B.A. Brown University Magna
cum Laude
M.A.T Yale University in English
M.S.S.W. Columbia University
M.A. in Psychology, New School for Social Research,
D.S.W. City University of New York
Professor and
Associate Dean
Graduate School of Social Service
113 W. 60th Street
Lowenstein 426E
New York, NY 10023
212.636.6667
Dr.
Elaine Congress is a Professor and Associate
Dean for Continuing Education and Extra-Mural
Programs at Fordham University Graduate School
of Social Service in New York City. She has also
served as Director of the Doctoral Program.
Dr.Congress
is a past President of the New York City Chapter
of the National Association of Social Workers
(NASW).She has headed the NASW Ethics Committee
and has also been active in PACE, the political
action committee of NYC NASW.Dr.
Congress has also served on the National NASW
Board of Directors. In addition to her many
publications on cultural diversity as well as
social work ethics and education, she has made
over 70national
andinternationalpresentationson
cultural diversity, social work ethics, and
social work education
Dr,Congress
has written extensively in the area of social
work ethics, cultural diversity and social work
education, including seven books and over fifty
professional
journal
articles and book chapters.Beginning
with her doctoral dissertation on ethical
decision making among social work supervisors,
Dr. Congress has taught, presented, published
extensively and conducted research on ethical
issues and dilemmas, as well as cultural
diversity in social work practice and education.Her
professional journal articles and book chapters
have focused on dual relationships, teaching
social work ethics, resolving ethical dilemmas,
confidentiality, social group work, empowering
communities, ethical issues in administration,
and groups for immigrant children. In addition,
she has written on crisis intervention with
diverse populations.
Dr.
Congress developed thethe culturagram,a family
assessment tool she developed for assessing and
working with culturally diverse families.The culturagram
was first featured in the November, 1994 issue
of Families
in Society and revised in Advances
in Social Work(2000) and Social
Work Desk Reference (2002, 2005) .The
culturagram has
been used in work with children and families of
color, immigrants and refugees,as
well as in work with families affected by
domestic violence and elder abuse.In
addition to a number of journal articles on the
culturagram, there is also a podcast on the culturagram
at www.socialworkpodcast.com
Her
most recent book Social Work
with Immigrants and Refugees: Legal Issues,
Clinical Skills and Advocacy (Springer,
2009) co-edited with a lawyer is designed to
help social workers increase their knowledge of
legal and social issues in
working with
immigrant and refugee clients and their
families.
Her
book on Multicultural
Perspectives in Working with Families
(Springer, 1997, 2005) ) examines assessment,
life cycle, and practice issues from a cultural
perspective.
The third edition of this book is now in press.
Another
ofher
books,Social Work
Values and Ethics: Identifying and Resolving
Professional Dilemmas (1999, Wadsworth )
presents the ETHIC model of decision-making to
use in identifying and resolving ethical
dilemmas in social work practice.This
book has also beentranslated into Korean.Most
recently she published a book Teaching
Social Work Values and Ethics: A Curriculum
Resource (CSWE,
2009) to help social work educators infuse
ethics content into their courses.
Currently
Dr. Congress is on
the International Federation of Social Work
(IFSW) team at the United Nations and the North
American representative to the IFSW
International Ethics Committee.She
is
also a Governing Councillor for the social work
section of the American Public Health
Association (APHA) and a Fellow at the New York
Academy of Medicine (NYAM).
Before
entering academia, Dr. Congress worked as a
practitioner, supervisor, and administrator at a
community mental health clinic.She
is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW-R )
in New York State.
