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Social Work Research at GSSW
A Catalyst for Social Change
Although their research interests are diverse, Graduate School of Social Work (GSSW) faculty members, students and research partners share something in common: a focus on advancing social justice. We live this mission every day through research and scholarship that spans social work practice, policy and system reform.
Faculty Book Spotlight
Ecosocial Work
New book co-edited by Associate Professor of the Practice Rachel Forbes encourages social workers to advocate for environmental justice.
Social Work, White Supremacy, and Racial Justice: Reckoning With Our History, Interrogating Our Present, Re-Imagining Our Future
New book, coedited by GSSW Dean Emeritus James Herbert Williams, features chapters coauthored by Assistant Professor Autumn Asher BlackDeer, Assistant Professor Tyrone Hamler, Alumni Laura Nissen (MSW ’89, PhD ’97), Finn Bell (MSW ’09), and Danielle Littman (PhD ’23).
Understanding and Effectively Utilizing Experiential Therapy
New book by Professor Nicole Nicotera and Associate Professor Julie Anne Laser that offers a trauma-sensitive, mindfulness-based approach to Experiential Therapy with 10 practical steps and 32 ready-to-use activities.
Solution-Focused Brief Therapy With Families
New book edited by Professor Johnny Kim. This step-by-step training manual guides readers through the clinical practice of solution-focused brief therapy (SFBT) for use with families.
Community-Engaged Partnerships
Community needs and assets shape our research and scholarship agenda. For example, we host 16 intervention research studies and collaborate with 128 research partners. With support from 10 public and private partners statewide, the Climb@DU initiative is training social workers to meet behavioral health needs in underserved Colorado communities. Community partners also invest in our work, as do local, state and national foundations and agencies, funding more than $11.7 million in 2019–20 in annual research expenditures.
