Authors and Editors
Elizabeth B. Pearce, Linn-Benton Community College
Elizabeth B. Pearce (She/her) is a faculty member at Linn-Benton Community College (LBCC) and author of Contemporary Families: An Equity Lens. She teaches Human Development and Family Sciences courses and advises future Human Services and Social Work professionals. Liz earned a Bachelor of Arts in Child Study with a Performing Arts minor at Tufts University. After teaching young children for four years, she returned to earn a Master of Education degree in Administration, Planning, and Social Policy at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. She has also completed post-graduate coursework in child development, life course development theory, educational policy, and sociology at Wheelock College (now Boston University) and Oregon State University. Her current work includes leading and mentoring faculty in several areas: equity-based teaching, active learning, technology use, and open pedagogy.
Contributing Authors
Yvonne M. Smith LCSW, Clackamas Community College; Alexandra Olsen, Umpqua Community College; Terese Jones, Linn-Benton Community College; and Martha Ochoa-Leyva, MA, LPC, Portland Community College; all contributed significantly to the foundations and writing of this textbook.
Contributors
Ashley Anstett, Portland Community College; Javelin L. Hardy MSW, Portland Community College; Sheila R. Hoover, MA, CRC, CVE; Nora Karena, MA; and Rebeca Petean, MS, Portland State University;, Dominican University; all wrote sections for this textbook.
Openly Licensed Works
This new textbook benefitted from several other openly licensed works and we would like to acknowledge them here.
Scholars from School of Social Welfare at the University of Kansas
Scholars Kelechi Wright, MEd, LCPC, LPC; Kortney A. Carr, LCSW, LSCSW; and Becci A. Akin, PhD, all associated with the School of Social Welfare at the University of Kansas wrote an article for the openly licensed peer reviewed journal Advances in Social Work. Their seminal work “The Whitewashing of Social Work History: How Dismantling Racism in Social Work Education Begins With an Equitable History of the Profession” was published in 2021. Adapting their work is just the beginning. In future editions of this textbook, we will strive to more fully incorporate our understandings of how whitewashing affects the human services profession currently.
Social Work & Social Welfare: Modern Practice in a Diverse World
Authors Mick Cullen, LCSW, CADC, MA, professor and chair of the social work/human services department at College of Lake County in Grayslake, Illinois and Matthew Cullen, LICSW, LCSW, M.Ed., a counselor at Green River College in Auburn, Washington recently updated their text.
Ferris State University Department of Social Work
Ferris State University created an openly licensed text, Introduction to Social Work at Ferris State University in 2017.
From Dr. Jessica Gladden: “This book was written by MSW students as their final project for their Capstone class. Students were each assigned a chapter of the book to write to show that they had achieved competency as a Master’s level social worker. Chapters were assigned based on student interest and experience in certain areas of the field.” In addition, Ferris State had a team of editors: Dr. Jessica Gladden, Professor Danette Crozier, Dr. Kathryn Woods, Dr. Janet Vizina- Roubal, and Professor Michael Berghoef.
DePaul University
Leonard A. Jason, Olya Glantsman, Jack F. O’Brien, and Kaitlyn N. Ramian are the lead authors of the The Introduction to Community Psychology text. Individual contributing authors are credited for their work in their work used in this text.
Saylor Academy
Saylor Academy is a nonprofit initiative working since 2008 to offer free and open online courses to all who want to learn. Their authors of the text Social Problems: Continuity and Change are anonymous.