spiritual Formation. She maintains a spiritual direction practice.
Associate Dean and Professor
Dr. Donner’s areas of interest are primarily practice and field work. She taught in both the M.S.W. and Ph.D. programs in practice and in human behavior. She has written on self-psychology, intersubjectivity, racial and social identity, and issues facing field education. She has served as Associate Dean under three different Deans and was also the past Director of Field Work.
Dr. Donner received her B.A. from the University of Massachusetts
- Amherst, her M.S.W. from Simmons College School for Social
Work, and her doctorate from the Smith College School for
Social Work.
Professor; Co-Director of the Doctoral Program
Kathryn Basham, Ph.D., LICSW, is Professor, Smith College School for Social Work and Editor of Smith College Studies in Social Work. As the only clinical social worker participating in a congressionally mandated committee sponsored by the Institute of Medicine, she has co-authored two texts titled Physiologic, Psychological and Psychosocial Effects of Deployment Related Stress (2007) and Post- Traumatic Stress Disorder: Diagnosis and Treatment (2006). Her co-authored text titled Transforming the Legacy: Couple Therapy with Survivors of Childhood Trauma (2004) introduces a phase oriented practice model grounded in a synthesis of social, biological and psychological theories. Areas of research and teaching interests include: clinical practice models with families and survivors of childhood trauma and combat trauma; impasses in cross-cultural practice; pedagogy and anti-racism practice; and ethics. Recent publications, consultations and presentations have focused on practice approaches with soldiers, veterans and their families following combat at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center (D.C.) and several Veterans Administration Medical Centers. In 2007, Dr. Basham received the honor of induction into the National Academies of Science as a Distinguished Clinical Practitioner. She maintains a private practice in clinical social work in Northampton specializing in couple, family and individual psychotherapy and consultation services. In collaboration with her SCSSW colleague, Dr. Jean La Terz, she is initiating a pilot research project exploring the efficacy of Phase I of a trauma-related therapy modality for traumatized couples where one partner is an OIF Veteran diagnosed with PTSD. The study explores possible changes in attachment, overall satisfaction, affect regulation and expressed anger. She has also been invited by the Department of Social Work at Walter Reed Army Medical Center to provide additional training workshops this coming October, 2008, on couple therapy with combat Veterans and their partners grounded in a lens of attachment theory.
Professor; Director, End of Life Certificate
Program
Dr. Berzoff currrently teaches in the Doctoral and End of Life Care programs. She has co-edited four books: Inside Out and Outside In: Psychodynamic Theories in Multicultural Contexts, Dissociative Identity Disorders: the Controversy in the Diagnosis and Treatment, and Living with Dying: A Handbook for End of Life Care Practitioners published in 2004, as well as a second edition of Inside Out and Outside In. Her interests include: women's development, intersubjectivity, curriculum development, women's friendships, death, dying and bereavement, psychodynamic theory and practice, program evaluation of telephonic teaching, end of life care curriculum, psychodynamic theory and disenfranchised populations.
Dr. Berzoff was the recipient of one of the first Social Work Leader Awards from the Project on Death in America funded by the Soros foundation and was a recipient of the Outstanding Scholar Award from the National Academies of Practice. Currently she is the only social worker serving on the Compassionate Care Advisory Board for Aetna. She is also in private practice in Northampton, Mass and she lectures widely on issues of death and dying.
She received her BA from Washington University in St. Louis, her M.S.W. from the Smith College School for Social Work and her Ed. D from Boston University.
Assistant Professor
Dr. Burton has worked
in the field of sexual aggression for over 20 years, as a clinician
with adolescents and children. Dr. Burton researches the childhood victimization and
etiology of child, adolescent and adult sexual abusers - current
research interests include trauma histories of sexual abusers, nonsexual criminality of sexual abusers, attachment, cognitive behavioral theory and treatment,
pornography, substance abuse, self-cessation methods, evidenced-based practice,
effectiveness of treatment for adolescent sexual abusers, and racial discrimination of sexual abusers.
Dr. Burton has been published in several journals including Child
Abuse and Neglect, Victims and Violence, Sexual Aggression,
Evidenced Based Social Work, Smith College Studies in Social Work, and Sexual Abuse: A
Journal of Research and Practice. Dr. Burton serves on the editorial boards of Child Abuse and Neglect & Sexual Abuse: A Journal of Research and Treatment.
Prior to coming to Smith, Dr. Burton worked with Boysville in Saline, Michigan for seven years specializing in the clinical trauma amelioration of adolescent sexual abusers. Currently Dr. Burton is a case consultant for adolescent abusers and works with youth and foster parents who house sexual abusers at Northeast Center for Youth and Families, Inc., in Easthampton, MA.
Dr. Burton is an active member of CSWE, NASW, SSWR, NAPN and the Association for the Treatment of Sexual Abusers (ATSA).
Current research projects include collaboration with Delaware Department of Youth Services, Ohio's Department of Youth Services, Massachusetts Department of Youth Services and John Joseph Peter's Institute in Philadelphia.
