Lawrence Shulman, MSW, EdD, is Professor and Chair of the group work
sequence at the Boston University School of Social Work. He is a practitioner-researcher
who has developed the "interactional" model of practice and supervision building
on the original work of William Schwartz.Shulman is widely used as a trainer and
consultant on direct practice with individuals, families and groups, supervision and
administration, field instruction, child welfare, and teaching. His research has focused
on operationalizing and testing skills for helping professionals at all levels of an
organization or agency. More recently, he has explored the impact of contextual factors
such as agency policy, cost containment efforts, and traumatic events on the caseload to
develop a grounded, holistic model.
Shulman has written or edited 13 books and monographs including books on supervision
and management and a widely used social work practice text, The Skills of Helping
Individuals, Families and Groups, now in its third edition. His most recent research
results are reported in Interactional Social Work Practice: Toward an Empirical Theory.
He was the author of the consultation section in the 18th edition of the Encyclopedia
of Social Work and has been a contributor to The Social Work Dictionary.
Shulman is on the editorial boards of four major journals including The Clinical
Supervisor and has published often in professional journals.
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