Bio:

Ronald A. Feldman has served as a faculty member at the University of California, Berkeley School of Social Welfare and the George Warren Brown School of Social Work, Washington University, St. Louis where he also was Acting Dean and a recipient of the university-wide Distinguished Faculty Award.  At CUSSW he has served as Associate Dean (1985-1986) and Dean (1986-2001).  He also was a Fulbright Lecturer at the Social Services Academy, Ankara, Turkey, a visiting lecturer at the University of Hawaii, and Resident Fellow at the Rockefeller Foundation Study Center, Bellagio, Italy.

Among his main scholarly and teaching interests are adolescent mental health, youth development, group work practice, and contemporary professional education.  Dr. Feldman was Founding Director of the Center for the Study of Youth Development at Boys Town, Nebraska and Founding Director of the Center for Adolescent Mental Health at Washington University, St. Louis and Columbia University.  He has served as a trustee, director or board member of the William T. Grant Foundation, the Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse, the Martha K. Selig Educational Institute, the International Association of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Allied Professions, and schools of social work at the University of Pennsylvania, Case Western Reserve University, and Washington University, St. Louis.  He also has served as Chairman of the Commission on Educational Policy of the Council on Social Work Education, Vice Chairman of the Task Force on Social Work Research of the National Institute of Mental Health, sole social work member of the Institute of Medicine’s Board on Biobehavioral and Mental Disorders, U.S. delegate for Oxford University Press, and board member of the Council on Social Work Education, the National Network of Social Work Managers, the Inter-University Consortium on International Social Development, and the Society for Social Work and Research.  He has been honored by proclamations from the Missouri House of Representatives, the Manhattan Borough President, and Senator Charles E. Schumer.

Dr. Feldman is the senior author, co-author or co-editor of 10 scholarly books (including Contemporary Approaches to Group Treatment, The St. Louis Conundrum: The Effective Treatment of Antisocial Youths, and Children at Risk: In the Web of Parental Mental Illness).and the author or co-author of 100 publications in professional journals and books.  He also has served as Principal Investigator for numerous funded research projects and as an expert witness in litigation regarding adolescent abuse, arson and suicide. 

Research Interests:

• Adolescent mental health
• Youth behaviors and attitudes
• Peer influence
• Group work practice
• Prevention of mental illness and antisocial behavior
• Professional development

Current Projects:

• Biennial survey of New York City youths' attitudes, behaviors and beliefs
• Professional development and research infrastructures

Recent Publications:

Books and Chapters
Feldman, R.A. (in press). “Critical Infrastructures for Social Work Practice Research: Pondering the Past, Framing the Future”.  In Anne E. Fortune, Philip McCallion and Katharine Briar-Lawson (eds.), Advancing Practice Research in the 21st Century.  New York: Columbia University Press.

Feldman, R.A. (in press). “Writing for Publication in Social Work”.  In Warren Green and Barbara Levy Simon (eds.), The Columbia Guide to Social Work Writing.  New York: Columbia University Press.

Feldman, R.A. (2002). “Health Care and Social Work Education in a Changing World”.  Pp. 31-42 in Alun C. Jackson and Steven P. Segal (eds.), Social Work Health and Mental Health: Practice, Research and Programs.  New York: Haworth Press.

Journal Articles
Feldman, R.A. (2006). “Rankings, Reputations, and Realities Among Social Work Schools”, Journal of Social Work Education, 42 (3): 483-505.

Feldman, R.A. (2004). “Principles, Practices and Findings of the St. Louis Conundrum: A Large-Scale Field Experiment with Antisocial Children”.  Pp. 827-837 in Albert R. Roberts and Kenneth Yeager (eds.), Desk Reference of Evidence-Based Practice Research in Health Care and Human Services.  New York: Oxford University Press.

Feldman, R.A. (2003), “Recent Developments in Social Work Education in the United States: Implications for Turkish Social Work Education”.  In Beril Tufan (ed.), Social Work Symposium, 2002.  Ankara, Turkey: Haceteppe University.

Last updated December 03, 2007.