Instructional Faculty Directory
 | Kristine E. Nelson, Dean, Professor email more Practice Experience: child welfare Research Interests: child welfare, child neglect, family preservation/family-based services, cultural issues in practice and policy, child welfare history, community-based practice, research with African American and Native American communities, home-based services. |
 | Ben Anderson-Nathe, Assistant Professor email more Practice Experience: Youth work, community education, disability support and advocacy, nonprofit management and consulting Research Interests: Youth work; Youth worker development; Runaway and Homeless Youth; sexuality, sexuality education; Phenomenological Research Methods; critical pedagogy; and social justice education. |
 | Sarah S. Bradley, Assistant Director Field, BSW and Training email more Practice Experience: Outpatient Psychotherapy, Hospital Social Work, Relationship between
psychotherapy and psychopharmacology, family treatment, managed care Research Interests: Ego psychology and social work practice, Attachment and prevention, relationship between psychotherapy and psychopharmacology, teaching practices |
 | Eileen Muench Brennan, Professor email more Practice Experience: program evaluation, mental health consultation, workforce development. Research Interests: work-life integration, children's mental health, adult development of women, social support, early childhood mental health, inclusive child care. |
 | Harold E. Briggs, Professor email more Practice Experience: performance management in human services, community integration of clients with developmental disabilities, child welfare, and family support in children's mental health Research Interests: problem based learning, evidence based practice, evidence based management, evidence supported treatments, and practice based evidence in child welfare, children's mental health, substance abuse and juvenile justice. |
 | Katharine Cahn, Executive Director; Assistant Professor email more Practice Experience: In service of children, youth, and families, have worked as an organizer, trainer/facilitator, program developer, fundraiser/ grant writer, agency supervisor, manager, and director. Research Interests: organizational and systems change, taking an innovative practice up to scale, using research and program evaluation to promote a better child welfare system with attention to improved outcomes for children of color, family and community engagement, leadership development, and multi-disciplinary collaboration. |
 | Daniel Coleman, Associate Professor; Director, PhD Program in Social Work and Social Research. email more Practice Experience: Community mental health practice with children, families and adults, including severe and persistent mental illness, and in inpatient, partial hospital and outpatient settings Research Interests: Depression, suicide, PTSD, psychotherapy. |
 | Kevin Corcoran, Professor email more Practice Experience: empirical evaluation of practice, conflict mediation, clinical measurement Research Interests: Evidence-based practices, adolescent sexuality and teenage families, social and economic capital investment in the US and Finland. |
 | Victoria Cotrell, Associate Professor email more Practice Experience: Community mental health practice with older adults and families Research Interests: Adaptation to cognitive aging processes, client-centered care, the self-system of individuals with Alzheimer's disease, self-awareness and Alzheimer's disease. |
 | Ann Curry-Stevens, Assistant Professor email more Practice Experience: Community-based practice in research, education and advocacy organizations (YWCA, Centre for Social Justice, Moment Project, Metro Network for Social Justice). Prevention practice with school-aged youth (feminist anti-violence work). Traditional practice in juvenile justice & adolescent treatment. All levels of intervention: case work, group therapy, life skills, education & training, coalition, community development, research, policy, social movements, consulting, program evaluation, management, senior management, boards of directors. Research Interests: Research methods: community-based participatory research; participatory action research; qualitative research; demographic dataset analysis. Social work education: anti-oppression education; popular education; pedagogy for the privileged; advocacy skills; activist practice; critical social work. Social determinants of health: health equity; income inequality; conceptual models; political determinants of health. Anti-oppressive organizational change: structural, ideological and behavioral change. |
 | Bonnie Dalton, Instructor Campus Child Welfare Education Coordinator Field Education Team email more Practice Experience: A & D counselor and clinical supervisor
Child Welfare Caseworker and Program Coordinator Research Interests: Disproportionality, Teens, Homelessness, Psychopathology/DSM-IV-TR, Addictions, Dual Diagnosis, Child Welfare. |
