Kimberly Calderwood - socialwork

Full Professor, Durham Campus

Educational Background

BA (Waterloo)
MSW (Wilfrid Laurier)
PhD (Toronto)
Certificate in Human Resource Management (Trent)

General Background

Kim has over 30 years of experience in roles such as counselling, re-search, program development and management, community development, leadership, and advocacy. She has worked mostly in the addictions field, as well as mental health, bereavement, trauma, and general private practice. Kim has co-authored a textbook using an innovative approach to teaching "re-search" methods to social work students in the context of Turtle Island/Kanata/Canada. This approach includes using worldviews (Indigenous, post-positivist, interpretivist, and transformative) as the foundation for understanding a range of knowledge-creation methods and their relevance and use in social work practice. Kim is working on a second textbook about developing and using micro- and meta-skills for communicating, building relationships, influencing, facilitating, and mobilizing change across helping professions. Her current re-search is focused on de-colonizing social work curriculums and pedagogy.

Teaching and Scholarly Interests

De-colonizing social work curriculums and pedagogy
Legitimizing re-search methods and ways of knowing across worldviews/paradigms
Anti-oppressive and de-colonizing micro- and meta-skills in social work practice
Linking theory, practice, and use of self
Advocacy and leadership in social work practice

Awards and Recognitions

2025 - Trent University Award for Educational Leadership and Innovation (nominated and shortlisted)
2025 - Trent University Symons Award for Excellence in Teaching (nominated)
2024 - Trent University Teaching Fellowship Award
2024 - Trent University Award for Educational Leadership and Innovation (nominated and shortlisted)
2024 - Trent University Symons Award for Excellence in Teaching (nominated)
2023-2024 - Trent's Centre for Teaching and Learning Decanal Award for Teaching Excellence (nominated)
2023 - Trent University Award for Educational Leadership and Innovation (nominated and shortlisted)
2022 - Trent University Symons Award for Excellence in Teaching (nominated)
2022 - Trent University Merit Award for Research
2019 - Trent University Merit Award for Service
2016 - Community Contribution Award, Ontario Association of Social Workers (Southwestern Branch)
2015 - Honorary Member: Social Work Phi Alpha Honour Society, University of Windsor
2014 - Certificate of Appreciation: Canadian Mental Health Association, Windsor-Essex County
2012 - Certificate of Appreciation: Academic Integrity Office, University of Windsor

Textbook Publications

Calderwood, K. A., Morgenshtern, M., & Absolon, K. E. (Minogiizhigokwe) (2024). Re-search methods in social work: Linking ways of knowing to knowledge creation. Canadian Scholars. https://canadianscholars.ca/book/re-search-methods-in-social-work/
Textbook endorsement (2022) for Csiernik, R., Rowe, W. S., Novotna, G. (Eds.). (2023). Responding to the oppression of addiction: Canadian social work perspectives (4th ed.). Canadian Scholars.
Calderwood, K. A. (in progress). Micro- and meta-skills that empower and facilitate change: Making a difference in the helping professions. For Trent’s SWRK2001 Skills for the Helping Professions course and beyond.
Calderwood, K. A. (in progress). Human beings in their social environment. For Trent’s SWRK2004 course with the same name (formerly Alternative Theories of Human Behaviour in the Social Environment) and beyond.

