Feminist Practice in the 21st Century

Nan Van Den Bergh, PhD, BCSW, LCSW, is director of the doctoral program at the School of Social Work, Tulane University, New Orleans. Previously, she served as director of the Employee Assistance Program at the University of California at Los Angeles and was a tenured faculty member in the Department of Social Work Education at California State University, Fresno. Dr. Van Den Bergh has served as a social work educator, practitioner, researcher, administrator, and community organizer. She began her involvement in feminist issues in the early 1970s and has used a feminist analysis in many purviews (for example, social work practice, occupational social work, and addictions). She has edited two other books using a feminist analysis: Feminist Visions for Social Work and Feminist Perspectives on Addictions. In addition to this book, she is also editing Employee Assistance Practice in the Twenty-first Century. Her most current research activities have focused on workplace discrimination and harassment experienced by members of sexual minorities as well as addictions within the lesbian/gay/bisexual/transsexual community.