Frederic Reamer is on the faculty of the School of Social Work, Rhode Island College. His teaching and research focus on professional ethics, criminal justice, mental health, health care, and public policy. Dr. Reamer received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago and has served as a social worker in correctional and mental health settings. He chaired the national task force that wrote the Code of Ethics adopted by the National Association of Social Workers in 1996 and served on the code revision task force. Dr. Reamer also chaired the national task force sponsored by NASW, the Association of Social Work Boards, Council on Social Work Education, and Clinical Social Work Association that developed standards governing social workers’ use of technology in professional practice.

Dr. Reamer serves as associate editor of the Encyclopedia of Social Work and served as editor of the Journal of Social Work Education. He also served on the State of Rhode Island Parole Board for 24 years and has been the ethics instructor for the Providence (RI) Police Academy since 2012.

Dr. Reamer has lectured nationally and internationally on social work and professional ethics, including in India, China, Singapore, South Korea, Japan, Taiwan, and in various European nations. He has published 25 books and more than 185 journal articles, book chapters, and encyclopedia articles. His books include Social Work Values and Ethics; The Philosophical Foundations of Social Work; Heinous Crime: Cases, Causes and Consequences; Criminal Lessons: Case Studies and Commentary on Crime and Justice; On the Parole Board: Reflections on Crime, Justice, Redemption, and Justice; Risk Management in Social Work; The Social Work Ethics Casebook; Ethical Standards in Social Work; Risk Management in the Behavioral Health Professions; Boundary Issues and Dual Relationships in the Human Services; Ethics and Risk Management in Online and Distance Social Work; Moral Distress and Injury in Human Services; Teens in Crisis: How the Industry Serving Struggling Teens Helps and Hurts our Kids; and The Social Work Ethics Audit, among others. Dr. Reamer has served as an expert witness in many court and licensing board cases throughout the United States. In 2016 Dr. Reamer was named a Social Work Pioneer by the National Association of Social Workers for his "commitment and dedication to the social work profession and to the improvement of social and human conditions at the local, state, national, and international levels." He is the father of two daughters and is married to social work professor Deborah Siegel.

Deborah Siegel currently is a Professor Emerita of the MSW program in School of Social Work at Rhode Island College (since 1983). She specializes in clinical social work practice across the life span with diverse populations; adoption practice, policy, and research; clinical and policy interventions to address homelessness; interprofessional teamwork, integrated behavioral healthcare, and evaluation of clinical practice. She is a trainer, workshop presenter, and consultant to adoption agencies across the U.S., including Jewish Children’s Bureau, Chicago, IL; Friends in Adoption, Middletown Springs, VT; Children’s Friend and Service, Providence, RI; Mentor, Inc in Warwick., RI; Adoption Rhode Island, Providence, RI; RI Office of the Child Advocate, Providence, RI;  Lutheran Social Services of CT; Open Door Society of MA; Adoption Community of New England; American Adoption Congress; Donaldson Adoption Institute; and Rudd Adoption Research Program, University of MA. She is a founding member of the Adoption and Foster Care Certificate Program and the Adoption Competence Task Force and serves on numerous committees at Rhode Island College and in social justice advocacy organizations in RI and across the U.S.
 
Dr. Siegel has published chapters in many books, among them Social Workers’ Desk Reference and Encyclopedia of Applied Ethics. She is co-author of two books, Teens in Crisis and Finding Help for Struggling Teens. Her published articles appear in many prominent journals, such as Families in Society and Social Work. She has served as a manuscript reviewer for Adoption Quarterly, Families in Society, Family Process, Children and Youth Services Review, and Social Work. Dr. Siegel earned her Ph.D. (1981) and masters degree (1974) in social work at the School of Social Service Administration of the University of Chicago, and has taught social work at the University of Chicago, Auburn University, and the University of Missouri-Columbia. In addition to her teaching, scholarly publications, and legislative advocacy, she maintains a clinical practice, specializing in families and children whose lives are touched by adoption and families coping with behavioral health issues.