At Smith College School for Social Work Dr. Burton teaches research and cognitive behavioral theory and methods course. Dr. Burton is also involved in research with doctoral students in our program.
Associate Professor; Chair, Research Sequence
Dr. Corbin came to the School for Social Work in 2000 from the Yale Child Study Center’s School Development Program where she was the Director of the Child and Adolescent Development Unit. Her work aided educators in integrating developmental theory into educational practice. She has also done research on parent involvement in public schools. Her current research and practice at Smith College focuses on the experiences of children and families affected by armed conflict in Northern Uganda. She also examines the systemic work of school social workers in public schools. Her publications focus on two areas: the resettlement experiences of child soldiers in Uganda and the role of social workers in educational decision making in public schools. She is the Chair of the Research Sequence. Dr. Corbin received her B.A. from Wellesley College, her M.S.S. from Bryn Mawr Graduate School of Social Work and Social Research, and her M.S. and Ph.D. in Epidemiology and Public Health from Yale University.
Professor; Co-Director of the Doctoral Program
Dr. Drisko’s areas of professional interest include clinical practice with children and families, reactive attachment disorder and its treatment, psychotherapy evaluation and qualitative research methods. He is also interested in psychosocial assessment, individual psychotherapy, time-limited and intermittent psychotherapy, play psychotherapy, and service planning. For the past several years, he has explored technological innovations affecting social work research and social work education. Recent publications and presentations have focused on clinical practice with children, play therapy, practice evaluation, qualitative research methods, and teaching and advising methods. Dr. Drisko received his A.B. from Amherst College, his master’s degree from the Smith College School for Social Work, and his doctorate from Boston College.
Professor
Dr. Everett’s
professional interest is social welfare policy, particularly
policies that affect children and families including foster care and kinship care. Other areas of
interest include black women's stress and coping, diversity, cultural competence and research. She has been a recipient of federal and private funding to conduct research on kinship care, family resource centers, and transracially adopted adults. Her most recent publications and presentations
focus on clinical supervision from a developmental model, black women's stress and coping, social policy across the life cycle, empowerment, long-distance
caregiving, kinship care, and the School for Social Work's
anti-racism field assignment. She co-edited Child Welfare:
An Africentric Perspective, with Sandra Chipungu and Bogart
Leashore (September 2004). Dr. Everett received her
B.A. from Morgan State University, her M.S.W. from the University
of Michigan, and her doctorate at Brandeis University.
Assistant Professor
Dr. Gockel's areas of interest center on clinical practice in health and mental health services and include: relational models, spiritually-integrated interventions, mind-body interventions, mindfulness and trauma, and interdisciplinary research and scholarship. She has written articles and conducted research in the areas of addiction treatment, child welfare, and spiritually-integrated interventions. Dr. Gockel has a B.A. from Concordia University, an M.S.W. from the University of Toronto, and a Ph.D. (Counseling Psychology) from the University of British Colombia. She teaches in the clinical practice sequence.
Professor
Dr. Hall serves as one of the School’s area field coordinators and has advised at both the master and doctoral levels. She currently teaches in the Human Behavior in the Social Environment sequence. Her areas of professional interest include direct practice with individuals, families and small groups, and clinical supervision. Dr. Hall’s areas of research and publication include curriculum development for alcohol and substance abuse treatment, and the intersection of race and substance abuse. She currently serves as the President of the Massachusetts Chapter of the National Association of Social Workers. Dr. Hall received her B.A. from Otterbein College, her master’s degree from the Smith College School for Social Work, her M.A. from Boston University, and her doctorate from Simmons College School of Social Work.
Assistant Professor
Dr. Kang’s areas of interest are immigrant communities, cultural citizenship, and immigrant and refugee social and mental health. She is particularly interested in applying poststructural and postcolonial frameworks to study discourses of contestation and negotiation that construct immigrant identity and the narratives through which marginalized communities negotiate and assert human, social, and cultural rights.
Having practiced for over a decade in the fields of immigrant and refugee mental health, sexual assault and domestic violence, as well as community organizing, Dr. Kang is concerned with the interconnection between personal struggles, environmental problems, and societal oppression and inequalities. She teaches clinical social work practice that integrates multiple contexts and narratives.
Dr. Kang received her M.A. in Psychology from Antioch University Seattle, and her B.S., M.S.W., and
Ph. D. from the University of Washington.
Associate Professor; Chair, Human Behavior in the Social Environment Sequence
Dr. Miehls is a social
work academician and clinician who specializes in couple therapy.
He has published articles on couples and narcissism, psychosomatic
illness, and intersubjectivity. His co-authored book (with
Kathryn Basham, Ph.D.), entitled Transforming the Legacy:
Couple Therapy with Survivors of Childhood Trauma elucidates
a phase oriented couple therapy practice model that is grounded
in social, psychological, and biological theories. Dr. Miehls
also has an interest in the development of the social work
identity, especially as it is related to issues of diversity.
