| Dr.
Sainz is Associate Professor at the Hunter College
School of Social Work since 1993. He served as Chair
of Research from 1994 until 2004 and currently teaches
Social Work Research and Human Behavior in the Social
Environment. With the assistance of Masters social
work students over a number of years and his colleague
Professor Tolliver, he developed and co-teaches an
experientially based course on Social work Perspectives
on Spirituality and Healing. He is also on the faculty
of the Hunter College PHD program in Social Work at
the CUNY Graduate Center. While on sabbatical during
the 2004-05 academic year, he developed and taught
a course on psycho-spiritual perspectives on childhood
trauma and later life difficulties, at the National
Taiwan University Department of Social Work.
Dr.
Sainz is an internationally recognized healer and
trainer of energy and spiritual healing modalities.
He is a certified facilitator and international trainer
of Transformational Breathwork, which is the most
powerful and immediate method for transforming trauma.
He is a graduate and holds a diploma in Healing Science
from the Barbara Brennan School of Healing. He is
co-founder and co-director of Vibrant Healing Works,
an international healing and training center based
in NYC and Taiwan. He has a private healing practice
integrating Hands-on-Healing and Breathwork modalities
in both countries.
Dr.
Sainz substantive areas of specialty and publication
include cultural competency, substance abuse among
incarcerated persons and female adolescents, narrative
lives of women out of prison, childhood trauma, research
methodology, spirituality and healing, and evaluation
of practice. He is currently conducting research on
outcomes of healing interventions in an attempt to
mainstream healing as an aspect of social work education
and practice. Current projects include a longitudinal
study of the effects of Transformational Breath on
lifestyle, mental and physical health, and interpersonal
problems, and using his practice based data, to examine
the multidimensional effects of energy healing. His
most recent work with his partner, Dr. Chih-Ching
Wu, and at the request of His Holiness The Dalai Lama,
is to provide treatment and healing services to Tibetan
autistic children.
Dr.
Sainz most recent publication is a co-authored book
with Dr. Wu (In press) on spirituality and healing
that is to be published first in Chinese in April
2006. Dr. Sainz is dedicated to the expansion of the
social work inquiry paradigm to recognize aspects
beyond the material/empirical domain as evidence of
practice outcomes, while simultaneously materializing
subtler concepts for use in social work practice including
the use of sensed experience as valid evidence for
evidence-based practice.
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