Sarah E. Bledsoe | Editor
Affilation: University of North Carolina, USA
Sarah E. Bledsoe, PhD, MPhil, MSW is associate professor at the School of Social Work at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her career has focused on working with low-income mothers to treat and prevent maternal psychiatric illness, improve child outcomes, and decrease health and social disparities related to income and race/ethnicity. Her professional training includes a doctorate (2007) and master of philosophy (2005) in social work from Columbia University, a master of social work (2001) from the University of Pittsburgh, and a bachelor of arts in psychology (1999) from the University of Tennessee. As an intervention researcher and translational scientist, she has been focused on research related to evidence-based practice and evidence-supported interventions for depression, anxiety, and trauma related disorders in woemn. Her practice experience and research interests include, broadly, the adaptation of evidence-supported interventions to address health disparities in high-risk populations, maternal and infant health and wellbeing, the engagement and retention low-income women and adolescents in psychiatric, health and social services, the impact of interpersonal trauma on psychiatric well being, and the implementation of evidence-based practice and evidence-supported interventions in social work education and practice. Dr. Bledsoe teaches direct practice and research methods courses in the graduate social work program and conducts regular trainings on interpersonal psychotherapy and perinatal psychiatric disorders while continuing to supervise practitioners training in and practicing with Interpersonal Psychotherapy.
Research Interest
The adaptation of evidence-supported interventions to address health disparities in high-risk populations, maternal and infant health and wellbeing, the engagement and retention low-income women and adolescents in psychiatric, health and social services, the impact of interpersonal trauma on psychiatric well being, and the implementation of evidence-based practice and evidence-supported interventions in social work education and practice.
