Katharine H. Briar-Lawson, Dean & Professor

M.S.W. (1968) Columbia University
Ph.D. (1976) University of California, Berkeley

E-mail: kbriarlawson@uamail.albany.edu
Telephone: (518) 442-5324

Specialization: Child and family welfare, poverty and unemployment, community collaboration and service integration

Katharine Briar-Lawson is an experienced academic administrator and national expert on family focused practice and child and family policy. Among her books (co-authored) are Family-Centered Policies & Practices: International Implications (2001) and (co-edited) Innovative Practices with Vulnerable Children and Families (2001). She has recently co-edited two volumes on Evaluation Research in Child Welfare, (2002) and Charting the Impacts of University-Child Welfare Collaboration, (2003). She has recently co-edited a special issue of Child Welfare on Community Building. She is the President of the National Association of Deans and Directors of Schools of Social Work (NADD).

Sandra A. Austin, Assistant Professor

M.S.W. (1972) SUNY Buffalo
Ed.D. (2001) University of Massachusetts at Amherst

E-mail: saustin@albany.edu
Telephone: (518) 591-8751

Specialization: Social Welfare Policy and Women, Health Policy and Women

Sandra Austin is interested in social policy and women, health disparities among women of color, and the use of distance education in social work education. Her dissertation research focused on the impact of welfare reform on educational attainment among single parents.

Nancy Claiborne, Associate Professor, and Director of Evaluation
Social Work Education Consortium

Ph.D. (1999) University of Houston, Houston, TX
M.S.W. (1982) University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA

E-mail: nc@albany.edu
Telephone: (518) 442-5349

Specialization: Human Service Organizations and NGO design and delivery of service systems that integrate empirical care and build capacity.

Nancy Claiborne is a management specialist whose research interests include human service organizational functioning and change, as well as teambuilding/collaboration and program evaluation. She is specifically interested in service system design and delivery, including the system facilitators and barriers to innovative services that achieve results. Settings she has researched and facilitated change include child welfare organizations and health systems. She is particularly interested in studying models that attempt to integrate empirically based care and outcomes measurement into services. These interests include investigating the impact of organizational factors on the delivery of services, management system functions, and the adoption of innovation and engagement in teams and collaborations. Her experience includes 17 years as a clinician, clinical director, community linkage agent, and senior administrator in inpatient and outpatient health and mental health settings. .

Anne E. Fortune, Professor

A.M., Social Work (1975) University of Chicago
Ph.D. (1978) University of Chicago

E-mail: rfortune@albany.edu
Telephone: (518) 442-5322

Specialization: Short-term Treatment and Social Work Education

Anne E. Fortune teaches research and social work practice at the undergraduate and graduate levels. Her research is in the areas of task-centered practice, termination of social work treatment, aging, and field education. She is editor of Task-Centered Practice with Families and Groups (1985), and co-author (with William J. Reid) of Social Work Research (1998). She is past editor of The Journal of Social Work Education and current editor of Social Work Research.

Rose Greene, Public Service Professor and Associate Director Center for Human Services Research

MA (1979) University at Albany, State University of New York Email:

E-mail:rgreene@pdp.albany.edu
Telephone: (518) 442-5774

Specialization: Children and Family Services, Program Evaluation, Service Integration Rose Greene is the Associate Director for the Center for Human Services Research, which conducts multi-disciplinary program evaluations and special studies for governmental agencies and other service providers. She has received numerous grants and contracts from federal, state and local agencies for research in the areas of child abuse prevention, children's mental health, legally-exempt child care, and systems integration.

Jan L. Hagen, Distinguished Teaching Professor

M.S.W. (1972) Washington University
Ph.D. (1982) University of Minnesota

E-mail: hagen@albany.edu
Telephone: (518) 442-5336

Specialization: Social Welfare Policy, Women and Social Policy

Jan Hagen has research interests in public welfare, welfare employment programs, and battered women. Her publications encompass the subjects of welfare employment programs, welfare "reform", income maintenance workers, battered women, and homelessness. She holds a joint appointment in the Public Policy Program and an affiliated appointment in the Department of Women's Studies. In 2003, she received the Presidential Award for Excellence in Social Work Research from the National Association of Social Workers (NASW). Dr. Hagen serves as consulting editor for several social work journals. She has also been active in NASW, including serving on the Association;s Blue Ribbon Panel on Economic Security and as President of The New York State Chapter (2000-2002).

