Education
Ph.D. The University of Toronto School of Social Work, Toronto, Canada
Background
Barbara Thomlison is a professor in the School of Social Work and Director of the Institute for Children and Families at Risk. She teaches advanced clinical practice and family intervention courses in the graduate program. Her research interests include parenting programs, children at risk of maltreatment, family and youth violence, foster care, and early childhood interventions. Dr. Thomlison’s extensive publications include articles, chapters, and books in the areas of child maltreatment interventions, parenting for effectiveness, family assessment, risk and resilience, foster care, APA style format, and evidence based internships, forensic assessment and intervention in child sexual abuse, and designing evidence based intervention search strategies. Dr.Thomlison is actively involved as a board member in local and national child welfare, foster care, and family service organizations.
Courses
Micro practice theory and research, clinical interventions for children, adolescents, and families, clinical assessment and intervention planning, best practices in child welfare, child and family violence, mental health, doctoral dissertation seminar.
Research
Current research projects are family and community violence prevention in minority populations, child well being, school readiness and child maltreatment prevention. Dr. Thomlison's recent publications include the prevention of child maltreatment, bullying and victimization among middle school children, ineffective parenting interventions, and evidence-based child maltreatment programs. Her most recent books are (1) Family Assessment Handbook. An Introductory Practice Guide to Family Assessment and Intervention; and (2) Writing With Style: APA Style for Social Work(3) Evidence-based Internships:A manual for social work and criminal justice.
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