Patricia Logan-Greene

"Social workers typically work with victims, but if we’re going to prevent violence, we really need to focus on the perpetrators. The goal of my current work with court-involved youth is to underscore the fact that victims and offenders are the same people: a punitive approach is not helpful for these youth."

• PhD, University of Washington (2011)
  
• MSSW, Clinical Social Work, University of Tennessee at Knoxville (2006)
• BA, Biology, Wesleyan University (1999)

Violence and victimization, including child maltreatment and firearm violence; violence prevention; system responses to violence; quantitative analysis

Patricia Logan-Greene, MSSW, PhD, associate professor and associate dean for academic affairs, takes a trauma-informed approach to violence, childhood adversity and system responses to maltreatment and delinquency. Through her research, she examines the effects of childhood maltreatment on aggression, delinquency and health and mental health outcomes throughout the lifespan. She recently completed a NIH-funded grant to examine the effects of child neglect and poverty on adolescent outcomes. She also coordinates the School of Social Work's Child Advocacy Studies microcredential, an undergraduate sequence focused on child maltreatment.

Recently, she has shifted her attention to the prevention of gun violence, especially how social workers can leverage their knowledge and skills to intervene with those most at risk of injury. Logan-Greene is a co-leader of the new national Grand Challenge in Social Work to Prevent Gun Violence. This work has also led to a Department of Homeland Security Targeted Violence and Terrorism Prevention grant to train behavioral health professionals in New York State on the prevention of violent extremism.

Logan-Greene is actively seeking doctoral student mentees with interests in violence prevention.

Logan-Greene originally joined the UB School of Social Work from the University of Washington School of Social Work, where she completed her doctorate and earned statistics certification through the Center for Statistics in the Social Sciences. She was also awarded an NIMH Mental Illness Prevention Fellowship and ITHS TL1 Multidisciplinary Predoctoral Clinical Research Fellowship. Logan-Greene received an MSSW with a concentration in clinical social work in 2006 from the University of Tennessee at Knoxville and a BA in biology with honors from Wesleyan University in 1999.