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Judith C. Scott
Assistant Professor of Social Work
Boston University
Education/Degree:
1 Child Study and Human Development (Tufts University)
About
Judith Scott is an assistant professor at Boston University School of Social Work. She received her PhD from Eliot-Pearson Department of Child Study and Human Development at Tufts University in 2017. She has a MSW from Boston College, and a BS in clinical psychology and computer science and a MPP in urban and environmental planning and policy from Tufts University. Her work as a community-based clinical social worker included counseling, facilitating youth social skills and violence prevention groups, providing mental health consultation to preschools, and program evaluation. Her research interests focus on trauma, specifically physical maltreatment and racial discrimination, and its effect on child mental health.
Current Work
Dr. Scott's research interests are focused on family-based and race-based trauma among children and families across cultures (e.g., race, ethnicity) and the effects of these experiences on child mental health. Dr. Scott's research goals are to understand 1) how children and families from different racial and ethnic groups code experiences as traumatic; 2) how parents across cultures expect children to manifest psychological distress in response to traumatic experiences such as physical abuse and racial discrimination; and 3) how children’s and adolescents’ coping strategies related to physical abuse and racial discrimination impact their well-being including mental health. Dr. Scott is interested in program evaluation and my long-term goal is to inform the development and evaluation of trauma-focused preventive child mental health interventions for ethnically diverse populations.
Research Area Keyword(s)
child maltreatment, child mental health, ethnic-racial socialization, racial coping, trauma