Social Work Professor
Social Work
Office
Henry Barnard Hall
204-05
Biography

Dr. Scott (He/him) is a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker (LICSW) whose clinical experience spans many areas of direct practice within the social work profession, including out-patient adult mental health treatment; residential adolescent treatment; medical social work; substance use/addiction; school counseling; harm reduction education and HIV/AIDS treatment; and post-disaster and community crisis services. 

Much of his work involves trauma-informed and trauma-responsive care (PTSD, developmental trauma, complex trauma, moral injury, survivor guilt, transition stress), and advocacy interventions that are responsive to health disparities and social determinants of health rooted in structural inequities. 

Dr. Scott is also a critical scholar and engaged educator who has a long history of involvement within regional, national and international social justice projects and liberation movements.