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Visiting
Scholars
Tetsuya Kuraishi has been Associate Professor of Social Work with
concentration on Child and Family Social Work at Department of Psychology
and Social Welfare at Mukogawa Women's University (MWU) since 2000.
He also serves as a supervisor at the Student Counseling Center
at MWU. His teaching appointment before coming to MWU was at Osaka
Prefecture University, where he taught family social work for 9
years. He is also a certificated clinical psychologist and provides
family therapy services in Japan. Kuraishi has held leadership positions
as a chairman for Child welfare Department and children's rights
advocacy groups in Osaka and Kobe. He is the author or editor of
over 10 books and more than 30 articles of social work practice,
children-family social work and treatment of traumatized children.
He is also a consulting reviewer for Journal of Japanese Child-Family
Welfare and Journal of Japanese Social Welfare.
Kuraishi's current
interest is in child abuse intervention approaches and family preservation
programs. He is particularly interested in learning about research
related to treatment methods as support to recovery process for
traumatized persons in dysfunctional families. The number of child
abuse cases in Japan are increasing in the last ten years after
a child abuse reporting law was established. Kuraishi has conducted
self-help groups for abusive parents and provided consultation for
social workers at child guidance centers for the past fifteen years.
He has visited social service organizations, facilities, and institutions
of child welfare in the Bay Area with his graduate students since
1995. As a visiting scholar, he would like to conduct research on
family preservation programs that are concerned with treatment of
traumatized person in families, with particular focuses on cultural
differences between U.S and Asian cultures.
Professor Kuraishi
will be here from 7/1/07-3/31/08.
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