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 Jeanne C. Marsh, Ph.D.

Jeanne Marsh- Biography
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Biography

Jeanne C. Marsh is Dean and George Herbert Jones Distinguished Service Professor in the School of Social Service Administration at the University of Chicago. Her fields of special interest include services for women and families, intersection of multiple service systems, the relation of service delivery to treatment outcome, and knowledge utilization in practice and program decision making.

Professor Marsh joined the University of Chicago faculty in 1978 and held appointments in both the School of Social Service Administration and the Committee on Public Policy Studies. She has served as Dean of SSA from 1988 to 1998 and from 2005 to the present. She has also served as Visiting Professor at the London School of Economics and at Clare Hall, Cambridge University.

Professor Marsh has published broadly on issues of substance abuse, social service provision for women and children, and evaluation of social work interventions. She is co-author of two books: Berlin, S. and Marsh, J.C., Informing Practice Decisions, Columbus, Ohio: MacMillan Publishing, 1993, and Marsh, J.C., Geist, A., and Caplan, N., Rape and the Limits of Law Reform, Boston: Auburn House, 1982, along with numerous articles and chapters. She has been Principal Investigator on a number of studies and is currently Principal Investigator on a NIDA-funded study of gender differences in the impact of substance abuse treatment services. She has received a number of awards and honors, including the NASW Award for Excellence in Social Work Research, service as editor-in-chief of Social Work, the journal of the National Association of Social Workers, and as a board member for the Society for Social Work and Research.

Professor Marsh graduated magna cum laude with a B.A. in Psychology from Michigan State University and received her M.S.W. and Ph.D. in Social Work and Psychology from the University of Michigan.

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Publications
  • Cao, D., Marsh, J.C., & Shin, H.C. In press. Gender and racial/ethnic disparities in the impact of HIV prevention programming in substance abuse treatment. American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse.
  • Gredig, D., & Marsh, J.C. In press. Improving intervention and practice. In Handbook of social work research. Beverly Hills: Sage.
  • McCracken, S. & Marsh, J. 2008. Practitioner expertise in evidence-based practice decision making. Research on Social Work Practice, 18, 301-310.
  • Marsh, J., Ryan, J., Choi, S. & Testa, M. 2006. Integrated services for families with multiple problems: Obstacles to family reunification. Children and Youth Services Review 28(9): 1074-1087.
  • Cha, T., Kuo, E. & Marsh, J. 2006. Useful knowledge for social work practice. Social Work and Society 4(1): www.socwork.net/2006/1/debate/chakuomarch.
  • Ryan, J.P.,Marsh, J.C., Testa,M.F. & Louderman, R. 2006. Integrating substance abuse treatment and child welfare services: Findings from the Illinois alcohol and other drug abuse waiver demonstration. Journal of Social Work Research 30(2): 95-107.
  • Mahoney, C.A., Engstrom, M. & Marsh, J.C. 2006. "Substance use problems in health social work practice." In Handbook of health social work, eds. S. Gehlert & T. Arthur Browne. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley & Sons.
  • Marsh, J.C. & Cao, D. 2005. Parents in substance abuse treatment: Implications for child welfare practice. Children and Youth Services Review 27(12): 1259-1278.
  • Marsh, J.C. & Smith, B.D. 2005. "Commentary-Client-service matching in substance abuse treatment for women with children." In The research process in the human services: Behind the scenes, eds. L. Alexander & P. Solomon. New York: Brooks/Cole.
  • Marsh, J.C. 2005. Social justice: Social work's organizing value. Social Work 50(4): 293-294.
  • Marsh, J.C. 2005. Social work: Help starts here. Social Work 50(3): 195-196.
  • Marsh, J.C. 2005. Bush plan takes security out of social security. Social Work 50(2): 99-100.
  • Marsh, J.C. 2005. Six steps to stronger journal publication in social work. Social Work 50(1): 5-6.
  • Marsh, J.C., Cao, D. & D'Aunno, T.D. 2004. Gender differences in the impact of comprehensive services in substance abuse treatment. Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment 27(4): 289-300.
  • Marsh, J.C. 2004. "Social service education." In The encyclopedia of Chicago history, eds. J. Grossman, A. Keating & J. Reiff. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.
  • Marsh, J.C. 2004. "Theory-driven versus theory-free research in empirical social work practice." In Using evidence in social work practice, eds. H.E. Briggs &T.L. Rzepnicki. Chicago: Lyceum.
  • Marsh, J.C., Cha, T. & Kuo, E. 2004. Social work readers describe ‘useful knowledge.' Social Work 49(4): 533-534.
  • Marsh, J.C. 2004. Social work organizations working together. Social Work 49(3): 341-342.
  • Marsh, J.C. 2004.Vanquish the backlog! And into the future-of social work! Social Work, 49(2): 149-150.
  • Marsh, J.C. 2004. Social work in a multicultural society. Social Work 49(1): 5-6.
  • Marsh, J.C. 2003. "Organizational and institutional factors in the development of practice knowledge and practice guidelines in social work." In Toward the development of practice guidelines for social workers, eds. E. Proctor & A. Rosen. New York: Columbia University Press.
  • Marsh, J.C. 2003. The social work response to violence. Social Work 48(4): 437-438. Marsh, J.C. 2003. Chewing on cardboard and other pleasures of knowledge utilization. Social Work 48(3): 293-294.
  • Marsh, J.C. 2003. Arguments for family strengths research. Social Work 48(2): 147-149.
  • Marsh, J.C. 2003. To thine own ethics code be true. Social Work 48(1): 5-7.
  • Berlin, S, Marsh, J.C. 1993. Informing Practice Decisions. Prentice Hall College Division.
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