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Associate Professor
Metropolitan State University of Denver
Denver, Colorado, United States
Tanya Greathouse, PhD, LCSW, is presently an Associate Professor at Metropolitan State University of Denver and Affiliate Faculty at Smith College Social for Social Work. Dr. Greathouse’s positionality as a Black female informs her professional engagement an Associate Professor, MSW Program Director and Co-coordinator of DEI programming at Metropolitan State University of Denver, Social Work Department. Her research interests include: promoting; cultural responsive integrated health interprofessional teams, multicultural awareness in supervisory relationships, multicultural organizational development and mitigating workforce vicarious trauma. She is currently; Co-principal Investigator, HRSA Colorado Initiative to Address Behavioral Health Professional Shortages for Children, Adolescents, and Transitional-age Youth in Rural, Vulnerable, & Medically Underserved Areas. Dr. Greathouse has served on CSWE’s curriculum taskforces for Competency 2 (Engage Diversity and Difference in Practice) as Competency Chair for Curricular Guides on; Substance Use and Health Social Work and taskforce member for, Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health and Neuroscience. Additionally, Dr. Greathouse has spearheaded numerous university initiatives to promote multicultural humility and cultural consciousness with using the Intercultural Developmental Inventory (IDI). She provides faculty mentoring on how to facilitate critical conversations in the classroom on privilege, power and oppression and clinical supervision on how to infuse CLAS standards into social work practice. Dr. Greathouse has utilized narrative therapy and storytelling techniques in psychotherapeutic practice with trauma survivors and end of life clients.
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Culturally Responsive Community Participation, Engagement, and Empowerment: Interdisciplinary Lenses
Friday, October 25, 2024
1:45 PM – 2:15 PM CT