“I would like to know about what my clinical professor Kathy Armenta is up to these days!” A few variations of this request came with readers’ responses to The Utopian survey last fall. As a member of the clinical faculty at the School of Social Work for the past 19… read more
Issues
ACE-ing It
How does childhood trauma affect health and what can social workers do about it? One evening in the summer of 2006, Seanna Crosbie, MSSW ’00, was sitting in her Austin living room, transfixed by a slideshow playing on her computer screen. “I was so moved that I don’t think I… read more
How to prevent homelessness
When Mary Dodson, MSSW ’96, was a social work student, she was set on the clinical concentration. We talked with her about how she declined professor Cal Streeter’s suggestion to switch to the community and administrative leadership track, and how she ended up using macro skills many times during her… read more