Mental health and social work: Challenging the biomedical approach
Assistant Professor Shannon Hughes is leading a drug-free mental health care study to evaluate a new approach to mood-related distress.
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Social work research to investigate mindfulness for adoptive and fostering families
Social work researcher Dr. Rebecca Orsi is working to develop an intervention for families adopting children who have experienced trauma.
Internships for social work students offer valuable career insight
CSU’s School of Social Work offers students a wide range of internships to explore their interests and prepare for career success.
First-generation alumna funds scholarship to help other social work students
Melissa Pappas established a scholarship for first-generation social work students to honor her immigrant parents’ values of hard work and higher education.
Social Work for social justice: School of Social Work unveils new curriculum
In fall 2018 Colorado State University’s School of Social Work will launch a new curriculum focused more definitively on economic, environmental, and social justice, for preparing versatile leaders in professional and ethical generalist social work practice.
Impacting child welfare caseworker retention as a Ph.D. student
Colorado State University School of Social Work Ph.D. student’s educational journey, combined with a career devoted to the public good, led her to research retention of caseworkers in public child welfare while pursuing her degree from the school’s doctoral program.
New director joins Social Work’s Human-Animal Bond in Colorado
Helen Holmquist-Johnson has been named director of the Human-Animal Bond in Colorado program in Colorado State University’s School of Social Work.
Field education and social work: Q&A with Field Education Coordinator Kelly Maycumber
Kelly Maycumber, field education coordinator at Colorado State University’s School of Social Work, will focus primarily on placing undergraduate students into internships in the community as part of the social work major.
Connecting Social Work students with jobs and internships
On Wed., Feb. 14, at 3:30 p.m. in the LSC Grey Rock Room, the School of Social Work will hold its annual networking reception for social work students.
Musings from a 45-year career in social work: the door is open to your future
Last month, Field Education Coordinator Mary Carraher retired from the School of Social Work, bookending a career that includes work with the developmentally disabled, children and youth, homeless families, and just prior to CSU, 25 years as an executive director for Project Self-Sufficiency, a non-profit assisting single parents in Larimer County.