Assistant Professor of Teaching
Rutgers University
Basking Ridge, New Jersey, United States
Rupa M. Khetarpal is an Assistant Professor of Teaching at Rutgers University, School of Social Work. She has nearly two decades of practice experience with survivors of trauma, including working with survivors of torture, human trafficking, domestic violence, sexual violence, and other forms of gender-based violence. She has also worked extensively on developing cross-cultural competencies within various systems in responding to trauma survivors in New Jersey. Rupa’s areas of research and practice include trauma, global gender-based violence, cross cultural identities, resilience in traumatized populations, and refugee mental health. In her current role she focuses on fostering the development of future social workers through education and supervision.
She currently manages the MSW Violence Against Women and Children Certificate Program (VAWC-CP) that offers specialized education through the Center on Violence Against Women and Children, Rutgers University. Rupa was the former Director of the Cross-Cultural Counseling Center, a mental health program for refugees and immigrants at the International Institute of New Jersey. She previously served as a psychosocial consultant with Doctors Without Borders/Medicene` Sans Frontiers (MSF) providing psychosocial support to the humanitarian aid workers. She maintains a private practice in Highland Park, New Jersey, where her clinical work is informed by the integration of a variety of frameworks including body-oriented trauma therapies, cognitive behavioral interventions and the neuroscience of traumatic experience –with the understanding that the mind-body and spirit work in conjunction and are interdependent.
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Friday, November 11, 2022
7:45 AM – 8:45 AM