PAUL G.

CREELAN
98 Reed Street
Cambridge, Ma 02140
(w) 781-388-7101
( c) 617-319-0500

Career Individual, family and group psychotherapy position

Objective in community mental health center, hospital or
group practice setting

Education M.S.W., Social Work, Salem State College, 1996

Ph.D., Social Psychology, University of Chicago, 1978
M.A., Social Psychology, University of Chicago, 1969
B.A., English, University of Notre Dame, 1960

Experience

1999-present AREA DIRECTOR, Department of Social Services, Malden, Ma;

manages 100 person child protective services staff - - investigations,
family assessment, clinical case management, foster care, adoption;
budget/ contract management; clinical program development;
community relations; $20 million budget.

1996-1999 PSYCHOTHERAPIST, Tri-City Mental Health, Everett, MA; Dual

Diagnosis Clinic; individual and group psychotherapy; part-time.

1994-1995 EMERGENCY CRISIS CLINICIAN, Saints Hospitals, Lowell, MA;

emergency psychiatric crisis evaluations in hospital setting; internship
for MSW.

1995 SUBSTANCE ABUSE CLINICIAN, Veterans Hospital, Jamaica

Plain, MA; provided psychotherapy to dual diagnosis clients;
internship for MSW.

1996-1999 AREA PROGRAM MANAGER, Department of Social Services;

general area office management, directly responsibility for adoption
and case management units, multidisciplinary assessment team,
coordination of mental health services.

1992-1996 SUPERVISOR, Department of Social Services, Cambridge, Ma;

directly supervised 5-person staff of child protective case managers.
1989-1992 INVESTIGATOR, Department of Social Services, Allston, Ma;
investigated reports of abuse and neglect of children to determine
need for services.

1986-1989 PRESIDENT, Zarte Corporation, Boston, MA;

Founded and managed art design firm.

1971-1986 ASSISTANT PROFESSOR SOCIOLOGY

1979-1986 Northeastern University
1975.1979 Rutgers University
1974- 1975 Graduate Faculty, New School for
Social Research, NYC
1971-1974 Rhode Island College

1966 AREA DIRECTOR, Neighborhood Youth Corps,

Chicago, Illinois

1964-1966 EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, Harmon County Office

Of Economic Opportunity, Hollis, Oklahoma

Memberships and National Association of Social Workers

Licenses LCSW

Interests Art, Photography, Latin/ Swing dancing

Publications Attached

References Available upon request

 Publications

1. “The Degradation of the Scared: Cooley and Goffman,” Symbolic Interaction,

September, 1987. republished in Erving Goffman, (ed.) Gary Alan Fine and Gregory
W.H. Smith, Sage Publications: Troy, NY, 2000, four volume set.

2. “Pilgrim’s Progress and the Social Theory of W.I. Thomas”, Journal For the Scientific
Study of Religion, June, 1986.

3. “Watson as a Millenarian”, “Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion”, June, 1985.

4. “Vicissitudes of the Sacred: Erving Goffman and the Book of Job”, Theory and Society”,
September”, 1984: republished in Erving Goffman, (ed.) Gary Alan Fine and Gregory
W.H. Smith, Sage Publications: Tray, NY, 2000, four-volume set

5. “Social Theory as Confession: Mythological Elements of Talcott Parsons Sociology”, in

Structure, Consciousness and History,” (ed.) Richard Brown and Stanford Lyman, Oxford
University Press, 1976

6. “Swirling into Silence: Review Essay on B.F. Skinner’s Particulars of My Life”

Humanity and Society, January, 1972.

7. “Religion Language and Sexuality: The case of J.B. Watson”, Journal of Humanistic
Psychology, June, 1971.

8. “Time, Death and the Spiro Agnew Wristwatch”, Journal of Popular Culture, May, 1971.

9. “American Behaviorism and the Calvinist Conscience”, Journal of the History of the
Behavioral Sciences, September, 1970.”

10. “Smoking Behavior and Dentist”, Odontological Bulletin, January, 1969.

11. “The Interaction Linkage between intelligence, Sex-Role and Family Size”, Journal of
Marriage and the Family, September, 1967.

12. “Family Size and Sex Roles”, in Willliam T. Liu, Family and Fertility, University of
Notre Dame Press: Notre Dame, Indiana, 1966.