Peer-Reviewed Journal Publications

Calderwood, K. A., & Kvarfordt, C. L. (2023). Lessons learned from an in-house social work placement: Practicum students’ views about a Stress Reduction Peer Support pilot project. Social Work Education, 1-18. https://doi.org/10.1080/02615479.2023.2194337
Calderwood, K. A., & Kvarfordt, C. L. (2022). How teaching online impacts safety and comfort: Experiences of students and instructors in the context of learning counseling skills online. International Journal of Scholarship in Teaching and Learning, 16(2), 1-8. https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/ij-sotl/vol16/iss2/15
Calderwood, K. A., & Alberton, A. M. (2024). Consoling the bereaved: Exploring how sympathy cards influence what people say. OMEGA - Journal of Death and Dying, 88(4), 1572-1590. https://doi.org/10.1177/00302228211065958
Calderwood, K. A., & Rizzo, L. (2022). Co-creating a transformative learning environment: Results of a social work field placement duo-ethnography. Journal of Transformative Education, 21(1), 138-156. https://doi.org/10.1177/15413446221079590
Calderwood, K. A., & Rizzo, L. (2022). Meeting learning objectives in an in-house research placement: Results of a student-supervisor duo-ethnography. Social Work Education. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1080/02615479.2021.2021173
Calderwood, K. A., & Alberton, A. (2021). Understanding the bereavement process as seen through the eyes of bereaved parents. Illness, Crisis, & Loss, 31(1), 23-39. https://doi.org/10.1177/10541373211030491
Ahluwalia, A., Calderwood, K. A., & McMurphy, S. (2018). A systematic literature review of the etiology of borderline personality disorder from an ecological systems perspective. Social Work in Mental Health, 17(3), 1-17. https://doi.org/10.1080/15332985.2018.1555104
Toneatto, T., & Calderwood, K. (2016). Comorbid alcohol dependence and anxiety disorder: Effect of concurrent mood and personality disorders on treatment outcomes. Mental Health and Addiction Research, 1(2), 39-43. https://doi.org/10.15761/MHAR.1000110
Toneatto, T., & Calderwood, K. (2015). Cognitive-behavior therapy for concurrent anxiety and alcohol use disorder: A randomized control trial. International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction, 13(1), 297–306. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11469-014-9529-7
Calderwood, K. A., & Wellington, W. J. (2015). Using roadside billboard posters to increase admission rates to problem gambling services: Reflections on failure. Health Promotion Practice, 16(4), 510-522. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1524839914566455
Calderwood, K. A., & Rajesparam, A. (2014). A critique of the codependency concept considering the best interests of the child. Families in Society: The Journal of Contemporary Social Sciences, 95(3), 171-178. https://doi.org/10.1606/1044-3894.2014.95.22
Calderwood, K. A., & Rajesparam, A. (2014). Response to the commentaries by Lee, Harkness, and Orford. Journal of Gambling Issues, 29, 1-4. https://doi.org/10.4309/jgi.2014.29.15
Calderwood, K. A., & Rajesparam, A. (2014). Applying the codependency concept to concerned significant others of problem gamblers: Words of caution. Journal of Gambling Issues, 29, 1-16. https://doi.org/10.4309/jgi.2014.29.11
Calderwood, K. A., & Wellington, W. J. (2013). Social marketing strategies for stigmatized populations: A case example for problem gamblers and family members of problem gamblers. The Qualitative Report, 18(97), 1-19. https://www.nova.edu/ssss/QR/QR18/calderwood97.pdf
Calderwood, K. A. (2012). Teaching inferential statistics to social work students: A decision-making chart. Journal of Teaching in Social Work, 32(2), 133-147. https://doi.org/10.1080/08841233.2012.670065
Calderwood, K. A. (2011). Adapting the transtheoretical model of change to the bereavement process. Social Work, 56(2), 107-118. https://doi.org/10.1093/sw/56.2.107
O'Brien, A-M., & Calderwood, K. A. (2010). Living in the shadows: A Canadian experience of mental health social work. Social Work in Mental Health, 8(4), 319-335. https://doi.org/10.1080/15332980903484988
Calderwood, K., & Degenhardt, J. (2010). Accommodating a social work student with a speech impediment: The shared experience of a student and instructor. Journal of Social Work in Disability & Rehabilitation, 9(4), 235-253. https://doi.org/10.1080/1536710X.2010.523646
Calderwood, K. A., Harper, K., Ball, K., & Liang, D. (2009). When values and behaviors conflict: Immigrant BSW students' experiences revealed. Journal of Ethnic and Cultural Diversity in Social Work, 18(1), 110-128. https://doi.org/10.1080/15313200902874995
Calderwood, K., & Christie, R. (2008). The views of consumers and frontline workers regarding coordination among addiction and mental health services. Mental Health and Substance Use: Dual Diagnosis, 1, 21-32. https://doi.org/10.1080/17523280701769408
Calderwood, K. A. (2002). Incorporating multiple epistemologies into teaching statistics to social work students. Journal of Teaching in Social Work, 22, 17-23. https://doi.org/10.1300/J067v22n01_03
Toneatto, T., Negrete, J. C., & Calderwood, K. A. (2000). Diagnostic subgroups within a sample of comorbid substance abusers: Correlates and characteristics. American Journal on Addictions, 9, 253-264. https://doi.org/10.1080/10550490050148080
Toneatto, T., Blitz-Miller, T., Calderwood, K. A., Dragonetti, R., & Tsanos, A. (1997). Cognitive distortions in heavy gambling. Journal of Gambling Studies, 13, 253-266. https://doi.org/10.1023/a:1024983300428

