Janet Shapiro
Dean of the Graduate School of Social Work and Social Research and Director of the Center for Child and Family Wellbeing
Academic Departments
Education
- M.A. University of Michigan
- M.S.W. University of Michigan
- Ph.D. University of Michigan
Biography
Janet Shapiro, MA, MSW, PhD is Dean and Professor at the GSSWSR, and the Co-Director of the Center for Child and Family Wellbeing. Her research interests focus on the translation of developmental research to applied issues of practice relevant to indicators of child and family wellbeing. Most recently, she is co-authoring the 2nd edition of "Neurobiology for Clinical Social Work: Theory and Practice".
Research and Scholarly Interests:
The application of developmental theory and research to clinical social work. Two primary areas of work include trauma informed approaches to infant and early childhood mental health, and the neuroscience of emotional experience and expression in childhood and adolescence. Applied areas of work include caregiver-child dyads with high risk attachments and models of risk and resiliency for children who have experienced relational disruption in their caregiving systems.
Biography
MA, MSW, PhD, Dean and Professor at the GSSWSR. Her research interests focus on the translation of developmental research to applied issues of practice relevant to indicators of child and family wellbeing. She has co-authored several books and book chapters on the application of neuroscience to clinical work with children and adolescents, including two editions of "Neurobiology for Clinical Social Work: Theory and Practice".