Stephanie Gangemi

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Dr. Stephanie Gangemi is an Assistant Professor of Social Work in the College of Public Service at UCCS. She holds a PhD in Social Work from Smith College, an MSW from the Columbia University School of Social Work, and a BA from Wagner College, and is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker in Colorado.

Dr. Gangemi brings more than 17 years of clinical practice and university teaching experience. She teaches across the curriculum, with specialization in forensic social work, treatment of trauma, personality disorders, and crisis intervention. She has over a decade of correctional mental health experience, including clinical practice at Rikers Island and serving as Director of Mental Health at the El Paso County Jail. In addition to UCCS, she has taught at Smith College, Newman University, Pikes Peak State College, and Wagner College. Her clinical work has focused on care for incarcerated people with serious mental illness, the assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of personality disorders, and suicide prevention.

Her research examines the training and experiences of correctional health care and law-enforcement professionals, with particular attention to moral injury, trauma, and other harms of helping. She is a UCCS Teaching Fellow, a C3 innovation Fellow, a Daniels Ethics Fellow, and serves on the National Commission on Correctional Health Care Policy & Research Committee. Dr. Gangemi was also awarded first place in the international Seidenberg Paper Prize for proposed solutions to challenges between correctional officers and incarcerated people.

• Forensic social work
• Incarceration of people with mental illness
• Personality disorders
• Suicide prevention
• Correctional healthcare & law enforcement workforces
• Moral injury and the harms of helping

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