Assistant Professor
Auburn University Social Work
Ethan Engelhardt has been teaching undergraduate and graduate social work courses, in person and online, since 2018. He has teaching experience across the curriculum teaching; Introduction to Social Work, Practice courses, Human Behavior, and Social Work Field Seminar. Prior to academia, He 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 experience working with a large national grant to provide suicide prevention and mental health services to students in K-12 schools.
Engelhardt has been exploring communication issues between foster parents and foster care case workers, in order to find better outcomes for children placed in out-of-home foster care and decrease placement disruptions. His dissertation analyzed the findings of a statewide survey of foster parents to consider what might have increased their desire to close their homes or recruit other foster parents. Ethan also researches best practices in social work education and how to advance new innovative teaching practices for social work and other helping professions. He has publications in several journals focused on aging, mental health, and child welfare.
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