Positions

Overview

  • Laurel Iverson Hitchcock is an Associate Professor in the Department of Social Work at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. She completed her Ph.D. in Social Work and MSW at the University of Alabama and has a Masters in Public Health from the University of Alabama at Birmingham. As a licensed clinical social worker, Dr. Hitchcock has over ten years of practice experience in health and behavioral health care settings. Prior to her career in social work, Dr. Hitchcock served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Senegal, West Africa (’91-’93), and as an AmeriCorps Volunteer with the Jefferson County Department of Public Health’s Healthy Start Program in Birmingham, AL (’94-’95). She is the co-director for the Institute for Healthy Engagement and Resilience with Technology  (iHeartTech) at the University at Buffalo's School of Social Work, and she writes a blog titled Teaching & Learning in Social Work (www.laureliversonhitchcock.org).

    • Selected Publications

    Academic Article

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    2021 Interprofessional Simulation for Understanding Poverty.  Clinical Simulation in Nursing.  52:9-16. 2021
    2021 Professional Collaboration Networks as a Social Work Research Practice Innovation: Preparing DSW Students for Knowledge Dissemination Roles in a Digital Society.  Research on Social Work Practice.  31:42-52. 2021
    2020 Using a standardized patient model for interprofessional team training in social work 2020
    2019 Infographics as an assignment to build digital skills in the social work.  Journal of Technology in Human Services.  37:203-225. 2019
    2019 Learning Outcomes for Adolescent SBIRT Simulation Training in Social Work and Nursing Education.  Journal of Social Work Practice in the Addictions.  19:47-56. 2019
    2018 Learning About Poverty Through Simulation: A Pilot Evaluation 2018
    2018 Professional Learning Networks for Social Workers in the Digital Age.  Social Work Today.  18:22-25. 2018
    2017 Using Pinterest in Undergraduate Social Work Education: Assignment Development and Pilot Survey Results 2017
    2017 Primary prevention interventions for reducing school violence.  Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews.  2017. 2017
    2017 Pioneering Health Care for Children with Disabilities: Untold Legacy of the 1916 Polio Epidemic in the United States 2017
    2016 Tweet, Tweet!: Using Live Twitter Chats in Social Work Education.  Social Work Education.  35:457-468. 2016
    2016 “What the Social Worker has done for Public Health”: Homer Folk’s 1917 Speech on the Interdisciplinary Efforts of Public Health Social Workers during the Progressive Era 2016
    2015 Teaching Interprofessional Practice: An Exploratory Course Assignment in Social Work and Speech Language Pathology 2015
    2014 Multimodal Composition and Social Justice: Videos as a Tool of Advocacy in Social Work Pedagogy.  Journal of Technology in Human Services.  32:22-38. 2014
    2013 Social Media for Professional Practice: Integrating Twitter with Social Work Pedagogy..  Journal of Baccalaureate Social Work Education.  18:33-45. 2013
    2011 The early years of title V: Extending and improving care for children with special health care needs, 1935-1941.  Maternal and Child Health Journal.  15:139-147. 2011
    2010 Social work practitioners and practice evaluation: How are we doing?.  Journal of Human Behavior in the Social Environment.  20:963-973. 2010
    2007 Primary prevention interventions for reducing school violence.  Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews.  2007

    Book

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    2019 Teaching Social Work With Digital Technology 2019

    Chapter

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    2018 Community: Using Twitter to develop online community.  216-233. 2018

    Research Overview

  • Dr. Hitchcock’s research and pedagogical interests include social work education, technology, and social media, interprofessional education, social welfare history, and public health social work. Her dissertation research focused on the development of the federal program for children with special health care needs (CSHCN) under the US Children’s Bureau during the 1930s. Her current research projects include an examination of simulation in social work education; the effectiveness of technology-infused assignments in social work courses; and the role of technology in social work education.

