Dr. Patricia Weldon
Assistant Professor of Social Work
Dr. Tricia Weldon has extensive experience in the areas of trauma, disaster mental health, crisis intervention and mental health. She obtained her Ph.D. from SUNY Albany and holds a New York state clinical social work license.
Dr. Weldon teaching interests center in direct clinical practice. She teaches courses on theories and intervention models, trauma, crisis intervention and more. She strives to help students expand their critical thinking, broaden their understanding of culture and diversity and to challenge themselves to be life-long learners. Dr Weldon’s research interests include trauma, post-traumatic growth/resilience, culture and diversity and organizational crisis response. Dr. Weldon has worked in many different clinical settings including out-patient mental health, crisis intervention services, organization critical incident response, employee assistance programs and managed care organizations. Her roles have included direct clinical practice, management and administration. Dr. Weldon provides consultation for organizations on employee support procedures within organizational crisis plans and works with a national organization providing crisis responses to employees at companies who have experienced a traumatic or disruptive event.
- Education
- Ph.D., Social Welfare, University at Albany
- M.S.W., Boston College
- B.A., Psychology, Boston University
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