Karen Schwartz

Professor Emeritus

PhD (Columbia)
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Courses Taught:

Research and Evaluation in Social Work
Mental Health Policy and Practice
Direct Intervention
Spirituality and Social Work
Honours Integrative Seminar
Practice Skills in Social Work
Social Work Practice: Individuals, Families and Groups
Social Work Practice with Communities and Organizations
Coercion or Treatment: Analysis of Community Treatment Orders and the Amendments to the Mental Health Code

Research Interests/ Current Research Projects:

Community-Engaged Scholarship and Community-Engaged Research
Mental Health issues from the perspective of the psychiatric survivor and mental health needs of multi-cultural groups
International social work practices
Structural approaches to social work practice
Use of technology in social work education and practice

Publications

van de Sande, A., & Schwartz, K. (2017). Research for Social Justice: A Community-Based Participatory Approach, Second Edition, Fernwood Press: Halifax, Nova Scotia. 302 pages

Schwartz, K., Barlow, C., & Kreitzer, L., MacDonald, L. (2014) Sherpa in Your Backpack: A Guide to International Exchanges. De Sitter Publications, Whitby, Ontario. 185 pages

van de Sande, A., & Schwartz, K. (2011). Research for Social Justice: A Community Based Perspective, Fernwood Press: Halifax, Nova Scotia. 190 pages http://www1.uwindsor.ca/criticalsocialwork/system/files/Fulton.pdf

Most Recent Articles

Lahaie, C., Wiebe, M., Schwartz, K., (2017). “Looking at Field through A Structural Lens”, Journal of Practice Teaching and Learning, 14(3), http://dx.doi.org/10.1921/jpts.v14i3.1012.

Douglas, S., Kuzmarov, B., Sucharov, M., Schwartz, K. Todd, S., (2017). “Teaching Subjectivity: Interdisciplinary Insights”, Canadian Journal for Scholarship in Teaching and Learning, 7(2), DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5206/cjsotl-rcacea.2016.2.4.

Furlotte, C.1 & Schwartz, K. (2017). “Mental Health Experiences of Older Adults Living with HIV: Uncertainty, Stigma and Approaches to Resilience”, Canadian Journal on Aging, 17(2), doi:10.1017/S0714980817000022.

Schwartz, K., Weaver, L., Pei, N. & Miller, A. (2016) Community-Campus Partnerships, Collective Impact & Poverty Reduction, Community Development, published online DOI: 10.1080/155575330.215.1128955

Pei, N., Feltman, J., Ford, I. & Schwartz, K. (2015). “Best Practices for Implementing a Living Wage Policy in Canada: Using community-campus partnerships to further the community’s goal”, The Engaged Scholar Journal, 1(118).

Giwa, S. & James, C.E., Anucha, U., & Schwartz, K. (2014) “Community Policing—A Shared Responsibility: A Voice-Centered Relational Method Analysis of a Police/Youth-of-Colour Dialogue”, Journal of Ethnicity in Criminal Justice, 12(3), 218-245. (One of three most downloaded articles that were published and downloaded in 2014 in Routledge Social Sciences journal.)

Video Links

Listen to Prof. Schwartz discuss how she manages the research projects students take on with community partners.

Affiliations

Board member-Community Based Research Canada

Academic co-chair CFICE Steering Committee

International Association of Schools of Social Work

Editor- Canadian Social Worker

Canadian Association of Social Workers

Ontario Association of Social Workers Mental Health Advisory Committee

Canadian Association of Social Work Education

Finance and Human Relations Committee, South-East Ottawa Community Health Center

Positions Held