Faculty

Kathryn Elizabeth (Beth) Angell, Ph.D.

Beth Angell is an Associate Professor at the School of Social Service Administration and a Faculty Affiliate in the Center for Health Administration Studies and the Graduate Program in Health Administration and Policy. Her research concerns the community treatment of individuals with serious mental illness, particularly in assertive community treatment and intensive case management models.  Within these settings, her work has examined the factors contributing to impoverished social relationships among persons with schizophrenia; service provider techniques in intensive or involuntary treatment settings; client-provider relationships; stigma and serious mental illness; and factors influencing client adherence to treatment.  

She is currently involved in several research projects: a study of mental health client-provider dyads examining the influence of pressures to participate in treatment on treatment adherence and the treatment alliance, funded by the Research Network on Mandated Community Treatment of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation; a study of employer decision-making in relation to behavioral health conditions in the United States and China, funded by the National Institutes of Health, the Fogarty International Center, and the University of Chicago Center for Health Administration Studies; and a study aimed at understanding the role of fairness and respect (procedural justice) in the outcomes of interactions between police officers and people with mental illness.

She currently serves as a Consulting Editor for Social Work Research, and is on the executive committee of the Chicago Consortium for Stigma Research.  Professor Angell teaches courses on direct practice, social work research, applications of behavioral theory to serious mental illness, and a course on conceptual issues related to the classification, labeling, and treatment of mental disorders.

Professor Angell received her M.S.S.W. and Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she received both a clinical training fellowship and a National Research Service Award individual predoctoral fellowship from the National Institute of Mental Health. She has practiced in outpatient mental health programs providing assertive community treatment to adults with serious mental illness. Prior to her appointment at SSA, she also held a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania.