Mailing Information:

Contact Information:

University of Maryland

Phone: (410) 706.7980

School of Social Work

Fax: (410) 706.6046

525 West Redwood Street

E-mail: sringel@ssw.umaryland.edu

Baltimore, Maryland 21201

Room: 3E04

Education:

MSW, Hunter College

PhD, Smith College

Expertise and Research Interests:

Death and Dying

Psychodynamic Theory and Treatment

Trauma

Women's Issues

Working with Immigrants and Refugees

Memberships:

CSWE

NASW

National Committee on Psychoanalysis in Clinical Social Work

Honors and Awards:

Fellowship, American Psychoanalytic Association

Book Review Editorship, Psychoanalytic Social Work Journal

Editorial Board of the Clinical Social Work Journal

Recent Publications:

Goldstien, E., Miehls, D., & Ringel, S.  Advanced social work practice: A relational perspective.  Columbia University Press (under contract).

Brandell, J. & Ringel, S. (2007).  Attachment theory and dynamic practice. Columbia University Press. 

Articles in Refereed Journals

Ringel, S. & Park, J. (In Press). Intimate partner violence in the Evangelical community: Causes, Barriers and faith-based interventions. Journal of Religion and Spirituality: Social Thought.

Ringel, S.  (2008).  Formative spiritual experiences of Orthodox Jewish women: Mysticism vs. attachment. Clinical Social Work Journal: Special issue on new directions in attachment theory, research and practice, #36(1), 73-82.

Ringel, S. & Bina, R.  (2007). Understanding causes of and responses to intimate partner violence in the Jewish Orthodox community: Survivors’ and leaders’ perspectives.  Research on Social Work Practice, 17(2), 277-286.

Ringel, S. & Belcher, J.  (2007). Comparing women’s roles in two faith-based communities with implications for value-based practice”.   Social Thought: Journal of Religion and Spirituality in Social Work. 

Ringel, S.  (2007).  Identity and gender roles of Orthodox Jewish women: Implications for social work practice.  Smith Studies in Social Work, 77(2/3), 25-44. 

Ringel, S. & Mishna, F. (2007).  Beyond avoidance and secrecy: Using students’ practice to teach ethics.  Journal of Teaching in Social Work, 27(1/2), 251-270.

Ringel, S.  (2007). Using the classroom to examine unconscious communication between student and client: A supervisor’s perspective.  Clinical Supervisor. Vol. 26(1/2) 2007

Ringel, S.  (2005).  Through the camera’s eye: The intergenerational transmission of traumatic loss.  Clinical Social Work Journal, 33, 427-437 .

Ringel, S.  (2005).  Therapeutic Dilemmas in cross-cultural practice with Asian American adolescents.  Child and Adolescent Social Work Journal, 22, 57-69.

Ringel, S. & Ronel, N. (2005)  Factors in the integration process of adolescent immigrants: The case of Ethiopian Jews in Israel.  International Social Work Journal, 48, 63-76.

Brandell, J. & Ringel, S.  (2004).  Psychodynamic perspectives on relationship: Implications for social work education of new findings from human attachment and the neurosciences.  Families in Society, 85, 549-556.

Ringel, S.  (2004).  The man without words: Attachment style as an evolving dynamic process.  Psychoanalytic Social Work Journal, 11, 71-81. 

Ringel, S.  (2003)  Play and impersonation: Finding the right intersubjective rhythm. Clinical Social Work Journal, 31, 371-380.

Ringel, S. (2003). The reflective self: A path to creativity and self-knowledge in social work practice education.  Journal of Teaching in Social Work, 23, 15-28.

Ringel, S. (2002).  Spontaneous moments and the domain of non-verbal communication.  Psychoanalytic Social Work, 9, 45-56.

Ringel, S.  (2002). To disclose or not to disclose: Political conflicts in the countertransference.  Smith College Studies in Social Work, 72, 347-358.

Ringel, S.  (2002).  Dreaming and listening: A final journey.  Clinical Social Work Journal, 30, 351-359.

Ringel, S.  (2001).  In the shadow of death: Relational paradigms in clinical supervision. Clinical Social Work Journal, 29, 171-179.

Ringel, S.  (2001).  Breaking the boundaries between reality and therapy.    Psychoanalytic Social Work, 8, 1-12.

Ringel, S.  (2001).  A re-conceptualization of the working alliance in cross-cultural practice with non-Western clients: Integrating relational perspectives and multicultural theories. Clinical Social Work Journal, 29, 53-63.

Ringel, S.  (2000).  Dimensions of cross cultural treatment with late adolescent college students.  Child and Adolescent Social Work, 17, 443-454,

Ringel, S.  (2000).  Close encounters: Exclusion and marginalization as an intersubjective experience.  Smith College Studies in Social Work.  71, 51-60.

Ringel.  (2005).  Mexican Adolescents in rural America:  An emerging Phenomenon.  In Social work in rural communities.  CSWE Pubs.

Ringel.  (2004). Talk Therapy: The representation of insight in the cinema.  In  J. Brandell (Ed.), The celluloid  couch. Albany, NY: SUNY Press.

Ringel.  (2004). Groupwork with Asian American immigrants: A cross-Cultural perspective.  In G. Greif & P. Ephross (Eds.), Groupwork with populations at risk.  NY: Oxford University Press.