Assistant Professor
Case Western Reserve University
Cleveland, Ohio, United States
Marjorie N. Edguer is an assistant professor at the Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences at Case Western Reserve University. Dr. Edguer received her PhD in Social Welfare, and her M.S.S.A. (Masters in Social Work) from Case Western Reserve University. She has worked in the field of social work for more than thirty years: as a clinical social worker in outpatient mental health centers, a school social worker, a school-based preventionist (of child risk behavior), and an advocate and crisis hotline worker in a domestic violence program. She developed programming for individual and group treatment for adolescent sexual abuse and trauma survivors; children of alcoholics/drug addicts; children and youth experiencing grief; and universal, targeted and selective prevention programming for at-risk youth in school settings around a range of problem areas including suicide, substance use, and school drop-out. Dr. Edguer teaches courses on social work practice, practice evaluation, child development, and mindfulness in social work practice. Her research interests include: 1) resilience in children and youth who have experienced trauma and loss; 2) social work practice and mindfulness interventions; 3) improving outcomes in teaching social work practice.
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Friday, November 11, 2022
12:00 PM – 1:00 PM