- Leadership well-being
- Anti-oppressive self-care practices
- Burnout recovery in healthcare/helping professions
- Spiritual well-being and healing processes
- Navigating racial microaggressions
Faculty Research Interests
Zora M. Wolfe
Associate Dean of the College of Health & Human Services
My areas of expertise include organizational leadership, collaborative inquiry communities, and developing mentor practices. My current research focuses on how to develop and support productive learning communities within schools and classrooms, including how to support faculty and graduate student success. In addition, I focus on the development of these ideas through the use of instructional technology in online spaces, such as through online and hybrid courses, and faculty and school-based professional development.
My research interests include violence prevention and reentry; clinical social work practice; treatment of serious mental illness; children and adolescents; critical incident stress management with emergency service workers; trauma; crisis intervention; collaborative work with criminal justice; social and emotional competence; interagency collaboration; and organizational management.
- Community Organizing
- Economically Just Community Development
- Affordable Housing
- Youth and Culturally Responsive Macro Practice
Kathleen M. Youse
Founding Program Director, Institute for Speech-Language Pathology
My research investigates the impact of cognitive deficits, specifically attention and memory, on communication in individuals with traumatic brain injury.