Roberta R. Greene is Professor and the Louis and Ann Wolens Centennial Chair in Gerontology and Social Welfare at the School of Social Work University of Texas-Austin. She has served as a clinical social worker at the Jewish Family Service of Greater Washington where she counselled Holocaust survivors and their families. She also settled refugees who came to the U.S. from around world. Dr. Greene has numerous publications including: Social Work Practice: A Risk and Resilience Perspective (Brooks/Cole, 2007) and Resiliency Theory: An Integrated Framework for Practice, Research, and Policy (NASW Press, 2002).