Chapters in Edited Books

Cooper, G., & Calderwood, K. A. (2004). Concurrent disorders. In S. Harrison & V. Carver (Eds.). Alcohol and drug problems: A practical guide for counsellors (3rd ed., pp. 583-604). Toronto, Canada: Centre for Addiction and Mental Health. Received a "Distinguished Award" from The Society for Technical Communication (STC), Toronto and Southwestern Chapters.
Toneatto, T., Negrete, J. C., & Calderwood, K. (2003). Diagnostic subgroups within a sample of comorbid substance abusers: Correlates and characteristics. In R. N. Rosenthal (Eds.). Dual diagnosis: Key readings in addiction psychiatry (pp.19-32). New York, NY: Brunner Routledge.

Published Book Reviews

Calderwood, K. A. (2009, June). Publishing addiction science: A guide for the perplexed [Review of the book Publishing addiction science: A guide for the perplexed, by T. F. Babor, K. Stenius, S. Savva, & J. O'Reilly (Eds.)]. Mental Health and Substance Use: Dual diagnosis, 2(2), 165-166.

Peer-Reviewed Conference Presentations

Calderwood, K. A., Morgenshtern, M., & Absolon, K. E. (Minogiizhigokwe). (2026, June 6). Addressing erasures and embracing marginalised voices by bringing ethical space to our textbooks, curricula, and pedagogy. Oral (30-minute) presentation at the 2026 Canadian Association of Social Work Education/L'Association canadienne pour la formation en travail social national conference, University of Ottawa, Ontario.
Issari, S., Presner, O., & Calderwood, K. A. (2026, June 6). Journeying through a two-eyed seeing re-search method in exploring de-colonizing social work curriculums and pedagogy. Oral (30-minute) presentation at the 2026 Canadian Association of Social Work Education/L'Association canadienne pour la formation en travail social national conference, University of Ottawa, Ontario.
Issari, S., Presner, O., & Calderwood, K. A. (2026, June 5). De-colonizing social work curriculums and pedagogy: Views of 22 social work educators across Turtle Island/Canada. Oral (30-minute) presentation at the 2026 Canadian Association of Social Work Education/L'Association canadienne pour la formation en travail social national conference, University of Ottawa, Ontario.
Hale, L., Presner, O., Issari, S., & Calderwood, K. A., & Morgenshtern, M. (2026, June 5-6). Explore your de-colonizing tree. Poster presentation at the 2026 Canadian Association of Social Work Education/L'Association canadienne pour la formation en travail social national conference, University of Ottawa, Ontario.
Calderwood, K. A., Presner, O., & Issari, S. (2026, March 31). How does your de-colonizing journey look? Mapping your process onto a tree framework. Research Day, Trent University Durham GTA, Oshawa, Ontario.
Issari, S., & Calderwood, K. A. (2025, March 21). The courage to conduct de-colonizing re-search without being Indigenous. Research Day, Trent University Durham GTA, Oshawa, Ontario.
Calderwood, K. A., Morgenshtern, M., & Issari, S. (2024, Sept 26). Bringing “ethical space” to curriculums as a way to address erasures and embrace marginalized voices. Oral presentation at Conversations: An International Conference, Dalhousie School of Social Work, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia.
Calderwood, K. A., Morgenshtern, M., & Absolon, K. E. (2024, March 25). Research on re-search: Decolonizing how we think of and engage in knowledge creation. Research Day, Trent University Durham GTA, Oshawa, Ontario.
Ahluwalia Cameron, A., Calderwood, K., & McMurphy, S. (2017, April). Findings from a systematic review of the literature on the etiology of Borderline Personality Disorder. Oral presentation at the North American Society for the Study of Personality Disorders (NASSPD), New York City, New York.
Sheftel, M., Alberton, A., & Calderwood, K. (2017, March). “Getting over it” versus “building/continuing a relationship”: Facebook analysis of text regarding the bereavement process. Oral presentation at the 2017 UWill Discover Conference, University of Windsor, Ontario. https://scholar.uwindsor.ca/uwilldiscover/2017/session2/3/
Ahluwalia Cameron, A., Calderwood, K., & McMurphy, S. (2016, November). Borderline personality disorder: The who, the what, and the where are we going. Poster presentation at the 2016 Ontario Association of Social Workers Provincial Conference, Ontario Association of Social Workers, Toronto, Ontario.
Calderwood, K., & Alberton, A. (2016, November). Understanding the bereavement process. Poster presentation at the 2016 Ontario Association of Social Workers Provincial Conference, Ontario Association of Social Workers, Toronto, Ontario.
Calderwood, K., & Bennett, M. (2015, June). Preparing families for a continuing bond. Two research presentations (morning and afternoon) at the 2015 Annual Conference - Share the Wheel: Collaborative Leadership in Hospice Care, The Hospice of Windsor and Essex County, Windsor, Ontario.
Calderwood, K., & Alberton, A. (2014, November). What does renewal actually mean in the context of bereaved parents? Poster presentation at the 2014 Social Work Provincial Conference, Ontario Association of Social Workers, Toronto, Ontario.
Calderwood, K., Alberton, A., Douglas, E., & Hawksworth, K. (2014, May). What do you say when a child dies? Interactive poster presentation at the Science Rendezvous, CAW, University of Windsor, Ontario.
Calderwood, K., Alberton, A., Douglas, E., & Hawksworth, K. (2014, May). What do you say when a child dies? Interactive poster presentation at the Research Showcase, Devonshire Mall, Windsor, Ontario.