Primary Research Interests:
Cultural Diversity
Social Work Values and Ethics
Immigrants and Refugees
International Social Work
Social Work Education
Professional
Leadership Positions
(APHA,
CSWE,IFSW,
NASW)
2010 APHA,
Governing Councilor, Social Work Section
2009 to PresentCouncil of
Social Work Education (CSWE), Council on
Publications,
2012 CSWE,
Council on Publications, Chair
2009 to 2012NGO DPI Executive
Committee, United Nations
2010 to
2012
Chair of
Resource Center Subcommittee,
NGO DPI
Executive Committee,
United Nations
2006 to 2012
CSWE, Continuing
Education Network (CENET)chair
2005 NASW,
National Board of Directors, Region II
Representative
2003 to
Present IFSW, UN Team
Representative
Executive
Committee on Indigenous Peoples (Secretary)
Executive Committee
on Migration
2002to Present
IFSW,
North American Representative
Permanent Committee on Ethical
Issues
Publications:
Books
Congress,
E. and Gonzalez, M. (in press).Multicultural
perspectives in working with families.
(3rd edition).
New
York
:
Springer Publishing Company.
Congress,
E.; Black, P.; & Strom-Gottfried, K.
eds. (2009) Teaching
social work values and ethics: A
curriculum
resource.Alexandria
,
VA
:
CSWE.
Chang-Muy,
F.
and Congress, E.eds.
(2008). Social
work with immigrants and refugees:
Legal issues, clinical skills,
and advocacy :
New
York
:
Springer Publishing Company.
Congress.
E. and Gonzalez, M. (2005). Multicultural
perspectives
in working with families (2nd ed.)
New York
:Springer
Publishing Company.
Congress,
E. (2005) Social
work values and ethics: Identifying
and resolving professional dilemmas.
(Translated
into Korean).Singapore
:
Wadsworth
,
Division of Thomson Learning.
Black,
P.; Congress, E.; and Strom-Gottfried,
K. (2002). Teaching
social work values and ethics: A
curriculum
resource.Alexandria
,
VA
:
CSWE
Congress,
E. (1999). Social
work values and ethics: Identifying
and resolving professionaldilemmas.Belmont,CA:
Wadsworth
Congress,
E. (ed.). (1997).Multicultural
perspectives in working with families.
New York
:
Springer.
Professional
Journal Articles
Weaver,
H. and Congress, E. (2009).
'Indigenous People in a Landscape of
Risk: Teaching Social Work
Students
About Socially Just Social Work
Responses'Journal of Ethnic And Cultural
Diversity in Social Work,18(1),
166-179
Congress,
E. and Kim, W. (2007).A Comparative
Study on Social Work Ethical Codes in
Korea
and the
United States
:
Focused on Confidentiality, Dual
Relationships, Cultural Diversity and
Impaired Colleagues.Korean Journal of
Clinical Social Work4 (2).
Congress,
E. and McAuliffe, D. (2006).
Professional ethics: Social work codes
in
Australia
and the
United States
. International
Social
Work 49(2), 165-176.
Apgar,
D.. and Congress, E. (2005). Ethical
issues in social work research. Journal
of Social Service Research 32(2),
61-80.
Apgar, D.
and Congress, E. (2005). Authorship
credit: A national study of social work
educators’ beliefs.Journal of
Social Work Education 41(1),
101-112.
Congress,
E. (2004). Cultural and ethnic issues in
working with culturally diverse patients
and their families: Use
of the culturagram to promote cultural
competency in health care settings. Social
Work in Health Care
39 (3/4), 249-262.
Congress,
E. (2002)Social work ethics for educators.Journal
of Teaching in Social Work.,
22(1/2), 151-166.
Congress,
E. (2002). Using culturagrams with
culturally diverse families.In
A. Roberts & G. Greene.
Social Work
Desk
Reference (57-61).
New York
:
OxfordUniversity
Press.
Congress,
E. (2001). Dual relationships in social
work education: Results of a national
survey.Journal ofSocial
Work
Education 37(2),
255-266.
Congress,
E. (2000). What social workers should
know about ethics: Understanding and
resolving practice
dilemmas.Advances
in
Social Work 1 (1), 1-25.
Gutheil,
I.
and
Congress, E. (2000).Resiliency
in older people: A paradigm for
practice. In
E.
Norman
, Resiliency enhancement:
Putting the strengths perspective into
social work practice. (pp.
40-52).
New York
:
ColumbiaUniversity
Press.
