Margaret Johansson
Adjunct Lecturer

Margaret Johansson teaches Family and Children's Services at the Columbia University School of Social Work (CUSSW). She received her Master's in Social Work from Hunter College in 1995, with a concentration in casework.
Ms. Johansson has worked with adolescents in several clinical and community settings throughout the boroughs of New York City, including psychiatric hospitals, school-based mental health programs, and private practice. She is experienced in individual, family, group, and milieu modalities. In addition, as an intern at the United Nations during 2001, Ms. Johansson worked on a special initiative of Secretary General Kofi Annan called the Youth Employment Network, a project in collaboration with the World Bank and the International Labour Organisation.

During her three years at CUSSW, Ms. Johansson has worked as Senior Research Associate on the Linking Lives Health Education Project, a five-year intervention research study directed by Dr. Vincent Guilamo-Ramos and funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. With Dr. Guilamo-Ramos, she has co-authored several studies currently under review:

Accuracy of Parental Perceptions of Adolescent Alcohol Use.
Multiple Regression Analysis in Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology.
Parental and School Influences on Young Adolescent Heavy Episodic Drinking.
Binge Drinking Among Diverse Latino Youth: The Role of Acculturation.

Ms. Johansson is currently a doctoral candidate at Columbia University School of Social Work. Her dissertation is entitled: "The Effects of Secondary School Climate on Students' Academic Outcomes." She is interested in policies and programs that affect adolescent quality of life and the reduction of risk behaviors. She also works in the area of comparative social policy, and is particularly interested in issues of social capital and social inclusion.