Ronald H. Rooney
Professor Office: 273 Peters Hall
Phone: (612) 624-3712
E-mail: rrooney@umn.edu
Mailing address: 105 Peters Hall
Degrees & Institutions
Ph.D., Social Work, University of Chicago, 1978
M.A., Educational Counseling, Kansas State University, 1973
M.A., Social Work, University of Chicago, 1975
Interest Areas
Work With Reluctant and Involuntary Clients; Public Social Services;
Child Welfare and Family-based Services; Teaching and Faculty Roles;
Distance Education; Interactive Television Pedagogy
Current Research
- Interactive television pedagogy in social work
- Evaluation of distance education programs
- Just published eighth edition of Direct Social Work Practice with Hepworth & Larsen assisted by Dewberry-Rooney & Strom-Gottfried.
Recent Publications
Rooney, R.H. & Bibus, A.A. (2001). Clinical Social Work Practice
with
Involuntary Clients within Community Based Settings. In
Corcoran,
Kevin & Griggs, Harold E. (Eds.) Foundations of Change:
Effective
Social Work Practice. Lyceum Press.
Rooney, R.H. (2000). How can I use authority effectively and engage
family members? Pp. 44-46 in Dubowitz, H. & DePanfilis, D.
(Eds).
Handbook of Child Protection Practice. Thousand Oaks, CA:
Sage.
Rooney, R. H., Izaksonas, E., & Macy, J. A. (1998). Reframing from
site
bias to site identity: Pedagogic issues in delivering social
work
courses via interactive television. Proceedings of
Information
Technology in Social Work Education Conference. Charleston,
SC.
Hepworth, D. H., Rooney, R. H., & Larsen, J. (1996). Direct social
work
practice (5th ed.). Pacific Groves, CA: Brooks-Cole.
Rooney, R. H., & Bibus, A. A. (1996). Multiple lenses: Ethnically
sensitive
practice with involuntary clients who are having difficulties
with
drugs or alcohol. Journal of Multi-cultural Social Work,
4 (2), 59-73.
Bibus, A. A., & Rooney, R. H. (1995). Training child welfare
practitioners
in work with involuntary clients. Journal of Continuing
Social Work
Education, 6 (4), 13-22.
Rooney, R. H. (1995). Disseminating intervention research in academic
settings: A view from social work. In J. Rothman & E. J.
Thomas
(Eds.), Intervention research: design and development for
human
service (pp. 353-368). Binghamton: NY: Haworth Press.
Rooney, R. H. (1992). Strategies for work with involuntary clients.
New
York: Columbia University Press.
Johnston, N., Rooney, R. H., & Reitmeir, M. (1990). Sharing power:
Student feedback to field supervisors. In U. Glassman, B.
Grossman,
D. Schneck (Eds.), Field education in social work:
Contemporary
issues and trends (pp. 198-204). Dubuque, IA:
Kendall-Hunt.