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Marleen Wong, PhD

Bio

Marleen Wong, Ph.D., is Senior Vice Dean, the Stein/Goldberg Sachs Professor of Mental Health, Director of Field Education, and Executive Director of the Telehealth Clinic at the Suzanne Dworak Peck School of Social Work at the University of Southern California. Formerly the Director of Mental Health, Crisis Teams and Suicide Prevention Programs at the Los Angeles Unified School District, she has been in a 20 year community based research partnership with colleagues at RAND Health and the UCLA Partnered Health Research Center and is one of the original developers of the evidence based Cognitive Behavioral Intervention for Trauma in Schools.

https://dworakpeck.usc.edu/academics/faculty-directory/marleen-wong

Education

BA, California State University

MSW, University of Southern California

PhD, the Sanville Institute


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