Susan Sherman
Adjunct Lecturer

Dr. Susan B. Sherman has taught courses on interventions in grief, loss, and bereavement at Columbia University School of Social Work (CUSSW) and at both the master's and doctoral level in psychopathology, human growth and development, social work with children, advanced practice and the four psychologies at Adelphi University School of Social Work, as well as courses in adolescence at the Jewish Board of Family and Children's Services. She received her DSW from Adelphi University School of Social Work in 1987 and her MSS in Social Work from Bryn Mawr in 1971. She has certificates in psychotherapy and psychoanalysis and is a member of the faculty of the Society for Psychoanalytic Study and Research.

Since earning her master's degree, Dr. Sherman has worked as a social worker in a child psychiatry clinic, in pediatric oncology, and in a pre-school program for children with developmental disabilities, and has had a private psychotherapy practice for adults and children since 1980. She has served as a consultant in public schools and in nursery schools. Her publications include: "Some thoughts on the meanings of transitional objects to mothers"; "The effects of fatal illness in the child and on family life"; and "The team approach to the fatally ill child."