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Lori K. Holleran Steiker, Ph.D., ACSWAssociate Professor |
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Professional Interests
Substance abuse prevention, culturally grounded social work practice (esp. ethnic identity of Mexican American youth), adult and adolescent substance abuse, social work with groups.
Education
- Ph.D., Arizona State University
- MSW, University of Pennsylvania
- BA, Duke University
About
Dr. Holleran is an Associate Professor as of this year and has received the Texas Exes Award for teaching excellence. She has also been nominated for the Lora Lee Peterson Teaching Award and the William David Blunk Memorial Professorship for excellence in undergraduate teaching and advising. She has also been given the Appreciation Award from the Services for Students with Disabilities.
Dr. Holleran was born in Brooklyn, NY and grew up in central New Jersey. She graduated as a proud Valedictorian from Hightstown High School in 1983. She got a Bachelor's degree in Honors English from Duke University and then her MSW from University of Pennsylvania. She worked as a clinical psychiatric social worker and addictions therapist with adolescents and adults for a dozen years.
She began her work in prevention concurrent with her doctoral education at Arizona State University in 1992 designing and implementing an elementary school-based social work program with prevention intervention for children of divorce. In 1995, she became research associate and ethnographic data analyst on the Cleveland Substance Abuse Prevention Research Project. In 1996, she became a researcher for an extensive multidisciplinary project called the Drug Resistance Strategies (DRS) Project funded by NIDA (R01 DA05629) in Arizona, which has touched the lives of approximately 8000 students since 1997. The project is unique in that it involved a group of ethnically diverse high school students from a large city high school in the creation of culturally grounded substance abuse prevention videos and curriculum. Dr. Holleran has particular expertise in the area of Mexican American ethnic identity and the overlap of ethnicity and culturally grounded prevention efforts. Dr. Holleran is presently working on her K01 Mentored Research Scientist Development award from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) receiving training and continuing her research in the area of substance abuse prevention with high-risk youth. She is presently facilitating the adaptation and evaluation of the DRS project for youth in a variety of community settings including OutYouth, YMCA, several alternative school settings, the Children's Wellness Center, LifeWorks Homeless Youth Shelter and other unique adolescent populations.
Dr. Holleran is the co-editor of the book Substance Abusing Latinos: Current Research on Epidemiology, Prevention and Treatment (co-edited with Mario de la Rosa and S., Lala Ashenberg Straussner). She has authored or co-authored numerous articles, book chapters, and reports that coalesce around substance abuse prevention/intervention and culture.
Dr. Holleran primarily teaches undergraduate clinical courses and is devoted to the BSW students. She also teaches graduate courses in the areas of group, family, and substance abuse. At the graduate level, she has most recently taught Theories and Methods of Group Intervention.
Dr. Holleran's interests include music (she sings, writes songs, plays piano ... sometimes at school!), running on Town Lake, and spending time with her amazing son, Blake.
Teaching
Office Hours: Tuesdays and Thursdays 2:00-3:00 and by appointment
Visit the School's Electronic Classroom for course list and syllabi.
Research Projects
Completed projects have the year of completion.
- Acculturation and Adolescent Substance Abuse Prevention (K01 DA017276) (2009)
- Culturally Grounded Drug Resistance Videos for High Risk Youth (2003)
- Evaluation of Protecting You, Protecting Me Alcohol Prevention Curriculum (2002)
Full Curriculum Vitae (PDF)