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- 1 -17 6/15/2015 BRYN MAWR COLLEGE GRADUATE SCHOOL OF SOCIAL WORK AND SOCIAL RESEARCH CURRICULUM VITAE Name: Toba Schwaber Kerson Telephone: 215-800-1500 EDUCATION Chatham College 1961-1964 B.A. Sociology Columbia University 1964-1966 M.S. Social Work University of Pennsylvania 1973-1975 M.A. Sociology University of Pennsylvania 1972-1976 D.S.W. Social Work University of Pennsylvania 1975-1978 Ph.D. Sociology PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE 2015 Bryn Mawr College Mary Hale Chase Professor Emeritus of Social Science 2008 -2014 Bryn Mawr College Mary Hale Chase Professor in Social Sciences and Social Work and Social Research (term chair) 1990 - 1993 Bryn Mawr College Director, Doctoral Program 1988 - Bryn Mawr College Professor 1982 - 1988 Bryn Mawr College Associate Professor 1976 - 1982 Bryn Mawr College Assistant Professor 1974 - 1976 University of Pennsylvania Teaching Fellow 1972 - 1974 University of Pennsylvania Research Assistant 1970 - 1972 Baltimore City Hospitals Follow-up Coordinator 1966 - 1970 Baltimore City Hospitals Senior Medical Social Worker HONORS AND AWARDS 2014 Chatham University Cornerstone Award for Social Services 2013-2018 Fulbright Specialist 2008 -2-14 Mary Hale Chase Professor of Social Sciences and Social Work and Social Research - 2 -17 5/21/20155/21/2015 2005 Lindback Award for excellence in teaching. 2003 Social Work in Health Settings selected as one of five winners of a Robert Wood Johnson award for excellence in end-of-life care textbook content. 1997 - 2009 Trustees’ Council of Pennsylvania Women, University of Pennsylvania. 1994 - Alumni Recognition Award, School of Social Work, University of Pennsylvania. 1974 – 1976 Teaching Fellow, School of Social Work, University of Pennsylvania. 1972-1974 Research Assistantship, Community Mental Health Center Research Project, United States Department of Health and Human Services. 1965-1966 Maternal and Child Health Leadership Training Grant, United States Department of Health and Human Services. 1964 – Phi Beta Kappa, Mortar Board. PUBLICATIONS Books: In press Social Work in Health Settings: Practice in Context (4th ed.).(with J.L.M. McCoyd). New York: Routledge. 2010 Social Work in Health Settings: Practice in Context (3th ed.).(with J.L.M. McCoyd). New York: Routledge. 2002 Boundary Spanning: An Ecological Reinterpretation of Social Work Practice in Health and Mental Health Systems. New York: Columbia University Press. 1997 Social Work in Health Settings (2rd ed.). New York: Haworth Press. 1994 Field Instruction in Social Work Settings (Editor). New York: Haworth Press. 1989 Social Work in Health Settings: Practice in Context (new ed.). New York: Haworth Press. 1985 Understanding Chronic Illness: Medical and Psychosocial Aspects of Nine Diseases. New York: The Free Press. 1982 Social Work in Health Settings: Practice in Context. New York: Longman. 1981 Medical Social Work: The Pre-Professional Paradox. New York: Irvington. (Paperback edition, 1983). Articles, Book Chapters, Abstracts: 2014 Episode 154 - Dr. Toba Kerson and Dr. Judith McCoyd: In Response to Need: An Analysis of Social Work Roles Over Time. (2014, October 27). In SocialWork Podcast Series. [Audio Podcast] Retrieved from http://www.insocialwork.org/episode.asp?ep=154 - 3 -17 6/15/2015 Global Public Health (with J.E. Lee). Encyclopedia of Social Work. (40 pages). Washington, DC. NASW Press. Human Needs: Health (update). In Mizrachi, T. & Davis, L. (eds.) Encyclopedia of Social Work (20th ed.).Washington, DC: National Association of Social Workers. 2013 In response to need: An analysis of social work roles over time. (with J.L.M. McCoyd). Social Work. 58(4):333-343. Teaching reflective social work practice in health care: Promoting best practices. (with J.L.M. McCoyd). Journal of Social Work Education. August. Thank you for watching: Seizures and epilepsy on YouTube. The Epilepsy Report. 8(June): 8- 13. 2012 Epilepsy Postings on You Tube: Exercising Individuals’ and Organizations’ Right to Appear. Social Work in Health Care 51(10): 927-943. 2011 The influence of professional identity and the private practice environment: Attitudes of clinical social workers toward addressing the social support needs of clients (with L.C. Groves). Smith College Studies in Social Work. 81(2-3): 218-233. 2010 Epilepsy and media. In Pinikahana, J. & Walker, C. Social epileptology: Understanding the social aspects of epilepsy (pp. 231-263). New York: Nova Science Publishers. 2009 The influence of professional identity and the private practice environment on clinical social workers’ attitudes towards addressing clients’ social support needs (with L.C. Groves). Social Work in Mental Health 7(9); 587-601. 2008 Health. In Mizrachi, T. & Davis, L. (eds.) Encyclopedia of Social Work (20th ed.). Washington, DC: National Association of Social Workers. Thoughts on Boundary Spanning. In Cnaan, R. A., Draine, J. N. & Dichter, M. E. (eds.). 