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Home >> People >> Yvonne Farley

Assistant Professor

Des Moines Educational Center
Pappajohn Higher Education Center
1200 Grand Ave., Room 133
Des Moines, IA 50309
Phone: (515) 235-4668
Fax: (515) 235-4667
Email: yvonne-farley@uiowa.edu

I worked in social work practice for 22 years before I started teaching at Iowa, where I have been for the last 11 years. I teach practice courses like Family Centered Theory and Therapy. While I was working in practice, I specialized in trauma for over ten years. This is still an area of passion for me. I have done over a dozen National and International presentations on combinations of trauma, resiliency, spirituality and forgiveness. I have also done two conceptual papers on these topics. My current favorite class is Spirituality in Social Work Practice and I am so excited about my newest class, Trauma Informed Family Practice.

Teaching Areas

Human Behavior in the Social Environment; Social Work Practice; Advanced Family Centered and Advanced Integrated Theory and Practice; Theories of Personality; Spirituality in Social Work Practice

Research Interests

Spirituality and Resiliency; Forgiveness and Healing in Social Work Practice; Forgiveness and Veterans; Trauma

Work Experience

Clinical social work

Education

• M.S.W., Social Work, The University of Iowa (1994)

[ Curriculum Vitae ]