Expertise

Research Interests

  • Qualitative research on: trauma, incest, mental illness, non-offending mothers of sexually abused children, cultural competence and PTSD, domestic violence, secondary trauma and ethnicity, psychoanalytic theory, professionals’ constructions of clients, the social process of treatment planning in agency practice, planning for sustainability and succession in grassroots agencies serving Muslim communities.

Keywords: trauma, domestic violence, child sexual abusemental health and mental illness, graduate social work education

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Organizational Affiliations

School of Social Work, Adelphi University

Adelphi University (United States, Garden City)

Education

Philosophy, Mathematics
1975, AB, St. John's College
Hunter College
1983, MSW
Graduate School and University Center of the City of New York
2001, DSW