Judith L M McCoyd

Judith L. M. McCoyd is Assistant Professor at Rutgers University- School of Social Work. She graduated from Albright College with a Bachelors of Science (Individualized Study) in Biology-Social Welfare-Psychology in 1983. She had been interested in perinatal health care from a young age, volunteering her time at Booth Maternity Home for Unwed Mothers as a teen and continuing her volunteer work at Planned Parenthood throughout college. She graduated from Columbia University Graduate School of...See more

Judith L. M. McCoyd is Assistant Professor at Rutgers University- School of Social Work. She graduated from Albright College with a Bachelors of Science (Individualized Study) in Biology-Social Welfare-Psychology in 1983. She had been interested in perinatal health care from a young age, volunteering her time at Booth Maternity Home for Unwed Mothers as a teen and continuing her volunteer work at Planned Parenthood throughout college. She graduated from Columbia University Graduate School of Social Work in 1985 (Health/Mental Health) and went on to work at Methodist Hospital in South Philadelphia in oncology, the emergency room and obstetrics, later working at Pennsylvania Hospital (the first hospital in the U.S.) in the Intensive Care Nursery, the Antepartum Unit and Obstetrics. She has been an active member of both the National Association of Perinatal Social Workers, recently serving as vice-president and co-chair of the Philadelphia Conference in 2009, and the Perinatal Social Work Network in Philadelphia where she was the coordinator in the early 1990's. She was certified by the Pennsylvania Society for Clinical Social Work Institute after their three year post-Masters training in psychodynamic psychotherapy. See less