Columbia University School of Social Work Adjunct Faculty

Lorraine Cates , Adjunct Lecturer Lorraine Cates will be teaching Social Work Research in Spring of 2001 at the Columbia University School of Social Work (CUSSW). She earned her M.S. from CUSSW in 1978. Cates, a clinical social worker in private practice, is currently a doctoral candidate in social administration. After earning her M.S., she became Clinical Director of a special social work unit attached to Legal Aid Society in New York City. A 1988 graduate of the postgraduate training institute of the National Psychological Association of Psychoanalysis, she has concentrated her clinical efforts on the treatment of self and affect disorders. Having a long-held interest in emotion and tacit experience, she is presently developing a research agenda that inquires into the linkages between emotional processes and collaborative learning at both the individual and organizational levels. She is the author of Psychiatric Services in a Legal Defense Setting and in 1995 presented Nonverbal Affective Experiences and Their Role in Generating Selfhood at American Psychological Association Annual Spring Meeting.