 | Ted Donlan, Assistant Professor email more Practice Experience: Latino adolescent services, aging services, homeless services, program evaluation Research Interests: Development, implementation, and evaluation of culturally-specific and consumer directed services for Mexican and Central American migrants/immigrants in the U.S. in the contexts of education, health and mental health, with a special focus on indigenous groups/cultures from these regions; qualitative research methods. |
 | Ginger Edwards, Salem MSW Distance Option Site Coordinator email more Practice Experience: Child Welfare, Children's Mental Health |
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 | Charlotte Tsoi Goodluck, Director, BSW Program, Professor of Social Work email more Practice Experience: Native American children and family services, adoption, foster
care, policy development, social work administration,
training, community research, rural social work Research Interests: Native American children and youth well-being indicators, Native strengths perspective, Native American breast and cervical cancer research, Indian Child Welfare Act. |
 | Mindy Holliday, Director-MSW Distance Option, Assistant Professor email more Practice Experience: community organizing, juvenile justice, family preservation and child welfare. Research Interests: child welfare, gay/lesbian issues, multi-cultural practice, ethnographic research on women's lives. |
 | Richard Hunter, Director, Child Welfare Education Program email more Practice Experience: child welfare, children's mental health, school social work, community organizing Research Interests: social welfare history and policy, family-centered service delivery, child welfare, workforce and workplace interaction studies in child welfare, critical theory and progressive/structural social work practice approaches. |
 | Pauline R. Jivanjee, Associate Professor, Associate Dean for Academic and Community Affairs email more Practice Experience: community-based practice, child welfare, mental health, aging services, individual and family counseling, services to children and adults with disabilities and their families Research Interests: participatory research, youth transitions, community integration, family support and family centered services, family participation in service delivery. |
 | Thomas E. Keller, Duncan and Cindy Campbell Professor for Children, Youth, and Families email more Practice Experience: youth mentoring programs, non-profit employment services Research Interests: youth mentoring, relationship development, child and adolescent development, attachment theory and research, community-based youth programs, child welfare, child mental health services, youth aging out of care. |
 | Nancy M. Koroloff, Associate Vice Provost for Research and Sponsored Projects email more Practice Experience: family support and children's mental health services, consumer involvement in policy development, history of social work in Oregon Research Interests: family support and children's mental health services, consumer involvement in policy development, history of social work in Oregon. |
 | Junghee Lee, Assistant Professor email more Practice Experience: child welfare, American Indian students retention in higher education, program evaluation Research Interests: political economy and health care for the poor, health disparities, community-based practice, program evaluation, increase retention at higher education, research with Asian, Mexican and American Indian communities. |
 | Jennifer Linnman, Instructor email more Practice Experience: Ten years private practice working with children, adults, and families. Research Interests: Attachment and oppression theories and their application to the assessment, treatment, and lived experience of women during all phases of and choices regarding pregnancy. Clinical specialty topics are high conflict divorce, abuse and trauma, and perinatal mood disorders. |
 | Ellen Masterson, Director Field Education, Assistant Professor email more Practice Experience: Day health services for frail elderly people and their families (program management and direct service provision) |
 | Bowen McBeath, Assistant Professor email more Research Interests: Organization and management: human service delivery systems, bureaucracies, and nonprofit organizations; interorganizational collaboration and competition; deviance, accidents, innovation, and creativity; and performance management, implementation/execution, and governance of interorganizational systems. Public policy: privatization and purchase of service contracting; poverty policy; and child and family policy. Communities: civic institutions; collective action; political and civic participation; social capital; and urban politics. Methodology: econometric methods for panel studies; event history analysis; multi-level modeling; and participatory action research and utilization-focused evaluation. |
 | Jana L Meinhold, Assistant Professor email more Research Interests: Lifespan development (normative and non-normative life transitions, self-efficacy, locus of control); Family sustainability (interpersonal relationships, sibling relationships, Family Life Education, family theory); Environmental stewardship; Research methods.