Anastas,
J. & Congress, E. (1999).
Philosophical issues in doctoral
education.Journal
ofSocial Work Education.35(1),
143-153.
Rock, B.
& Congress, E. (1999). The new
confidentiality for the 21st century
within a managed care environment.
Social
Work 44 (3), 253-262.
Congress,
E. (1997). The value dilemmas of
advising: Significant issues in a Code
of Ethics for faculty advisors. Journal
of Teaching in Social Work 14
(1/2), 89-110.
Congress,
E. & Lynn, M. (1997). Social group
work in the community: Navigating the
slippery slope of ethical
dilemmas.Social
Work in Groups, 20(3), 61-74.
Congress,
E. (1996).Dual Relationships in academia:
Dilemmas for social work educators. Journal
of Education in
Social
Work 32(3), 329-338.
Congress,
E. (1994).The use of culturagrams to assess
and empower culturally diverse familiesFamilies
in Society
75 (9),
531-540.
Congress,
E. and
Lynn
,
M. (1994).Group work programs in public
schools: Ethical dilemmas and cultural
diversity.Social
Work in Education 16(2), 107-114.
Congress,
E. and Chernesky, R. (1993).
Representative payee programs for the
elderly: Administrative, clinical and
ethical
issues. Journal
of Gerontological Social Work 21(1/2),
77-93.
Congress, E.
(1993). Teaching ethical decision-making to a
diverse community of students: Bringing
practice into the classroom. Journal
of Teaching in Social Work 7(2), 23-36.
Congress,
E. (1992). Ethical decision-making of
social work supervisors.The
Clinical Supervisor 10(1), 157-169
Congress,
E. (1992). Ethical teaching of
multicultural students: Reconsiderations
of social work values for educators.
Journal
of Multicultural Social Work 2(2),
11-23.
Congress,
E. (1992). Unmet needs, service delivery,
and practice issues with rape victims.The
Justice Professional
7(1), 1-15.
Congress,
E. and Lyons, B. (1992). Cultural
differences in health beliefs:
Implications
for social work practice in health care
settings. Journal
of Social Work Practice in Health Care
17(3), 81-96.
Book
Chapters
Congress, E. (2012).
Social work with refugees. In D. Elliott and
U. Segal, editors).
Refugees worldwide Volume 4
Law, Policy, and Programs (pp.
197-218). Santa Barbara, CA: Praeger. Congress, E. (2012).
Global ethical principles and dilemmas.
in L.M. Healy & R.J. Link
(editors)
Handbook of
International Social Work: Human
Rights, Development and the Global
Profession (pp. 297-302.).
New York: Oxford University Press
Congress,
E. (2011). Culturagram
use with culturally diverse families. In M.
Craft-Rosenberg and S. Pehler,
Encyclopedia
of Family Health,(pp.
259-264.) Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage
Congress,
E. (2011) Gestalt Theory and Social
Work Treatment in Francis
Turner, Social
Work Treatment:
Interlocking
Theoretical Approaches (5th
ed.) (255-270) New York: Oxford
University Press.
Congress,
E. (2010). Codes of ethics. In M. Gray
and S. Webb, Ethics
and value perspectives in social
work. (pp.
19-30)London: Palgrave Macmillan.
Weaver,
H. and Congress, E. (2010). The
ongoing impact of colonization:
Man-made trauma and Native
Americans. In A.
Kalayjian and D. Eugene, eds. . Mass
trauma and emotional healing around
the world. Volume 2 (pp.
211- 226.)Santa
Barbara
,
CA
:
Prager .
Congress,
E. (2008).The
culturagram. In Al Roberts, Social
Work Desk Reference (Second
Edition.) (pp. 969-975)New
York
:
OxfordUniversityPress.
Congress,
E. (2008)Comparative Ethics. Encyclopedia
of Social Work (20th
Edition).New York
:
Oxford
University
Press.
Congress,
E. (2008). Individual and family
development theory.In
P. Lehman and N. Coady, Theoretical
perspectives for direct
social work practice: A
generalist-eclecticapproach. (2nd
edition).
New York
:Springer
Publishing Company.
