Geetha Gopalan

Dr. Geetha Gopalan, Assistant Professor

Geetha Gopalan received her doctoral training at the Columbia University School of Social Work in 2009. Through the doctoral program, Dr. Gopalan focused on mental health service program development, implementation, and dissemination for inner-city, minority youth, and their families. Since graduation from Columbia in 2009, she has participated in two NIMH-funded intervention research training institutes, the NIH Loan Repayment Program, and a three-year, NIMH-funded National Research Science Award Individual Post-Doctoral Fellowship.

Dr. Gopalan’s interests focus on family-level interventions to improve youth mental health and reduce youth risk behavior, particularly for families with intensive service involvement and extreme psychosocial needs (such as those involved in the child welfare system).  She is currently the Principal Investigator of an NIMH-funded study to implement a Multiple Family Groups (MFG) intervention originally provided by advanced mental health practitioners (Masters or PhDs) to reduce child disruptive behavior difficulties, so that it can be delivered by caseworkers providing placement prevention services to child welfare involved families.

Dr. Gopalan is currently a member of the Diversity Advisory Council at the University of Maryland, Baltimore Campus.

Contact Information:

Phone: (410) 706.3616
E-mail: ggopalan@ssw.umaryland.edu
Room: 3W24
Gopalan CV

Mailing Information:
UM School of Social Work
525 West Redwood Street
Baltimore, Maryland 21201