Marian C. Bussey
Contact:
Associate Professor, Director of Program Assessment and Evaluation
PhD, University of Texas at Arlington
LCSW-CO
Craig Hall, Room 475
Telephone: 303-871-3042
E-mail: Marian.Bussey@du.edu
Areas of interest:
- mental health
- trauma intervention
- substance abuse
- American Indian child welfare
- program evaluation
Prof. Marian Bussey has developed collaborative program evaluation projects with three Denver agencies serving youth with mental illnesses, families with at-risk teens, and American Indian families. She is the co-editor of, and the author of several chapters in, the book Trauma Transformed that examines empowerment approaches in trauma intervention. At GSSW, she teaches courses on mental health assessment, trauma, research and evaluation, and the history of social work. Prof. Bussey is also the program coordinator of the Interpersonal Trauma Studies Certificate that is offered within the MSW curriculum.
"Clinical social work is my passion because I have seen its powerful transformative work in people's lives. But I also believe in dedicating ourselves to the common good, as social work pioneer Jane Addams once advised: 'The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain...until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life.'"
