Associate Professor
University of Connecticut School of Social Work, United States
S. Megan Berthold, PhD., LCSW, is an Associate Professor at University of Connecticut's School of Social Work where she teaches clinical, research, and trauma courses from a human rights frame. She has worked with diverse refugee and asylum seeking survivors of torture, war, human trafficking, and other traumas since the mid-1980s. She was a clinician and educator in refugee camps in Nepal, the Philippines and on the Thai-Cambodian border. Dr. Berthold has conducted NIMH funded research examining the prevalence of torture and its mental and physical health consequences among Cambodian refugees. She chairs the National Consortium of Torture Treatment Programs’ (NCTTP) Research Project with torture survivors from around the world and serves on NCTTP’s Executive Committee. She has testified extensively as an expert witness in U.S. Immigration Court and was selected as the 2009 NASW Social Worker of the Year for her work with torture survivors. She is a member of CSWE’s Committee on Human Rights.
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Sunday, November 13, 2022
9:30 AM – 10:30 AM
Sunday, November 13, 2022
10:45 AM – 11:45 AM