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Mark A. Mattaini, DSW, ACSW, is an assistant professor at Columbia University School of Social Work, where he teaches social work practice and program development. Born in Minnesota, he received his MSW from the University of Utah. Since 1971, he has worked in a variety of human services settings, including adolescent residential treatment, family and youth services, and addictions and autism programs, and was previously Director of Mental Health Programs for Tanana Chiefs Conference in Fairbanks, Alaska. Dr. Mattaini has conducted research and published in the areas of social work assessment, family and community practice, the natural history of human behavior, applications of contextual behavior analysis to serious social problems, and the development of new forms of urban fellowship based on Walden Two principles. An affiliate of the Center for the Study of Social Work Practice at Columbia University, he is currently involved in several practice-related studies and is a consulting editor for Social Work Research & Abstracts. Dr. Mattaini holds the NASW Diplomate in Clinical Social Work and provides personal, organizational, and community consultation and training.