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    Teaching Overview

  • Dr. Hitchcock has over ten years of teaching experience in higher education. Over the years, she has taught the following courses: Statistics for Social Work Research, Social Work Research, Human Behavior in the Social Environment, Social Policy, Social Work Values Lab, Social Work Practice with Small Groups, Communities and Organizations, Summer Harvest and Social Work in Public Health. As an early adopter of teaching with technology, in 2012, she received the SAGE Publication/Council on Social Work Education's Award for Innovative Teaching for her work incorporating different social media assignments into her courses.Dr. Hitchcock is an advocate for service learning in higher education, receiving the UAB Provost’s Award for Faculty Excellence in Service Learning in 2018.

    • Teaching Activities

  • SW222L - Social Work Values Lab (Spring Term 2020) 2020
  • SW322L - SW 322L Practice I Lab (Spring Term 2020) 2020
  • SW422L - SW 422L Practice II Lab (Spring Term 2020) 2020
  • SW222L - Social Work Values Lab (Fall Term 2019) 2019
  • SW322L - SW 322L Practice I Lab (Fall Term 2019) 2019
  • SW422L - SW 422L Practice II Lab (Fall Term 2019) 2019
  • SW222L - Social Work Values Lab (Spring Term 2019) 2019
  • SW322L - SW 322L Practice I Lab (Spring Term 2019) 2019
  • SW422L - SW 422L Practice II Lab (Spring Term 2019) 2019
  • SW222L - Social Work Values Lab (Fall Term 2018) 2018
  • SW322L - SW 322L Practice I Lab (Fall Term 2018) 2018
  • SW422 - Social Work Practice II (Fall Term 2018) 2018
  • SW422L - SW 422L Practice II Lab (Fall Term 2018) 2018
  • SW422 - Social Work Practice II (Spring Term 2018) 2018
  • SW422 - Social Work Practice II (Fall Term 2017) 2017
  • SW422 - Social Work Practice II (Fall Term 2017) 2017
  • SW222 - Values Lab/ SL (Spring Term 2017) 2017
  • SW422 - Social Work Practice II (Spring Term 2017) 2017
  • SW222 - Values Lab/ SL (Fall Term 2016) 2016
  • SW422 - Social Work Practice II (Fall Term 2016) 2016
  • SW222 - Values Lab/ SL (Spring Term 2016) 2016
  • SW422 - Social Work Practice II (Spring Term 2016) 2016
  • SW222 - Values Lab/ SL (Fall Term 2015) 2015
  • SW422 - Social Work Practice II (Fall Term 2015) 2015
  • HCO619Q - Social Work in Public Health (Summer Term 2015) 2015
  • SW422 - Social Work Practice II (Spring Term 2015) 2015
  • SW314 - Hum Behavior/Soc Environmnt II (Fall Term 2014) 2014
  • SW422 - Social Work Practice II (Fall Term 2014) 2014
  • HCO619Q - Social Work in Public Health (Summer Term 2014) 2014
  • SW422 - Social Work Practice II (Spring Term 2014) 2014
  • SW422 - Social Work Practice II (Fall Term 2013) 2013
  • HCO619Q - Social Work in Public Health (Summer Term 2013) 2013
  • HCO619 - Soc Wrk Public Hlth (Summer Term 2012) 2012
  • SW320 - Social Work Research (Spring Term 2012) 2012
  • HCO619 - Soc Wrk Public Hlth (Summer Term 2011) 2011
  • SW321 - Stats for Social Work Res (Spring Term 2009) 2009
  • SW321 - Stats for Social Work Res (Fall Term 2008) 2008
  • MCH619 - Social Work in Public Health (Summer Term 2008) 2008
  • SW321 - Stats for Social Work Res (Spring Term 2008) 2008
  • SW321 - Stats for Social Work Res (Fall Term 2007) 2007

    • Education And Training

  • Doctor of Philosophy in Social Work, University of Alabama 2010
  • Master of Social Work, University of Alabama 1998
  • Master of Public Health, University of Alabama at Birmingham 1996

    • Full Name

  • Laurel Hitchcock