Bio:

Dr. O'Neill has been teaching as an adjunct assistant professor at Columbia University School of Social Work since 2000. In July, 2003 she joined the faculty as a Lecturer. She has taught the advanced clinical practice electives: Professional Use of Self in Clinical Practice, Social Work Practice with Women, and Clinical Practice with Women at Multiple Risk, as well as Advanced Clinical Practice III in the Health, Mental Health and Disabilities and the World of Work practice areas. Dr. O'Neill received her Ph.D. in clinical social work from New York University Shirley Ehrenkranz School of Social Work (1997), a M.S. from Columbia University School of Social Work (1983), and a B.A. from Boston College (1980).

Dr. O'Neill maintains a private practice (adults - individuals and couples). She is currently co-directing HOPE-NY (Healthy Outreach through Psychoeducation), developing a collaborative resiliency and manual based intervention model with a diverse set of immigrant and native communities in New York City addressing the effects of community trauma. She is the former director of BRIDGES Employee Assistance Program.

Dr. O'Neill has 20 years of experience in clinical practice, administration and organizational consulting with and within the public, voluntary, not-for profit and corporate sectors.

Research Interests:

• Social work clinical practice
• Supervision
• Administration
• Strengths-based interventions for trauma and its reverberations across systems
• Vicarious trauma
• Community trauma
• Immigration trauma
• Historical trauma
• World of work
• Social work practice in the workplace
• Organizational consultation and development
• Programming and supervision

Recent Publications & Presentations:

Books and Chapters
O'Neill, M. (1998). Book review: Work and its inhibitions: psychoanalytic essays by Socarides, C.W. and Kramer, S. (eds.) Madison, Connecticut: International Universities Press, Inc. in Journal of Analytic Social Work.

O'Neill, M. (1997). Attitudes toward patients who are dually diagnosed and their treatment: A comparison of clinical social workers, psychologists and psychiatrists within an urban hospital. (Doctoral dissertation, New York University). Dissertation Abstracts International, ATT 9717726.

O'Neill, M. (1993). Countertransference and attitudes in the context of clinical work with dually diagnosed patients. In J. Solomon, S. Zimberg, E. Shollar (Eds.) Dual Diagnosis: Evaluation, Treatment, Training, and Program Development, New York: Plenum Press.

O'Neill, M. (1993). Dual Diagnosis Training: and integrated curriculum design and implementation. In J. Solomon, S. Zimberg, E. Shollar (Eds.) Dual Diagnosis: Evaluation, Treatment, Training, and Program Development, New York: Plenum Press.

Zimberg, S., Solomon, J., Shollar, E. & O'Neill, M. (1993). Developing dual diagnosis treatment services within existing out-patient psychiatric and addictive disorder programs. In J. Solomon, S. Zimberg, E.Shollar (Eds.) Dual Diagnosis: Evaluation, Treatment, Training, and Program Development, New York: Plenum Press.

Presentations
Vicarious Trauma: Prevention, healing and life enhancement in trauma work; New York State Psychiatric Institute, Department of Social Work Grand Rounds, December 15, 2003.

Multiple training sessions for professional and paraprofessional staff in theory and methods of integrative psychoeducation regarding acute and persistent reactions to stress and trauma, care across systems, individual, family and community; the impact of trauma and of care/vicarious and simultaneous trauma; and resiliency in the face of trauma -- HOPE-NY

Multiple workplace presentations, interventions for small and large groups in the immediate weeks after September 11, 2001 - town hall meetings, small work groups, meetings with departments, executives, human resource professionals and executives

"Help for the Helping Professional" prepared for and presented several times for groups of human resource professionals of a large media conglomerate after the disaster of September 11, 2001

Multiple presentations, training sessions, workshops and seminars as part of the BRIDGES® EAP programming addressing areas such as leadership development, empowerment strategies, coaching, stress management, parenting adolescents, balancing work and family, financial management, organizational change, etc. 1994 - present

Last updated December 03, 2007.