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University of Montana - Missoula

The College of Health Professions and Biomedical Science

Faculty, Staff and Contact Information

School of Social Work faculty members are involved in a wide range of projects, research, and activities with social work practitioners, social service recipients, advocacy groups, social service agencies, professional associations, and the community at large. We highlight the broad-based professional involvement below, and we invite you to visit the websites of individual faculty members.

UM social work faculty members participate in organizations, boards, and professional activities at the international, national, state, and local level including:

National and International:

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Local:

Contact Information

Chair:
Ryan Tolleson Knee, Ph.D.
phone: 406-243-4228
fax: 406.243.5275
Email: ryan.tollesonknee@umontana.edu

BSW Director:
Cindy Garthwait, MSW
phone: 406-243-2954
fax: 406.243.5275
Email: cynthia.garthwait@umontana.edu

MSW Director:
Janet Finn, Ph.D
phone: 406-243-5583
fax: 406.243.5275
Email: janet.finn@umontana.edu

Mailing Address
School of Social Work
The University of Montana
Jeannette Rankin Hall
32 Campus Drive
Missoula, MT 59812

 

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Tondy Baumgartner

Timothy Conley

 

 

 

 

 

Tim Conley

Cindy

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cindy Garthwait

Kerrie Ghenie

 

 

 

 

 



Kerrie Ghenie

Ryan Tolleson Knee

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


Ryan Tolleson Knee, Chair

Charles Wellenstein

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Charlie Wellenstein

Janet Finn

 

Janet Finn

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Jim Caringi

Catherine O'Day

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


Catherine O'Day

 

 

 

Randy Wood

 

 

 

 

 






Randy Wood

Heidi Holzer

 

 

 

 

 

 


Heidi Holzer

Current Staff

No Photo Judy Pfaff, Program Assistant

Faculty members are committed to the development of social work knowledge. Current social work textbooks written by faculty include:

2008

Finn, Janet L .Childhood, Youth, and Social Work in Transformation (co edited with Lynn Nybell and Jeffrey Shook), New York: Columbia University Press (forthcoming, 2008).

Finn, Janet L. Just Practice: A Social Justice Approach to Social Work (2nd ed.) (2008) (with Maxine Jacobson). Peosta, IA: Eddie Bowers Publishing.

Garthwait, Cynthia. The Social work practicum:  a guide and workbook for students (3rd ed.).  Boston, MA:  Allyn and Bacon, 2008

Pearlman, L.A., & Caringi, J. (2008). Vicarious traumatization and complex trauma. In C.A. Courtois & J.D. Ford (Eds.), Complex traumatic stress disorders: An evidence-based clinician’s guide. New York: Guilford Press.

2007

Finn, Janet L. La Victoria: Rescatando Su Historia  (2007) (co-authored with J. M. González, J. Lagos, N. Nuñez, G. Rodríguez, & C. Nuñez. Santiago: Universidad ARCIS, Social Memory Series

2005

Finn, Janet L. (2007).Motherlode: Legacies of Women’s Lives and Labors in Butte, Montana  (2005).(edited volume, with Ellen Crain) Livingston, MT: Clark City Press.

1998

Finn, Janet L. (1998). Tracing the Veins: Of Copper, Culture, and Community from Butte to Chuquicamata.  Berkeley and Los Angeles:  University of California Press, 1998, 309 pp.

Recent faculty journal publications include:

2008

Finn, Janet L. “Social justice,” (with Maxine Jacobson) entry in Encyclopedia of Social Work. New York: Oxford University Press. Forthcoming 2008.

Finn, Janet L. “Child’s eye view,” Chapter in L. Nybell, J. Shook, and J. Finn (Eds.) (forthcoming, 2008) Childhood, Youth, and Social Work in Transformation. New York: Columbia University Press.

Finn, Janet L. “Making trouble,” Chapter in L. Nybell, J. Shook, and J. Finn (Eds.) (forthcoming, 2008) Childhood, Youth, and Social Work in Transformation. New York: Columbia University Press.

2007

Caringi, J., Lawson, H., Strolin, J.,  McCarthy, M., Briar Lawson, K., (2007) Child welfare design teams as interventions to reduce turnover and facilitate organizational change. Research on Social Work Practice, November 2007

Finn, Janet L. “Love and justice: Ovadia’s story,” (with Ovadia Vargas) (2007) Women’s Studies Quarterly 35 (3/4): 30-37.

Garthwait, Cynthia.  “Teaching aging by concept and example” in Days in the lives of gerontological social workers.  Harrisburg, PA:  White Hat Communications, 2007.

Garthwait, Cynthia.  “Teaching social justice by teaching life review” in Social work in end-of-life and palliative care:  a compendium of syllabi and teaching resources.  Chicago, Illinois:  Lyceum Books, 2007.

Strolin, J.S., McCarthy, M. & Caringi, J. (2007) Causes and effects of child welfare workforce turnover: current state of knowledge and future directions. Journal of Public Child Welfare. 1 (2),   29-52.

2006

Conley, T., (2006). Court ordered multiple offender drunk drivers: The validity and reliability of rapid assessment. Journal of Social Work Practice in the Addictions, Vol. 6 (3) p. 37-51.

Conley, T., O'Hare, T. (2006).  Factorial validity of the Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test:  Drunk drivers vs. college students.Journal of Social Work Practice in the Addictions. 6 (3) p. 25-36.