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 | Paula Bates Mike, Assistant Professor email more Practice Experience: predictors of success in graduate education; social work intervention with drug and alcohol-addicted pregnant women, intergenerational family therapy Research Interests: predictors of success in graduate education; social work intervention with drug and alcohol-addicted pregnant women, intergenerational family therapy |
 | Pam Miller, Professor email more Practice Experience: Hospice, Home Care, Nursing Care Facilities, Family Practice Clinics at University of Iowa, Director of Social Work at Southern Maryland Hospital, Family Planning of Portage County (Ohio), Research study for DSM-III, Ohio Youth Authority Research Interests: health care policy, health care for individuals and families, best social work practices in end of life and palliative care, hospice, and Oregon's Death with Dignity Act. |
 | Keva M. Miller, Assistant Professor email more Practice Experience: School social work, medical social work, juvenile justice, adult criminal justice, child welfare research consultant, adoption Research Interests: Children of criminal justice involved parents, child welfare, children's mental health, risk and protection, resilience, criminal justice practice and policies that affect children and families |
 | Matthew J. Modrcin, Associate Professor email more Practice Experience: the helping relationship, severe and persistent mental illness, family centered practice, men's issues, strengths based perspectives Research Interests: the helping relationship, severe and persistent mental illness, family centered practice, men's issues, strengths based perspectives. |
 | Carol Morgaine, Professor, Director, Child and Family Studies email more |
 | James K. Nash, Associate Professor, M.S.W. Program Director email more Practice Experience: community mental health clinical case management with children, adolescents, and their families Research Interests: etiology, prevention, and treatment of aggressive behavior and delinquency in children and adolescents, promotion of optimal development in children and adolescents, quantitative research methodology, prevention of juvenile offending in Bosnia and Herzegovina. |
| Kristine E. Nelson, Dean, Professor email more Practice Experience: child welfare Research Interests: child welfare, child neglect, family preservation/family-based services, cultural issues in practice and policy, child welfare history, community-based practice, research with African American and Native American communities, home-based services. |
 | Laura Burney Nissen, Associate Professor email more Practice Experience: strength-based approaches, community collaborative change models, service innovations Research Interests: strength-based approaches, community collaborative change models, service innovations. |
 | E. Roberto Orellana, Assistant Professor email more Practice Experience: Dr. Orellana's experience includes direct clinical practice with individuals in community mental health clinics, psychiatric hospitals and homeless shelters. He has conducted street outreach for persons with chronic psychiatric disorders and co-occurring substance abuse. He also worked as a therapist in an HIV prevention clinical trial that sought to reduce high risk behaviors among men who have sex with men (MSM) at risk for HIV infection. Research Interests: Global Health/Mental Health, Prevention Research, Intervention Research, HIV and Other Sexually Transmitted Infections, Family Violence, Substance Abuse, Psychiatric Epidemiology. |
 | Bahia Overton, Recruitment and Retention Specialist email more Practice Experience: Mental Health, Juvenile Justice, Therapeutic Foster Care, Child and Family Therapy, Aging and Disability Services, Mental Health Treatment for Sex Offenders, Substance Abuse, Gang intervention, Family Preservation, Youth Advocacy Programs, Geriatric Care Research Interests: African American multi-generational trauma, culturally specific treatment models, diversion programs and educational approaches. |
 | Nocona Louise Pewewardy, Assistant Professor email more Practice Experience: Case management, children/families, Kansas State Mental Health Authority Federal Block Grant uniform data initiative. Research Interests: Critical approaches to social work education; critical race theory; structural social work; cultural pluralism; strategies for challenging and deconstructing White privileges and other catalysts of structural inequalities. |
 | Laurie E. Powers, Professor, Associate Dean for Research, Director of the Regional Research Institute for Human Services email more Practice Experience: adolescent transition to adulthood, interpersonal violence, person-directed support and self-help Research Interests: promotion of self-determination by individuals with diverse abilities, their families and communities; positive youth development and transition, interpersonal violence, person-directed services, peer-delivered services, mental health transformation. |
 | Janet S. Putnam, Director of Student Affairs, Assistant Professor email more Practice Experience: social work skill acquisition, needs assessment Research Interests: social work skill acquisition, needs assessment |
 | Linda S. Reilly, Instructor, M.S.W. Distance Learning Option, Site email more Practice Experience: delivery of services to families, especially parent education; the impact of catastrophic illness on families Research Interests: delivery of services to families, especially parent education; the impact of catastrophic illness on families |
 | Julie M. Rosenzweig, Associate Professor email more Practice Experience: residential treatment of children, school social work, individual, couple and family therapy, older adults, program planning and administration, staff supervision Research Interests: Work-Life, Children's Mental Health, Brain Development, Sexuality. |
