Scott Easton PhD, ACSW, LMSW

Scott D. Easton, Ph.D., ACSW, LMSW, is associate professor and chair of the health and mental health fields of practice and co-directs the Trauma Integration Initiative. His primary program of research uses a life course perspective to investigate risk and protection factors for mental health outcomes of adults who experienced early life course trauma. He has conducted one of the largest studies to date on male survivors of child sexual abuse, including clergy abuse survivors. As a federally-funded scholar, Dr. Easton has published more than 40 articles in leading academic journals, such as Child Abuse & Neglect, Suicide and Life-Threatening Behaviors, and Journal of Gerontology. He regularly presents at national research conferences and has delivered keynote addresses at McLean Hospital, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, and Brigham Young University.

Because of his clinical and scholarly expertise, he was appointed by Cardinal Sean O’Malley to the Archdiocese Review Board of the Catholic Church of Boston. He is also an editorial board member of the Journal of Loss and Trauma and Psychology of Men and Masculinity and on the National Task Force on Trauma and Advanced Social Work Practice.

A second area of Dr. Easton’s research focuses on social welfare policy and practice in the Middle East. He is currently leading a research project with a co-investigator from al-Quds University (Jerusalem) on the health of social workers in the Occupied Palestinian Territories.