Eric R. Hardiman, Associate Professor

M.S.W. (1993) University of Georgia, Athens
Ph.D. (2001) University of California, Berkeley

E-mail: hardiman@albany.edu
Telephone: (518) 442-5705

Specialization: Mental Health

Eric Hardiman is interested in mental health peer support, consumer-provided mental health services, psychiatric recovery, self-help, mental health service delivery, homelessness and the history of social welfare institutions.

Laura M. Hopson, Assistant Professor

E-mail: lhopson@uamail.albany.edu
Telephone: (518) 591-8787

Specialization: Social Work Services in Schools, Prevention of Youth Risk Behaviors, and Evidence-Based Practice

Laura Hopson is interested in interventions that reduce risk and build protective factors for youth, especially in school settings. Current research projects involve implementation and evaluation of evidence-based prevention programs in schools.

Heather K. Horton, Assistant Professor

M.S. (1991) University of Arizona
A.M. (2000) University of Chicago
Ph.D. (2005) University of Chicago

E-mail: Hhorton@uamail.albany.edu
Telephone: (518) 442-5331

Specialization: Mental health, schizophrenia, deafness.

Heather Horton's research centers on cognition and schizophrenia. She studies how neurocognitive factors, such as attention and memory and social-cognitive factors, such as facial affect processing and theory of mind, influence adaptive outcomes among people with serious mental illness. She is also interested in issues related to language and thought in the context of a dependence on visual-spatial information and linguistic processing.

Lani V. Jones, Assistant Professor

M.S.W. (1992) Boston College
Ph.D. (2000) Boston College

E-mail: ljones@albany.edu
Telephone: (518) 442-5167

Specialization: Evidenced Based Practice, Psychosocial Competence, Group Work and Mental Health in Urban Communities

Lani V. Jones has research interest in the area of evidenced based practice with a focus on Psychosocial competence, group work and positive mental health outcomes with families and their children in communities. Her current research projects entail: an evaluation of a culturally, specific group intervention aimed at enhancing Psychosocial competence among Black women and; the exploration of factors that contribute to the achievement of Psychosocial competence among Black women with psychiatric disabilities who utilize peer support services in mental health settings.

Shirley J. Jones, Distinguished Service Professor

M.A. (1954) New York University
M.S.W. (1964) New York University
D.S.W. (1977) Columbia University

E-mail: sjones@albany.edu
Telephone: (518) 442-5330

Specialization: Planning, Policy, Group Work, and Community Organization

Shirley Jones' interests include housing policy, rural social work, minorities, and community organization. She is editor of Sociocultural and Service Issues Working with Rural Clients (Rockefeller College Press, 1992), and she has written two papers for the United Nations on housing policy and several papers on the needs of rural families and the role of women and minorities in development. She is presently looking at rural economic development and its implications for social work.

Heather Larkin, Assistant Professor

M.S.W. (1994) Boston University
Ph.D. (2006) The Catholic University of America

E-mail: hlarkin@albany.edu
Telephone: (518) 591-8779

Specialization: substance abuse, impact of adverse childhood experiences, aging, meditation interventions, integrative service system responses, Integral Restorative Processes (IRP)

Heather Larkin's research focus is on integrated service system responses to the complex issues associated with substance abuse, aging, and adverse childhood experiences. She has begun to explore factors contributing to increasingly integrated systems, and plans to conduct research evaluating whether more highly integrated human service agencies lead to better outcomes. Heather specializes in Integral Restorative Processes (IRP), a model designed to guide both clinical and macro interventions, including those serving society's most disadvantaged populations, and has written about the application of Integral Theory in social work. She plans to evaluate IRP interventions with various disadvantaged population groups.

