Faculty

Faculty March 12, 2025

Ora Nakash Receives Grant to Advance Equity in Postpartum Mental Health Care

Professor Ora Nakash and her colleague at Rutgers University, Christina Kang-Yi, were rece…

Faculty July 24, 2023

New Book: Psychosocial Responses to Sociopolitical Targeting, Oppression and Violence

Professor Emeritus Joshua Miller published a new book aimed at helping clinicians begin de…

The exterior of Nielson Library and one of its "jewel boxes" on the Smith College campus.

Faculty March 11, 2023

Shooting for the Moon: Solving the Crisis of Children's Mental Health

More and more children in the U.S. are ending up in emergency rooms because of mental heal…

Professor Hannah Karpman smiles at the camera. She is wearing a blue top and her shoulder length brown hair is down.

Faculty March 08, 2023

Working to Support Families: Professor Marsha Kline Pruett

Professor Marsha Kline Pruett, M.S., M.S.L., Ph.D., ABPP, a specialist in co-parenting and family development who describes her focus as “a broader, more inclusive view of family structures,” has been busily working on building and growing tools and interventions focused on family systems dynamics.

Marsha Kline Pruett stands in front of a blackboard with a diagram reading parent 1, parent 2, child drawn on it.

Faculty March 08, 2023

Supporting Adolescent Mental Health Literacy: Professor Ora Nakash

The disruption, isolation and loss caused by the coronavirus pandemic spurred a youth ment…

Ora Nakash gestures with her hands as she speaks with Ph.D. students.

Faculty March 08, 2023

Bending the System in a Positive Direction: Professor Hannah Karpman

To Assistant Professor Hannah Karpman, M.S.W., Ph.D., the many research and student mentor…

Hannah Karpman teaches a classroom full of students.

Faculty March 08, 2023

Aha Moments in the Classroom: Professor Kenta Asakura

Twenty years after coming to SSW as an M.S.W. student, Kenta Asakura has returned as…

Kenta Asakura leans on a stone pillar. He is wearing a suit.

Faculty March 08, 2023

Radical Love Unlimited: The Research of Professor Loren Cahill

How do you encourage a teenage Black girl’s awareness of Black history and culture, incl…

Loren Cahill stands in front of several paintings at the Colored Girls Museum in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Faculty January 08, 2023

SSW Faculty Awarded 2022 Best Qualitative Article

SSW resident faculty members Annemarie Gockel M.S.W., Ph.D., Peggy O'Neill, Ph.D., L…

Faculty October 05, 2022

JaLisa Williams: Navigating Shared Trauma Through Community Connection

How can social workers navigate the layers of shared trauma and burnout when interacting a…