Email: julie.canfield@bc.edu
Families impacted by military service
Moral injury care and treatment
Trauma-informed practices
Child development and traumatic stress
Veterans' health and mental health
Julie Canfield has been a part-time faculty member at BCSSW for the past 12 years as both a clinical instructor and researcher dedicated to improving the health and mental health of military children and families. She has developed curriculum in the field of military social work at the MSW level and presented at the national level on topics to advance the implementation science in this very specialized area of social work practice.
In addition to her work as a prevention researcher, published author, and clinical instructor, she was recently a contributing member for the Council of Social Work Education's Task Force for the updated "Specialized Curricular Guide for Military and Veteran Social Work" to advance social work education and practice with this population.
She has more than 20 years of clinical experience providing trauma-informed interventions to children and families living with long-term effects of cumulative traumatic stress and maintains a private practice with active-duty service members, veterans, and family members.
Canfield, J. (2025). Resilience and Military Families: Case Vignettes, Self-Assessment Tools, and Evidence-Based Interventions. Routledge, Taylor & Francis.
Canfield, J. (2018). Civilian Spousal Employment. In E.L. Weiss & C.A. Castro (Eds): American Military Life in the 21st Century: Social, Cultural, and Economic Issues and Trends (pp. 360-372).
Tran, T.V., Canfield, J., & Chan, K. (2016). The association between unemployment status and physical health among veterans and civilians in the United States. Social Work in Health Care, 55(9), 720-731.
Tran, T.V., Canfield, J., & Chan, K. (2016). Differential association between unemployment status and mental health among veterans and civilians. Social Work in Mental Health, 1-16.
Weiss, E. L., Hino, D., Canfield, J., & Albright, D. L. (2016). Military families: Strengths and concerns: Reintegration and beyond. In Caring for the Military (pp. 72-92). Routledge.
Canfield, J. & Weiss, E.L. (2015). Student veterans and mental health: posttraumatic stress in the classroom. In J.E. Coll & E.L. Weiss (Eds.): Student veterans in human service programs: A primer for administrators, faculty, & advisors. Chicago, IL: Lyceum.
Canfield, J. & Weiss, E.L. (2015). Integrating military and veteran culture in social work education: Implications for curriculum inclusion. Journal of Social Work Education, 51(1),
128-144.
Canfield, J. (2014). Traumatic stress and affect management in military families. Social Work in Mental Health, 12(1), 1-16.
Canfield, J. (2005). Secondary traumatization, burnout, and vicarious traumatization: a review of the literature as it relates to therapists who treat trauma. Smith College Studies in Social Work, 75(2).
Canfield, J. and Burgess, A. (2019). Boston College Veterans and Military Families: Assessment of Community Needs. Boston College School of Social Work and the Connell School of Nursing outreach project to military family members to identify the significant issues facing veteran/military families in higher education among student populations.
Boston College Veterans' Advisory Group Executive Committee Member: 2018 to Present
Peer Reviewer: Journal of Family Social Work