Catherine K. Lawrence, Assistant Research Professor

M.S.W. (1997) University at Albany
Ph.D. (2003) University at Albany

E-mail: CLawrence@albany.edu
Telephone: (518) 437-3692

Specialization: Social Welfare Policy, Poverty and Disparity, Cultural Competency, Mixed Methods Research Design

Catherine Lawrence is a poverty researcher with a social justice framework for scholarship.  She is interested in the distribution of social goods and the causes and consequences of inequitable distribution.  Her work has focused on U.S. income maintenance policy and changes to economic support for families with children since passage of the 1996 welfare legislation. This research includes exploration of the family formation and sexual reproduction agenda in the Personal Responsibility Act of 1996 and the subsequent marriage initiatives of the Bush Administration.  She currently directs a Children's Bureau Training grant project to develop training for culturally competency family-centered child welfare practice.  Dr. Lawrence's research perspective reflects a pragmatic approach to social science.  She is committed to exploring useful ways to apply mixed methodologies to research questions when appropriate. 

Hal A. Lawson, Professor

M.A. (1967) University of Michigan
Ph.D. (1969) University of Michigan

E-mail: hlawson@albany.edu
Telephone: (518) 442-5355 or (518) 442-5088

Specialization: School-Family-Community Partnerships, Child Welfare, and Interprofessional Collaboration

Hal Lawson works with school-family-community university partnerships in the United States as well as in other nations. This work encompasses school reform and systems reform in child welfare, and it involves interdisciplinary collaboration, action science, and action learning.

For more information click here: http://www.albany.edu/~hlawson

Eunju Lee, Assistant Research Professor and Research Scientist

M.A. (1990) University at Albany
Certificate (1997) Women and Public Policy, University at Albany
Ph.D. (2003) University at Albany

E-mail: ELee@uamail.albany.edu
Telephone: (518) 442-5773

Specialization: Child Welfare, Immigration, and Program Evaluation

Eunju Lee received her bachelor’s degree from Ewha Women’s University in Korea and studied issues related to gender equity, family policy, race and ethnicity, and immigrant adaptation in the Sociology department of the University at Albany. Since 1999 Dr. Lee has been conducting evaluations of programs and policies related to child welfare with the Center for Human Services Research using both qualitative and quantitative methods. Currently, Dr. Lee’s research focuses primarily on two funded projects: A randomized trial of the effectiveness of a child abuse prevention program and a process and outcome evaluation study of the collocation program to address parental substance abuse in the child welfare system.

Cathleen Lewandowski, Associate Professor and Director
Center for Human Services Research

M.S.W. (1981) St. Louis University
Ph.D. (1997) University of Kansas

E-mail: clewandowski@uamail.albany.edu
Telephone: (518) 591-8784

Cathleen Lewandowski is interested in evaluative and intervention research that examines the impact of social welfare services on children and families, especially from an interdisciplinary perspective. Her recent research has focused on drug treatment outcomes for women who are receiving child welfare, welfare, and drug treatment services. She has also studied the needs of social workers who work in public agencies, such as child welfare. Dr. Lewandowski teaches in the area of social work practice in the field of chemical dependency.

Barry Loneck, Associate Professor

M.S.S.A., Social Work (1978), Case Western Reserve University
Ph.D. (1985) Case Western Reserve University

E-mail: loneck@albany.edu
Telephone: (518) 442-5340

Specialization: Alcohol and Drug Dependence Treatment, Mental Health Treatment

Barry Loneck conducts research on therapeutic process in alcohol and drug treatment, as well as mental health treatment, with a primary focus on engaging and retaining clients in needed services. He has examined the effectiveness of the Johnson Intervention in outpatient alcohol and other drug treatment and was a National Association of State Mental Health Program Directors' (NASMHPD) Research Fellow from 1991 to 1993. As part of the Fellowship, he has been studying therapeutic process of dual diagnosed clients in psychiatric emergency rooms through the New York State Office of Mental Health. Current plans include the development and testing of non-linear dynamic modeling (NLDM) methods for therapeutic process data. Before coming to SUNY-Albany, he served as a clinician for eight years in a chemical dependency rehabilitation center in Ohio.

