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Karen McCauley
Karen McCauley
Assistant Professor705.675.1151 ext. 5068
B8011
Sudbury Campus
I am a social worker with experience in diverse fields of practice, including counseling, administration, as well as teaching. Throughout my career I have explored the relationship between personal narratives and larger social constructions of identity as represented in social policy and other cultural discourses including fictional narratives.
Education
- HBA (English)
- BSW
- MSW
- PhD (Human Studies)
Research Focus
My research examines how social workers practice effectively with people who have disabilities that impair or preclude the construction of a self-narrative. This entails exploring the role that other types of fiction and nonfiction discourses may play in the construction of identity, social welfare issues, and our responses to them.
Publications
- Constructing Life Narratives: How Novels and Policy Discourses Represent and Respond to Life Stories About People with Mental Disabilities
- Montgomery, P., McCauley, K., Bailey, P.H. (2009). Homelessness, a state of mind? A discourse analysis.
- Montgomery, P., McCauley, K., Mossey, S., Bailey, P.H. (2009). "Just breaks my heart": A mother's narrative.
- Critical Perspectives on Disability (SWLF 3736).
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