Neuroscience and Social Work Practice: The Missing Link
Rosemary Farmer is associate professor of social work at Virginia Commonwealth University from which she also earned her Ph.D. Her dissertation is entitled:Selected Effects of UnderlyingNeuropsychiatric Impairment on Adaptation of Persons with Schizophrenia to a Chronic Mental Illness.Within the Human Behavior in the Social Environment (HBSE) track, she teaches courses on HBSE; psychopharmacology; clinical experience; mental, emotional, and behavioral disorders, and family therapy. A prolific author, she has published numerous journal articles on psychopharmacology and neuroscience as they relate to clinical social work practice.