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I received a PhD from Smith College School for Social Work in 2001.
Prior to joining Laurier, I was a visiting assistant professor for the School of Social Science, Hampshire College and an adjunct faculty, research advisor and clinical instructor Smith College School for Social Work.
I teach in our MSW and PhD programs as well as in the W2B program, a program where university level courses are taught in correctional institutions.
I am dedicated to experiential learning, teaching and arts based approaches to knowledge development. I have been working in the area of death, dying and bereavement since 1991.
In addition to my academic experience, I have practiced as a clinical social worker since 1991 in community mental health and in inpatient and outpatient psychiatry with children, adolescents and their families.
The main focus of my research has been in the area of death, dying and bereavement. My research conceptualizes grief as an evolving process and examines this process as it influences the on-going process of identity construction.
My research also involves exploring community based approaches to hospice and palliative care, specifically looking at volunteer recruitment, rural issues and diversity. Other research studies include studying the effectiveness of single session therapy in the walk-in counselling model, as well as looking at mentoring in Indigenous communities.
- Merit Award: 2006, 2012, 2017
I am willing to supervise graduate students interested in death, dying and bereavement, single-session walk-in counselling or child, adolescent mental health.
- Cait, C. A., Skop, M., Booton, J., Stalker, C. A., Horton, S., & Riemer, M. (2017). Practice-based qualitative research: Participant experiences of walk-in counselling and traditional counselling. Qualitative Social Work, 16(5), 612-630.
- Stalker, C. A., Riemer, M., Cait, C. A., Horton, S., Booton, J., Josling, L.,& Zaczek, M. (2016). A comparison of walk-in counselling and the wait list model for delivering counselling services. Journal of Mental Health, 25(5), 403-409.
- Watters, E. C., Cait, C. A., & Oba, F. (2016). Social Work Curriculum Review Case Study: Service Users Tell Us What Makes Effective Social Workers. Canadian Social Work Review/Revue canadienne de service social, 33(1), 27-44.
- Cait, C-A. (2008). Identity development and grieving: The evolving processes for parentally bereaved women. British Journal of Social Work, 38, 322-339.
- Cait, C-A. (2006). Implications of intersubjectivity for supervisory practice. Clinical Social Work Journal, 34(3), 253-265.
- Berzoff, J., Dane, B., & Cait, C-A. (2005). Innovative models for developing post-masters curriculum in end-of life care. Journal of Teaching in Social Work, 25(3/4), 63-88.
- Cait, C-A. (2004). Spiritual and religious transformation in women who were parentally bereaved as adolescents. Omega: Journal of Death and Dying, 49(2), 163-181.
- SK656: Death, Dying and Bereavement
- SK522: Social Work Practice with Individuals
- SK536: Integrating Theory and Practice
- SK791: Epistemology and the Nature of Social Work Knowledge
- SK801: Applied Qualitative Analysis
Contact Info:
E: ccait@wlu.ca
Office location: FSW 312
Office hours: By appointment.
Languages spoken: English