School of Social Work News

Professor Lorraine Gutiérrez is the 2017 recipient of the Distinguished Contributions to Teaching and Mentoring in Qualitative Inquiry award from the American Psychological Association.

Director of the Joint Doctoral Program and Associate Professor Daphne Watkins was selected to be a featured speaker at the 2017 Institute Science Symposium at Harvard University’s Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study on the theme of epidemics. The Symposium is scheduled for October 27, 2017 at 9 AM. The school will livestream the event and create a video link for later viewing.

Clinical Assistant Professor Debra Mattison is part of the faculty team that created the Interprofessional Education toolkit which is a resource being piloted for faculty interested in converting U-M courses to IPE.

Associate Dean and Professor Ruth Dunkle’s project, “Ageless Acts” received a grant from the Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan to combat social isolation and ageism in the metro Detroit area. Ageless Acts, a professionally run theater group comprised entirely of older adults, will use high-quality creative, intergenerational programming to highlight the need to look at aging through a different lens, one that distinguishes between simply growing older and illness/decline.

Kristin Seefeldt's article, "How welfare's work requirements can deepen and prolong poverty: Rose's story" was published in The Conversation. 

Robert Taylor has been named the CSWE 2017 Carl A. Scott Memorial Lecturer.  Read more about Dr. Taylor's talk "Extended Family and Congregational Support Networks Among African Americans"

Brad Zebrack's study, “A Practice-Based Evaluation of Distress Screening Protocol Adherence and Medical Service Utilization” was featured in the Cancer Network article, “Adherence to Distress Screening Protocols Lacking”.  

Professor Edie Kieffer interviewed with the U-M Center for Healthcare Research & Transformation on the Michigan Community Health Worker Alliance’s shift from being hosted at SSW to the Center. Kieffer’s Alliance is an organization that works to advance and train community health workers across the state and achieve policies that lead to sustainable financing of health aide programs.