Profile Details

Name: Karene-Anne Nathaniel

Email: Karene.Nathaniel-DeCaires@sta.uwi.edu; kndecaires@gmail.com

Position within Board of Directors and Terms of Serving:

President NACASSW from the Caribbean Region (2016-2019)

Affiliation and Position (other than IASSW): Lecturer, Dept of Behavioural Sciences, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of the West Indies, St Augustine, Republic of Trinidad and Tobago

Membership of organisations (other than IASSW): Vice President/Treasurer of the Association of Caribbean Social Work Educators

Educational Qualification/s: (Degrees): PhD Social Work (2015), MSW (2004), BSc Social Work (1999)

Languages written and spoken: English

Interest Areas (social work teaching, research and practice): pedagogy for professional education, professional socialization and identity, indigenous social work

Current Activities (social work teaching, research, practice, others): social work teaching and practice education, research supervision, assessor for auxiliary programmes for the Juvenile Court of Trinidad and Tobago, children of prisoners research, research on impact of music education in youth detention centre, indigenous social work practice.