We recently caught up with Susan Pullen. Pullen earned her MSW at BUSSW in 1990. She is currently a Behavioral Health Clinician at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center in Pediatric Primary Care. What made you choose BU and social work? I was really drawn to the strong urban tradition of the school, and the focus on […]
BUSSW’s Dean Gail Steketee discusses the difference between clutter and hoarding in her assessment of the emotional connections to items. She is highly esteemed in her field. Her work highlights her expertise in obsessive compulsive spectrum disorders. She co-authored the book, Stuff: Compulsive Hoarding and the Meaning of Things, and the first edited scholarly volume on […]
BUSSW’s Professor Tom Byrne and his colleagues were named as one of five finalists of the University of Chicago Press Social Service Review’s Frank R. Breul Memorial Prize for “The Relationship between Community Investment in Permanent Supportive Housing and Chronic Homelessness.”
Professor Hyeouk “Chris” Hahm has dedicated her work at BUSSW to protecting the mental health and sexual health of Asian American women. She founded BUSSW’s Asian American Women’s Health Initiative Project (AWSHIP) and the federally funded Asian Women’s Action for Resilience and Empowerment (AWARE). AWARE seeks to improve the mental and sexual health of […]