Beth Clemens

DSW, LICSW, University of Pennsylvania

Lecturer, Human Services and Gerontology

Office: W-4-144-7b

Phone number: 617-287-7397

beth.clemens@umb.edu

 

Beth Clemens has been teaching undergraduate courses in Human Services and Gerontology at CPCS since 1998. Her teaching focuses on value conflicts and ethical dilemmas that arise in public and community services. Her courses address ethical principles, issues in aging, equality, professionalism, justice, rights, responsibilities and relationships in service organizations and in society. She incorporates service learning into her instructional activities by collaborating with health and social services agencies for elders; a homeless shelter for battered women and children in Dorchester, the Massachusetts Department of Transitional Assistance, and the Massachusetts Department of Social Services among others. She has received grants from the Medical Foundation, Farnsworth Trust on applied ethics in health care for the elderly. She is author or co-author of several journal articles published in peer reviewed journals addressing ethical issues in discharge planning and case management for the elderly.

 

Recent publications:

Clemens, E. and Hayes, H. (1997), Assessing and Balancing Elder Risk, Safety and Autonomy: Decision-Making Practices of Health Care Professionals. Home Health Care Services Quarterly , 16(3), 3-20.

 

Clemens, E. (1995), Multiple Perceptions of Discharge Planning in One Urban Hospital. Health and Social Work , 20(4), 254-261.

 

Clemens, E., M., Wetle, T., Feltes, M., Crabtree, B. Dubitzky, D. (1994), Contradictions in Case Management: Client-Centered Theory and Directive Practice with Frail Elderly. Journal of Aging and Health , 6(1), 70-88.

 

Benson, P., Upshur, C., Clemens, E., Fisher, W., Leff, S., Schutt, R. (1996), Consolidating Massachusetts ' State Hospital System: Policy, Processes, and Impact. International Journal of Law and Psychiatry , 20(2), 199-217.

 

 

Evaluates the following competencies:

•  Value Conflicts

•  Service Action

•  Critical Practice

•  Responsibilities and Ethics in Human Services

•  Models and Strategies of Case Management

•  Public & Community Action II

•  Concepts of Aging

•  Working with Elders

•  Demographics and Economics of Aging

•  Intervention with Elders

•  Human Service Intervention

•  Applied Research in Aging