Dr. Michaela L.Z. Farber, PhD, BCD, LCSW-C
Assistant professor and current director of the National Research Center for Child and Family Services at the National Catholic School of Social Service, The Catholic University of America.
Contact:
Address: Michaela L.Z. Farber
NCSSS - CUA
#112 Shahan Hall
620 Michigan Ave., N.E.
Washington, D.C. 20064
Email: [email protected]
Phone: 202-319-5465
Past Education: PhD - 1991 CUA, NCSSS, Washington, D.C.
MSW - 1979, CUA, NCSSS, Washington, D.C.
BA - 1977, CSU, Cleveland, Ohio
Dr. Farber has conducted and developed multiple research projects including population needs assessments and quantitative and qualitative process and outcome evaluations, designed to strengthen the capacity of local and national social agencies to respond to the complex needs of high-risk or vulnerable families with children and adolescents.
She currently serves as the local-DC site senior research analyst for the Early Head Start longitudinal study at CUA. She has been a grant reviewer and has written grants for ACF, SAMHSA, and OERI. She regularly presents at various national social work and interdisciplinary research conferences, and has published in peer reviewed journals.
She has started her social work career as a MSW training-fellow in the Leadership in Education in Neurodevelopmental Disabilities (LEND) program at the Kennedy Krieger in Baltimore from '77 to '79 and continued with her clinical social work responsibilities on in- and out-patient services at Kennedy Krieger until 1985, focusing on interdisciplinary case coordination for families and children with various developmental disabilities in the Baltimore metropolitan area.
Dr. Farber currently also serves as a faculty social work discipline coordinator for the current DC LEND program at the Children's National Medical Center in Washington, D.C. She regularly lectures at the LEND program, provides individual mentoring to selected social work trainees, and assists with curriculum development and family faculty involvement.
Dr. Farber has conducted part-time private clinical practice and consultation to various social service agencies. After getting her doctorate degree in social work, she began teaching in the MSW program at NCSSS, CUA in 1991, joining as a full-time assistant professor in the fall of 2003. She has taught MSW graduate students social work research methods, generalist practice with individuals, families, and groups, and human behavior and social environment; advanced social work practice, program evaluation, and context of social work practice with families and children. She also teaches social work research methods at the doctoral level, and serves as a reader and a guide on doctoral dissertations. Dr. Farber's current research interests focus on parent mentoring in early childhood and with high risk youths; child trauma; and delivery of family centered care support services in context of disabilities, and child and parent violence.
