Mailing Information:

Contact Information:

University of Maryland

Phone: (410) 706.8099

School of Social Work

Fax: (410) 706.6046

525 West Redwood Street

E-mail: tcascio@ssw.umaryland.edu

Baltimore, Maryland 21201

Room: 5E21

Education:

MSW, University of Maryland

PhD, University of Pennsylvania

Expertise and Research Interests:

Capital Litigation 

Spirituality in Social Work Practice

Teaching Methods in Social Work

Memberships:

National Association of Social Workers, 1990-present

Council on Social Work Education, 1992-present

Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action (Meetings Committee Member, 1995-1996), 1995-1997

Jewish Communal Service Association, 1995-present

Social Welfare History Group, 1996-present 

Society for Spirituality and Social Work, 1998-present 

International Alliance of Teacher Scholars, 1999-present

Honors and Awards:

University of Pennsylvania, School of Social Work, Herman Levin Award, Outstanding Doctoral Student of the Year

Recent Publications:

Tirrito, Terry, & Toni Cascio (Eds.). (2003). Religious Organizations in Community Services: A Social Work Perspective. New York: Springer.

Cascio, Toni, & Janice Gasker. (in press). Computer-mediated mentoring in professional education. Journal on Excellence in College Teaching.

Cascio, Toni. (in press). Implementing problem-based learning: An example from an advanced practice class. Journal of Teaching in Socail Work.

Cascio, Toni, & Janice Gasker. (2002). Navigating the social jungle: Using computer-mediated mentoring to enhance undergraduates' professional identity. Journal of Baccalaureate Social Work, 7, 127-142.

Cascio, Toni, & Janice Gasker. (2001). The vampire's seduction: Using Bram Stoker's Dracula as a metaphor in treating parasitic relationships. Journal of Poetry Therapy, 15, 19-28.

Gasker, Janice, & Toni Cascio. (2001). Empowering women through computer- mediated class participation. Affilia: Journal of Women and Social Work, 16(3), 295-313.

Cascio, Toni, & Janice Gasker. (2001). Everyone has a shining side: Computer- mediated mentoring in social work education. Journal of Social Work Education, 37(2), 283-293.

Belcher, John, & Toni Cascio. (2001). Social work and deliverance practice: The Pentecostal experience. Families in Society, 82(1), 61-68.

Gasker, Janice, & Toni Cascio. (2000). Computer-mediated interaction: A tool for facilitating the educational helping relationship. Journal of Baccalaureate Social Work, 5(2), 145-159. 

A review of "Crisis Intervention: A Handbook of Immediate Person-to-Person Help" by Kenneth France published in Families in Society (2003), Vol. 84, p. 143.