Congress,
E. (2007). Ethical practice in
forensic social work. In A. Roberts
and D. Springer, Social
work in juvenile and
criminal justice settings. (pp.
75-86.
Congress,
E. (2006). Teaching social work
values, ethics, and human rights. InSocial
work
around the world IV.Berne,
Switzerland
:
IFSW.
Congress,
E. and Brownell, P. (2006).
Application of the culturagram with
culturally and ethnicially diverse
battered women.
In A. Roberts, Battered
women and their families. (New
York
:
Springer Publishing Company).
Congress,
E (2004). Crisis Intervention and
Diversity: Emphasis ona
Mexican Immigrant Family's
Acculturation Conflicts.InP.
Meyer, Paradigms of Clinical Social
Work, Volume
3, Emphasis on Diversity(pp 125-144).New
York
:
Brunner-Routledge.
Congress,
E. (2001). Ethical issues in work with
culturally diverse children and their
families. In N.B. Webb, . Culturally
diverse parent-child and family
relationships(pp.
29-53).
New York
:
ColumbiaUniversityPress.
Congress,
E. (2001). Individual and family
development theory.In
P. Lehman and N. Coady, Theoretical
perspectives
for direct social work practice: A
generalist-eclecticapproach. (pp.83
-104.
New York
:
Springer
Publishing Company
Congress,
E. and Sealy, Y.
(2001).
The role of social work ethics in
empowering clients and communities In
R. Perez-Koenig and B. Rock, Editors.Social
Work in the Era of Devolution:
Toward a Just Practice.(pp.305-330).New York
:
FordhamUniversity
Press.
Congress,
E. (2000). Crisis intervention with
culturally diverse families.In.
A. Roberts, (2nd Ed), Crisis Intervention
Handbook. (pp. 431-449).
New York
:
OxfordUniversity
Press.
Congress,
E. (1996). Gestalt theory and social
work practice.In
F. Turner (Ed.), Social
work treatment(4th Ed.). (pp. 341-361).
New
York
: The
Free Press.
Congress,
E. (1996). Is the Code of Ethics as
applicable to agency executives as it
is to direct service practitioners?
Yes.In
E
Gambrill
and R. Pruger,
Controversial
issues in social work ethics.
(pp. 137- 150).
Boston
:
Allyn and Bacon.
Congress,
E. (1996).Family
crisis - Life cycle and bolts from the
blue: Assessment and treatment.In
A. Roberts (Ed.). Crisis
management in brief treatment.
(pp. 142-159).
Chicago
:
Nelson-Hall. Congress,
E. (1995).Clinical
issues in time-limited treatment with
women.In A. Roberts (Ed.), Crisis
intervention and time-limited cognitive
treatment. (pp. 215-230.)
NewburyPark
,
CA.: Sage Publications.
Congress,
E. and
Lynn
,
M. (1995). The use of groups to
promote cultural sensitivity among
social work students. In R.
Salmon & R. Kurland. Group
work practice in a troubled society.
(Pp. 73-87).York: Haworth Press.
Congress,
E. (1995). Gestalt. In Encyclopedia
of Social Work(19th Ed.)Washington
:
NASW Press.
Congress,
E. and Johns, M. (1994) Aging and
ethnicity. In I. Gutheil (Ed.), Work
with older persons: Challengesand
opportunities.(pp. 65-84).New York
:
FordhamUniversity
Press..
Crisis
Intervention Handbook: Assessment,
Treatment, and ResearchCongress,
E. (1990). Crisis intervention with
Hispanic clients in an urban mental
health In A. Roberts (ed.), .(pp. 221-236).Belmont
,
CA
:
Wadsworth
Publishing.
Singer, J. B. (Host).
(2009, February 16). Social work with
immigrants and refugees: Interview with
Elaine Congress, Ph.D.
and Fernando Chang-Muy, J.D. [Episode
48]. Social Work Podcast. Podcast
retrieved 04/20/2009, from http://socialworkpodcast.com/2009/01/social-work-with-immigrants-and.html
