Stacey Freedenthal
Contact:
Associate Professor
PhD, Washington University in St. Louis
LCSW
Craig Hall, Room 404
Telephone: 303-871-4608
E-mail: Stacey.Freedenthal@du.edu
Areas of interest:
- suicide prevention
- risk and protective factors, help-seeking
- mental health services
- crisis counseling
- psychotherapy
Prof. Stacey Freedenthal is a clinical practice specialist whose research focuses on suicide prevention and help-seeking, especially among young people and American Indian adolescents and adults. Her clinical experience includes assessment, crisis counseling and psychotherapy with survivors of domestic violence and sexual abuse, psychiatric emergency casework and emergency room social work.
At GSSW, Prof. Freedenthal teaches MSW courses in mental health assessment with adults and cognitive interventions, as well as a doctoral statistics course.
"Studying suicide gives me hope. I have hope that someday we can understand why people cut short their lives, and I have hope that we can help stop the unnecessary deaths."
