Geetha Gopalan, LCSW, is a doctoral student at CUSSW and teaches the Seminar in Professional Identity course. She received her Master of Science in Social Work from CUSSW in 1999, and her Bachelor of Science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1996.
Geetha has received a three-year, SAMHSA and NIMH-funded fellowship through the Council on Social Work Education Minority Fellowship Program. Her current research interests focus on the mental health needs of children and youth involved in the child welfare system, as well as child mental health treatment approaches which can prevent future child welfare involvement.
Prior to entering the doctoral program, Geetha has had clinical experience in therapeutic foster care and emergency psychiatric child psychiatric services within New York City. She was previously employed at Graham-Windham Services to Families and Children in the Therapeutic Foster Boarding Home department as a Social Worker and Supervisor, and as the Senior Social Worker at Kings County Hospital Center, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Outpatient Department.
Last updated December 03, 2007.
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