University of Toronto

Professor MacFadden’s research, scholarship and practice have focused in four areas: child welfare, clinical social work practice, information technology in professional social work practice and most recently neuroscience in social work practice. In child welfare, he has contributed to the development of Ontario’s Risk Assessment package, particularly the Eligibility Spectrum component. In clinical practice, he has focused on the use of the single system approach to evaluating practice incorporating computers in monitoring, assessing, analyzing and in presenting the results. In neuroscience and social work he has published material on hypnosis and neuroscience, unconscious bias and implicit memory and contributed to the new Oxford Online Bibliography on Neuroscience and Social Work as the subject expert. Additionally he has introduced neuroscience into the curriculum of the MSW Program.

 

Publications

Professor MacFadden is completing two sections for the Oxford University Press’s new Oxford Bibliography Online. The first is on Information Technology in Social Work and the second is on Neuroscience and Social Work Practice.

A chapter entitled, “Information technology in social work practice” in the first book on social work practice in Canada, edited by Francis Turner (Turner, F. (1999). Canadian social work practice. ONT: Prentice-Hall Allyn Bacon Canada).

Murphy, L., MacFadden, R., Mitchell, D. (2008). Cybercounseling online: The development of a university-based training program for e-mail counseling. Finn, J. (Ed.). Journal of Technology in Human Services, Vol.26, Numbers 2-4, 447-469.

MacFadden, R. (2007). The forgotten dimension in learning: Incorporating emotion into Web-based education. Journal of Technology in Human Services, Vol.24, No.1/2, pp. 85-101

MacFadden, R. J., Moore, B., Herie, M., Schoech, D. (Eds.). (September, 2005). Web-Based Education in Human Services. NY: Haworth Press.

For additional publications and more extensive information visit Professor MacFadden’s web site at www.robertmacfadden.com.