Education
B.A., M.S.W., Ph.D.
Background
Dr. Macgowan has been with the School of Social Work since the fall of 2000. Before coming to FIU, Dr. Macgowan was a faculty member at North Carolina state University. In addition to his academic experience, Dr. Macgowan is a licenced clinical social worker with many years of full-time experience working with youth in clinical and secure custody settings.
Courses
He teaches primarily in the direct practice sequence.
Research
Dr. Macgowan’s research includes advancing evidence-based group work practice and reducing substance abuse and violence among youth. He has published in these areas in numerous chapters and scholarly journals, including Social Work, Small Group Research, Violence and Victims, Social Work Research, and Research on Social Work Practice. In addition, he is on the editorial boards of the journals Small Group Research, Social Work with Groups, and Journal of Groups in Addiction and Recovery and has served as a reviewer for many other interdisciplinary journals. He is author of A Guide to Evidence-Based Group Work (Oxford University Press). Dr. Macgowan's funded research projects include multi-site, community-based randomized designs involving culturally diverse groups in both Florida and North Carolina. He is co-investigator on a NIAAA grant titled Guided Adolescent Problem Solving, an intervention designed to treat alcohol problems for violence-prone youth. He is also Principal Investigator on a NIAAA grant titled Group Deviance, Group Leadership, and Teen AOD Outcomes, which examines key factors in groups (e.g, composition and leadership) that make them helpful - or harmful - to adolescents in substance abuse treatment.
Interests
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Quote
"Moving fast is not the same as going somewhere." - Robert Anthony
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