Julie Anne Laser
Contact:
Associate Professor
PhD, Michigan State University
LCSW-CO
Craig Hall, Room 337
Telephone: 303-871-2352
E-mail: Julie.Laser@du.edu
Areas of interest:
- high-risk youth
- adolescent resiliency
- protective and risk factors by culture and gender
- school social work
- international social work
- innovations in social work technology
Prof. Julie Anne Laser earned her PhD in family and child ecology. She has worked and lived in Mexico, Switzerland, Japan and China. She recently completed large studies of resilience in Japanese, Korean, and Chinese youth, and she is presently investigating adolescent resilience in Senegalese youth and homeless American youth.
With more than twenty years of clinical social work experience, Prof. Laser has worked as a school social worker in both urban and rural school districts. At GSSW, Prof. Laser has been at the forefront of integrating technology in social work education through online teaching, enhancing classroom experiences and online clinical practice.
She coordinates the High-Risk Youth Track of the MSW curriculum, and she teaches the school social work curriculum, child and adolescent development, and concentration year research courses. She also created and teaches the MSW course "Social Work from a Chinese Perspective," which takes students to China for a firsthand looks at its developing social work profession.
"Social work strives to understand the person in the environment, and as environments vary, so does social work practice. Through understanding another culture, we can better understand how our conceptualization of social work is both universal and highly determined by our own cultural vantage point."
