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Professor
Office:
TETC 254-P
Phone:
410-677-5428
Email:
jaforte@salisbury.edu
Web
page:
http://jamesaforte.com/
Appointment Year: 2003
Courses Taught:
Social
Work Practice III
Evaluation of Social Work Practice
Human Behavior in the Social Environment
Research/Practice Interests:
HBSE Education
Homelessness
Group Work
Mental Health and Illness
Institutions Attended:
PhD - Virginia Commonwealth University
MSW - Virginia Commonwealth University
BS - Fordham University
Awards:
National Association of Social Workers, Maryland
Chapter (NASW-MD), Social Work Educator of
the Year (2010)
Outstanding Virginia Social Work Educator Award,
Virginia Social Work Education Consortium
(1994)
President's Award for Outstanding Teaching at
Christopher Newport University, Newport News,
Virginia (1996)
Other Credentials:
Member, Association for the Advancement of Social Work
with Groups
Member, Association of Baccalaureate Program Directors
Member, Council on Social Work Education
Member, National Association of Social Workers
Member, Social Welfare Alliance (Bertha Capen Reynolds
Society)
Member, Society for Social Work and Research
Member, Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction
Recent Additional Experience:
Interim Graduate Program Coordinator, SU, Department
of Social Work, Master of Social Work Program
Scholarship and Creative Works: Books
Forte,
J.A. (2006) Human Behavior and the Social
Environment: Models, Metaphors, and Maps
for Applying Theoretical Perspectives to Practice.
Belmont, CA: Thomson Brooks/Cole.
Forte,
J.A. (2001) Theories for Practice: Symbolic
Interactionist Translations. University Press
of America, Lanham, Maryland.
Scholarship and Creative Works: Recent Papers
Forte, J. A. (2010). Transformation through interaction:
A meta-ethnographic synthesis of
studies of mutual aid groups. Qualitative Social Work.
9(2), 151-168.
Forte, J. A. (2010), Symbolic interactionism,
naturalistic inquiry, and education. In P.
Peterson,
E. Baker, & B. McGaw, (Eds.) International
encyclopedia of education (Vol. 6, pp. 481-487).
Oxford: Elsevier.
Forte,
J.A. (2009) Adding the "Symbolic" to Interactionist
Practice: A Theoretical Elaboration of
William Schwartz' Legacy to Group Workers, Social Work
with Groups. 32(1/2), 80-95.
Forte, J. A. (2009) Teaching human development:
Current theoretical deficits and a theory-
enriched ‘Models, metaphors, and maps’ remedy.
Journal of Human Behavior in the Social
Environment, 19(7),
932-954.
Forte, J. A. (2009). Translating theory and research
for interactionist practice: A signs,
symbols, and social worlds approach. Humboldt
Journal of Social Relations, 32(1),
86-122.
Forte, J. A. & Moula, A. (2009). Symbolic
interactionism’s relevance for social Work
(Den symboliska interaktionismens relevans for
socialt arbete). In A. Moula (Editor),
Theory and model in
empowerment-oriented social work (Empowermentorienterad
socialt arbete) (pp.
27-42). Lund, Sweden: Studentlitteratur.
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