adversity and trauma mechanisms for risk and resilience in human development 鈥� 黑料不打烊 Fri, 10 Dec 2021 19:54:40 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.2 Stefanie Pilkay /faculty-experts/stefanie-pilkay/ Fri, 10 Dec 2021 19:18:12 +0000 /?post_type=faculty-experts&p=171687 Before joining 黑料不打烊, Pilkay served as an adjunct lecturer at both Yeshiva University鈥檚 Wurzweiler School of Social Work in New York, NY since 2018 and the University of Tennessee, College of Social Work in Knoxville, TN since 2015, teaching research methodology, trauma theory and practice, lifespan and neurophysiological development, and human behavior in the social environment. She was also a postdoctoral fellow at the Emory University School of Medicine, Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics in Atlanta, GA since 2017. She has served as a court-appointed special advocate for Anderson County Tennessee Juvenile Court. In 2014, she was a forensic social worker for the Community Law Office, Knox County Public Defender鈥檚 Office. Specific to her research experience, Pilkay has served since 2018 as an early investigator trainee on 鈥淒evelopmental Origins of Health and Disease,鈥� an international cross-discipline research study with collaborations between Canada and the U.S.

Pilkay鈥檚 research interests include trauma, early-life adversity, inter-generational transmission of adversity, adversity and trauma mechanisms for risk and resilience in human development. She is published in the Journal of Social Work Education, the Journal of Social Service Research, and has given several peer-reviewed presentations, most recently at the 64th Annual Program Meeting of the Council on Social Work Education in Orlando, FL, Connecting for Children鈥檚 Justice Conference in Murfreesboro, TN, the International Congress on Child Abuse and Neglect in Prague, Czech Republic, and the 73rd Annual Scientific Meeting of the Society of Biological Psychiatry in New York, NY. Pilkay鈥檚 work has been supported by the National Institute of Health/National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities and the University of Tennessee Health and Science Center.

Pilkay earned a Ph.D. in social work with a minor in graduate statistics from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville in 2017. She holds a M.S. in social work, an evidence-based interpersonal practice major with trauma treatment graduate certification, and a B.S. in social work with majors in honor鈥檚 social work and psychology, earned in 2014 and 2013, respectively, from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

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