Dana Sieverin, Field Specialist email more Practice Experience: homeless services, children's mental health, family preservation, community organizing |
 | Susie Snyder, Assistant Professor email more Practice Experience: Therapist/trainer/consultant; clinical services to children, adolescents, adults, and families; social work in schools; community mental health; narrative therapy. Provide individual and group clinical supervision to social workers and counselors working on licensing. Provide consultation and training at various agencies around Portland and in other regions. Research Interests: Collaborative and narrative approaches to social work practice, supervision, and teaching. |
 | Lisa M. Stewart, Research Assistant Professor email more Practice Experience: Mental health, organizational change and organizational
development in mental health care settings, program
evaluation, policy research, domestic violence, gerontology,
homeless youth. Research Interests: disability-related dependent care and health disparities, work-life integration for families with exceptional care responsibilities, organizational development and change, progressive SW theory, quantitative research design and analysis, participatory action research. |
 | Maria Talbott, Associate Professor email more Practice Experience: direct service and program administration in older adult services Research Interests: social work with older adults, hoarding, grief and widowhood, social support, working with older adults with dementia; elder abuse. |
 | Michael Taylor, Assistant Professor, Social Work-Child and Family Studies; Family Studies Cluster Coordinator, University Studies Program email more Practice Experience: Direct practice of clinical social work with children, adults and families; supervision and management of mental health and child welfare programs; Quality assurance and contract monitoring for private and public mental health programs. Research Interests: children's mental health focused on assessment of strengths and resilience of children and families dealing with mental health challenges; Military Family support and support and treatment for returning veterans; investigation of civic engagement and retention of undergraduate students; Management and supervision practices in publicly funded mental health and human services programs. |
 | Gretchen Thiel, Instructor; Site Coordinator, Ashland, Distance Education Option email more Practice Experience: public child welfare. |
 | Vikki L. Vandiver, Professor email more Practice Experience: community health practice, programs for persons with severe and persistent mental illness, cross-cultural mental health systems Research Interests: community mental health practice and policy, evidence-based mental health practice, traumatic brain injury, health promotion. |
 | Stephanie Wahab, Associate Professor email more Practice Experience: interpersonal violence, commercial sex work, motivational interviewing, community organizing, anti-oppression Research Interests: gender based violence, commercial sex work, motivational interviewing, participatory and qualitative methods, oppression, privilege and liberation. |
EMERITI FACULTY
 | Sandra C. Anderson, Professor Emerita email more Practice Experience: family-centered practice with individuals, couples, and families |
 | Arthur Emlen, Professor Emeritus, Director (1973-1989), Regional Research Institute for Human Services email more Practice Experience: Child Welfare, Rural Child Welfare, Community Development Research Interests: Child Welfare; Work, Family & Dependent Care |
 | Barbara J. Friesen, Professor Emerita, Director, RTC on Family Support and Children's Mental Health email more Practice Experience: organization and administration of social services, self-help and advocacy groups and organizations, mental health, family support Research Interests: Children?s mental health, family-centered care. family and youth leadership in service delivery and research, systems of care, community integration, practice-based evidence in China. |
 | Joan F. Shireman, Professor Emerita email more Practice Experience: foster care, adoption, day care. Research Interests: Child welfare policy and practice. Major research has concerned single parent and transracial adoption, foster care, and the experiences of workers and families in protective services. |
ASSOCIATED FACULTY
 | Heidi Allen, Adjunct Instructor email more Practice Experience: inpatient and residential mental health and chemical dependency, emergency department social work, child abuse assessment, community crisis response, health policy analysis and development Research Interests: health services research and policy, health disparities, GLBT policy and practice. |
Susie Barrios, Instructor more Practice Experience: Twenty years of social work with high risk adults and families as a family therapist, psychiatric social worker, facillitator/trainer/consultant and program coordinator for child welfare and mental health child and family team meetings, foster parent and behavioral health trainer. |
 | Steve Berman, Assistant adjunct professor. email more Practice Experience: Mental health, child, adolescent and family.
Family and couples therapy.
Child welfare.
Youth work. Research Interests: Couples. Adult attachment. Inter-personal neurobiology. Integral theory. |
Terri Chianello, Instructor more |
 | Kate Davis, Instructor, Adviser email more Practice Experience: Child welfare, community based family therapy and parent support, outpatient psychotherapy and short term counseling. Multi-level interventions in social work, collaborating with service participants to become activists on their own behalf.
