Doctoral Candidate
University of Pittsburgh School of Social Work
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
Christopher Thyberg, LSW is a doctoral candidate at the University of Pittsburgh School of Social Work. Christopher has extensive clinical experience doing therapeutic work with children, adolescents, and families. He has experience using Trauma Focused-CBT, family systems therapy, and social-emotional learning strategies. In addition to his clinical work, he has considerable research experience in K-12 schools and has worked in the Pittsburgh public school system as a high school soccer coach for almost a decade.
Christopher’s research agenda is directly informed by his clinical and professional experiences and focuses on racial disparities for adolescents in mental healthcare and school-based settings. He is particularly interested in understanding how critical consciousness integrated with restorative practices can function as a panacea to the school-to-prison pipeline and racial disparities in school discipline. His dissertation examines how teacher racial attitudes associate with disparities in school-based discipline outcomes in the context of schools implementing restorative practices. Christopher is also interested in examining how critical and structural social work education can help prepare social work students to engage with societal issues using multifaceted approaches that incorporate micro and macro interventions.
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Sunday, November 13, 2022
9:30 AM – 10:00 AM