Samuel R. Bethel, PhD, MSW, LICSW

Assistant Professor

Social Work

Education

PhD, University of South Carolina, 2024
MSW, Washington University in St. Louis, 2013
BA, University of Kentucky, 2010

Research Interests

The integration of social care into the delivery of health care services, specifically as it pertains to the implementation, evaluation, and optimization of social work services on interprofessional health care teams across the continuum of care.

Selected Publications

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles

Bethel, S. R. (2024). Clinician-scientists in health social work. Health and Social Work. https://doi.org/10.1093/hsw/hlad031
Cooper, Z., Reitmeier, M., & Bethel, S. R. (2022) Health professionals’ attitudes on integrated care and social
work practice. Social Work in Health Care. https://doi.org/10.1080/00981389.2022.2104984
Browne, T., McKinney, S., Duck, L., Baliko, B., Blake, E., Bethel, S. R., & Christopher, R. L. (2021) An academic-community interprofessional telehealth online training partnership: Impact on students, patients, and providers. Journal of Interprofessional Care.
Bethel, S.R., Browne, T., Forfong, D., Joseph, J., Collins Damron, K., Brereton, L. (2021). The state of patient-centered outcomes research in chronic kidney disease: Perspectives from patients, care partners, and researchers. Journal of Nephrology Social Work, 45(1), 20-29. https://www.kidney.org/sites/default/files/v45a_a2.pdf
Browne, T., Blake, E.W., Baliko, B., Christopher, R.L., Iachini, A.L., Dunn, B.L, Bethel, S.R. & Ray, D. (2021). Health
equity in interprofessional education. The Clinical Teacher, 00, 1-3. DOI:10.1111/tct.13330
Browne, T., Forfang, D., Bethel, S.R., Joseph, J., Brereton, L. Collins Damron, K. (2021). The National Kidney Foundation’s Efforts to Improve and Increase Patient-Centered CKD Research. American Journal of Kidney Diseases, 77(4), 471-473. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0272638620311550
Ceckowski, K. A., Salimbeni, M., Little, D., Jones, E. I., Browne, T., Bethel, S. R., Yuan, C. (2019). Clinical social work end-of-life survey: Constructive work with patients and family members on advance directives and medical orders of life sustaining treatments. Journal of Nephrology Social Work, 43(2), 29-38. https://www.kidney.org/sites/default/files/v43b_a3.pdf
Head, E., Murphey, H. L., Dowling, A. L., McCarty, K. L., Bethel, S. R., Nitz, J. A., Pleiss, M., Vanrooyen, J., Grossheim, M., Smiley, J. R., Murphy, M. P., Beckett, T. L., Pagani, D., Bresch, F., & Hendrix, C. (2012). A combination cocktail improves spatial attention in a canine model of human aging and Alzheimer’s disease. Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease, 32, 1029-1042. doi: 10.3233/JAD-2012-120937

Book Chapters

Brown, T. & Bethel, S.R. (2022). Psychosocial issues in nephrology nursing. In S. M. Bodin (Ed.) Contemporary Nephrology Nursing, 4th edition. Pitman, NJ: American Nephrology Nurses Association.

Media

Bethel, S. R. (2011, November 29). The time for marriage equality is now. St. Louis Post Dispatch. Retrieved from: http://www.stltoday.com/news/opinion/mailbag/letters-to-the-editor/the-time-for-marriage-equality-is-now/article_0eda10d0-1ad9-11e1-9dee-0019bb30f31a.html