Mailing Information:

Contact Information:

University of Maryland

Phone: (410) 706.5088

School of Social Work

Fax: (410) 706.6046

525 West Redwood Street

E-mail: pephross@ssw.umaryland.edu

Baltimore, Maryland 21201

Room: 5E08

Education:

MSW, Boston University

PhD, University of Chicago

Expertise and Research Interests:

Ethnicity

Human Sexual Behavior

Intergroup Relations

Life-cycle Issues

Program Evaluation

Social Work with Groups

Honors and Awards:

National Institute of Mental Health Post-Doctoral Program Director, 1977-83 

Boston University School of Social Work Alumnus of the Year, 1984

Who's Who in the United States

Named Social Work Pioneer by the National Association of Social Workers Foundation, 2004.

Recent Publications:

"Social Work Practice with Sexual Issues," in A. R. Roberts & Gilbert J. Greene, eds. Social Workers Desk Reference, New York: Oxford University Press.

Group work with populations at risk. New York: Oxford University Press.

Ethnicity and Social Work Practice. New York: Oxford University Press.

Ethnicity and Social Work Practice. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998

A death in the group work family, Reflections, vol. 4, #4 (Fall, 1998)

Sperm Wars: the Science of Sex.. New York: Basic Books, 1996, in Journal of Sex Education and Therapy, vol, 23, #2 (1998)

Staff and elderly knowledge and attitudes towards elderly sexuality, Educational Gerontology, vol. 24 (1998), pp. 471-489 

Chapter titled "Group Work With Working Groups" in the Handbook of Social Work With Groups, edited by Charles D. Garvin, Lorraine M. Gutierrez, and Maeda J.Galinsky, published by The Guilford Press. Co-authored with Thomas Vassil

The second edition of Groups that Work: Structure and Process, by Drs. Paul H. Ephross and Thomas V. Vassil has been published by Columbia University Press.