Biography

Alan Misbach is an assistant professor of Social Work as well as the director of Field Education in the Social Work program at Utah Valley University. He comes to UVU after 20 years of diversified and fulfilling work as a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with a Master of Social Work degree.

Before joining UVU, Alan worked as the director of Social Work at the Utah State Hospital where he supervised more than 40 social workers and interns. He?s also worked as the clinical director at the Willow Creek Residential School in Provo and as the treatment coordinator at the Utah County Children?s Justice Center. In addition to these leadership capacities, Alan has been a therapist at six facilities, including his own private practice. He served as president of the National Association of Social Workers (NASW), Utah Chapter, and was elected president of the Wasatch Mental Health Citizen?s Advisory Board.

Before coming to UVU, Alan spent 20 years providing field opportunities for BSW and MSW interns as a field supervisor for Utah Valley University, Brigham Young University, and the University of Utah. His varied personal connections with the agencies he?s worked for and the many others he?s collaborated with provided a rich resource for him to draw from, allowing him to place interns in positions that suited their scholastic focus. Alan considers his work with field interns as one of the great opportunities of his career and is pleased to continue that work at UVU.

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