Shella Dennery, PhD, LICSW, is the Director of the Children's Hospital Neighborhood Partnerships Program (CHNP), the community mental health program in the Department of Psychiatry at Children's Hospital Boston. Dr. Dennery oversees a program that provides mental health services, consultation and prevention programming to 15 Boston-area schools and five community health centers. She has extensive experience uniting parents, schools, and neighborhood organizations to prevent mental health problems in children. She has spent the majority of her career working as a school social worker in the Boston Public Schools. She holds a PhD from Smith College and an MSW from Simmons College. She also holds a post-master's certificate in child and adolescent therapy from Smith. Dr. Dennery is adjunct faculty at both Simmons College and Smith College, and is an Instructor in Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School.
2011-2012 Courses:
SW 577 Social Work with Groups
SW 595 Child & Adolescent Assessment & Diagnosis
Adjunct Faculty
- Kathryn M. Audette, MSW
- Leslie Bass, M.S.W., MBA, LICSW
- Daniel Beck, M.S.W., LICSW
- Ariel Allena Botta, M.S.W., LICSW
- Tamara Cadet, M.S.W., M.P.H., LICSW
- Lori Casey, M.S.W.
- Magnolia Contreras, MSW, MBA
- Phillipe Copeland, M.T.S., M.S.W., LICSW
- Ashley Davis, M.S.W.
- Shella (Kristine) Dennery, Ph.D., M.S.W., LICSW
- Pedro Diaz, B.S.
- Marilyn Downs, Ph.D, LICSW
- Alexandra Eliot, M.S., Ph.D., LICSW
- Jayna Ellsworth, M.S.W., LICSW
- Sara Emerson, M.S.W., LICSW
- Richard Grumbach, M.S.W., LICSW
- Rick Hall, LICSW, LADC-I
- Kim Kelly Harriman, M.S.W., LICSW
- Dana Holley, M.S.W., LICSW
- Katrina Huff-Larmond, M.S.W.
- Susan Jensen, M.S.W., LICSW
- Jerry Juliano, M.S.W., LICSW
- Seth Kleinman, M.S.W., LICSW
- Francis Kuehn, M.S.W., M. Ed., LICSW
- Nancy Levine, M.S.W., LICSW
- Kenna Liatsos, M.S.W., Ph.D., LICSW
- Kathy Lopes, M.S.W., LICSW
- Stephanie Mancini, M.S.W., LICSW
- Jeanne Martin, M.S.W., Ed.D.
- Anthony “Angelo” McClain, Ph.D.
- Eileen McGranahan, M.S.W., LICSW
- Dennis McGrath, M.S.W., LICSW
- Tracey McHugh, M.S.W., LICSW
- Reverend Martin D. McLee, M.S. Ed., J.D., M. Div.
- Barbara McQueen, M.S.W., LICSW
- Thomas Mecsas-Faxon, M.S.W., LICSW
- Fernando Mederos, M.Ed., Ed.D.
- Rebecca Mirick, M.S.W., Ph.D., LICSW
- Elaine Mittell, M.S.W., LICSW
- Julie Ogletree, M.S.W., LICSW
- Stephen F. O’Neill LICSW, BCD, JD
- Christopher O'Rourke, M.S.W., M. Div.
- Dana E. Prescott, JD, M.S.W., LMSW
- Linda Puretz, M.S.W.
- Kathleen Reardon, M.S.W., Ph.D., LICSW
- Amanda Reed, M.S.W., LICSW
- Ellen Rottersman, M.S.W., MBA, LICSW
- Nora Rushford, M.S.W., LICSW
- Candace Saunders, M.S.W., LICSW
- Charu Stokes, M.S.W., LCSW
- Carol Swenson, M.S.W., D.S.W.
- Robbie Tourse, M.S., Ph.D., LICSW
- Janice Wagner, M.S.W., LICSW
- Karin Wall MA, M.S.W., LICSW
- Robin Johnson Warrington, M.S.W., LICSW
