Research Interests/Clinical Practice Expertise: Shauntel Adams is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker -Supervisor, with 10 years of experience working in behavioral health, schools, and medical settings. She has a private practice where she provides group and individual therapy. She is skilled in working with diverse issues such as anxiety, depression, substance use, and interpersonal relationships. She works with children/parents, young adults, and individuals using an eclectic approach tailored to the individual needs of each unique person. She has been a part of the UTA Adjunct Faculty since the Summer of 2019.
Research Interests/Clinical Practice Expertise: Clinical practice expertise in child welfare, mental health, veteran affairs, and intimate partner violence.
Research Interests/Clinical Practice Expertise: Years of experience in medial social work, adoption, foster care, trauma, and therapeutic services.
Research Interests/Clinical Practice Expertise: Child Welfare, Child and Family Therapy, Children and Families Policy
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Personal Pronouns: He/Him
Research Interests: Lived experience of tension, Live music performance in hospice-based settings, Sex and intimacy at end-of-life, Bucket lists and end-of-life dreams, Psilocybin and existential distress
Research Interests/Clinical Practice Expertise: Medical Social Work and Case Management, Diverse populations, Social Policy, Immigration Policy
Research Interests/Clinical Practice Expertise: I am interested in how technology can be utilized not only within the educational field, but also the contributions that can be made to clients throughout the therapy or counseling process. This would include all types of modalities and create a different way of understanding that might achieve a higher level of post-therapy recovery than just traditional methods. Especially for utilizing empowerment theories and exposure therapies within a safe environment. Technology can also be used to allow students and future social workers or professionals build confidence by having 'interactions' in a way similar to the world outside of school to gain a level of experience they cannot achieve just by reading books and the few months they may spend in an internship. My LMSW is in Children and Families, however I also have a focus on psychology and at this current moment am working as the Social work and Nursing librarian full-time here at UTA!
Research Interests/Clinical Practice Expertise: Medical Social Worker
Research Interests/Clinical Practice Expertise: Clinical practice and expertise working with neurodiverse clients, adolescents, CPTSD, and interpersonal trauma. I'm interested in intersections between neuroscience, polyvagal theory, and attachment theories in clinical practice.
Research Interests/Clinical Practice Expertise: Over 15 years of extensive experience providing mental health counseling: individuals/families/ group and crisis interventions and mental health status assessments. Clinical consultation in various settings to include outpatient, school based, in patient facilities, and residential treatment facilities. Certified Clinical Trauma Professional, Certified Trust Based Relational Intervention Practitioner,
Research Interests/Clinical Practice Expertise: Macro level social work; public policy; community advocacy and gentrification impact on minorities.
Research Interests/Clinical Practice Expertise: Teen Pregnancy and Direct Practice with Children & Families
Research Interests/Clinical Practice Expertise: 30+ years of clinical experience working with children and families
Research Interests/Clinical Practice Expertise: History of individual counseling, group therapy, biopsychosocial assessments
Research Interests/Clinical Practice Expertise: I have 25 years in child welfare experience. In addition to working with families and children in the foster care system my area of expertise is training and development of Instructor led and e-learning curriculum. Training child welfare professionals on in trauma informed care, human trafficking, basic interviewing techniques and engagement.
Research Interests/Clinical Practice Expertise: I have been teaching for UTA for 25 years. I have been in private practice since 1982 and still enjoy doing therapy with children and adults. My focus is child abuse and related trauma care. I am currently in private practice and am just starting work at The Parenting Center in Fort Worth.
Research Interests/Clinical Practice Expertise: Been employed in the SUD field for over 10 years, currently Program Director for two MAT clinics in the Fort Worth area.
Research Interests/Clinical Practice Expertise: I am in clinical practice working with children, adolescents, and families. I am EMDR trained and a Trust-based Relational Intervention practitioner. My approach to my clinical work is brain-based and trauma-informed. I have additional training in expressive arts modalities and play therapy.
