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Jean Christianson is Training Coordinator for the Department of Social Work. Her clinical work is in the Neurorehabilitation Program.
Biographical Sketch:
Jean Christianson graduated from Pennsylvania State University in 1971, with a B.A. in Social Welfare. She received her Masters in Social Work from the University of Maryland School of Social Work in 1973. Following a Maternal and Child Health-sponsored Master’s level field placement at Kennedy Krieger Institute, she worked as a clinical social worker in the Institute’s inpatient program.
Jean left KKI in 1978 for a position as Faculty Field Instructor at the University of Maryland School of Social Work. As part of the School’s Center for the Hearing Impaired, she established field placements for hearing impaired graduate students. She taught “Introduction to Developmental Disabilities” and “Introduction to Social Work with the Developmentally Disabled and their Families” to Job Corps/New Careers students through the Community College of Baltimore. After 3 years, she returned to the Institute as the social worker for the new Pediatric Rehabilitation Program. In 1991 she was selected for the Institute’s William J. Hersey Service Award.
Jean continues her clinical social work in the Neurorehabilitation Program. She is an Affiliate Field Instruction Faculty Member at Virginia Commonwealth University School of Social Work and an Adjunct Clinical Associate Professor at University of Maryland School of Social Work. She was awarded the University of Maryland School of Social Work’s Julia Rauch Award for Excellence in Maternal and Child Health Field Instruction in 2003. Her special interests include family adaptation to brain injury, interdisciplinary process, the influence of temperament in clinical work, cultural diversity, and the promotion of mental health in health care providers.
Research Summary:
Jean Christianson participated in an unpublished Social Work Department exploratory study of psychosocial characteristics of families of KKI patients to determine which families need increased psychosocial support, problem solving and resource finding.
Recent Publications/Presentations:
Christianson J. Coping as a Family. In Schoenbrodt L., ed. Children with Traumatic Brain Injury: A Parents’ Guide, Bethesda, MD: Woodbine House, 2001.
Presentations:
Casework with Children with Disabilities and Chronic Health Conditions. University of Maryland School of Social Work Department of Training. Baltimore, Maryland June 20, 2003; November 14, 2003; January 30, 2003 (with Judy Levy)
Psychosocial Aspects of Violence-Related Injuries. Sixth Annual Virginia Insley Maternal and Child Health Social Work Conference Baltimore, Maryland June 18, 1998. | 