Carolyn Knight, PhD, MSW
Dr. Carolyn Knight is a social worker with more than forty years of experience working individually and in groups with adult survivors of childhood trauma and teaching social work practice in the BSW and MSW curricula. Dr. Knight has written about and presented workshops on the trauma-informed (TI) conceptualization and its application to clinical practice and supervision. She is co-author, with Professors Alex Gitterman and Carel Germain (deceased), of the 2021 social work practice text, The Life Model of Social Work Practice, 4th ed., which includes an extensive discussion of the TI formulation and its implications for social work practice.
Carolyn also is the author of Introduction to Working with Adult Survivors of Childhood Trauma: Strategies and Skills (2009) and Group Therapy for Adult Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse (1996) as well as numerous articles and book chapters on working with adult survivors. Dr. Knight is the co-editor of three additional books, Handbook of Contemporary Group Work Practice: Promoting Resilience and Empowerment in a Complex World (2024), Group Work with Populations at Risk, 4th ed, (2016) (both with G. Greif) and Trauma-informed Supervision in a Global Context (2019) (with L.D. Borders).