100 Years of Social Work and Social Welfare at Penn: Developments in Theory, Research and Thought. To commemorate the centennial of social work at the University of Pennsylvania. Truly Enthralling: Epileptiform events in film and on television - Why they persist and what we can do about them (with L.A. Kerson). Social Work in Health Care 47(3):320-337. 2007 Lasting impressions of seizures in film and on television. The Epilepsy Report. 2(June): 7-13. 2006 Conducting intensive interviews using email: A serendipitous comparative opportunity. (with J. L.M.McCoyd). Qualitative Social Work: Research and Practice, 5(3): 389-406.. Implacable images: Why epileptiform events continue to be featured in film and television (with L.A. Kerson) Epileptic Disorders. 8(2):1-11. also published as La representation de l’epilepsie au cinema et a la television aux etats-unis, (2007) La Lettre de Liaison de L’Epilepsie- France Juin(5): 27-38 ; an abstract, Living in Harmony: Promoting Creative synergy in a stressful world (p. 32). 5th International Conference on Social Work in Health and Mental Health, Hong Kong, China. - 4 -17 5/21/20155/21/2015 Boundary spanning: A flexible, comprehensive approach to health-related practice (abstract). Living in Harmony: Promoting Creative synergy in a stressful world (p. 118-119). 5th International Conference on Social Work in Health and Mental Health, Hong Kong, China. 2005 Spanning boundaries: An enriched ecological perspective for social workers practicing in health and mental health care. With J. McCoyd and J. Chimchirian. In Social Work in Health and Mental Health: Issues, Developments and Actions (pp. 8-25). T. Heinanen and A. Metteri (eds.), Toronto, CA: Canadian Scholars Press. Monstrous depictions of seizures in film and television, (with L.A Kerson). Abstract. 26th International Epilepsy Congress Proceedings. Epilepsia. 46, Suppl.6, 189. 2004 Boundary spanning: An ecological reinterpretation of social work practice in health and mental health systems, Social Work in Mental Health. 2(2/3) 39-57. Also published in Social Work Approaches in Health and Mental Health from Around the Globe (pp. 39-57). A. Metteri, T. Kroger, A. Pohjola & P.. Rauhala (Eds.). New York: The Haworth Press. 2003 The Boundary Spanning Approach to Supervising Health and Mental Health Service Staff. In Human Service Supervision in the Learning Organization (pp. 310-322). K. Hopkins and M.Austin (Eds.). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. ` 2002 Driving Forces Maps: Case Studies of a Tool for Implementing Change, with F. Daloisio and J. McCoyd, Social Work in Health Care, 36(2), 1-20. 2001 Social Work Practice With Women as They Age. In Women As They Age. D. Garner & S. Mercer (eds.).. New York: Haworth. 2000 She Can Have a Seizure Maybe: Then We Can Watch” (with J. F. Kerson & L. A. Kerson). Social Work in Health Care 30(3): 95-110. 1999 The Depiction of Seizures in Film” (with J.F. Kerson & L.A. Kerson). Epilepsia, 40(8):1163-67. A Comparison of Social Functioning Among Black and White Women with Breast Cancer (with J. Bourjolly & I.F. Nuamah). Social Work in Health Care, 28 (3): 1-20. 1997 Practice in Context: The Framework. In Social Work in Health Settings (pp. 15-52). Edited by T. S. Kerson. NY: Haworth. Social Work Interventions on Behalf of a Burned Child: Children’s Hospital Emergcy Room (with R.Johnson and N.elson). In Social Work in Health Settings (pp. 89-110). Edited by T. S. Kerson. NY: Haworth. Discharge Planning in a Community Hospital: ‘A Patient Whose Symptoms the System Could Not Manage (with D.Hammer). In Social Work in Health Settings (pp. 227-242). Edited by T. S. Kerson. NY: Haworth. Mutual Help Group for Emphysema Patients: Veterans Administration Medical Center (with Z.Foster). In Social Work in Health Settings (pp. 375-390). Edited by T. S. Kerson. NY: Haworth. Would You Abandon Your Child? An Inpatient Psychiatric Staff Confront Change, a Difficult Case--and Each Other (with S.Alper). In Social Work in Health Settings (pp. 445-462). Edited by T. S. Kerson. NY: Haworth. - 5 -17 6/15/2015 A Transitional Residence for the Mentally Ill: To Achieve Independent Living (with C. Donovan and E.Blanchard). In Social Work in Health Settings (pp. 481-504). Edited by T. S. Kerson. NY: Haworth. Children’s Intensive Case Management in an Urban Community Mental Health Center (with D. Frankel and L. I. Harmon). In Social Work in Health Settings (pp. 539- 560). Edited by T. S. Kerson. NY: Haworth. A Woman Addresses Her Recurrent Depression in Psychotherapy: Private Practice (with C. Silbergeld). In Social Work in Health Settings (pp. 581-596). Edited by T. S. Kerson. NY: Haworth. Alzheimer’s Disease: Intervention in a Nursing Home Environment (with S. Mercer and B. Robinson). In Social Work in Health Settings (pp. 651-668). Edited by T. S. Kerson. NY: Haworth. 1995 Counseling Homebound Clients and Their Families, with R.Michelsen, in Journal of Gerontological Social Work, 24, 3/4, pp. 159-190, and also New Developments in Home Care Services for the Elderly: Innovations in Policy, Program and Practice, L.