Curriculum Vitae (CV)

Abbreviated Curriculum Vitae

Licensure/Certifications

• Licensed Clinical Social Worker in Texas (since 1987)
• Licensed Clinical Social Worker in California (since 1992)
• NASW Academy of Certified Social Workers (admitted 1975)

Education

• 1980 Ph.D. American University, Washington, D.C. (Family Sociology)
• 1973 MSSW University of Texas at Austin (Clinical Social Work)
• 1970 B.A. Texas Christian University, Fort Worth (Sociology and Psychology)

Current Professional

Private Practice in forensic consultation, mental health- and child welfare-related training provider in California and Texas, and violence/sex offender risk assessment

Previous Professional

ACADEMIC:

• Professor Emerita, California State University, Division of Social Work from 1989-1999 (teaching clinical courses)
  -student evaluations consistently registered between 4.6 and 4.9 on a 5.0 scale in all teaching positions.
  Taught the following courses:
  • DSM-IV-TR and Psychopharmacology
  • Advanced Clinical Practice (Mental Health and Child Welfare)
  • Human Behavior in the Social Environment (Foundation and Advanced)
  • Generalist Social Work Practice
  • Death, Grief and Growth
  • Thesis Advising
  • Field Supervision and Integration Seminar
  • Understanding Today's Sex Offenders (prepared the course for distance education)
• Temporary full-time positions at University of Texas at Austin, Texas Tech University in Lubbock, and Baylor University in Waco
• Adjunct teaching at University of Texas at Austin School of Social Work (Graduate Program), West Texas A&M University in Canyon, Texas State University in San Marcos, American University in Washington, D.C.
• Policy consultation/testimony delivered to
  • California Legislative Subcommittee (1992)
  • California Health and Human Services Director Eloise Anderson (1996)
  • U.S. Senate Oversight Committee on Families (1978)
  • President Jimmy Carter's Senior White House Staff (1978)
  • Ohio Governor and Mrs. Richard Celeste (1983)
  • National Institute for Mental Health (1977)
• Many scholarly presentations
• Summer Fulbright Fellowship Recipient to Nigeria (1993)

CLINICAL:

Full and part-time private practice from 1987 to 2002, providing:

• psychotherapy
• clinical supervision
• coaching for the oral licensing exam
• family and organizational mediation
• forensic expert witness testimony and consultation
• known as an Attachment Specialist (trainer, consultant, therapist, and expert witness)
• professional training in a wide variety of mental health areas (from 1992 to present), including:
  • Attachment Disorder
  • Predicting Youth Violence
  • Understanding and Treating Sex Offenders
  • Understanding and Using the DSM-IV-TR
  • Cognitive and Behavioral Deficits of Prenatal Substance-Exposed Children
  • Borderline, Antisocial, and Narcissistic Personality Disorder
  • Posttraumatic Stress Disorder in Women and Children
  • Women and Depression
  • Women and Substance Abuse
  • Mediation in Highly Conflicted Couples
  • Understanding and Responding to Brain-Based Behavior
  • Therapeutic Parenting for Foster and Adoptive Children
  • Exposure to Domestic Violence (Child Abuse by Proxy)

Clinical Social Work in Hospital Settings:

• Per diem Clinical Social Worker at University of California Medical Center, Davis (Sacramento) (1992-1997)
• Full-time Clinical Social Worker and Unit Manager at Shoal Creek Psychiatric Hospital (Austin, TX) (1982-83)
• Full-time Clinical Social Worker at Scott and White Hospital (in Temple, Texas) (1973-74)

FORENSIC PRACTICE

• Provided trial testimony, qualifying as expert witness, in capital murder trials and in non-capital murder trials in Texas, Oklahoma, Nebraska, and Georgia
• Provided affidavits and hearing testimony for appellate capital murder cases in Texas
• Provided mitigation investigations in capital murder cases in Texas
• Provided depositions/affidavits in civil cases that settled in California and South Carolina
• Provided trial testimony in a civil case in California
• Provided hearing testimony in family court cases in California
• Provided clinical evaluations for disability claims in California
• Provides training to attorneys and mitigation specialists at the Center for American and International Law in Plano, Texas