Associate Professor of Social Work

Dr. Solomon is Associate Professor of Social Work and has been a faculty member at UVM since 2000. Solomon's courses taught include Transformative Social Work, Perspectives on Social Work, and Practitioners' Own Stories.

An experienced social worker, Solomon has conducted a number of training programs, invited presentations, and lectures related to social work education, child welfare, and qualitative research methods.  She has served on editorial boards for Social Thought, Social Work, and Journal of Social Work, and publishes and presents frequently both nationally and internationally.

Publications

Solomon, B. (2019). Promoting non-violence: social work conversations about violence, by Gerry Heery: London and New York, Routledge, 2019, $31.76. Journal of Religion and Spirituality in Social Work,38(4),434-436. 10.1080/15426432.2019.1613036

Solomon, B. (2017). RELATIONAL FREEDOM: EMERGENT PROPERTIES IN THE INTERPERSONAL FIELD. By Donnel B. Stern. The Psychoanalytic Quarterly,86(2),488-496. 10.1002/PSAQ.12151

Schneider, J., Wilkerson, D., Solomon, B., Perlman, C., Duval, D., Shelby, D., & Witten, M. (2017). Psychoanalytic training experience and postgraduate professional development – Part ii. International Journal of Psychoanalysis,98(5),1385-1410. 10.1111/1745-8315.12615

Solomon, B. (2017). Epilogue: Artificial Reproduction Techniques and Psychotherapy. Psychoanalytic Inquiry,37(8),555-555. 10.1080/07351690.2017.1374145

Solomon, B. (2017). Prologue: Artificial Reproduction Techniques and Psychotherapy. Psychoanalytic Inquiry,37(8),505-506. 10.1080/07351690.2017.1374144

Schneider, J., Sadow , L., Wilkerson, D. C., Solomon, B., Perlman, C., Duval, D., Shelby, D., & Witten, M. (2016). Response to the letter of Tillman Habermas. International Journal of Psychoanalysis,97(2),505-506. 10.1111/1745-8315.12444

Schneider, J., Wilkerson, D., Solomon, B., Perlman, C., Duval Tsioles, D., Shelby, D., Witten, M., & Sadow, L. (2014). Psychoanalytic training experience and postgraduate professional development: A survey of six decades of graduate analysts. International Journal of Psychoanalysis,95(6),1211-1233. 10.1111/1745-8315.12244

Solomon, B. (2014). What matters most in living and dying: Pressing through detection trying to connect. In S. Witkin (Ed.) Narrating social work through autoethnography. New York, NY: Columbia University Press.

Solomon, B. (2012). Thinking about social justice -- and the production of social difference. The American Association for Psychoanalysis in Clinical Social Work Quarterly, 4-5, 16-17.

Solomon, B. (2008). Training for low-wage work: TANF recipients preparing for health care work. In M. DeVault (Ed.). People at work: Life, power, and social inclusion in the new economy.  New York, NY: New York University Press.

Solomon, B. (2007). Taking "guilty knowledge" seriously: Theorizing, everyday inquiry, and action as "social caretaking." In S. Witkin and D. Saleebey (Eds.). Social work dialogues: Transforming the canon in inquiry, practice, and education. Washington, D.C.: Council on Social Work Education.

Solomon, B. (2006). Traditional an rights informed talk about violence: High school educators' discursive production of student violence. Youth & Society, 37(3), 251-286.

Associations and Affiliations

American Sociological Association
Society for the Study of Social Problems

Brenda Soloman

Areas of Expertise and/or Research

  • Child welfare
  • Qualitative research methods
  • Social work education

Education

  • Ph.D. in Sociology from Syracuse University

Contact

Email:

bsolomon@uvm.edu

Phone:
  • 802-656-1337
Office Location:

Waterman Bldg Rm 443