Angela McClellan

Education

BS in Psychology, University of Houston
MSW, Baylor University 

Licensure

Licensed Master Social Worker in Texas

Research Interests

• How persons with dementia and their caregivers experience catastrophic weather events, and
• How persons with dementia and their caregivers cope with natural disasters such as hurricanes, floods, tornadoes, wildfires, etc., from a psychosocial perspective.

Background

Angela McClellan, LMSW, is a first-year PhD student at Baylor University's Garland School of Social Work. She completed her MSW at Baylor in 2023 and is currently a research assistant at the University of Houston. Her work involves gerontology projects such as life review therapy's impact on depression in older adults with early-stage dementia and their family caregivers, dementia education in the Houston Vietnamese community, and rural and urban caregivers of persons with dementia. She has co-authored numerous journal articles and presented her work at national conferences. She also leads bereavement support groups for older adults experiencing the death of a spouse or partner. In addition,  she has worked as a graduate assistant at Baylor and has written with other Baylor faculty on gratitude, hope, meaning in life, and religious coping styles in the lives of dementia caregivers.  As a PhD student at Baylor, she hopes to expand her work in this population by exploring how persons with dementia and their family caregivers cope with natural weather disasters. 

She lives with her husband and two children in the Houston area, where they are active in their local US Civil Air Patrol squadron and like to travel and cycle outdoors together as a family.