Caroline M. Campbell, BA, MSW, LSW
- Assistant Professor
Affiliated Programs
Education
- Masters in Social Work, Administrative Concentration (2003)
Temple University (Pennsylvania) - Bachelors of Arts in Psychology, Minor in Womens Studies (1998)
Millersville University (Pennsylvania)
About Me
I received my MSW from Temple University in 2003 and I began the PhD program of social work at Widener in 2018. Over the past eight years, I have taught in a BSW/MSW program at Eastern University and more recently served as the MSW Online Field Director. Prior to that, my social work practice has focused on working with vulnerable communities, specifically in the areas of maternal/child health, parent home-visiting models, domestic violence, prevention programming with youth, and trauma in the Latino community in Philadelphia. Outside of these courses, I have trained groups and community members in trauma awareness.
My teaching philosophy is grounded in three similar and connected themes as my practice: relationship, critical inquiry, and healing-centered engagement. Experiential learning principles are a foundation of my teaching, knowing that people learn in different ways and build upon previous life experiences in authentic ways that activate the learning. This offers opportunities to embody and experiment and rehearse skills, knowledge and practice in the classroom. I work to provide opportunities where students learn to question the assumptions behind knowledge and to question who benefits or who is harmed from how the issues are framed or solved.
Transformative pedagogy is part of my teaching philosophy and I use this process of critical analysis, liberation work and opportunities for collective action to guide my teaching. Key to all of this is the creation of a relational web in the classroom in a way that moves all of us as individuals into a collective action force. The classroom offers opportunities for healing-centered engagement where the “person of the social worker” requires as much work as those we will collaborate with, and our own work teaches us about the ways in which to work with others with dignity.
Research Interests
My current research interests are community and collective models of trauma healing, transformative teaching in social work, mind-body interventions, social work practitioner wellbeing, and collective care and culturally grounded interventions in social work.
Publications
- Bauer, S., & Campbell, C. (2021). Introduction: Special issue on faith and resilience. Social Work & Christianity, 48(1), 3–4. https://doi.org/10.34043/swc.v48i1.211
- Campbell, C., & Bauer, S. (2021). Christian faith and resilience: Implications for social work practice. Social Work & Christianity, 48(1), 28–51. https://doi.org/10.3403/SWC.V48I1.212
- Newman, B., & Campbell, C. (2011). Intimate partner violence among pregnant and parenting Latina adolescents. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 26(13), 2635–2657. https://doi.org/10.1177/0886260510388281
Professional Affiliations & Memberships
- National Association of Social Workers