Philip McCallion, Professor

M.S.W. (1981) University at Albany, State University of New York
Ph.D. (1993) University at Albany, State University of New York

E-mail: mcclion@albany.edu
Telephone: (518) 442-5347

Specialization: Aging and Developmental Disabilities

Philip McCallion, Ph.D. ACSW is Professor in the School of Social Welfare at the University at Albany, a Hartford Geriatric Social Work Faculty Scholar and Mentor and is Director of the Institute for Social Services Research and Development. Within the newly formed institute Dr. McCallion directs the Center for Excellence in Aging Services and the NIDA-funded Child Welfare, Drug Abuse and Intergenerational Risk Research Center.

Dr. McCallion's research is focused on caregiving issues, particularly the interaction of informal care with formal services, collaboration across service systems, and the experiences of multi-cultural families. His work has included evaluation of non-pharmacological interventions for persons with dementia, the development of innovative demonstration projects designed to maintain aging persons with intellectual disabilities in the community and system design work on creating aging prepared communities.

Dr. McCallion's research has been supported by grants and awards from the National Institute on Drug Abuse, the U.S. Administration on Aging, the John A. Hartford Foundation, the Joseph P. Kennedy Jr., Foundation, the Alzheimer's Association, the Agency for Health Quality Research, the Health Research Board of Ireland, the Irish Hospice Foundation and New York State's Department of Health, Office for the Aging, Office for Children and Family Services and Developmental Disabilities Planning Council.

Dr. McCallion has over 70 publications on interventions with caregivers of frail elderly, persons with Alzheimer's disease, and persons with intellectual/developmental disabilities. He is co-editor of Grandparents as carers of children with disabilities: Facing the challenges , co-author of Maintaining Communication with Persons with Dementia and has produced videotape and cd-rom based training and self instructional materials on Intellectual Disabilities and Dementia and on End of Life Care for Persons with Intellectual Disabilities. Dr. McCallion has also written on management issues for the providers of human services. He is co-editor of Total Quality Management in the Social Services: Theory and practice.

Mary McCarthy, Lecturer, Director Social Work Education Consortium, Assistant Dean for School Advancement

M.S.W. (1982) University at Albany, State University of New York
Ph.D. (2003) Memorial University of Newfoundland

E-mail: mccarthy@albany.edu
Telephone: (518) 442-5338

Specialization: Child Welfare and Political Social Work

Mary McCarthy's practice experience as a caseworker and administrator in child welfare and education frames her interest in public policy for children, families, and oppressed groups.

The Social Work Education Consortium is a partnership between the New York State Deans of Schools of Social Work, the County Child Welfare systems and the NYS Office of Children and Family Services. The Consortium is working on professionalization and stabilization initiatives for the public sector workforce. This involves funding to support interagency collaboration, community development and the education and training of child welfare practitioners. She was the NASW Northeast Division 1992 Social Worker of the year.

LuAnn L. McCormick, Assistant Research Professor and Senior Research Scientist

M.S.W. (1989) University at Albany
Ph.D. (1998) University at Albany

E-mail: lmccormick@uamail.albany.edu
Telephone: (518) 442-5731

Specialization: Children's Mental Health, Maternal and Child Health, Program Evaluation with Mixed Methods Research Designs

LuAnn McCormick has conducted program evaluations in many areas of the health and human services field, including children's and adult mental health, maternal and child health, HIV/AIDS, family homelessness, traumatic brain injury, and women's health. Dr. McCormick is Principal Investigator and the Evaluation Team Leader for the Albany County System of Care for Children's Mental Health, part of a national program funded by SAMHSA. Other recent research projects have included an evaluation of a federal Children's Bureau project to train New York State child welfare workers on culturally competent, family centered practice; the implementation of NYS OCFS Integrated County Planning; and an evaluation of NYS Family Resource Centers. Dr. McCormick is dedicated to bringing the authentic voice of families and youth into all aspects of program and policy development and implementation.

Linda K. P. Mertz, Project Coordinator,

Internships in Aging Project
M.S.W. (1990) Boston College

E-mail:lmertz@albany.edu
Telephone: (518) 442-5327

Specialization: Geriatrics, Mental Health, Field Education

Linda Mertz is the Coordinator of the Internships in Aging Project -- one of several model programs in the nation for training of social workers to work with older adults. Her interests include gerontology, especially caregiving, wellness, intergenerational programming, mental health and community building.

