"Helping Professionals" Feel Your Pain
The Bride File
| Hometown: | Miami, Fla. | |
| Education: | BS, University of Florida, 1991, MSW, Florida State University, 1995 PhD, University of Georgia, 2001 |
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| Work history: 2001-04 |
Assistant Professor, University of Tennessee, College of Social Work |
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| 2004-07: | Assistant Professor, University of Georgia School of Social Work | |
| 2007: | Associate Professor and MSW Program Director, UGA School of Social Work; Prior to entering academia, Bride worked at St. Jude’s Recovery Center (Atlanta, Ga.) for six years as a case manager/therapist, program director, and evaluator | |
| Research areas: | Substance abuse and mental health, traumatic stress | |
| Research funding (major sources): |
Substance Abuse Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), Children’s Bureau | |
| Courses taught: | Evaluation of Family-Centered Interventions, Substance Abuse, Crisis and Trauma, Assessment and Psychopathology | |
| Family: | Wife Kara; son Aidan 3; daughter Maya, 1 ½ | |
| Hobbies/passions outside work: |
My children, running, soccer, home renovation | |
| Fan of: | REM and Modern Skirts | |
| Movie you’d recommend: | The Science of Sleep | |
| Concerned about: | The well-being of “helping professionals,” including social workers, psychologists, and nurses |