Lawrence Shulman

BIOGRAPHY: Lawrence Shulman, Professor and Dean Emeritus, School of Social Work, University at Buffalo (State University of New York) Lawrence Shulman, M.S.W., Ed.D is a retired Professor and former Dean at the University at Buffalo School of Social Work. He has been a social work practice educator for over forty years. He maintains a practice, leading at least one social work group each year (for example, single parents, married couple's, Persons with AIDS in recovery from substance abuse and students suspended from school for violence). He has done extensive research on the core helping skills in social work practice, super-vision, and child welfare. Dr. Shulman has been a consultant on direct practice, school social work, family work, group work, supervision, field instruction, classroom teaching, administration, residential treatment and the skills of working with other professionals. He has published numerous articles and monographs on direct practice and is the author or co-editor of seven books. These include: Dynamics and Skills of Group Counseling (2011); The Skills of Helping Individuals, Families, Groups and Communities, 7th Edition, (2011), both with Cengage Publishers; Mutual Aid Groups, Vulnerable and Resilient Populations and the Life Cycle, 3rd ed., 2005 (co-edited with Dr. Alex Gitterman), Columbia University Press; and Teaching the Helping Skills -- A Field Instructor's Guide, 2nd Edition, 1993, Council on Social Work Education. Dr. Shulman was the author of the entry on supervision in the last three editions of the Social Work Encyclopedia (National Association of Social Workers). He has also authored a book entitled Interactional Supervision, 3rd edition, published in 2010 by the National Association of Social Workers Press. He has recently completed his term as co-editor of The Clinical Supervisor journal published by Taylor and Francis. He is also the co-founder and co-chair of the International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Clinical Supervision. The conference was funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIH). The conference was inaugurated in 2005 and was funded until 2009.