Deborah Rejent

Dr. Rejent's academic career includes more than 32 years of teaching in graduate social work programs (in public, private, and faith-based sectors). She was Associate Dean at the University of Maryland School of Social Work and was Founding Director of the MSW program at Quinnipiac University. She has been a contributing faculty member at Walden University since 2015 and she teaches clinical electives. Her Master's and PhD degrees in social work are from Columbia University and she has extensive post-graduate training (for example, a 3-year program in psychotherapy and a 6-year program in psychoanalysis) and more than 40 years of practice experience in clinical treatment, supervision and administration in a wide range of programs (in addition to private practice), such as a residential treatment center for children, a hospital out-patient unit, a medical adult day care program, a college counseling center, and a community mental health clinic serving the chronically mentally ill. She is licensed as a social worker at the highest clinical level in New York (LCSW-R) and Maryland (LCSW-C). Her current interests include mindfulness-based interventions and incorporating the DSM-5 into social work education and practice. She is also a registered yoga teacher and use yoga and meditation for stress-reduction clinical programs.

Courses Taught

SOCW 8110 - Advanced Social Work

SOCW 6111 - Advanced Clinical Social Work Practice

SOCW 6090 - Psychopathology

SOCW 6446 - SW Practice with Children and Adolescents

SOCW 6456 - SW Practice with Couples and Families

Education

PhD, Columbia University

MSW, Columbia University

MA, University of California, Los Angeles