Professor Laser-Maira’s research focus is on resiliency, particularly the relevance of specific ecological and internal protective and risk factors by culture and gender. She has completed large studies of resilience in Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Gh
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Professor Laser-Maira’s research focus is on resiliency, particularly the relevance of specific ecological and internal protective and risk factors by culture and gender. She has completed large studies of resilience in Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Ghanian, and Senegalese youth and homeless American youth. She is currently researching human trafficking in Latin America and the US. Laser-Maira has nearly 30 years of clinical social work experience. She has also worked as a clinician in Mexico, Peru, and Bolivia. Her clinical expertise is in experiential therapy, working with military families, PTSD, parenting issues, child and adolescent healthy development, well-being throughout life, trauma focused CBT, play therapy, and art therapy. She continues to maintain a small private practice of children, youth, families, couples, and clinical supervision. She coordinates the children and youth curriculum for the MSW program of GSSW and the school social worker certificate. She has written two books: Working with Adolescents, (Laser & Nicotera, 2011) and Innovative Skills to Support Well-being and Resiliency in Youth (Nicotera & Laser-Maira, 2017) and over 20 peer reviewed journal articles.
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