Robert L. Miller, Jr., Associate Professor
M.S.W. (1994) University of Pennsylvania

M.Phil. (1998) Columbia University
Ph.D. (2000) Columbia University

E-mail: rmiller@albany.edu
Telephone: (518) 442-5374

Specialization: HIV disease in African American populations; spirituality and social work practice, policy and research; faith-based health promotion and disease prevention collaboration.

Robert L. Miller, Jr., explores the intersection of spirituality, social welfare and public health. He has examined the meaning and utility of spirituality in the lives of African American gay men living with AIDS. He is currently exploring the decision making process of African American Clergy in HIV prevention efforts within their congregations; coping strategies for African American women over 50 living with AIDS; and health promotion and disease prevention collaboration efforts between faith-based institutions and health related community-based organizations.

Dr. Miller teaches Micro Practice One and Two; Cultural Diversity in Social Work; and Spirituality and Social Work Practice.

Dr. Miller is an active participant in the US - Africa Partnership for Building Stronger Communities.  

Toni Naccarato, Assistant Professor

M.S.W. (1994) San Jose State University
Ph.D. (2005) University of California, Berkeley

Email: tnaccarato@uamail.albany.edu
Telephone: (518) 591-8788

Specialization: Child welfare, economics and social policy with emphasis on analysis and reform

Toni Naccarato's research focuses on emancipation, welfare, and human capital accumulation of adolescents; social and economic policies and reforms; and, research methods for increasing social and political changes in the Social Work arena. Dr. Naccarato has direct practice experiences in California and New York, and applied research experiences at the policy level in Georgia, California, New York and Washington, DC. Dr. Naccarato is currently collaborating with the New York State Office of Children and Family Services, to better integrate research and data management emphasizing child welfare practitioners.

David Pettie, Assistant Coordinator of Field Education

M.S.W. (1983) Adelphi University

E-mail: pettie@albany.edu
Telephone: (518) 437-3686

Specialization: Mental Health

David Pettie is interested in psychiatric rehabilitation and recovery, the impact of psychiatric disabilities on identity and roles, issues of aging and loss, clinical supervision, innovations in treatment and teaching methods. Recent publication: Illness as Evolution: The Search for Identity and Meaning in the Recovery Process.

Blanca Ramos, Associate Professor

M.S.W. (1991) University at Albany, State University of New York
Ph.D. (1997) University at Albany, State University of New York

E-mail: ramos@albany.edu
Telephone: (518) 442-5365

Specialization: Social Work Practice, Mental Health, Cultural Diversity, Cross-Culture Social Work and Immigrants

Blanca Ramos' scholarly interests are centered on health disparities, cross-cultural social work, gerontology, and domestic violence with a focus on US Latinos. Dr. Ramos holds an affiliate appointment in the Department of Latin American and Caribbean Studies and is Director of the Education Core of the Center for the Elimination of Minority Health Disparities. She teaches courses on clinical social work, diversity, immigrants, Hispanic cultures in the U.S., and research in Latino communities. Her international work includes partnership building with higher education institutions and communities and with the national association of social workers in Peru. Dr. Ramos serves on a variety of local, regional, and national boards and commissions and has extensive experience as a practitioner and community organizer. Blanca Ramos is past First Vice President of the National Association of Social Workers (NASW) and has served in the National Board of the Institute for the Advancement of Social Work Research. She is a current member of the editorial board of Social Work and the NASW National Committee on Inquiry. She is originally from Piura, Peru.

Barbara Rio, Undergraduate Field Coordinator

M.S.W. (1992) Hunter College, School of Social Work

E-mail: rio@albany.edu
Telephone: (518) 442-5361

Specialization: Domestic Violence

Barbara Rio has extensive experience in the field of domestic violence in direct practice, administration, supervision, program evaluation, and training. Her other interests include international social work, the effectiveness of group work with different populations and diversity issues.

