School of Social Work Faculty & Staff
Faculty
Laurie A. Smith, Ph.D. (UCLA )
Director of School of Social Work and Associate Professor
Interests: AIDS prevention and services, foster youth, technology in teaching, service learning.
Andrew L. Anderson , MSW, DSW
Title IV-E Child Welfare Stipend Program Project Coordinator
Interests: Practice issues, human behavior and social environment, lesbian and gay issues, mental health.
Patsy Andrada, MSW, LCSW (New Mexico Highlands University)
Director of MSW Field Education
Interests: Gerontology, phenomenology, ethnomethological studies of Hispanic elderly, community-based social work, social workers as leaders and administrators; bilingual/bicultural social work practice
Laurel E. Brown, MSW, (State University of New York, Albany)
Title IV-E Faculty
Interests: Child welfare, cultural competence, spiritual/religious faith and social work.
Janet C. Chang, Ph.D. (UCLA)
Professor
Interests: Family caregiving, women's health and mental health issues, divorced women's adjustment and mental health issues, elder abuse in cross-cultural context, child abuse issues among Asian American families, ethnic specific service delivery.
Thomas D. Davis, Ph.D. (University of Washington )
Associate Professor
Interests: Substance abuse treatment, macro social work practice, research methods, and healthcare among Native Americans.
Zoila Gordon, MSW, LCSW (University of Southern California)
Title IV-E Faculty
Interests: Domestic violence, parenting Issues, working with families with medical Illness, children with emotional difficulties.
Margaret Hughes, Ph.D. (Brandeis University)
Title IV-E Faculty
Interests: Social Policy, child welfare, domestic violence prevention and youth violence prevention.
Ray E. Liles, D.S.W. (UCLA )
Social Work Practice Lecturer
Interests: Children in foster care, adoptions, child sexual abuse, attention def icit hyperactivity disorder, personality disorders, working with involuntary clients, educational advocacy on behalf of learning disabled children, use of technology in human services training.
Nancy Mary, D.S.W., UCLA (Los Angeles)
Emeritus Professor
Carolyn McAllister, Ph.D., MSW
Assistant Professor
Interests: Social work practice with individuals with disabilities and their support systems, integrating disability content into social work education, transition issues for adolescents with disabilities and their families, and teaching with technology, alternate forms of instruction.
Rosemary McCaslin, Ph.D. (Chicago)
Professor
Interests: Gerontology, service use, adult families, caregiving, intergenerational aspects of individual development, kin care in foster care, domestic violence among the elderly. Social work practice: preventive interventions, elder abuse, social workers with disabilities. Social work education: effective pedagogy.
Teresa Morris, Ph.D. (UC Berkeley)
Professor and Co-P.I. National Children's Study (San Bernardino County Location)
Interests: Research methodology and philosophy of science, community organizing, social welfare policy, social action, immigration and refugees, administration and leadership.
Julia Poirier, MSW (University of Southern California)
Mental Health Stipend Coordinator
Interests: Children's mental health, trauma and abuse issues, foster care system, play therapy as mode of treatment, substance abuse/ dual diagnosis, homeless population.
John Preble, MSW, LCSW
Title IV-E Faculty
Interests: Child welfare, child abuse, and Native American Issues.
Herbert Shon , Ph.D., LCSW (UCLA)
Assistant Professor
Interests: Developing strategies that reduce barriers to accessing services among hard-to-reach populations, integrating technology into social work courses, caregiving and Alzheimer's disease.
George Taylor, MSW, LCSW
Title IV-E Faculty
Interests: Veterans Issues, emancipation programs, social work in health care, particularly Veteran's health care issues.
Stanley S. Taylor, Ph.D. (University of Southern California)
Assistant Professor
Interests: Program evaluation, helping urban areas deal with the problem of street gangs, organization development in social services.
Pa Der Vang, Ph.D., LCSW (University of Minnesota-Twin Cities)
Assistant Professor
Interests: Cultural competent mental health practice, bicultural/bilingual social work practice, racism, child abuse, domestic violence, gender equity.
