Dr. James Marley is currently an Associate Professor at Loyola University Chicago School of Social Work. He has almost 40 years of social work practice experience in adult mental health and family therapy with a focus on working with people with psychosis. For the past ten years Dr. Marley has worked on state and federal grants related to domestic terrorism/targeted violence prevention and intervention. He is on the Advisory Board for the Prevention Practitioners Network and is co-chair of their ethics committee. He co-chairs a working group for Eradicate Hate focused on developing curriculum for graduate students in mental health professional programs. He has been on the editorial board for the Clinical Social Work Journal since 2004 and is active in several national social work organizations.
Dr. Marley received his BSW from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1985 and his MSW (1986) and PhD (1995) from the University of Illinois at Chicago.