Jessica Rosenberg
Jessica Rosenberg has a BA in liberal arts from Sarah Lawrence College, an MSW from Hunter College School of Social Work, and a PhD in social work from Yeshiva University, and she is licensed as a clinical social worker in New York State. Dr. Rosenberg is a bilingual Spanish speaking social worker and she worked for many years providing social work services to the Latino community in NYC, specializing in the treatment of persons with serious mental illness. Dr. Rosenberg currently sits on the Board of the New York City Chapter of the National Association of Social Workers and is Treasurer of the Heights Hill Mental Health Service Community Advisory Board, with a focus on the continued development of programming for Latino mental health consumers and the LGBT community. She is presently near completion of an introductory social work textbook designed for beginning BSW and MSW students, which is scheduled for publication by Routledge in 2009. Since joining the faculty at Long Island University in 2003, Dr. Rosenberg has taught a variety of social work courses, including practice, social welfare policy, and human behavior. Dr. Rosenberg has published and presented on community mental health, multicultural social work practice with immigrants, labor unions and social work, and grandparent caregivers. She is Director of LIU’s GranCare program, a social work initiative that is dedicated toward enhancing supports for Brooklyn-based grandparents who raise their grandchildren.
Publications
Articles
Rosenberg, J. (Forthcoming 2009). Organized Labor’s Contribution to the Human Services: Lessons from the Past and Strategies for the Future. Journal of Workplace Behavioral Health. 24, (1).
Rosenberg, J. (2007). Oral Histories and Older Adults: Infusing Content on Cultural Diversity and Aging in BSW Education. New York State Social Work Education Association Conference Proceedings, (10), 27-34.
Klein, E.; Rosenberg, J. & Rosenberg, S. (2007). Whose treatment is it anyway? The role of consumer preferences in mental health care. American Journal of Psychiatric Rehabilitation. 10 (1), 65-80
Rosenberg, J. & Rosenberg, S. (2006). Do unions matter? An examination of the historical and contemporary role of labor unions in the social work profession. Social Work. Journal of the National Association of Social Workers. 51 (4), 289-384.
Rosenberg, S., Rosenberg, J., Hugen, C., & Klein, E. (2004). No need to hide: Out of the closet and mentally ill. Best Practices in Mental Health: An International Journal, 1, 72-85.
Books
Rosenberg, J. (Forthcoming by Routledge 2009).Working in social work: The real world guide to practice settings.
Rosenberg, J. & Rosenberg, S. (2006). (Eds.) Community Mental Health: Challenges for the 21st Century. NY: Routledge.
Book Chapters
Rosenberg, J. (Forthcoming 2009). Organized labor's contribution to the human services: Lessons from the past and strategies for the future. In P. A. Kurzman & R. P. Maiden (eds.), Labor's Contributions to Workplace Human Services. New York: Taylor & Francis.
Rosenberg, J., Gonzalez, M., & Rosenberg, S. (2006). Clinical practice with immigrants and refugees: An ethnographic multicultural approach in E. Congress & M. Gonzalez (Eds.) Multicultural perspectives in working with families. (2nd ed.). NY: Springer .
Quote
“Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.”
Octavio Paz, Mexican poet, writer, and diplomat, 1914-1988.