Biographical Statement-CHHS Website

Candy Madrigal, PhD., LCSW

Assistant Professor

Social Work    /  (559)278-5199  /  Office: PHS 143

cmadrigal@mail.fresnostate.edu

Education: 

Ph.D.: 

Bi-National Doctorate Program

Ph.D., Doctor of Philosophy in Social Work, School of Social Work, University of Texas at Arlington (UTA), Arlington, TX

Ph.D., Doctorado en Filosofía con especialidad en Trabajo Social y Políticas Comparadas de Bienestar Social. Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León (UANL) (Monterrey, Nuevo León, México).

MSW: 

Master of Social Work (MSW), California State University, Long Beach, CA.

BA: 

Bachelor of Arts, West Chester University, West Chester, PA 

Major: Speech Communication.        Minor:  Psychology.

Courses Taught

SWRK 135. Human Behavior and the Social Environment

SWRK 160. Social Work Practice: Professional Identity

SWRK 182I. Field Instruction B

SWRK 200. Social Welfare Policy I

SWRK 213. Human Behavior and Social Environment: Cultural Diversity and Oppression

SWRK 220. Seminar in Foundations for Social Work Practice I

SWRK 221. Seminar in Foundations for Social Work Practice II

SWRK 223. Advanced Social Work Practice with Individuals and Families

SWRK 281. Field Instructed Practice II (Supervision)

SWRK  283. Advanced Field Instructed Practice II

Professional Biography

Dr. Madrigal holds two Doctorate of Philosophy degrees, from a Bi-national Doctorate Program; one in Social Work from the University of Texas at Arlington and the other in Social Work and Comparative Social Welfare Policies from La Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León in Mexico. She has a Master of Social Work from California State University, Long Beach, and a BA in communications with a minor in Psychology from West Chester University in Pennsylvania. She received the Council on Social Work Education Minority Fellowship in the Mental Health & Substance Abuse Clinical Fellowship Program while pursuing her Ph.D.

Dr. Madrigal has 19 years of experience as a Child Welfare Worker in both Chester County, PA, Children, Youth, and Families, and Los Angeles County, Department of Children and Family Services. She has also worked as an outpatient mental health therapist and holds clinical licenses (LCSW) in California and Pennsylvania. 

Currently, she is teaching at California State University, Fresno, where she has been for three years. Her teaching interests are in Social Work Practice, Mental Health, Services to Children, Youth, and Their Families, Child Welfare Policy, and International Social Work.

Areas of Expertise/Research Interest

Dr. Madrigal is interested in a variety of research, scholarship, grant writing, and community service topics. These include direct practice, mental health, and social justice policies and programs that may affect the provision of services to ethnic and racial minority groups, particularly focusing on the Latino population in the United States and around the world. She is also interested in human rights violations such as refugees, political asylum, human trafficking, and immigrants, as well as international social work and issues related to cultural diversity and multiculturalism.

Scholarship

Madrigal, C.  (2013). Colombians in the United States: A Study of Their Well-Being.  Advances in Social Work, 14 (1): Special Issue: The Impact of Socio-Economic, Cultural, Political, and International Factors on Latinos/Latinas in the US, 26-48.

Madrigal, C. & Mayadas, N. (2006). Push and Pull Factors: a Profile of Colombian

Migration to the United States. Social Development Issues, 28 (3), 30-42.

Madrigal, C., Yee-Melichar, D., (2010). Review of the book Human Behavior for Social Work Practice: A Developmental-Ecological Framework, by Wendy L. Haight & Edward H. Taylor. Educational Gerontology, Jul2010, Vol. 36 Issue 7, p638-639, 2p; Routledge Taylor & Francis Group; Chicago, IL: Lyceum Books.

Madrigal, C. (2006). Review of the book Defining America through Immigration Policy. Journal of Policy Practice, 5(1), 103-106.