Kenneth Robin, Assistant Research Professor and Research Scientist

Psy.D. (2005) Rutgers University

E-mail: krobin@uamail.albany.edu
Telephone: (518)-591-8797

Specialization: Early childhood education, assessment, and program evaluation

Ken Robin worked for seven years at the National Institute for Early Education Research (NIEER) at Rutgers University. His work included co-authorship of the annual State Preschool Yearbook, policy briefs on assessment, program duration, and program cost, and a randomized trial comparing the effects of half- and extended-day preschool. He also participated in several statewide program evaluations. Since joining the Center for Human Services Research in 2006, Ken's research has focused on volunteerism through AmeriCorps State programs, systems of care for children's mental health, and efforts to expand services available in the Albany City public schools.

Crystal Rogers, Assistant Dean for Academic Programs

Ph.D. (2008) University at Albany, SUNY
M.S.W. (1998) University at Albany, SUNY

E-mail: carogers@uamail.albany.edu
Telephone: (518) 442-5322

Specialization: Child care, ethnic development and socialization, resilience.

Crystal Rogers' research interests are in the area of promotion of quality child care and child care regulations, childhood resilience, and children's ethnic development and socialization. She is currently working on research examining parental practices concerning the socialization of their children.

William Roth, Associate Professor

M.A., Political Science (1995) University of California,
Berkeley Ph.D. (1970) University of California, Berkeley

E-mail: wroth@albany.edu
Telephone: (518) 442-5296

Specialization: Public and Social Policy and Disability Studies

William Roth has research interests that include disability, children, and critical social policy. He was the recipient of a grant by the Federal Department of Educators for his work on computer access for people with disabilities. His most recent books include The Assault on Social Policy (Columbia University Press, 2002) and with Katharine Briar-Lawson, Globalization, Social Justice and The Human Services (SUNY Press, 2006).

Bonita M. Sanchez, Coordinator of Field Instruction
M.S.W. (1973) University at Albany, State University of New York

E-mail: sanchez@albany.edu
Telephone: (518) 442-5334

Specialization: Developmental Disabilities

Bonita Sanchez has extensive experience in developmental disabilities, mental retardation, social welfare policy, human behavior, and consultation and supervision. She has practice, administrative, and supervisory experience working with children and families in the field of developmental disabilities.

Brenda D. Smith, Associate Professor

A.M. (1989) University of Chicago
Ph.D. (1999) University of Chicago

E-mail: bsmith@albany.edu
Telephone: (518) 442-5093

Specialization: Child Welfare Policy and Services; Women and Social Policy

Brenda Smith's research centers on service delivery in the child welfare system. She studies how organizational factors affect child welfare practices, and how practices, in turn, affect service outcomes, especially foster care placement outcomes. She is interested in the response of the child welfare system to parental substance use, and in the experiences of biological parents in the child welfare system.

Carolyn Smith, Professor and Chair, Ph.D. Program in Social Welfare

M.S.W. (1973) University of Michigan
M.A. (1986) University at Albany, State University of New York
Ph.D. (1990) University at Albany, State University of New York

E-mail: csmith@albany.edu
Telephone: (518) 442-5341

Specialization: Delinquency and high risk youth; child maltreatment an family violence.

Carolyn Smith's primary research and publications are in the family etiology of delinquency and other problem behaviors. She is an investigator on the Rochester Youth Development Study, a national longitudinal and intergenerational study of delinquency. She is currently on the editorial board as Social Work Research. She has had fifteen years international practice experience in child and family mental health and delinquency prevention. Dr. Smith teaches in the areas of child and adolescent behavior, and practice effectiveness, including practice with involuntary clients.

Theodore J. Stein, Professor

M.S.W. (1970) University of California, Berkeley
Ph.D. (1974) University of California, Berkeley
J.D. (1995) Albany Law School

E-mail: tjstein@albany.edu
Telephone: (518) 442-5303

Specialization: Child Welfare

Theodore Stein's research and scholarship focuses on child welfare, child welfare and the law, the implementation of public policy, and reform of social service systems. He is the author of Child Welfare and the Law, 2nd Ed (Child Welfare League of America, 1998), The Social Welfare of Women and Children with HIV and AIDS (Oxford Univ. Press, 1998), other books, and numerous articles pertaining to child welfare services and social service agencies.

