Anna Marie Pietrantonio

Anna Marie Pietrantonio serves as a Part-Time Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry & Behavioural Neurosciences within McMaster University's Faculty of Health Sciences. Her academic work bridges clinical psychiatry, child welfare systems, and medical education through innovative simulation-based training.

Her research focuses on child welfare interventions, mental health stigma reduction, and mandatory reporting protocols. Key contributions include developing frameworks for case conceptualization in child protection systems and examining adolescent responses to mental health simulations. Her work demonstrates consistent emphasis on improving outcomes for vulnerable youth through systemic interventions and professional training.

Analysis of her publications reveals an evolving trajectory from foundational work on permanency planning (2004) toward contemporary research on evidence-based child welfare practices (2023). Her scholarship consistently addresses the intersection of clinical psychiatry, social work practice, and policy implementation with particular attention to adolescent populations and professional training methodologies.

Dr. Pietrantonio has instructed McMaster's SOCWORK 2A06 series (Theory, Process and Communication Skills for Social Work) continuously since 2017, alongside CityLAB community engagement courses. Her teaching portfolio demonstrates sustained commitment to applied social work education with focus on communication skills development and community-based project experience.