Marilyn Denise King
Assistant Professor
205 Bellerive Hall
Telephone: 314-516-5039
Fax: 314-516-6416
kingma@umsl.edu
Dr. King received her doctorate from the University of Maryland Baltimore (UMB) School of Social Work in the Spring of 2007 and joined the UMSL School of Social Work in September. During her matriculation at UMB, she was awarded a university Minority Fellowship and graduated as a Hartford Doctoral Fellow. Dr. King's dissertation research was funded by the John A. Hartford Foundation through the Gerontological Society of America's Social Work Initiative. Her research was a secondary analysis of a major NIH study in which she focused on the impact of formal service use and religious copin on the perception of positive aspects of caregiving among African American caregivers of persons with Alzheimer's Disease.
Dr. King currently teaches Introduction to Interventive Strategies for Social Work Practice and Human Behavior in the Social Environment in the undergraduate program. In addition, she is very involved with the research and development of new courses for the Gerontology Program.
Research Interests:
- Health Disparities
- Minority Mental Health
- Religious Coping
Specific Aging Issues:
- Caregivers of persons with dementia
- Driving fitness and mobility
- Cultural aspects of aging
- GLBT aging issues
Teaching interests:
- Social Work Practice (Generalist Practice)
- Social Work Practice with Aging Populations
- Human Behavior in the Social Environment
- Basic Statistics
Education:
- Ph.D., University of Maryland Baltimore, 2007
- MSW, Howard University, 1989
- BS, Tennessee State University, 1979
Courses
FS2009
- SW3510 - Human Behavior in the Social Environment