O'Brien, A-M, & Calderwood, K. (2010, July). Living in the shadows: A Canadian experience of mental health social work. Paper presented at the Sixth International Conference on Social Work in Health and Mental Health, Dublin, Ireland.
Calderwood, K., & Wellington, B. (2009, March). Internet supports: A marketing perspective. Poster presentation at the Internet gambling: Alberta Gaming Research Institute's 8th Annual Conference, Gaming Research Institute, Banff, Alberta.
O'Brien, A., & Calderwood, K. (2009, May). Living in the shadows: Mental health social work in Ontario. Paper presented at the Congress of the Learned Societies in the Humanities and Social Sciences, Canadian Association for Social Work Education (CASWE), Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario.
Calderwood, K. A., O'Brien, A., & Mackenzie Davies, J. (2009, January). Sustaining the social work profession. Paper presented at the Thirteenth Annual Conference: Research that Promotes Sustainability & (Re)Builds Strengths, Society of Social Work and Research, New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S.A.
Calderwood, K., & Wellington, B. (2008, April). Advertising problem gambling services. Poster presentation at the Discovery 2008 Gambling Conference, Responsible Gambling Council, Ottawa, Ontario.
Calderwood, K., O'Brien, A., & Mackenzie Davies, J. (2008, April). Report of the OASW survey of mental health social workers. Paper presentation at the Research Day, Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario.
Calderwood, K., O'Brien, A., & Mackenzie Davies, J. (2008, February). Report of the OASW survey of mental health social workers. Poster presentation at the Annual Conference, Ontario Psychiatric Association, Toronto, Ontario. Won 'best poster' award.
Calderwood, K. (2008, November). Adapting the transtheoretical model of change to the bereavement process. Paper presented at the Social Work Research Day 2008, King's College University School of Social Work, London, Ontario.
Calderwood, K. (2008, June). When values and behaviours conflict: Implications for immigrant people working in mainstream environments. Paper presented at the Eighth International Conference on Diversity in Organisations, Communities, and Nations, Common Ground, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
Calderwood, K., O'Brien, A., & Mackenzie Davies, J. (2007, December). Report of the OASW survey of mental health social workers. Poster presentation at the Annual Research Day, University of Ottawa Faculty of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry, Ottawa, Ontario.
Christie, R., & Calderwood, K. A. (2001, October). System coordination in communities across Ontario: Where there's a will, is there a way? Paper presentation at the Reclaiming our roots: Partnering in mental health and addictions conference 2001, Canadian Mental Health Association/Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, Ontario.
Calderwood, K. A. & Christie, R. (2000, November). System models for concurrent disorders. Paper presented at the Addictions Millennium 2000, Toronto, Ontario.
Calderwood, K. A. (2000, April). Concurrent disorders system models project. Paper presented at the Second National Conference in Best Practices and Mental Health Reform, Vancouver, British Columbia.
Calderwood, K. A. (1998). History of addiction and of comorbidity servicing in Ontario. Paper presented at Research in Progress conference, Queen Street Mental Health Centre, Toronto, Ontario.
Calderwood, K. A. & Toneatto, T.A. (1997, November). Descriptive analysis of Mental Health Unit clients at the Addiction Research Foundation. Paper presented at the International Conference of Co-occurring Substance Use and Mental Disorders: Functional Relations and Clinical Implications, Toronto, Canada.
Toneatto, T., Calderwood, K. A., & Ross, H. E. (1997, November). Alcohol use disorder and agoraphobia: Correlates of comorbidity in a community survey. Paper presented at the International Conference of Co-occurring Substance Use and Mental Disorders: Functional Relations and Clinical Implications, Toronto, Ontario.
Zack, M., Toneatto, T., & Calderwood, K. A. (1997). Automatic alcohol-distress associations decline after cognitive behavioural therapy. Paper presented at the International Conference of Co-occurring Substance Use and Mental Disorders: Functional Relations and Clinical Implications, Toronto, Ontario.
Toneatto, T. & Calderwood, K. A. (1997, November). Efficacy of a cognitive-behavioural treatment for comorbid alcohol and anxiety disorders. Paper presented at the International Conference of Co-occurring Substance Use and Mental Disorders: Functional Relations and Clinical Implications, Toronto, Ontario.
Toneatto, T., Calderwood, K. A., & Zack, M. (1996, October). Correlates of verbal or physical aggression in concurrent psychiatric and substance use disorders. Paper presented at the International Conference on Intoxication and Aggressive Behavior: Understanding and Preventing Alcohol-related Violence, Toronto, Ontario.
Toneatto, T., Calderwood, K.A., & Zack, M. (1996). Characteristics of patients assessed on the Mental Health Unit who report a history of alcohol-related aggression. Poster presentation at the Addiction Research Foundation Science Day, Addiction Research Foundation, Toronto, Ontario.

