faculty & staff: administration, faculty, administrative units

 
 

Amy C. Watson
Assistant Professor

B.A., Criminal Justice, Aurora University, Aurora, Illinois
A.M., University of Chicago, School of Social Service Administration
Ph.D., University of Chicago, School of Social Service Administration

E-mail: acwatson@uic.edu
Phone: 312 996-0039
Room: 4242, ECSW

 

Professional Interests 

  • Mental Health Policy
  • Interface of the criminal justice and mental health systems
  • Mental illness stigma and treatment participation

Current Research
  • Examining the meaning attached to mental illness and mental health services among justice system involved youth and their parents
  • Police officer interactions with persons with mental illness

Teaching
  • Mental Health Policy
  • Social Work in a Multicultural Society
Practice Experience
 
Probation officer in DuPage County for five years, working primarily with probation clients with mental illness.  Several years as a forensic social worker, conducting mitigation investigations for death penalty cases. 
 
 
Publications

Watson, A.C., Otey, E., Westbrook, A.L., Gardner, A.L., Lamb, T.A., Corrigan, P.W., & Fenton, W.S. (2004) Changing Middle Schoolers’ Attitudes about Mental Illness though Education. Schizophrenia Bulletin, 30, 563-572. 

Watson, AC, Miller FE, & Lyons, JS (in press) Adolescent attitudes toward serious mental illness. Journal of Nervous & Mental Disease.

Watson, A.C.; Corrigan, P.W., Ottati, V. (2004). Police Officer attitudes and decisions regarding persons with mental illness. Psychiatric Services, 55, 46-53.

Watson, A.C.; Corrigan, P.W., Ottati, V. (2004) "Police responses to persons with mental illness: Does the label matter?"   Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law, 32, 378-85.

Watson AC, Corrigan PW, Angell B (2005) What Motivates Public Support for Legally Mandated Mental Health Treatment? Social Work Research, 29 (2) 87-94.

Affiliations, Associations, & Consultations 
  • Chicago Consortium for Stigma Research
  • American Society of Criminology
  • Criminal Justice/Mental Health Committee, DuPage County

    •