Goldie Kadushin
- Professor Emerita, Social Work
Professor Kadushin was a faculty member at the Helen Bader School of Social Welfare from 1994-2015. She taught in the foundation sequence and in the health/mental health concentration. Dr. Kadushin received her doctorate from the University of Chicago-Illinois. Her practice experience has been in hospitals and community-based health care settings.
Professor Kadushin’s research interests have focused on social work practice with elderly patients and families in health care and generic social work practice. Early research (with co-author Dr. Regina Kulys) identified the emerging role of social work discharge planner in hospitals, following the implementation of the Medicare Prospective Payment System.
In later research, Dr. Kadushin (with co-author Dr. Marcia Egan) examined social work with the elderly in home care. This body of research found social worker’s experience of ethical conflicts and practice activities were influenced by the exclusion of psychosocial considerations in Medicare reimbursement for home health care. The scholarship reflected in two books provides an overview of social work practice with the elderly in home care and in community-based practice (with co-author Egan).
The topic of generic social work is reflected in scholarship (with co-author Dr. Alfred Kadushin) that adapts general interviewing techniques to the purpose and process of the social work interview.
Professor Kadushin was the associate editor for the journal, Social Work in Health Care (2000-2015).