MICRO-BIO

• I am a licensed NYState social worker with 30 years plus client experience. I also teach graduate social work as a full-time clinical associate professor at the Fordham University Graduate School of Social Service, and I have been teaching for 25+ y...More

  I am a licensed NYState social worker with 30 years plus client experience. I also teach graduate social work as a full-time clinical associate professor at the Fordham University Graduate School of Social Service, and I have been teaching for 25+ yrs. I have taught in mainland China, Taiwan, and Israel and was a Fulbright Senior Scholar at Tel Hai College, Israel in 2012-13 working with trauma therapists who used expressive therapies in individual, group, and community work. Dr. Mooli Lahad and Dr. Moshe Farchi, traumatologists, are my colleagues at the Tel Hai College of Social Work advancing interventions in trauma recovery including a unique first responder training created by Dr. Moshe Farchi. As a faculty affiliate of the National Child Stress Trauma Network, I helped to create a unique problem-based trauma training course related to children and adolescents in Fordham's National Center for Social WorkTrauma Training Education and Work Force Development. I use action techniques and experiential learning as a central teaching method, and I have studied psychodrama with Tian Dayton and with Rebecca Walters & Judy Swallow at the Hudson Valley Psychotrauma Institute in New Paltz, NY. I want to integrate more expressive therapy techniques into social work education and at this point in my career, I want to focus on educational design, especially as it now intersects with technology. Personally, interests in street photography, language study (Chinese, Hebrew, French, & Spanish), classical and folk music, particularly world folk music and its use by social groups. I have a master's in Anthropology from Columbia University and attempt to integrate my anthropological perspectives with social work practice. I am only now beginning to write professionally though I have published several chapters in social work texts of Nancy Boyd Webb, Francis Turner, Barbara Probst, and Elaine Norman (Resiliency in Socail Work Practice). I served as a teacher and Associate Director of Fordham's Post-Master Certificate Program in Child and Adolescent Therapy extablished by Dr. N.B.Webb in 1986. I want to write about andragogy, problem-based learning, cognitive apprenticeship, and action strategies in teaching social work practice.

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EXPERIENCE

• Fordham University Graduate School of Social Service

  • Clinical Associate Professor
  • September 1995 to Present

EDUCATION

• DSW

  • City University of New York (Hunter)
  • September 1990 to June 1997

  Studied professional quartets as intense work groups to explore group developmental theory. Thesis entitled: Metaphors of the String Quartet

• Fordham University, NY

  • MSW
  • September 1980 to June 1983

• Columbia University, NY

  • MA
  • September 1976 to June 1977

  Anthropology

• Columbia College, NY

  • BA
  • September 1970 to June 1976

  Major in Anthropology

Interests

• Elearning Enviroments; Innovation In Higher Education; Innovation In Teaching And Learning In Social Work; International Social Work; International Educational Networking; Social Work Practice In East Asia; Humanitarian Social Work; Curriculum Design

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