Rita Rhodes Author

Miriam McNown Johnson (MS in Educational Psychology, University of Wisconsin Madison; MSW, PhD, University of Alabama) is associate professor and associate dean for Academic and Student Affairs at the College of Social Work, University of South Carolina. She has more than twenty years of social work practice experience, working with children in out-of-home care and their families, and almost twenty years' experience teaching HBSE classes. She has published multiple journal articles on many topics and has presented at national and international social work education conferences. Rita Rhodes (MSW, University of South Carolina; MA, PhD, University of Illinois, Chicago) is professor emerita at the College of Social Work, University of South Carolina where she has chaired the HBSE sequence for over ten years. She has a research and practice interest in women's issues including depression, addition, domestic violence, and incarceration.