Mary Ann Forgey, Ph.D., L,C.S.W.
BA, Boston College, MSW Boston College, Ph.D. Columbia
Mary Ann Forgey is an associate professor at Fordham University Graduate School of Social Service. She received her BA and MSW from Boston College and her Ph.D. from Columbia University. She has been a full time faculty member at Fordham GSSS since 1994. She has taught a range of practice courses in the foundation area and in the clinical concentration. She has also developed and taught electives in intimate partner violence and child maltreatment. Her interests include evidence based practice in intimate partner violence and child maltreatment and international social work education. In 2005 Dr. Forgey received a Fulbright Scholar Award and Faculty Fellowship to teach and conduct research at the University College Dublin (UCD) School of Social Policy and Social Work. While at UCD she taught courses in Foundation Practice and Intimate Partner Violence and also conducted a joint research project with UCD faculty on how Irish child welfare social workers assess intimate partner violence. Since her return to Fordham in 2006, she has been involved with UCD faculty in the development of a joint coursework initiative in foundation practice using various forms of distance learning technology. Dr. Forgey is currently the Principle Investigator on two research projects. One project involves the development and evaluation of a domestic violence assessment curriculum for U.S. Army social workers using standardized client methodology (actors). The other project, which is a continuation of the research in Ireland, involves the exploration of the extent to which intimate partner violence assessment in U.S. based child welfare agencies is evidence based.
Selected Publications:
Allen, M. & Forgey, M.A., (2007) Fueling an unnecessary fire: Commentary on a national study of domestic abuse in Ireland. Administration, 55(4).
Forgey, M.A. & Badger, L. (2006) Patterns of intimate partner violence among married women in the military. Journal of Family Violence, 21, 369-380.
Colarossi, L. & Forgey, M.A. (2006) Interdisciplinary social work and law curriculum for domestic violence: An evaluation study. Journal of Social Work Education, 42(2), 371-387.
Forgey, M.A. & Colarossi, L. (2003) Interdisciplinary social work and law: A model domestic violence curriculum. Journal of Social Work Education, 39(3), 459-476.
Forgey, M.A., Cohen, C. & Chazin, R. (2003) Surviving translation: Teaching the essentials of foundation social work practice in Vietnam. Journal of Teaching in Social Work, 23(1/2), 147-166.
Moynihan, A., Forgey, M.A. & Harris, D. (2001) Achieving justice: Parents and the child welfare system. Fordham Law Review, 70, 287-335.