Research Interests/Clinical Practice Expertise: Sheila Gold is the Assistant Dean of Admissions at the Tulane University School of Professional Advancement. She is a licensed clinical social worker and has professionally practiced in education for over 20 years as both an enrollment professional and school counselor. Sheila began her career at Tulane University in the Office of Undergraduate Admission and has worked in both the higher education and K-12 arenas. Sheila’s career has existed at the intersections of higher education and social work. At the core of the work she does each day, Sheila is dedicated to fair and equitable policies and desires to create an environment where the traditional and non-traditional student feels welcome to learn at Tulane. In addition to maintaining a clinical client load with a focus on family systems, parenting and child development, Sheila is an adjunct professor in social work at Tulane School of Social Work and University of Texas-Arlington School of Social Work. She has previously been an adjunct at Tulane School of Social Work. Dr. Gold has presented at multiple conferences both locally and nationally on the topics of admissions in higher education, child development, play therapy and school counseling. She has contributed articles to NOLA Baby and Family Magazine as well as Parenting for Moral Growth Magazine, and she published a character education curriculum for elementary and middle school counselors in 2012. In 2021, Dr. Gold co-authored the article “Value added by the doctorate of social work: professional satisfaction, scholarly leadership, and practice-informed research” in The International Journal of Social Work Education.
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Research Interests/Clinical Practice Expertise: Mental Health and Medical Social Work
Research Interests/Clinical Practice Expertise: Pediatric hospital social work experience and private practice
Research Interests/Clinical Practice Expertise: My experience has largely been in working with children and adolescents who have experienced deep trauma such as foster care, runaways, and human trafficking. However, my experience spans to medical social work, individual and family therapy, behavioral health, and school mental-health.
Research Interests/Clinical Practice Expertise: LCSW, Race victimization identity: The intersection of education, confidence levels, and mental health.
Research Interests/Clinical Practice Expertise: Women experiencing life transitions and stressors, anti-human trafficking, anxiety and depression in women
Research Interests: Qualitative Research focused on race, ethnicity, gender, mental health and discrimination. More specifically, examining an intersectional approach to mental health service provider practices.
Research Interests/Clinical Practice Expertise: Trauma, IPV, Mental Health, Substance Use/Abuse
Research Interests/Clinical Practice Expertise: My research interests include women’s reproductive health, intimate partner violence, and international social work.
Research Interests/Clinical Practice Expertise: My areas of competence include child maltreatment, trauma, the child welfare system, intimate partner violence, and direct practice with children and families.
Research Interests/Clinical Practice Expertise: I am licensed therapist and have over five years in direct service delivery both in primary health care and behavioral health. I have provided therapy to various populations ranging from adolescents to severely mentally ill clients in an inpatient psychiatric facility. In addition to being a professor, I work as the Mental Health Court Administrator for a north Texas county hospital. My academic and professional research focuses on the impact of mental illness on justice-involved individuals. I have authored and coauthored numerous peer reviewed journal articles, published book reviews and have been a guest editor on several high impact journals. I enjoy public speaking and have presented at several national and international conferences. My expertise is in research with justice involved populations and my overarching research agenda is concerned with challenging the narratives around this population. I've taught research, statistics, substance abuse, advanced micro practice, cultural diversity, budgeting and financial analysis, and inequities and incarceration courses.
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Research Interests/Clinical Practice Expertise: I am a Medical Social Worker and primarily work in a hospital setting. My passion is working with our aging population through Case Management, Medical Crisis Counseling, Hospice, and Community Health. My second professional love is Education where I can work with others to find connections that bridge theories, real world situations, and the policies, laws, and regulations that guide social work practice on a daily basis.
Research Interests/Clinical Practice Expertise: Private Practice (Depression, anxiety, stress, mood disorders). DP with geriatric population in nursing homes.
Research Interests/Clinical Practice Expertise: Victim Services; Trauma; Trauma-Informed Care; First Responder Care and Wellness; Threat Assessment and Mass Casualty Prevention and Recovery
Research Interests/Clinical Practice Expertise: Research Interest, poverty base discrimination, ageism challenges, lack of affordable healthcare, social policy, migration amongst diverse populations, lack of affordable housing, remote learning versus in class instruction and children & families.
Research Interests/Clinical Practice Expertise: Palliative Care, Grief and Bereavement, Geriatrics
Office: SWSH 203S
Research Interests: Public Policy, Law, Military History, Veteran Care, Social Entrepreneurship, History, Culture and Geopolitical Issues in Sub-Sahara Africa, Caribbean and South America, African-American Military History
