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Carolyn Jacobs, Ph.D.
Dr. Jacobs is the Dean, Elizabeth Marting Treuhaft Professor of the Smith College School for Social Work, and the Director of the Contemplative Clinical Practice Certificate Program. She has taught primarily within the research and practice sequences of the School. Her areas of professional interest include religion and spirituality in social work 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. Recent publications include Jacobs, C. (2007) “Spiritual Development” in Lesser, J. G. and Pope, D. S. (Eds.) Human Behavior in the Social Environment. Chapter 8, 188-203. VT: Allyn and Bacon, Jacobs, C. (2006) “Transformation and Kaleidoscope Memories” Smith College Studies in Social Work, 76 (4) and Jacobs, C. (2004) “Spirituality and end-of-life care practice for social workers” in Berzoff, J. & Silverman, P. R. (Eds.) Living with dying: A handbook for end-of-life healthcare practitioners. (pp. 188-205) NY: Columbia University Press. 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.
Mirabai Bush is Senior Fellow and the founding Director of the Center on Contemplative Mind in Society, a nonprofit organization whose mission is to encourage contemplative awareness in American life in order to create a more just, compassionate, and reflective society. She has designed and led contemplative trainings for lawyers and judges, social justice activists, and corporations including Google. She is a director of the Center’s Program in Higher Education, including the Contemplative Practice Fellowship awards and the Association for Contemplative Mind in Higher Education. She is co-author, with Ram Dass, of Compassion in Action: Setting Out on the Path of Service.
Her spiritual studies include meditation at the Burmese Vihara in Bodh Gaya, India, with Shri S.N. Goenka and Anagarika Munindra; bhakti yoga with Hindu teacher Neemkaroli Baba; and studies with Tibetan lamas Kalu Rinpoche, Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche, Kyabje Gehlek Rinpoche, Tsoknyi Rinpoche, and others. She was a student of aikido master Kanai Sensei for five years. She has a special interest in the uncovering and recovery of women's wisdom to inform work for social change. She has co-taught or co-facilitated such groups with Clarissa Pinkola Estes, Sharon Salzberg, Joan Halifax, Margo Adler, Starhawk, Jean Shinoda Bolen, Terry Tempest Williams, and Vicky Noble.
Betty Morningstar, M.S.W., Ph.D.
Betty is a ‘triple’ alumna of Smith; earning her A.B. in Psychology in 1974; her M.S.W. in 1977, and her Ph.D in 1989. In addition, she holds a M.A. from the Andover Newton Theological School in Newton, Mass., received in 2004. She has worked in private practice in Brookline and Newton since 1983. Betty is a long-standing member of the Academy of Certified Social Workers. Since 2005, she has served as the 1st Vice President for the Mass Chapter of NASW, and has also served since 2004 as Chair of the Awards Committee of the Mass Chapter as well as since 2002 as a member of the Nominating Committee of the National Office of NASW.
Betty worked for a number of years on the adjunct faculty and as field advisor for the Schools for Social Work at both Smith and Simmons Colleges. Her publications and presentations include: Lesbian parents: Understanding developmental pathways, (1999). In J. Laird (Ed.), Lesbians and lesbian families: multiple reflections. New York: Columbia University Press; Impact of violence and of the nuclear threat on psychosocial development - presented at a number of venues throughout Massachusetts; Adolescent and adult sexual identity development - presented at a number of venues throughout Massachusetts and several NASW conferences and symposia.
Christopher O'Rourke, M.S.W., M.Div.
Chris earned his MSW from the Smith College School for Social Work in 1995 and a Master of Divinity degree from The Harvard Divinity School, Harvard University in 1986. Having worked for many years in community mental health, he is currently Director of Social Work and Practicum Training and Continuing Education at The Danielsen Institute of Boston University. Chris is an Adjunct Assistant Professor at The Smith College School of Social Work and a Lecturer at Simmons College School of Social Work. Chris practices out of the Roman Catholic tradition.
His Doctoral Thesis title was: Listening for the Sacred: Addressing Spiritual Issues in the Group Treatment of Adults with Mental Illness (SC Studies in Social Work, 67(2), March 1997).
Yoosun Park, Ph.D.
Dr. Park is an Assistant Professor at the Smith College School for Social Work. She 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 takes a critical and historical lens and incorporates a multidisciplinary body of ideas, theories, and critiques. She 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 development 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.
Sarah Stearns, Ph.D.
Dr. Stearns is an Adjunct Faculty member of the Smith College School for Social Work and former adjunct faculty member of both the New College of California and California School of Professional Psychology. She specializes in systemic theory and interventions which place individuals in the context of their relationships and communities. She is the author of “Challenges Facing Gay and Lesbian Families”, in S. Dworkin & F. Gutierrez (Eds), Counseling Gay Men and Lesbians: Journey to the end of the Rainbow.
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