Education
B.S., Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York
MSW, New York University
Ph.D., Florida International University
Background
For more than 35 years, Dr. Dumaine has worked in public agencies and hospitals with clients of all ages diagnosed with mental illness, substance abuse, and developmental disabilities. She directed a chapter of the American Red Cross in Middletown, Ohio. As supervisor of social workers in a 24-hour Psychiatric Emergency Service of a teaching hospital in Cincinnati, Ohio, she established a mobile crisis team and information hotline to respond collaboratively with police to mental health emergencies in the community.
After coming to South Florida, Dr. Dumaine directed the Subarts Program for the dually diagnosed, and served as the Clinical Utilization Review Manager for Fellowship House, a psychosocial clubhouse for persons diagnosed with severe mental illness. She has conducted numerous workshops throughout the state and at national conferences on assessment, treatment planning, dual diagnosis, and psycho-educational groups.
In the Fall of 2000, after many years of providing field instruction to practicum students in community agencies, she assumed the position of Field Practicum Coordinator at FIU. She recruits, coordinates, and monitors field placements for social work students and teaches various graduate and undergraduate courses. She also teaches a Field Instructor’s training which was developed by the Florida Field Instructors’ Consortium, and has helped to organize a Field Advisory Committee, comprised of agency field instructors.
Dr. Dumaine serves on the Board of Directors of Miami Behavioral Health Center and provides clinical consultation to Jackson North Community Mental Health Center. Dr. Dumaine has managed American Red Cross shelters locally, is a disaster mental health volunteer, and provides instructions in disaster mental health. In 2006, Dr. Dumaine was appointed to the CSWE Council on Field Education and is scheduled to serve on a CSWE site visit team in 2007.
Courses
MSW and BSSW Integrative Field Seminars and Clinical Field Practica
Clinical Interventions in Couple & Family Social Work Practice
Evaluating Empirically Based Social Work Practice
Human Behavior & the Social Environment - Psychopathology
Theory and Practice with Groups
Research
Assessment and interventions with persons diagnosed both with major mental illness and substance abuse, social work field education.
Recent publications:
Dumaine, M. (2007). The Torre Family: A young adult with mental illness. In B. Thomlison (2nd. Ed.), Family Assessment Handbook: An introductory Practice Guide to Family Assessment. Pacific Grove, CA: Brooks/Cole.
Dumaine, M. (2003). Meta-analysis of interventions with co-occurring disorders of severe mental illness and substance abuse: Implications for social work practice. Research on Social Work Practice, 13(2).
Interests
Her areas of interest include field education, schizophrenia, co-occurring disorders.
Quote
"You must be the change you wish to see in the world." - Mahatma Ghandi
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