Biography
Associate Professor Rafael Engel received a PhD in social welfare from the University of Wisconsin as well as an MSW from the University of Wisconsin and a BA from the University of Pennsylvania.
Engel coordinates the School of Social Work’s Gerontology Certificate Program and is the principal investigator for the John A. Hartford Practicum Partnership Program. He has authored journal articles on a variety of topics including poverty in later life, welfare benefit levels, and depressive symptomatology, and has written monographs reporting agency-based evaluations. His most recent research involve human service capacity to treat gambling-related problems.
Selected Publication
Engel, R. J. & Schutt, R. K. (2008). The Practice of Research in Social Work. 2nd ed. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE
Engel, R. J. & Schutt, R. K. (2010, Forthcoming). Fundamentals of Social Work Research. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE
Davis, L. E. & Engel, R. J. (Forthcoming). Measuring Race and Ethnicity. Springer
Yamatani, Hidenori., Engel, Rafael J., & Peters, Solveig. (In Press). Child welfare worker caseload: What’s just right? Social Work.
Greeno, Catherine G. & Engel, Rafael J. (2005). A service-learning case study: Introduction to social work research. Creative College Teaching, 2, 90-100.
Petracchi, Helen, P., Mallinger, Gayle, Engel, Rafael J., Rishel, Carrie, & Washburn, Carol. (2005). Evaluating the efficacy of traditional and web-assisted instruction in an undergraduate social work practice class. Journal of Technology in Human Services, 23, 299-310. (Simultaneously co-published in Web-based Education in the Human Services: Models, Methods, and Best Practices. Robert J. MacFadden, Brenda Moore, Marilyn Herie, & Dick Schoech (eds.). The Haworth Press, Inc.).
Engel, Rafael, Welsh, Richard, & Lewis, Laura. (2000). An evaluation of orientation and mobility training and rehabilitation teaching: Improving the well-being of vision impaired older adults. RE:view.,32,67-76.
Wexler, Sandra & Engel, Rafael. (1999). Historical trends in ADC/AFDC benefits: Living on less and less. Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare, XXVI, 37-61.
Cotrell, Victoria and Engel, Rafael. (1998). Predictors of respite service utilization. Journal of Gerontological Social Work, 30, 117-132.
Ward, Christopher, Engel, Rafael J., & Newman, Sally. (1997-98). A training model for older adults for work in child care and employment retention. Journal of Child and Youth Care Work, 12-13, 68-79.