CURRICULUM VITAE

DANA N. CHRISTENSEN, Ph.D.

PERSONAL INFORMATION

Telephone: (502) 852-8975

Email:

EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND

Ph.D. December 1981Brigham Young University

Marital and Family Therapy

M. A.December 1977University of Louisville

Expressive Therapy and Community Counseling

B.F.A.December 1975University of Colorado

Fine Art and Psychology

ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE

Director &Family Therapy ProgramUniversity of Louisville

ProfessorKent School of Social Work

Responsible for all administrative duties for the Family Therapy Program including budget, planning, personnel, and resource decisions. Additionally, served as a full-time faculty member responsible for course work in the theory and practice of marital and family therapy, independent study and research.

Director: July 1985 – 1993, and then June 2007 – Present:

Faculty: July 1985- present:.

Director Center for Family ResourceDevelopmentUniversity of Louisville

ProfessorKent School of Social Work

Responsible for daily management of all Center activities, supervision of Center staff, long-range planning, and intra-university coordination with academic program. Additionally, serve as a full-time faculty member responsible for course work in the theory and practice of social work, family therapy, and independent study and research. Managed over $20 million in grants and contracts.

January 1994 - present

Director &Expressive TherapiesUniversity of Louisville

Associate Professor

Responsible for all administrative duties for the Expressive Therapies Program including budget, planning, personnel, and resource decisions. Additionally, served as a full-time faculty member responsible for course work in the theory and practice of expressive therapies, marital and family therapy, topical seminars, supervision, independent study and research.

July 1980 - 1985

Academic LecturerEducational PsychologyUniversity of Louisville

& Counseling Department

Served as full-time faculty member and Regional Coordinator for the Kentucky Substance Abuse Career Development Program. Responsible for teaching course-work in assessment interviewing, counseling skills, vocational rehabilitation, drug abuse and training issues. Additional responsibilities included the coordination of all Drug and Alcohol training activities in the eastern half of Kentucky, continued resource and needs assessment, program evaluation, and direct inter-face with the state bureaus regarding training issues.

December 1977 - July 1978

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Project DirectorSBC Practice Model Implementation Team

Managed the implementation team charged with establishing Solution Based Casework as the Practice Model in Child Welfare in several states including Kentucky, Washington, Florida, New York, New Hampshire.

July 1,1994 - Present

Family CaseworkSocial Services Associates / SSA

ConsultantLouisville, Kentucky

Conduct treatment, training and consultation to families, therapists and family agencies.

July 1988 - Present

Marital and FamilyPrivate Practice

TherapistLouisville, Kentucky

Serve as primary therapist for assessment and treatment of marital and family concerns. Additional responsibilities included clinical case supervision.

April 1982 – January 2005

ARTICLES

Antle, B.F., Barbee, A.P., Sullivan, D.J., Christensen, D.N. (2010). The effects of training reinforcement on training transfer in child welfare. Child Welfare, 88(3), 5-26.

Brown, J. H., Bledsoe, L. K., Yankeelov, P. A., Christensen, D. N., Rowan, N. L., Cambron, M. L.. (2009) PACT: A Collaborative Team Model for Treating High Conflict Families in Family Court. The Juvenile and Family Court Journal, 60 (2), 49-67.

Antle, B. L., Sar, B. K., Christensen, D. N., Ellers, F., Karam, E., Barbee, A. P., van Zyl, M. A.. (2009) The effectiveness of relationship education for high-risk, low-income adults. Journal of Marital and Family Therapy.

Antle, B.F., Frey, S.E., Sar, B.K., Christensen, D.N., Barbee, A.P, & van Zyl, M.A. (2010). Training the Child Welfare Workforce in Healthy Couple Relationships: An Examination of Attitudes and Outcomes. Children and Youth Services Review.

Antle, B.F., Sullivan, D.J., Barbee, A.P., & Christensen, D.N. (2010). The Effects of Training Reinforcement on Training Transfer. Child Welfare.

Antle, B.A., Barbee, A.P., Sullivan, D.J., & Christensen, D. (2010). The prevention of child maltreatment recidivism through the solution-based casework model of child welfare practice. Children and Youth Service Review, 31, 1346-1351.

Barbee, A.P., Christensen, D., Antle, B., Wandersman, A., Cahn, K. (2011). Successful adoption and implementation of a comprehensive casework practice model in a public child welfare agency: Application of the getting to outcomes (GTO) model. Children and Youth Services Review, 33(5), 622-633.

Antle, B. F., Barbee, A. P., Christensen, D. N. (in press). The impact of child welfare training on organizational outcomes. Children and Youth Services Review.

Antle, B.A., Barbee, A.P., Sullivan, D.J., & Christensen, D. (2010). The Prevention of Child Maltreatment Recidivism through the Solution-Based Casework Model of Child Welfare Practice. Children and Youth Services Review, 31, 1346-1351.

Antle, B. F., Sullivan, D. J., Barbee, A. P., Christensen, D. N. (2010). The effects of training reinforcement on training transfer. Child Welfare.

Antle, B.F., Christensen, D.N., vanZyl, M.A., Barbee, A.P. (2012) The impact of the solution based casework (SBC) practice model on federal outcomes in public child welfare. Child Abuse and Neglect.

FUNDED GRANTS AND CONTRACTS

Child Welfare Training Project

(Co- Investigator). Funded by the Cabinet of Human Resources, 2008, $219.000

(Co- Investigator). Funded by the Cabinet of Human Resources, 2009, $219,000.

(Co- Investigator). Funded by the Cabinet of Human Resources, 2010, $219,000.

(Co- Investigator). Funded by the Cabinet of Human Resources, 2011, $219,000.

(Co- Investigator). Funded by the Cabinet of Human Resources, 2011, $219,000.

(Co- Investigator). Funded by the Cabinet of Human Resources, 2011, $219,000

Leadership Dev. for Community Partnerships

(Primary Investigator). Funded by the Cab. Families and Children, 2008, $106,000.

(Primary Investigator). Funded by the Cab. Families and Children, 2009, $106,000.

Department for Health and Human Services, Administration on Children, Youth and Families, Office of Family Assistance (funded)..Promoting Healthy Relationships for At-Risk Adults and Youth through Community-Based Training and Collaboration. PI Becky Antle, Co-PI Sar, Christensen, Sullivan & Karam. $2.5 million. (2006-2011)

Antle, Becky L. (Principal Investigator), Christensen, Dana N. (Co-Prinicipal Investigator), Sar, Bibhuti K. (Co-Prinicipal Investigator), Sullivan, Dana J. (Co-Prinicipal Investigator), van Zyl, Michiel A. (Evaluator), Barbee, Anita P. (Evaluator), Bledsoe, Linda K. (Other), Karam, Eli (Co-Prinicipal Investigator), Grant, Training/Evaluation, "Promoting Healthy Relationships for At-Risk Adults and Youth through Community-Based Training and Collaboration", Sponsored by US Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Family Assistance, Federal, $2,660,925. (October 2006 - September 2011).

PRESENTATIONS

Christensen, D.N., (2010) Lessons from the Sexually Offending Counseling Field: Preventing Sexual Abuse in our Facilities. Council of Juvenile Corrections Association. Keynote Presenttaion to the 2010 National Conference of State Juvenile Justice Directors, Chicago, Illinois.

Christensen, D. N., Barbee, A. (2012) Solution Based Casework Implementation in Child Welfare Settings. 2012 National Conference of the Council On Accreditation, New york, New York.

PROFESSIONAL CONTRIBUTIONS

Chair: Decanal Review Committee, 2003, 2008, 2013