Roberta Greene, Professor Emerita, was the Louis and Ann Wolens Centennial Chair in Gerontology and Social Welfare at the University of Texas Austin. Prior to that, she was dean of social work at Indiana University. Professor Greene has a wide range of practice experience, including clinical practice, clinical supervision, policy, administrative, and research expertise. She is an NASW Pioneer, known for her advocacy work on nursing home reform. 

Narrative Social Work Practice: A Resilience-Enhancing Anti-Oppressive Approach—the third in a series that discusses risk and resilience theory and its offshoot, the resilience-enhancing stress model (RESM)—was written at a time of pronounced sociocultural and historical flux, uncertainty, and civil strife. The urgency of the moment has been underscored in various social work publications and documents. For example, an editorial in Social Work (Scheyett, 2022) pointed out that practitioners should be aware that clients and constituencies may be struggling with racism, chronic health disparities, structurally unjust systems, and differential access to resources and goods and should tailor their practice accordingly.