Ph.D. March 21, 2023 Seeking More Practice Depth: Ph.D. Student Michelle Marchese Michelle Marchese came to social work after earlier careers in music, hospitality and foun…
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…
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.
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…
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…
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…
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…
M.S.W. March 08, 2023 Learning More By Being Fully Immersed: Molly Vencel M.S.W. '23 Graduating early from Georgetown University with a B.S. in global health, Molly Vencel entered Smith’s M.S.W. program just six months later. She came to campus sight unseen. “I applied during COVID. I’d never been to Smith—to Massachusetts.”
M.S.W. March 08, 2023 Helping People Hope, Heal and Live: Eve White, M.S.W. '22 “There are a million different reasons why clinical social work is needed,” Eve White M.S.W. ’22 believes. “It can help people hold on to hope, heal and live their lives the way they want to, with meaning.”
M.S.W. March 08, 2023 Improving Care for Minorities: Yesselis Rosario, M.S.W. '23 “I never thought in a million years I’d be accepted to the SSW—a renowned place,” said second-year student Yesselis Rosario. So after receiving her B.S.W. in 2022, she wanted to “go right away” for her master’s. With the Smith application deadline fast approaching, she decided to go for it. Not only was she accepted, but because of her undergraduate degree from Western New Mexico University—where she earned top grades—she was given advanced standing and is due to get her M.S.W. in 2023.