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Education
PhD, University of Kentucky
MSW, Arizona State University
BASW, Asbury University
About Me
Ethan Engelhardt joined the Auburn University Social Work Program in Fall 2023. He has prior experience teaching undergraduate and graduate social work courses, in person and online. He has taught Introduction to Social Work, social work practice courses, human behavior courses, and field seminar courses. Prior to academia, Engelhardt spent time working in community-based and school-based mental health fields providing clinical counseling, crisis intervention, and training services to both children and adults in various settings. He has also worked on a national grant to provide suicide prevention and mental health services to students in K-12 schools.
Engelhardt’s research has explored communication issues between foster parents and foster care case workers to identify factors that contribute to better outcomes for children placed in out-of-home foster care and decrease placement disruptions. He also researches best practices in social work education. His scholarship may be found in the Journal of Gerontological Social Work, Military Medicine, and Journal of Public Child Welfare.
Research Interests
foster parent retention, child welfare worker retention and support, foster parent recruitment, improving outcomes for children in foster care, innovation in teaching and learning, increasing student engagement in the university classroom
Courses Taught
Introduction to Social Work
Human Behavior and the Social Environment