Lisa
A.
Henshaw
Assistant Professor
212-960-0818
Wurzweiler School of Social Work
2495 Amsterdam Avenue, Room 918
New York, NY 10033
Lisa Henshaw is an Assistant Professor Wurzweiler and a Licensed Clinical Social Worker. She oversees the Certificate in Trauma-Informed Practice and chairs several courses at WSSW, including the trauma course sequence, coping with loss and eating disorders. Dr. Henshaw also teaches the trauma course in the DSW Program at Wurzweiler.
After beginning her career working with the homeless population, her passion for social justice, social advocacy and anti-oppressive practice was ignited. During and after her MSW, Professor Henshaw gained rich, clinical practice experience serving as a clinical social worker and supervisor in the outpatient, community mental health setting. She began adjunct teaching in 2009, sharing her passion for social work knowledge with students while mentoring beginning social workers throughout several MSW Programs in the New York metropolitan area, both face to face and online. She currently retains a small private practice in NY.
Dr. Henshaw is currently lead researcher among a team of faculty and doctoral students
investigating secondary and shared trauma among MSW students related to COVID-19 and their field placements. She previously spear-headed the Anti-Racism Committee at Wurzweiler, now the Anti-Racism Coalition, and continues to work toward coalition building in the academic setting that focuses on empowering and centering the lived experiences and strengths of the diverse identities among the Wurweiler community. Dr. Henshaw applies a trauma-informed lens in every aspect of her teaching, research and practice. She remains committed to serving as a critical ally and dismantling oppression in all spaces.
Professor Henshaw’s diverse social work experiences have all contributed to her strong commitment to ethical, anti-oppressive practice and the value of human relationships both inside and outside of the classroom, while simultaneously driving her interests in research.
Her research focuses on trauma, including: indirect trauma related to secondary and shared trauma; complex and unrecognized trauma; trauma-informed approaches and their application to groups, the classroom and academia; the intersection among racial and identity based trauma with the collective trauma of COVID-19, and; self-care and trauma. She is passionate about the use of qualitative research methods as a tool for empowerment and offering a voice to historically marginalized groups while advancing social work's mission and commitment to the code of ethics.
Henshaw, L. A. (2022). Building Trauma-Informed Approaches in Higher Education. Behavioral Sciences, 12(10), 368.
Henshaw, L. A. (2021). Trauma-informed group work in social work academia: responding to students’ indirect trauma. Social Work with Groups, 187-199.
Beckerman, N.L. & Henshaw, L.A. (2020). In the aftermath of a shooting trauma: Application of family informed trauma treatment. Journal of Anxiety and Depression, 3(1), 119 -134.
Henshaw, L. A. (2019). The Complexity of Unrecognized Trauma: Survivors' Narratives (Doctoral dissertation, Adelphi University).
Berger, R., Paul, M.S., & Henshaw, L.A. (2013). Women’s Experience of Infertility: A Multi- Systemic Perspective. Journal of International Women’s Studies, 14(1), 54-68.
212-960-0818
Wurzweiler School of Social Work
2495 Amsterdam Avenue, Room 918
New York, NY 10033