Burnout in Social Work Field Education: Mitigating the Risk

About Linda Riggs MayfieldMary Powell

Mary Powell PhD LCSW-R NCPsyA is a licensed clinical social worker nationally certified psychoanalyst and intensively trained Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) therapist. She has a full-time private psychotherapy practice. She is an adjunct professor at Fordham University Graduate School of Social Service. Dr. Powell has taught various courses in graduate social work programs since 2006. She has provided supervision and training on various topics in clinical social work to both practicing social workers and social work students for many years. She has presented her work at several local and national professional conferences and workshops. Before entering private practice and doctoral education she worked at outpatient mental health settings as a clinical social worker. She is the author of Blue and Gold: A Bullying Memoir. Dr. Powell has held a strong interest in burnout among social workers and students and subsequently wrote her dissertation on the topic entitled Burnout Role Ambiguity and Coping Among Master of Social Work (MSW) Field Interns which won the Reverend Dr. Nicholas Langenfeld Award for the Most Outstanding PhD Dissertation from Fordham University. She was awarded a Certificate of Appreciation for Outstanding Contribution to Social Work Education by Adelphi University School of Social Work Field Education Department. She also received a Certificate of Achievement for Clinical Excellence from the New York State Clinical Social Work Society Metropolitan Chapter. Linda Riggs Mayfield Ed.D. holds bachelors masters and doctoral degrees in education specializing in curriculum assessment and teaching and learning. She developed and tested the M4Q Test-taking Strategy. She has taught and written curriculum at every level elementary through university in the U.S. and Chile primarily at the college and university level. She mentored student teachers for two universities. Dr. Mayfield has designed conducted and published educational research and presented her findings at local regional and national conferences. She served on the Institutional Review Board for a regional teaching hospital. Since 2011 she has served as editor co-author and research writing and curriculum consultant for more than 30 masters and doctoral scholars authors and educators in the U.S. Chile India Singapore and Australia. Dr. Mayfield also holds a degree in history collaborated on a US history textbook served several years as an officer on the board of the local historical society writes for a history newspaper column and hosts a history website. She currently serves as the literacy outreach specialist for John Wood Community College in Quincy Illinois.