Dawn Knight Thomas, Assistant Dean for Student Services M.S.W

E-mail: dkt@albany.edu
Telephone: (518)591-8769

Ronald W. Toseland, Professor and Director,

Institute of Gerontology
M.S.W. (1974) Fordham University
Ph.D. (1977) University of Wisconsin, Madison

E-mail: toseland@albany.edu
Telephone: (518) 442-5353

Specialization: Gerontology and Social Work Practice

Ronald Toseland is interested in applied gerontological research and research on clinical social work practices and group work. He is the author and co-author of several books including Maintaining Communication with Persons with Dementia (Springer, 1998); Group Work with Older Adults and Their Family Caregivers (Springer, 1995); Effective Work with Administrative Groups (Haworth Press, 1987); and An Introduction to Group Work Practice, 3rd edition (Allyn & Bacon, 1998). His most recent journal articles address issues related to developing and leading support groups for family caregivers.

Lynn Videka, Professor

A.M., Social Work (1976) University of Chicago
Ph.D. (1981) University of Chicago

E-mail: lvs@albany.edu
Telephone: (518) 442-5351

Specialization: Child Maltreatment, Health, and Bereavement

Lynn Videka is the former dean of the School of Social Welfare at UAlbany. She teaches social work practice courses as well as research methods. She received her bachelor's degree in nursing and maintains an interest in the health care, mental health fields, and services to maltreated children and their families. Her co-edited books include: Advances in Clinical Social Work Research (National Association of Social Workers, 1990) and Working with Pregnant and Parenting Teenage Clients (Family Service America, 1991). She is currently working on two studies, one on the parenting role for persons with psychiatric disabilities, and one on self help groups for people diagnosed with a serious mental illness.

Lynn Warner, Associate Professor

M.P.P. (1987) Harvard University
M.S.W. (1994) University of Michigan
Ph.D. (1998) University of Michigan

E-mail: lwarner@uamail.albany.edu
Telephone: (518) 591-8734

Specialization: Substance Abuse and Mental Health Policy

Lynn Warner's research focuses on understanding the relationship between substance abuse and mental illness, and identifying inequities in behavioral health service delivery to vulnerable populations such as low-income women and Latinos. Current projects emphasize environmental influences on the development and treatment of psychosocial problems, including organizational predictors of psychotropic medication use for youths, and country-of-origin influences on the risk for substance abuse among Latinos. She was a National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) post-doctoral research fellow at the Institute for Health, Health Care Policy and Aging Research, and her research has been supported by the Alcoholic Beverage Medical Research Foundation and the Annie E. Casey Foundation. Dr. Warner is a member of the editorial board of Social Work and Mental Health.

Starr Wood, Assistant Professor

M.S.W. (1990) Smith College
Ph.D. (2000) Smith College

E-mail: sawood@albany.edu
Telephone: (518) 437-3680

Specialization: Mental Health, Substance Abuse and HIV

Starr Woods' research interests are substance abuse, infectious diseases, trauma, and social identity.

For additional information: www.albany.edu/~sawood/

EMERITUS PROFESSORS

Julie Abramson,
Associate Professor Emeritus
Ph.D. (1985) Bryn Mawr College

Neil Cervera,
Research Assistant Professor Emeritus
Ph.D. (1989) New York University

Donald Cohen,
Associate Professor Emeritus
M.S.W. (1950) Columbia University

Maureen C. Didier,
Associate Professor Emerita
Ph.D. (1967) Smith College

Jane Ives,
Professor Emerita
Ph.D. (1959) University of Chicago

Steven I. Pflanczer,
Associate Professor Emeritus
Ph.D. (1967) University of Pittsburgh

Aaron Rosenblatt,
Professor Emeritus
D.S.W. (1965) Columbia University

Edmund Sherman,
Professor Emeritus
Ph.D. (1967) Bryn Mawr College

Max Siporin,
Professor Emeritus
D.S.W. (1959) University of Pittsburgh

Sheldon Tobin,
Professor
Ph.D. (1963) University of Chicago