Quick Facts
Biography
Wendy Shaia is a British–Jamaican author, clinical associate professor at the University of Maryland school of Social work and executive director of the Social Work Community Outreach Service (SWCOS).
Education
Shaia graduated from the University of Maryland School of Social Work. She earned a Doctor of Education in Human and Organizational Learning from The George Washington University.
SHARP framework
SHARP framework is a tool used to assess and understand the psychological sufferings resulting from oppressive factors, creating awareness and motivating anti-oppressive shifts. Shaia developed the framework while researching ways to address the context of poverty and oppression during service provision in the United States. She anchored the framework tool on 5 components; Structural oppression, Historical context, Analysis of role, Reciprocity and mutuality and power.
Books published
- The Black Cell. The book was a finalist in the urban fiction category of the 2022 American book fiction awards.
- Linking Health and Education for African American Students' Success – Chapter 6. Schools as Re-Traumatizing Environments
Short stories published
- Waiting for Something
- The Red Summer
Journal articles published
| Title | Year of publication, journal |
|---|---|
| Socially-Engineered Trauma and a New Social Work Pedagogy: Socioeducation as a Critical Foundation of Social Work Practice | 2019, Smith College Studies in Social Work |
| SHARP: A framework for addressing the contexts of poverty and oppression during service provision in the US. | 2019, Journal of Social Work Values and Ethics |
| We had to keep pushing: Black caregivers’ perspectives on autism screening and referral practices in primary care. | 2018, Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities |
| Moving from survival to fulfillment: A planning framework for community schools | 2018, Phi Delta Kappan |
| School social workers as partners in the school mission. | 2018, Phi Delta Kappan |
| Book review: Why Are They Angry With Us? Essays on Race, by Larry E Davis. | 2016, Qualitative Social Work |
| Macro MI: Using Motivational Interviewing to Address Socially-engineered Trauma | 2022, Journal of Progressive Human Services |
| Experiences of Personal and Vicarious Victimization for Black Adults with Serious Mental Illnesses: Implications for Treating Socially-engineered Trauma | 2022, Smith College Studies in Social Work |
| Participation of Black and African-American Families in Autism Research | 2020, Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders |
| ‘I am so fearful for him’: a mixed-methods exploration of stress among caregivers of Black children with autism | 2022, Journal of Developmental Disabilities |