Teresa Morris, PhD
Director - CSU San Bernadino Department of Social Work

Dr. Teresa Morris is the chair of the social work department and director of social work programs at CSUSB. In this role she oversees the M.S.W., the B.A.S.W., and various professional development programs for the local social work community offered through the "Professional Development Source" and the Riverside site of the Public Child Welfare Training Academy.

She is from England via Australia. She has worked in England and Australia as a teacher, community worker and academic. She received her M.S.W. from the University of Hawaii and her Doctorate from UC, Berkeley. Her dissertation research was on Refugee Resettlement. Since then her publications have been in the areas of philosophy of science and alternative paradigm research methods. She teaches social policy and research methods.

Morris, T. (2006). Social Work Research Methods: Four Alternative Paradigms. Thousand Oaks: Sage.

Morris, T. (2005). Social Work Professional Education and Workforce Development: A Ladder of Learning. In Professional Development: The International Journal of Continuing Education. 8(Vols. 2 and 3) pp. 108-115.

Morris, T. (2000). "A Personal Account of Leadership in an Academic Setting". Advancing Women in Leadership. Vol. 3, No. 2.

Morris, T. (1997). "Is it possible to know when theories of human behavior are obsolete?" (The Con argument) in (Eds.) Bloom, M. & Klein, W.C. Controversial Issues in Human Behavior and the Social Environment. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall.

Morris, T. (1995/6). "The Struggle to Recognize Everyday Social Work as Rational Practice". Arete Vol. 20, No. 2, winter, pp. 36-41.

Morris, T. (1994). "Alternative Paradigms: A source for social work practice research". Arete Vol. 18, No. 2, winter pp. 31-44.

Mary, N. & Morris, T. (1994). "The Future and Social Work: A Global Perspective" . Journal of Cross Cultural Social Work. Vol. 3 No. 4, pp. 89-101.

Morris, T. (1992). "Determinants of Public Cash Assistance Use Among Refugees in California". The American Review of Public Administration. Vol. 22, No. 3, pp. 227-241.

Morris, T. (1992). "Teaching social workers research methods: Orthodox doctrine, heresy, or an atheistic compromise ". Journal of Teaching in Social Work. Vol. 6(1) pp. 41-62.

Morris, T. (1990). "Culturally Sensitive Family Assessment: An Evaluation of the Family Assessment Device Used with Hawaiian-American and Japanese-American Families". Family Process. 29/1 pp. 105-116.