Refereed Journal Article, Textbook, Grant Application, and Program Reviews

Bereavement (2023-2024) – 2 articles
British Journal of Social Work (2024) – 1 article
Canadian Scholars (2021) – 1 textbook
Canadian Social Work Review (2013) – 1 article
Harm Reduction Journal (2011) – 1 article
Health Promotion Practice (2013-2015) – 5 articles
Higher Learning Research Communications (2023) – 1 article
Illness, Crisis, and Loss (2021) – 1 article
International Gambling Studies (2009) – 1 article
Journal of Gambling Issues (2008; 2009; 2015; 2017) – 7 articles
Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences (2023) – 1 article
Journal of Social Work in Disability and Rehabilitation (2013) – 1 article
Mental Health and Substance Use: Dual Diagnosis (2008-2014) – 10 articles
Nipissing University, Bachelor of Social Work program (2025) – External reviewer for the Institutional Quality Assurance Process (IQAP) – cyclical review
OMEGA: Journal of Death and Dying (2019; 2022) – 4 articles
Oxford University Press (2019) – 1 textbook
Saskatchewan Health Research Foundation (2015) – 1 proposal
Social Work (2013) – 1 article
Social Work Education (2008; 2010; 2013; 2024) – 9 articles
SSHRC Insight Grant (2015) – 1 proposal
The Journal of Psychology: Interdisciplinary and Applied (2016) – 3 articles