Department of Social Work
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Dr. Oliver Johnson Office: Lauretta Taylor Building, Room 210
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BiographyOliver J. Johnson, Ph.D., DCSW, ACSW, CAC-1 is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Social Work at Fayetteville State University. Dr. Johnson earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in Social Welfare at California State University, Chico. He obtained his Master’s and Doctorate degrees in Social Work from the Whitney M. Young School of Social Work at Clark Atlanta University. Dr. Johnson has been a clinical social work practitioner for twenty-eight years, having served most recently as the Director for Harper University Hospital’s Canfield Health Services, a comprehensive out-patient mental health and substance abuse counseling clinic designed specifically for persons living with HIV/AIDS disease in the metropolitan Detroit area, and as Clinical Supervisor with Holy Cross. Dr. Johnson has conducted workshops nationally, regionally, and locally in a wide variety of forums on issues uniquely pivotal to the promotion of health and wellness among African American families. He is a licensed clinical social worker, a Diplomat in Clinical Social Work and a member of the Academy of Certified Social Workers. Dr. Johnson has served as an adjunct lecturer at The University of Michigan School of Social Work, Ashland Theological Seminary/Pastoral Counseling Program, and in the Family Life Education Program at Spring Arbor University. Dr. Johnson’s research interests continues to center around the development and utilization of evidence-based modalities for use with severely traumatized African American adolescents and families, as well as the development of empirically-grounded approaches for capturing the essence of spirituality as a primary coping paradigm among particularly vulnerable families of color. He is also interested in the process by which African American families become adversely affected by addictive behavioral disorders. |
Teaching CoursesSWRK 330 - Human Behavior and the Social Environment PublicationsBrown, T. M., Dilday, C., Johnson, O., Jackson, D., & Brown, D. (2008). Students' mentoring relationships in social work education. Sociation, 6(2). Johnson, O. J. (1992). Breaking The Chains of Cocaine: Black Male Addiction and Recovery. African American Images, Chicago, IL. Professional AffiliationsNational Association of Social Workers
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