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Sarah K. Price

Sarah Kye Price

Assistant Professor
Phone: (804) 828-0579
E-mail: skprice@vcu.edu

Teaching to learn

“With my clinical practice students, I’m focused on teaching them to recognize the humanity in every client they encounter and that recognition and that core respect for another person is really what makes us engage in social justice. If we really recognize someone’s humanity similar to our own, we’ll want to treat them with dignity and respect and do things to advocate for them to have better lives. We don’t just want to assess the problems they have, we want to make tangible differences.

“I think about that when I teach and I tend not to teach from a ‘people have problems’ perspective but ‘we are all human beings’ and we all have capacities and challenges. If students can begin to see the humanness in all their clients, that to me, is incredibly powerful.”

Education

  • Ph.D. – Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, Mo.
  • M.S.W. – Syracuse University, Syracuse, N.Y.
  • B.S.W. – State University of New York College at Buffalo, Buffalo, N.Y.

Research interests

  • Women’s mental health during and around the time of pregnancy
  • Reproductive and perinatal loss
  • Community-informed approaches to mental health service delivery
  • Social and cultural responses to reproductive loss and bereavement
  • Social work in maternal and child health settings
  • Fetal and infant mortality risk reduction
  • Community-based participatory research

Courses taught

  • Quantitative Research Methods and Analysis I (SWKD 701)
  • Clinical Social Work Practice
  • Crisis Intervention and Planned Short Term Treatment
  • Evaluation of Human Services Programs
  • Field liaison

Selected publications

  • Price, S.K. & Handrick, S.L. (in press). A culturally relevant and responsive approach to screening for perinatal depression. Research on Social Work Practice.

  • Price, S.K. & Proctor, E.K. (2009). A rural perspective on perinatal depression: Prevalence, correlates, and implications for community service enhancement. Journal of Rural Health, 25(2), 158-166.

  • Price, S.K. (2008). Women and reproductive loss: Client-worker dialogues designed to break the silence. Social Work, 53(4), 367-376.

  • Price, S.K., Hillman, L., Gartner, P., Schenk, K. & Warren, C. (2008). Changing hospital newborn nursery practice: Results from a stateside “Back to Sleep” nurses training program. Maternal and Child Health Journal, 12(3), 363-371.

  • Price, S.K. (2008). Stepping back to gain perspective: Pregnancy loss history, depression, and parenting capacity in the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Birth Cohort (ECLS-B). Death Studies, 32(2), 97-122.

  • Price, S.K. (2007). Social work, siblings, and SIDS: Conceptual and case-based guidance for family system intervention. Journal of Social Work in End-of-Life and Palliative Care, 3(3), 81-101.

  • Price, S.K. (2006). Prevalence and correlates of pregnancy loss history in a national sample of children and families. Maternal and Child Health Journal, 10(6), 489-500.

  • Price, S.K. (2005). Experience as Educator: The journey from clinician to practice-based researcher. Reflections: Narratives of Professional Helping, 11(4), 37-47.

Professional affiliations

  • President, Pregnancy Loss and Infant Death Alliance (2009-11)
  • Advisory Council, Mothers in Sympathy and Support Foundation
  • Council on Social Work Education
  • Society for Social Work and Research
  • National Association of Social Workers