Return to Home Page Return to Faculty List
Florence W. Vigilante, D.S.W.

Professor at School of Social Work and Director of Employee Assistance Program

Room 911

Phone: (212) 452-7037 or 772-4050

Fax: (212) 650-3527

E-Mail: fvigilan@hunter.cuny.edu

Area of Expertise

Practice and Teaching clinical practice with individuals and families (Hunter College Graduate School of Social Work and Employee Assistance Program). Management and administration of the Hunter College EAP, a clinical service for all employees of Hunter College. Consultant on graduate education. Editor of and writer in professional journals.

Area of Research

Practice and Teaching clinical practice with individuals and families in the workplace; graduate social work admissions, social and psychological implications of learning disabilities.

Areas of Research Interested in Pursuing:

1. Clinical practice with individuals and families using multiple perspectives.
2. Work and training in public welfare.
3. Selection of students toward a goal of retention.

Number of Publications and Creative Works:

68. Includes published articles, published chapters and professional papers.

Books or Major Publication Written, Edited or are Working on now.

1. Editor of Journal of Teaching in Social Work (Haworth Press).
2. "The Family Assessment Wheel: A Social Constructionist Perspecgtive," in Families in Society, Vol. 78, No. 4, 1997
3. "Work: Its Use in Assessment and Intervention with Clients in the Workplace," in Work and Well-Being: Occupational Social Work, 1994, NASW Press, Wash. D.C.
4. "The Social Implications of Learning Disabilities" (in progress).

Awards

-Day-GarrettAward for outstanding contributions to the field of Social Work, Smith College, Northampton, MA.
-President's Award for excellence in Service, Hunter College.
-Distinguished Education Award, Yeshiva University.
-Chairperson, Advisory Committee, Smith College School for Social Work.

 
Copyright © 2006 Hunter College School of Social Work. All rights reserved.
SSW Home Page Hunter College Home Page SSW Home page CUNY Home Page