Rate My Professor Thomas Starkey

Starkey's academic interests encompass clinical social work, social work and technology, aging, geriatric mental health and addiction, healthcare and mental health policy, international social work, and social work and law. His publications include the doctoral dissertation 'Attitudes of retirees towards mental illness treatment: A life course perspective' (2010), 'Mental health and senior adults' in Adult Enrichment Center (2010), and 'The COVID-19 pandemic and Its Effect on Emotional Well-Being of Social Work Students' in the Social Work International Conference proceedings (2023, with A.M. Scaggs, C. Shar, and J.L. Carr). He has a forthcoming article 'Personality differences between online and face-to-face social work students: A preliminary examination' (with J.L. Carr and C. Shar). Starkey has presented at conferences including the Association for Gerontology in Higher Education annual meetings (2011-2015) on topics such as retiree attitudes toward mental illness and infusing geriatric healthcare into social work programs, and NASW Texas Annual Conferences (2011-2016) on the Mini-Mental State Examination-2. He teaches graduate courses such as D.S.W. Administration and Leadership, D.S.W. Clinical Policy, D.S.W. History and Philosophy of Clinical Social Work, and M.S.W. Clinical Gerontology.