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Marilyn Denise King

Assistant Professor
MSW, PhD
205 Bellerive Hall
314-516-5039
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.

Special Interests: Health disparities, minority mental health, and religious coping