The Strengths Perspective in Social Work Practice (6th Edition) (Advancing Core Competencies)
Dennis Saleebey, MSW, DSWis Professor Emeritus at the School of Social Welfare, University of Kansas. He is also director of the Strengths Institute at the same School. He earned  his BA degree at the University of California, Santa Barbara, his MSW at UCLA, and his DSW at Cal Berkeley.He taught at and directed the undergraduate social welfare program at the University of Maine from 1967-1970, was associate professor at the School of Social Work at UT Arlington, and was chair of the Human Behavior sequence there from 1970-1976;He was professor and chair of HBSE from 1977-1987; from 1987-1997 he was Professor and Chair of the Ph.D. program at the School of Social Welfare, University of Kansas. From 1997 to 2006 he was Professor at  the University of Kansas. Since 2007, he has been the director of the Strengths Institute at the University of Kansas.