Alissa A. Schwartz, MSW, PhD is an Adjunct Associate Research Scientist at Columbia University School of Social Work’s Center for Social Policy and Practice in the Workplace. She also is an Adjunct Assistant Professor, teaching Research Methods and Program Evaluation at CUSSW.

Dr. Schwartz has over 15 years of experience in social services research, management assistance, advocacy, education, and direct practice. Her dissertation, Stayers, Fence-Sitters, and Leavers: Foster Care Workers’ Psychological Responses in the Workplace, examined the contributors to, experiences of, and outcomes of foster care workers’ positive and negative emotional responses to their work. It involved original research in which she conducted in-depth interviews with 25 foster care workers from five nonprofit foster care agencies contracted by New York City’s Administration for Children’s Services.

Dr. Schwartz received her PhD from CUSSW and her MSW from the University of Washington. She holds a BA in theater from Wesleyan University.

Schwartz, A. (2007). How goal orientation match between social workers and their supervisors impacts social workers’ job satisfaction: A theoretical exploration. The Clinical Supervisor
 
Schwartz, A. (1999). Americanization and cultural preservation in Seattle's settlement house: A Jewish Adaptation of the Anglo-American model of settlement work. Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare.

Last updated July 01, 2009.