Susan P. Kemp, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Social Work
Faculty Affiliate, CEEDS

Ph: 206-236-0415 Fax:206- 616-3993
spk@u.washington.edu

Statement of Interest

My research and scholarly interests focus on public child welfare, community-based services to low-income families and communities, environmental interventions, and social work history and theory. I am co-author of Person-Environment Practice: The Social Ecology of Interpersonal Helping (Aldine de Gruyter, 1997), and am currently at work on a book on the history of environmental intervention in direct social work practice (forthcoming with Columbia University Press). Having received the 2003 University of Washington Distinguished Teaching Award, I offer courses in introductory social work practice, advanced practice with children, youth and families, social work practice theory, and, at the doctoral level, theory/research integration.

Publications of Note

Sutton, Sharon E. and Kemp, Susan P. (March, 2002). Children as partners in the place-making process: Lessons from intergenerational design charrettes. Journal of Environmental Psychology, pp. 171-189.

Kemp, S. P., Almgren, G., Gilchrist, L., & Eisinger, A. (2001).Serving the whole child: Prevention practice and the United States Childrens' Bureau. Smith College Studies in Social Work, 71, 3, 475-499.

Kemp, S. P. & Bodonyi, J.  (2000).  Infants who stay in foster care: Child characteristics and permanency outcomes of legally free children first placed as infants.  Child and Family Social Work, 5, 2, 95-106.