To this end, he continues to publish articles related to social
work pedagogy, identity development, and diversity. Dr. Miehls
has worked in many clinical settings in mental health, health
care and currently has a private practice specializing in
long term individual and couple therapy. Dr. Miehls received
his B.A. from the University of Western Ontario, his M.S.W.
from Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Ontario and his
Ph.D. from the Smith College School for Social Work.
Professor; Chair,
Social Welfare Policy and Services Sequence
Dr. Miller’s areas of interest are antiracism work, the social ecology of disaster and integrating psychosocial capacity building and disaster mental health approaches in response to disasters. He is Chair of the School for Social Work’s Social Policy Sequence. He has co-taught the School’s foundation antiracism course for 12 years and a course on mental health responses to disasters. He has co-authored Racism in the United States: Implications for the Helping Professions with Ann Marie Garran and co-edited School Violence and Children in Crisis. He has published numerous articles and regularly presents at conferences and at community organizations about antiracism and responses to disasters. He is currently writing a book about the social ecology of disaster and psychosocial capacity building and co-editing a book about psychosocial responses to the Wenchuan earthquake in China. He has worked with colleagues in Northern Uganda in response to the armed conflict and with colleagues in Sri Lanka after the Asian Tsunami. He volunteers for many teams from local and national organizations that offer disaster mental health and crisis intervention responses after tragedies and disasters. He is currently working on psychosocial capacity building projects in Sichuan Provence, China and in Eastern Sri Lanka. In 2008 Dr. Miller was appointed as an Honorary Professor at Beijing Normal University.
Prior to teaching he worked for 20 years as a community organizer, family therapist, group worker, and researcher and as the director of public and private non-profit child and family welfare agencies. Dr. Miller received his B.A. from Clark University, his M.S.W. from the University of Washington, and his Ph.D. from the University of Connecticut, School of Family Studies.
Associate Professor
Dr. Nye is interested
in cross-cultural clinical practice, and particularly in the challenges posed by using developmental theory across cultures.
She has worked and done research internationally, as a Fulbright
Senior Scholar in Southeast Asia, and on a Bi-Communal Support
Project in Cyprus. Her teaching and recent publications
explore the relevance of an anthropological perspective for
clinical practice. She is also interested in field education
and the process of supervision. She is the director of Smith's Advanced Clinical Supervision Certificate Program and has taught supervision courses internationally. Dr. Nye
received her B.A. from Middlebury College, her M.S.W. from
Virginia Commonwealth University, and her Ph.D. from the University
of Chicago, Committee on Human Development.
Assistant Professor
Dr. Park is interested in applying the theories and methods of poststructuralism to the teaching and practice of social work. She has developed a curriculum for teaching Human Behavior in the Social Environment which approaches through a critical and historical lens, and which incorporates a multidisciplinary body of ideas, theories, and critiques, and has been studying, using poststructuralist methods of discourse analysis, the history of social work practice with immigrants and refugees in the U.S. She is also interested in the integration of poststructuralist and postcolonial theories in the developing of courses and interventions related to diversity and social justice. Her practice background has been largely in working with immigrant and refugee populations in health care settings. Dr. Park received her B.A. from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and her M.S.W. and Ph.D. from the University of Washington.
Maconda Brown O'Connor Professor
Professor Pruett joined the Smith faculty from the Department of Psychiatry at the Yale School of Medicine. Her interests focus on family relationships and transitions, and the interactions between families and the primary systems of which they are a part. She is the recipient of numerous federal, state, and private foundation grants, and is known nationally for the development, implementation, and evaluation of preventive interventions in schools and courts. Her writings include scholarly articles, chapters, two co-edited books, and a co-authored book, Your Divorce Advisor: An Attorney and Psychologist Lead You Through the Legal and Emotional Landscape of Divorce (2001 by Simon and Schuster). She is currently completing a new book on co-parenting among married/cohabiting couples, which she is writing with her husband. Her current intervention and research areas include supporting father involvement to reduce incidence of child abuse and neglect, evaluation of court clinical intake screens, and use of popular media to promote resilience and adaptation among military families with young children. In addition to academic writings, she disseminates her work through speaking engagements and consultations across North America and abroad and served as commentator on numerous radio and television news. She holds masters degrees in education from the University of Pennsylvania and in law from Yale School of Law, and a clinical psychology degree from University of California, Berkeley.
Professor
Dr. Sessions is interested in the implications for clinical practice of the integration of social, cultural, and psychological theories. She currently has been exploring the relevance of narrative therapies, based on poststructural theories for collaborative models of practice in the inner-city schools. She is also interested in the integration of narrative with developmental models. Her practice and research background includes both psychodynamic and family therapy theories and practice models. Dr. Sessions received her A.B. and her M.S.W. from Smith College and her Ph.D. from Brandeis University, Florence Heller School for Advanced Studies in Social Welfare.
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