Carol Jabs

Carol Jabs is a Distinguished Professor of Social Work at Concordia University Chicago within the College of Health, Science & Technology, where she has taught for over forty years while maintaining fifty years of active clinical practice as a licensed clinical social worker and marriage and family therapist.

Her academic credentials include:

• PhD in Social Work from University of Chicago
• MA in Social Work from University of Chicago
• BA in Sociology and Psychology from Macalester College

Dr. Jabs specializes in clinical intervention with relational systems, focusing on depression in marital contexts and systemic communication patterns within couples and families. Her career bridges academic social work education with direct clinical application, emphasizing evidence-based therapeutic approaches for individuals, couples, and families through both university instruction and private practice.

Her professional honors include:

• Distinguished Professor of Social Work at Concordia University Chicago
• Magna Cum Laude from Macalester College
• Phi Beta Kappa membership
• Alpha Kappa Delta National Honors Society membership

Dr. Jabs' career encompasses prior roles as Psychiatric Social Worker at Illinois Masonic Medical Center's Department of Psychiatry, Lecturer at University of Chicago's School of Social Service Administration, Director of Concordia University's Schmieding Counseling Center, and extensive private practice treating relational systems across the lifespan.