Assistant Professor
Texas State University
San Marcos, Texas, United States
Dr. Kelly Clary joined Texas State University in 2020. She holds all three degrees from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (BSW, MSW, Ph.D.). Dr. Clary enjoys public speaking, developing and implementing educational trainings, and engaging in leadership opportunities. Dr. Clary has taught a variety of classes including Direct Social Work Practice, Research Methods, Diversity, and Brief Interventions (Motivational Interviewing and Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment). Dr. Clary's areas of research and expertise are substance use among emerging adults, military members and veterans, Emerging Adulthood Theory development, mental health and stigma, and brief interventions (Motivational interviewing and SBIRT), and qualitative research. Dr. Clary's current projects include a funded research study in Illinois examining benzodiazepine, opioid, and cannabis use among older veterans, establishing and evaluating a non-profit agency for transitioning veterans in California, implementing and evaluating an educational virtual outreach program on substance use and self-care for social workers, and gathering Ph.D. candidates experiences who participated in virtual campus interviews during Spring 2020.
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Saturday, November 12, 2022
2:30 PM – 3:30 PM
Sunday, November 13, 2022
10:45 AM – 11:45 AM