International Conference on
Addiction & Psychiatry
March 23-24, 2023
Millennium Hotel Paris Charles De Gaulle, Paris, France
Wayne State University
USA
Burlaka received his Joint Ph.D. in Social Work and Clinical Psychology in 2015 from the University of Michigan. He has been engaged in best practice and policy development in human services since the mid-1990s, serving as organizational development consultant and team leader on multiple capacity-building projects in Eastern Europe and Central Asia. His ongoing professional focus involves capacity building for substance abuse research and connecting applied research to the implementation of best practices to improve the lives of children and families in the United States and globally. As an assistant professor of social work at the University of Mississippi between 2015 and 2018, Burlaka was immersed in teaching and research on clinical practice, program evaluation, capacity-building research, evidence-based and implementation science in the area of child welfare, family services, mental health, violence, and substance abuse.
Burlaka received his M.S.W. in 2003 from the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, Ukraine and is a Licensed Clinical and Macro Social Worker in Michigan. He provided clinical interventions to the vulnerable children and families as well as implemented community-based programs. These programs target typical problem areas related to child protective services, such as child maltreatment, substance abuse prevention, and intimate partner violence. Burlaka was engaged in the evaluation of mental health practices in Michigan and in Mississippi and was among core researchers leading the collaboration between the University of Mississippi and the Mississippi Department of Child Protection Services, serving as director of evaluation and co-principal investigator for the Child Welfare Training Academy that provided training for all newly employed child welfare workers in the state. Using in-depth mixed methods research with hundreds of newly employed workers, he explored organizational climate, knowledge translation and sustainability as well as organizational barriers that get in the way of best practices in Mississippi. Burlaka is regularly invited to provide continuing education and training to clinical social workers and child welfare workers. He has published in leading social work and psychology peer-reviewed journals, edited a number of books, and presented at numerous national and international professional social work and psychology meetings.
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