Professor
University of Iowa
Iowa City, Iowa, United States
Professor Coohey has over 25 years of experience directing and evaluating community-based programs, validating assessment tools, and researching the relationship between childhood adversity and academic and behavioral health outcomes among children and adults. She has a broad background in research methods, with training and expertise in community-engaged program evaluation and measurement development. Professor Coohey also has substantial direct social work practice experience with children, adolescents, and adults who have experienced trauma and are in crisis or experiencing persistent mental health challenges. These practice experiences have informed her research and vice-versa.
For the past several years, Professor Coohey's community-engaged research projects have focused on counselor suicide-specific skill development and suicide prevention. She is the principal evaluator of the Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training in Iowa, a 16-hour training to prepare counselors and others to facilitate conversations about suicide with people in crisis. She is also the evaluator for Iowa Zero Suicide, a national initiative to reduce suicide deaths among people under the care of health and behavioral health systems, and the evaluator for Iowa Crisis Chat, a free online chat service affiliated with the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline.
Professor Coohey has served as an editorial board member for Child Abuse & Neglect and Social Service Review, and as editor-of-the-board for Social Work, the flagship journal for the National Association of Social Workers. She regularly presents her research and conducts training in the U.S. and internationally.
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Friday, November 11, 2022
10:45 AM – 11:45 AM