JAMES A. MARTIN

James ("Jim") Martin is a tenured Associate Professor of Social Work and Social Research and a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker and a Board Certified Diplomate in Clinical Social Work. Jim teaches master-level courses in clinical social work practice and doctoral courses in program evaluation. Jim designed and leads of a post-masters seminar in human services program management (certificate program) at the University of Maryland School of Social Work (Baltimore) and he is the Bryn Mawr College Faculty Coordinator for Undergraduate Community Service Learning Program. From 2000 through 2001, Jim served as the Special Assistant to the Bryn Mawr College President for Information Technology (senior staff position responsible for the development of a college-wide distributed information technology environment that integrated computing, library, and instructional technology resources to support faculty, staff, and students). A retired Army Colonel, Jim’s military career in the Army Medical Department includes clinical, research, and management (command) assignments. Jim served in a variety of leadership positions at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research. He commanded the U.S. Army Medical Research Unit – Europe and he served in the Pentagon as the Special Assistant to the Deputy Army Surgeon General for Medical Research and Development. Jim was the senior social work officer in the Persian Gulf Theater of Operations during the first Gulf War and edited The Gulf War and Mental Health: A Comprehensive Guide (Praeger, 1996). Jim was a panel member of a National Research Council / Naval Studies Board (Technology for the United States Navy and Marine Corps, 2000-2035: Becoming a 21 st-Century Force) that examined quality of life issues for the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps and he was a co-investigator in a Department of Defense sponsored study examining the adaptation of women to the Marine Corps during basic training and their initial enlistment. Jim’s current professional activities include participation in an ongoing initiative to promote community capacity at U.S. Air Force communities world-wide. Jim was a team member for a recent business process reengineering study of the Department of the Navy’s Fleet & Family Support Program. Jim is the senior editor of The Military Family: A Practice Guide for Human Service Providers (2000) published by Praeger and he has a number of recent publications related to human services and military quality of life issues. Jim has served as a consultant to the Department of the Army for a variety of human dimension research associated with the Army’s development of a future force (Army Transformation) and he has been a consultant to a Veterans Administration study of psychosocial risk and resilience factors associated with physical and mental health and related quality of life in Persian Gulf War Veterans. Jim is active in national professional organizations. Recently, Jim served as the senior author of a National Council on Family Relations policy fact sheet on military community support highlighted in a congressionally-sponsored presentation at the U.S. Capital. Jim currently serves on the Board of Directors of American Board of Examiners in Clinical Social Work. Areas of expertise include: community & family human services and combat & operational stress.