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Dr. Michael Dean Kaltenbach, LCSW


Dr. Michael Dean Kaltenbach, LCSW

University of Pennsylvania, USA

Biography

Michael Kaltenbach is a Part-time Lecturer at Rutgers University School of Social Work, teaching a course in Human Behavior in the Social Environment.    He has previously taught BSW and MSW level courses in crisis intervention and brief therapy, intro. to social welfare / human services, communication in social work practice, human behavior and the social environment, and emotional disorders in childhood and adolescents at Temple University and the University of Southern California. 

Kaltenbach has been working in the field of psychology and social work for the past twenty-five years, and eighteen of those years have been since he received his master’s degree in Social Work.  His doctoral dissertation research interest focused on how sexual behaviors have changed due to the usage of PrEP, as a HIV preventive method.  His research data as interpreted through the theoretical / conceptual perspectives of cognitive-behavioral theory and relational-cultural therapy.  Kaltenbach is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker in California, New York, and Pennsylvania, and has many years of experience providing psychotherapy, case management, and other social services in a variety of settings:  hospitals, HIV outpatient clinics, schools, foster care agencies, senior residential facilities, group homes, outpatient community counseling centers, etc.  He has experience providing Clinical Supervision as well as Field Instruction to MSW level Social Workers and Interns from USC and UCLA.  He formerly served as a Co-Facilitator for the LA County HIV Mental Health Task Force, and has provided lectures on various mental health topics.  Previously, he was a Teacher’s Assistant (T.A.) for a professor at the University of Pennsylvania School of Social Policy & Practice’s MSW level course on Post-colonial Social Work Practice:  International Social Welfare in Kolkata, India.  He enjoys traveling and learning about various cultures.  After he obtained his bachelor’s degree he served as an US Peace Corps Volunteer in Senegal, West Africa.  When Kaltenbach is not teaching, he currently provides psychotherapy in his private practice office located in Philadelphia, PA.  He also provides psychotherapy on a fee-for-service basis at outpatient community counseling centers in West and South Philadelphia, and at a Senior Assisted Living Facility in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, NY and in Manhattan, NYC.

 

Abstract

Abstract : Changes in sexual behaviors due to the utilization of PrEP as a preventive method for the transmission of HIV