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Peggy O'Neill, PhD, LCSW, LICSW (she/her/hers)

Associate Professor
Smith College School for Social Work
Northampton, MA, United States

Peggy O'Neill, PhD, Associate Professor, joined the Smith College School for Social Work faculty in July 2012. Her experience includes many years of working with diverse communities facing community trauma post 9/11 co-developing, implementing and evaluating resiliency based, culturally and linguistically attuned psychoeducational groups and 25 years of clinical and administrative social work practice in health/mental health care. She has created an area of research and scholarship that is important and unique. Her attention to processes that develop critical consciousness and how these processes may be applied in clinical settings, and in interpersonal settings within education is innovative and a valuable contribution to social work. The ability to recognize how power dynamics rooted in the larger structural environment manifest within an interaction is at the heart of what M.S.W. programs aim to teach students about social work practice. Increasingly it is understood as valuable to the educational process more generally. The Critical Conversations model explicates a method by which one’s understanding of structural power dynamics may be sharpened and most importantly drawn upon to mitigate harm caused when these dynamics operate unchecked within interactions with others. She is recognized as an outstanding educator teaching advanced clinical practice. Professor O’Neill provides training for faculty in higher education representing a wide range of disciplines across the country.

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