Department of Social Work

Email: bbuckles@llu.edu
Phone: 909-379-7572

Areas: child mental health; assessment; childhood trauma; adolescent self-harm; community based wellness
Email: kfreeman@llu.edu
Phone: 909-379-7589

Areas: psychosocial needs of populations affected by political violence; stigma, prejudice, racial, and religious discrimination; immigrant and refugee acculturation, adjustment, identity, and resiliency; mental health help-seeking behaviors
Email: qalemi@llu.edu
Phone: 909-379-7592

Areas: mental health; culturally-grounded interventions; program development and evaluation; community-based research
Email: kbaek@llu.edu
Phone: 909-379-7583

Areas: child welfare; child abuse and neglect; LGBTQ+ youth in the foster care system; trauma-informed parenting; trauma-informed practice with children; trauma-informed management in the workplace; preventing burnout and compassion fatigue in social work settings
Email: cebell@llu.edu
Phone: 909-379-7572

Areas: social work administration; Medicare
Email: mdbutler@llu.edu
Phone: 909-379-7584

Areas: Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT); Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR); Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT); individual psychotherapy; team building; psychosocial oncology; medical social work; working with adults and older adults; trauma, anxiety, depression, grief, and end-of-life
Email: tlepale@llu.edu
Phone: 909-379-7581

Areas: research design and analyses; translational research (clinical and applied); community-involved and -based research; health disparities research; program evaluation and evaluation research
Email: smontgomery@llu.edu
Phone: 909-651-5881

Areas: race and ethnic studies; critical theory; Latino/a issues; community practice; program evaluation; social justice practice
Email: larryortiz@llu.edu
Phone: 909-379-7585

Areas: mental health; trauma; psychodynamic therapy; Latino/Latina therapy; social work education
Email: lraine@llu.edu
Phone: 909-379-7586