Practitioner-Researcher Partnerships: Building Knowledge from, in, and for Practice

Peg McCartt Hess, PhD, ACSW, is associate dean, School of Social Work, Columbia University, and faculty affiliate, Center for the Study of Social Work Practice, New York. She previously was on the faculties of the Universities of Indiana, Tennessee, and Alabama schools of social work.

Edward J. Mullen, DSW, is professor, School of Social Work, Columbia University, and director, Center for the Study of Social Work Practice. He is director of the National Institute of Mental Health—funded Mental Health Services Research Doctoral Program at the School of Social Work, Columbia University. He was formerly professor, University of Chicago and Fordham University in New York City, and director, Institute of Social Welfare Research, Community Service Society of New York.

About the Contributors

David E. Biegel, PhD, ACSW, is the Henry L. Zucker Professor of Social Work Practice; codirector, Center for Practice Innovations; codirector, Cuyahoga County Community Health Research Institute; and acting director, Joseph C. and Florence Mandel Alzheimerís Disease Caregiving Institute, Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio.

Rita Beck Black, DSW, is associate professor, School of Social Work, Columbia University, New York.

Arthur Blum, DSW, is Grace Longwell Coyle Professor Emeritus, Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio.

Denise Burnette, PhD, MSSW, is assistant professor, School of Social Work, Columbia University, and faculty affiliate, Center for the Study of Social Work Practice, New York.

Juliet Cheetham, MA, is professor and director, Social Work Research Center, Stirling University, Scotland.

Grace H. Christ, DSW, is assistant professor, School of Social Work, Columbia University, and former director, Department of Social Work, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York.

Mary Jane Cole, MSW, LSW, is social service coordinator, Catholic Board of Education Head Start program, and liaison between the program and agencies / universities, Cleveland, Ohio.

Claudia J. Coulton, PhD, is professor and codirector of the Center for Urban Poverty and Social Change, Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio.

James Donnelly, DSW, is director of social work and admissions, Terence Cardinal Cooke Health Care Center, New York.

Irwin Epstein, PhD, is professor of research, School of Social Work, Hunter College, New York.

Sona Euster, ACSW, is associate director of social work, The New York Hospital, New York.

William J. Ferns, Jr., PhD, is assistant professor of Computer Information Systems, Baruch College of the City University of New York.

Michael A. King, DSW, is cochair, Research Committee, Society for Social Work Administrators in Health Care, Metropolitan New York Chapter, Inc.

Mildred D. Mailick, DSW, is professor, School of Social Work, Hunter College, New York.

Marion Riedel, CSW, is a doctoral student, School of Social Work, Columbia University; a National Institute of Mental Health trainee; and chairperson of the Board of Trustees of the Lower East Side Service Center, New York.

Donald A. Schön is Ford Professor Emeritus and senior lecturer, Department of Urban Studies and Planning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

John R. Schuerman, PhD, is professor, School of Social Service Administration, University of Chicago, and faculty associate, Chapin Hall Center for Children.

Karolynn Siegel, PhD, is director, Social Work Research, and professor of sociology, Department of Psychiatry, Cornell University. She is also attending sociologist, Psychiatry Service, Department of Neurology, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York.

Elizabeth M. Tracy, PhD, LISW, is associate professor of social work, Mandel School of Applied Sciences, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio.

Virginia N. Walther, MSW, is senior assistant director of Social Work Services, the Mount Sinai Hospital, and instructor, the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York.