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Associate Professor
Boise State University
Boise, Idaho, United States
Jill M. Chonody is an Associate Professor of Social Work at Boise State University and a Research Fellow at the University of South Australia. Her research interests include the study of attitudes toward older adults among social work students, faculty, and practitioners and how curriculum can address biases against older people, those that identify as LGBTQ, and women. She is also interested in the use of photography in research and scale development to measure biases against oppressed groups. She has presented her research nationally and internationally and has over 50 published articles and book chapters. Her first book, Community Art: Creative Approaches to Practice, provides an overview of arts-based interventions that can be used by social workers and includes chapters on photography, street art, storytelling, and evaluation. As a textbook, students’ perspective on practice is expanded to incorporate creative methods. Her second book, Social Work Practice with Older Adults, was co-authored with Dr. Barbra Teater (City University of New York, College of Staten Island). A novel framework is presented that merges social work values and ethics with the World Health Organization’s Active Aging policy and stresses a strengths-based approach that promotes self-determination. This book explores what it means to age and the role of generational effects as they relate to practice, challenges students to reflect on aging myths, addresses the determinants of active aging, and concludes with a look toward the future of practice with an eye toward technology, aging in place, and community driven services.
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Saturday, October 26, 2024
1:45 PM – 2:45 PM CT