Jim Rosenthal

Dr. Jim Rosenthal joined the faculty at the Anne and Henry Zarrow School of Social Work, University of Oklahoma in 1985 following a public service career as a psychiatric childcare worker in Massachusetts, and as a child protection social worker and planner/evaluator in Colorado. His dissertation research at the University of Colorado, where he also worked as a research assistant, evaluated the impact of services designed to reduce or prevent out-of-home placement for children in the child welfare system. At Oklahoma he taught predominantly in research methods and statistics, but also taught child welfare services, human behavior, and served as field liaison. Dr. Rosenthal authored Special-Needs Adoption: A Follow-up Study of Intact Families (co-authored with Victor Groze in 1992), Statistics and Data Interpretation for the Helping Professions (1996), Statistics and Data Interpretation for Social Work (2012), and SPSS (Version 19): Companion Guide to Accompany Statistics and Data Interpretation (online, 2012). He authored or coauthored more than forty articles in social work and related journals including Social Service Review, Child Welfare, Child Abuse and Neglect, Social Work, and Children and Youth Services Review. He retired from the Anne and Henry Zarrow School of Social Work in 2016 and is currently Faculty Emeritus. He lives in Berkeley, California with his wife, Cindy. The have two children and two grandchildren, and enjoy hiking and reading.