Conley, T. (2006). Review of the book: Walsh, J. (2006). Theories for direct social work practice. Belmont, CA: Thomson, Brooks  Cole Publishing.  Research on Social Work Practice, 16(5) p. 544-545.

Conley, T., Schantz, D., Schwanfelder, S. & Vaillancourt, M., (2006).  Meeting the addiction education and continuing training needs of rural master’s level social  workers: Workforce development through social work education.  The International Journal of continuing Social Work education, 9 (1) Spring 2006, p. 24-34.

Conley, T. & Schantz, D. (2006). Review of the book: Holcomb, Z.C. (2006). SPSS Basics: Techniques for a first course in Statistics. Glendale, CA: Pyrczak Publishing. Research on Social Work Practice, 16(5) p. 547-548.

2005

Conley, T., (2005). Evaluating rapid assessment instruments' (RAI's) in a practice setting: Use of  Receiver Operating  Characteristics (ROC) analysis, The Journal of Evidence Based Social Work, 2 (1/2), p. 137-154. Published simultaneously in: Hilarski, C. (ed.) (2005).  Addiction, assessment, and treatment with adolescents, adults, and families.  Binghamton, NY Haworth Social Work Press.

Finn, Janet L. “La Victoria: Claiming memory, history, and justice in a Santiago población.” Journal of Community Practice, 2005, 13 (30): 9-32.

Finn, Janet L. “La Victoria comprometida: Reflections on neoliberalism from a Santiago población”. Review of Economic Anthropology: Markets and Market Liberalization – Ethnographic Perspectives. Edited by Norbert Dannhauser and Cynthia Werner. Amsterdam: Elsevier Press, 2005, pp. 207-240.

Finn, Janet L. “Women, community, and contestation,” Voices – Publication of the Association for Feminist Anthropology, Spring, 2005, 7(1): 4-5.

2004

Finn, Janet L. “Troubled in Paradise,” Chapter in R. Transit (Ed.) Disciplining the Child: How the Discourse of the Professions Constitute the Child. Springfield, IL: Charles, C. Thomas (2004).

Finn, Janet L. “Popular Education and Participatory Research.” (co-authors Maxine Jacobson and Jillian Dean Campana).Chapter 19 in C. Garvin, M. Galinsky, and L. Gutierrez (Eds.). Group Work Handbook. New York: Guilford Publications, Inc. (2004).

2003

Finn, Janet L. “Just practice: Steps toward a new social work paradigm.” (with Maxine Jacobson) Journal of Social Work Education, 2003, 39(1): 57-78.

2002

Finn, Janet L.“Borders and Bridges: Building New Directions for the Women’s Movement,” Chapter 16 in Josefina Figueira-McDonough and Rosemary Sarri (Eds.) Women on the margins: Neglect, Violence and Resistance. New York: Haworth Press, 2002, 375-406.

Finn, Janet L. “Raíces: Gender-conscious community building in Santiago, Chile,” Affilia: Journal of Women and Social Work. 2002, 17(4): 450-472.

Tolleson Knee, R. (2002). Can service learning enhance student understanding of social work research? Journal of Teaching in Social Work. 22(1/2).

2001

Conley, T. (2001). Construct validity of the MAST and AUDIT with multiple offender drunk drivers. Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment. 20(4), 287-295.

Finn, Janet L.“Anaconda: La Historia No Revelada,” chapter in Mineria y Medio Ambiente, ed. Juan Diego Cerda, Universidad de Huelva, Spain, 2001.

Finn, Janet L. “The Women of Villa Paula Jaraquemada: Building Community in Chile’s Transition to Democracy,” Community Development Journal 2001 36(3): 183-197.

Finn, Janet L.  “Text and Turbulence: Representing Adolescence as Pathology in the Human Services,” Childhood, 2001, 8(2): 167-191, Special Issue, Capitalizing on Concern, Janet Finn and Lynn Nybell, editors.

Finn, Janet L. “Mining Men: Chile Exploration and the Politics of Copper, Culture and Gender.” Chapter 7 in Dorothy Hodgson (Ed.) Gendered Modernities: Ethnographic Perspectives. New York: Palgrave, 2001, 205-234.

2000

Finn, Janet L. “Our Lady of the Rockies: Capitalism and Cosmology on the Continental Divide,” Anthropology of Work Review, 2000, 21(4): 1-7.

Finn, Janet L. “Working for Equality and Economic Liberation (WEEL) Advocacy and Education for and Beyond Welfare Reform.”(co-authored with Raquel Castellanos, Toni McOmber, and Kate Kahan) Affilia: The Journal of Women and Social Work, Summer 2000, 15(2): 294-310.

Finn, Janet L. "The State, the Clock and the Struggle:  Discipline and Resistance in Welfare Reform in Montana," (co-authored with Lyne Underwood). Social Text, Spring 2000, 62 18(1):109-134.

Finn, Janet L. "Walls and Bridges: Cultural Mediation and the Legacy of Ella Deloria," Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies, Fall 2000, 21(3): 158-182

1998

Finn, Janet L. "Gender and Family," Chapter 6 in J. Figueira-McDonough, A. Nichols-Casebolt and E. Netting (Eds.) The Role of Gender in Practice Knowledge: Claiming Half the Human Experience. New York: Garland, 1998, 205-239.