1:30pm Session
The workshop is designed for practitioners, supervisors, and administrators of evidence-based practice models. When working with children, youth and families in these programs, many providers are required to testify in court. This workshop will provide participants with the knowledge they need to become more effective and comfortable with the court process when they are called to testify.
About the Presenter
Bob Madden, LCSW, JD, Professor of Social Work, University of St. Joseph (USJ)
Robert G. Madden, LCSW, JD, is Professor of Social Work at the University of St. Joseph, where he has been on the faculty since 1986, serving in various capacities including Department Chair (2013-17) and Special Assistant to the President (2009-2012). Professor Madden holds a BSW from Providence College, a MSSW from Columbia University and a law degree (JD) from the University of Connecticut. He has extensive clinical social work experience and currently provides supervision, consultation and training to the social work community. Professor Madden is licensed as an Independent Clinical Social Worker in both CT and MA and maintains a small practice focused on trauma. He is also a family mediator who provides custody-related family mediation services for the Children’s Law Center of Connecticut.
Professor Madden is the co-editor of Relationship Centered Lawyering: Social Science Theory to Transform Legal Practice (Carolina Academic Press, 2010); and the author of Legal Issues in Social Work, Counseling and Mental Health: Guidelines for Clinical Practice in Psychotherapy (Sage, 1998) and Essential Law for Social Workers (Columbia University Press, 2003) as well as many journal articles related to law in social work practice. He is a frequent trainer and consultant on ethical issues and standards of care in clinical mental health practice. In 2008, Professor Madden received the Educator of the Year Award from the NASW Connecticut Chapter and in 2014 he was honored with the Stack Teaching Excellence Award from the University of Saint Joseph.
