Janice Carello, PhD, LMSW
In trainings, webinars, and workshops facilitated across the country, published articles, her blog, and recent book Trauma and Human Rights: Integrating Approaches to Address Human Suffering, co-edited with Lisa D. Butler and Filomena Critelli, Dr. Janice Carello puts people at the center, takes an equity approach, and shares research-based and field-tested methods for infusing trauma-informed care across systems.
Carello (she/her/hers) earned her Ph.D. from the University at Buffalo where she also completed her Master of Social Work (MSW) degree and a Certificate in Trauma Counseling. She currently works as an Assistant Professor and MSW Program Director at Edinboro University.
Carello's research and advocacy focus on retraumatization in educational settings and on bringing a trauma-informed approach to higher education, and she has been instrumental in bringing trauma-informed principles and the research-based tools to implement them to the classrooms of educators and the desks of adminstrators. Her blog provides a wealth of materials and resources for implenting trauma-informed practices and was recently featured in the Chronicle of Higher Education. There readers can find Carello's framework for Trauma-Informed Teaching and Learning (adapted from Fallot & Harris, 2009), which includes questions to facilitate self-assessment for college educators and for programs and departments.
She has published on trauma, trauma-informed practice, and self-care in the Journal of Trauma an Dissociation, Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy, and the Journal of Teaching in Social Work. Carello has delivered presentations at national and international Social Work conferences, and has faciltated trainings on how to develop trauma-informed environments at colleges and universities up and down the coast and to groups including the International Accreditation Council for Business Education and the Distance Education Accrediting Commission.
Carello has been teaching at the college level since 2001. Prior to becoming a social worker and social work educator, she earned a master’s degree in English and taught composition, creative writing, and literature courses. She observed early in her career that the students who were most likely to drop out, get bad grades, and have trouble adapting to college were those who had a trauma history or who experienced a crisis during their time in school, which motivated her to invest in researching how to mitigate these negative outcomes.