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Join us through Sunday, October 27.
Dr. Oliver J. Johnson holds a Ph.D. in Social Work from Clark/Atlanta University and has lectured nationally, regionally and locally in a variety of forums on issues pivotal to the promotion of health and wellness among traumatized and substance dependent African American families. He affirms the centrality of university, community, and professional engagement in my scholarship and teaching agenda.
Through my commitment to evidence-based professional social work practice and grounded theory, my research and scholarship consistently demonstrates sufficient degrees of sophistication, originality, and breath in the design of practical studies intent on improving the lives of African American individuals, families, and communities. I am particularly interested in the seemingly culture-bound ways that African American families navigate through, and ultimately heal from situations and circumstances, (individual, family, and community) conducive to the emergence of trauma responses. I am also interested in how cultural proficiency in research constitutes a developing domain within professional social work practice, e.g., the demonstration of distinctions between the overarching concept of evidence-based clinical practice from the provision of empirically supported interventions.