Biographical Information
Education
1997-2003 | Doctor of Philosophy in Social Work (Ph.D.), University of Southern California, Los Angeles Dissertation: Mental Health Services and Foster Care Placement Change; Ann Arbor: ProQuest, UMI Dissertation Services, May 2003 (Funding: NIMH Grant R03 MH64327-01) |
1988-1990 | Master of Social Welfare (MSW), University of California Los Angeles Masterthese: Ethnicity and emancipation readiness among adolescents in foster care. A secondary analysis. Unpublished Master’s Thesis, UCLA, 1990. |
1986-1988 | Bachelor of Social Work (BSW), Loma Linda University/Riverside, CA, summa cum laude |
Academic History
09/2016- | Professor Theorien und Methoden der Sozialpädagogik, Universität Kassel, Institut für Sozialwesen |
2016- | Dozent, Loma Linda University, School of Behavioral Health, Loma Linda, CA, USA |
1999- | Child and Adolescent Services Research Center, Children’s Hospital, San Diego
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2004-2016 | Professor (Tenure), Loma Linda University, Department of Social Work and Social Ecology, School of Behavioral Health
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Dez 2015 | Gastprofessor, Hochschule für angewandte Wissenschaften Würzburg-Schweinfurt, Fakultät Angewandte Sozialwissenschaften, 7.-18. Dezember |
2013-2015 | Gastprofessor, Universität Kassel, Institut Sozialwesen |
2010-2012 | Fellowship, Implementation Research Institute, Center for Mental Health Services Research, Washington University, St. Louis, MO |
2010-2012 | Lehrbeauftragte, Universität Kassel, Institut für Sozialwesen |
2003-2004 | Assistant Professor, San Diego State University, CA, School of Social Work |
1993-2002 | Assistant Professor of Social Work, La Sierra University, Riverside, CA Program Director and co-chair of Psychology Department 1996-1997 |
1999 | Lehrbeauftragte, University of Southern California, School of Social Work, Los Angeles, CA |
Professional History
1992-1993 | Medical Social Worker The San Bernardino Community Hospital, San Bernardino, CA |
1990-1992 | Psychiatric Social Worker Riverside County Department of Mental Health, Banning, CA |
1989-1990 | Clinical Social Work Intern San Bernardino County Department of Mental Health, Colton, CA |
1988-1989 | Medical Social Work Intern San Bernardino County Medical Center, San Bernardino, CA |
1986 | Counselor at St. Katherine’s Group Home for Boys and Girls, Corona, CA |
Other Relevant Positions and Activities
- Chair of the Research Ethics Commission FB01 (since 2016)
- Chair of Internationalization IfS (since 2022)
- Chair for Module 7, Bachelor Social Work
- Network Speaker, German Jordanian University (since 2021)
- Editor-in-Chief, Residential Treatment for Children and Youth (2015-2018)
- Member of Editorial Boards for the following journals:
- Residential Treatment for Children and Youth
- Journal of Evidence-Based Social Work
- Implementation Research and Practice
- Quarterly on Refugee Problems – AWR Bulletin
- European Social Work Research Journal
- Journal of Emotional and Behavioral Disorders
- Board Member – European Association for Social Work Research (2016-2018)
- Member of International Consortium of Therapeutic Residential Care (since 2015)
- Fellow, Society for Social Work and Research (seit 2016)
- Listed among Top 100 Contributors to Social Work Journal Scholarship (2022; https://doi.org/10.1177/10497315221136623)