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Diplomas / Degrees

DSW, Graduate School and University Center of the City of New York (2001)
MSW, Hunter College School of Social Work (1983)
AB, St. John's College, Annapolis, MD (1975)

Recent Courses

Contemporary Social Work: An Integrative Approach
Evidence Based Practice With Serious Mental Illness: Paths To Recovery
Field Instruction II
Field Instruction II ( O Y R )
Field Instruction II Extended
Field Instruction IV
Field Instruction IV Extended
Human Behavior Theory: Selected Theoretical Frameworks For Social Work
Independent Study Assessment And Diagnosis
Social Work Assessment And Diagnosis

Teaching Specializations / Interests

Human behavior and the social environment; social work diagnosis and assessment; evidence based practice for severe mental illness.

Research Interests

Qualitative research on: trauma, incest, mental illness, non-offending mothers of sexually abused children, cultural competence and PTSD, secondary trauma and ethnicity, psychoanalytic theory, professionals’ constructions of clients, social welfare rhetoric, the social process of treatment planning in agency practice.

Grants / Sponsored Research

1.As Principal Investigator: New York Hospital Medical Center of Queens Primary Care Project on Immigrant
Women: Principal Investigator: Patricia A. Joyce, Co-Principal Investigators: Suzanne Michael Ph.D., Natalie Schwartz MD, & Renuka Shetty-Das MD.
Amount: $17,149
Date granted: February 17, 2006.

To develop a psychosocial assessment instrument to heighten the cultural competency of primary care medical residents treating immigrant women from Central and South Asia with medically unexplained symptoms.
Granting organization: New York Hospital Medical Center of Queens/Cornell Medical College.


2. As Co-Developer:

Working with the effects of trauma in at-risk families, with R. Berger, M. Lynn and G. Gregg. Training curriculum for service providers. Developed for New York City Administration for Children’s Services, a Project Liberty provider. Funded by FEMA/CMHS.

3. As Project Co-ordinator:

New York State Office of Mental Health-Deans’ Consortium: Evidence-Based Practice in Mental Health in Social Work Education, Project Coordinator, Adelphi University. Collaborated with OMH and faculty from five schools of social work on project to disseminate cutting edge practice. Co-developed new elective on evidence-based treatment for severe mental illness; coordinated field placements for advanced year students in assertive community treatment teams.

Books

Patricia A Joyce. (2006). Book Review: D’Cruz, Heather. (2004) Constructing Meanings and Identities in Child Protection Practice. Croydon, Victoria, Australia: Tertiary Press.

Recent Articles

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Berger, R. & Joyce, P. (2010, 1). From Research to Practice: Developing and Delivering a Culturally Competent Trauma Curriculum for Child Welfare Practitioners after 9/11. Journal of Child and Adolescent Trauma

Patricia A Joyce. (2007, 8). The Production of Therapy: The Social Process of Constructing the Mother of a Sexually Abused Child. Journal of Child Sexual Abuse, 16(3)

Joyce, P. & Berger, R. (2007, 3). Which language does PTSD speak? The westernization of Mr. Sanchez. The Journal of Trauma Practice., 5(4), 53-67.

Patricia A Joyce. (2005, 6). The Case Conference as Social Ritual: Constructing a Mother of a Sexually Abused Child. Qualitative Social Work: Research and Practice

Patricia A Joyce. (1997, 4). Mothers of Sexually Abused Children and the Concept of Collusion. Journal of Child Sexual Abuse, 6 (2)

Conference Presentations and Papers

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with Shadi Martin, et al. (12 January 2007). Evidence or Anecdotes: Exploring the Epistemological Tensions of Using Qualitative Research as Evidence for Practice. Society for Social Work and Research: Bridging Disciplinary Boundaries, San Francisco, California, Peer Reviewed

Patricia A Joyce, Julie Altman, Roni Berger, Ellen Bogolub (15 January 2006). Reflective Researchers, Reflective Practitioners? Evaluating in Practice Ten Years Later. Society for Social Work and Research, San Antonio, Texas, Peer Reviewed

Patricia A. Joyce (06 May 2005). Levels of reflexivity in qualitative research on social work in health care. 11th Qualitative Health Research Conference, International Institute for Qualitative Methodology, Utrecht, the Netherlands, Peer Reviewed

Patricia A Joyce (24 June 2004). Vicarious Trauma and Ethnicity: Impact on Clinical Work in Incest Treatment: A Qualitative Study. IV International Congress of Psychic Trauma and Traumatic Stress, Buenos Aires, Argentina, Peer Reviewed

Patricia A Joyce (13 April 2004). Effective Practice with Mothers of Sexually Abused Children. Adelphi University School of Social Work, Understanding and Meeting the Challenges Facing Children and Youth, Garden City, New York, Invited

Other Scholarly / Artistic Work

New Perspectives on mothers of sexually abused children. Violence Update, December 1993.

Licenses & Certifications

Licensed Master Social Worker, New York State. License Number 030173.