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 | David Fuks, Chief Executive Officer, Cedar Sinai Park, Robison Jewish Health Center; Adjunct Assistant Professor of Social Work email more |
 | Eleanor Gil-Kashiwabara, Instructor, Research Assistant Professor email more Practice Experience: outpatient psychotherapy with children, youth, and families; Latino/a children and families; children and youth with disabilities; assessment with Spanish-speaking children. Research Interests: Intersection of gender-culture-disability for Latina youth; Latino/a and Native American children's mental health; culturally appropriate psychological assessment with culturally and linguistically diverse children and youth. |
Tim Hartnett, Instructor email more Practice Experience: Tim Hartnett is the executive director of Comprehensive Options for Drug Abusers (CODA), Portland's oldest comprehensive alcohol and drug treatment agency. He has been devoted to working with hard-to-reach populations ranging from the most recalcitrant juvenile delinquents to homeless persons suffering from severe and persistent mental illness and substance use disorders. He has worked as a school teacher, direct-service worker, program director, research partner, consultant, state policy maker, and agency executive. Prior to coming to CODA, Mr. Hartnett was director of the Division of Alcohol and Drug Abuse Prevention and Recovery for the State of New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services. |
 | Susan C. Hedlund, Instructor Oregon Health Sciences University School of Medicine, Director of Social Services at Hospice and Palliative Care of Washington County, Instructor of Social Work email more Practice Experience: Social Work Practice in health care settings.
Private practice and clinical supervision.
Research Interests: End of life care, impact of life-threatening illness on individuals and families, hope and meaning in end of life care. |
Roberta Hunte, Instructor, University Studies more |
Glenn Huntley, Assistant Director, Center for Improvement of Child and Family Services email more |
Rebecca Hyman, Instructor, University Studies more |
Steven Ickes, Instructor more |
 | Julie Kates, Assistant Director of Field Education email more Practice Experience: 7 years post master's experience as a Child & Family Therapist in community mental health |
Jodi Kerbs, Instructor, University Studies more |
 | Paul E. Koren, Research Associate, Systems Analyst email more Research Interests: database design, programming, web development, data analysis |
 | Joy DeGruy Leary, Instructor email more Practice Experience: multi-generational trauma of African-Americans, methods of mental health treatment for people of color Research Interests: multi-generational trauma of African-Americans, methods of mental health treatment for people of color. |
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 | Kristine Munholland, Adjunct Assistant Professor email more Practice Experience: Oncology social work; hospice social work; bereavement support with children, teens, and adults; parenting, child care provider, and clinician education Research Interests: Attachment theory; grief and loss; children's social and emotional development; parenting and peer relations; childhood and adolescent bereavement; qualitative methods |
 | Mary Martha Oschwald, Research Assistant Professor email more Practice Experience: People with Disabilities and On-Going Health Care Conditions Research Interests: Interpersonal violence, participatory action research, computer-assisted awareness and intervention programs, disability, personal assistance services. |
Jolanta Piatkowski, Instructor more |
 | Rachel Post, Instructor email more Practice Experience: Evidence based practice intensive case management programs serving mentally ill, chronically homeless and addicted individuals |
Jennifer Powers, Instructor email more Research Interests: child welfare and disability. |
 | Peggy Jo Sandeen, Instructor email more Practice Experience: Currently working on a doctoral degree in Social Work and Social Research, Sandeen is an experienced social worker, specializing in issues related to terminal illness and end-of-life processes. Sandeen has been a case manager with the AIDS Project of Iowa. As a result of her extensive exploration of complex ethical, legal and medical issues related to social work, Sandeen was named 2002 Price Fellow in HIV Prevention Leadership by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). In her professional capacities, as well as through personal loss, Sandeen has felt firsthand how legal and medical interaction affects people's lives in both positive and negative ways. As a result, her scholarly and professional efforts have increasingly focused on health-related ethical concerns, particularly end-of-life decisions, privacy issues and mental health. Research Interests: HIV Prevention, End of Life Care Policy, including Death with Dignity |
Gary Smith, Bend Field Coordinator more |
 | Jo-Ann Sowers, Instructor Research Professor at the Regional Research Institute email more Practice Experience: youth transition to postsecondary education and work, mentoring, employment for adults with disabilities Research Interests: youth transition, mentoring, employment, inclusion, policy impacts, staff development |
John Spence, Manager, Community Resources Division Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde, Adjunct Assistant Professor of Social Work email more |
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Dawn Williamson, Instructor more |
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Rebecca Arredondo Yazzie, Instructor email more Practice Experience: Corrections mental health professional; adolescents; special education populations and working with families. Knowledge of treatment for adolescent sex offenders. Research Interests: juvenile justice and mental health |
Sonja Young, Instructor, University Studies more |