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Monit Cheung, PhD, LCSW

Professor
University of Houston
Houston, TX, United States

Monit Cheung, MA, MSW, Ph.D., LCSW, is the Mary R. Lewis Endowed Professor in Children & Youth at the Graduate College of Social Work, University of Houston. Dr. Cheung received her doctoral and master’s degrees in social work and public administration from Ohio State University and a post-doc Geriatric Education Fellowship from the University of Iowa. She is the Director of the Child & Family Center for Innovative Research and Principal Investigator of the Child Welfare Education Project, a state partnership program funded by Title IV-E for training child welfare social workers. Dr. Cheung has been a social worker since 1979. Since 1993, she has been a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, specializing in play therapy, family counseling, geriatric counseling, child/adolescent counseling, child protection, child sexual abuse, intimate partner violence, domestic and family violence, and incest survivor treatment. She has practiced as a consultant trainer for the Hong Kong Social Welfare Department and the Hong Kong Police Force. Dr. Cheung has taught social work for 37 years, using an experiential and practice-oriented approach to teaching. She has presented in 420 workshops and conferences and published 533 articles, books, book chapters, and research reports on child protection, domestic violence, and parenting issues, including 132 articles in refereed journals. She has received 38 grants for research in child welfare, mental health treatment, clinical social work, child sexual abuse, creative family therapy, therapeutic touch, self-care techniques, and immigrant adjustment.

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