Evidence Based Practice for Persons with Persistent Mental Health Conditions
Instructor:  Ellen Lukens, PhD, LCSW

Students will develop knowledge and skills, become familiar with evidence-based practice using a recovery-oriented paradigm, and explore specific evidence-based interventions for work with individuals with a serious mental health condition. Assessment and treatment for diverse groups of individuals with a serious mental health condition are a main focus of this course.

Section: 001
Wednesdays,
6:10 – 8:00pm

Students study assessment and intervention with children and their parents; differentiation between socio-cultural, developmental, functional, and organic deviations and variations; and various techniques and skills (e.g., play, dramatization, and verbalization) that can be helpful when working with children.

Social Work Practice with Families
Instructor 001: Susan Matorin, MS
Instructor 002: Peggy Lovergine, MSW
Instructor 003: Richard Johnson, MS, Phd

Students study the objectives and characteristics of family treatment as well as the role of the worker and techniques commonly used. Relevant concepts about family as a social system, interactional processes, social class, and role conflicts, individual psychodynamics and situational variables are examined in terms of various types of family treatment reported from practice.

Section: 001 & 002
Tuesdays,
9:00 – 10:50am

Section: 003       Tuesdays,
11:00am – 12:50pm

This course takes a developmental approach to adolescent psychopathology based on extensive readings and clinical discussion is studied.  Subphases of adolescence and developmental deviations and implications for social work practice are also considered.

Social Work Practice: Alcohol/Chemical DependencyInstructor 001: Andrew Hamid, PhD, LCSW
Instructor 002: Donald McVinney, MSW
Instructor 003: Jeffrey E. Diaz, MSW

This course deals with the scope of the problem, current theories and controversies in the field of alcoholism. Focus is placed on assessment and interventive strategies in services to individuals, families and groups. Clinical issues of denial, enabling, counter transference, along with issues of culture, staffing patterns, social work role, and resource funding, are emphasized.

Section: 001
Tuesdays,
4:10 – 6:00pm

Section: 002
Tuesdays,
6:10 – 8:00pm

Section: 003 Wednesdays,
6:10 – 8:00pm

Social Work with Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Clients
Instructor: Dava Weinstein, MSW

All social workers in all fields of practice serve clients who are gay or lesbian. Because of the negative stigma society places on gay and lesbian clients, many face numerous difficulties that require social support and intervention. Students will examine approaches to practice with gay men and lesbians in different roles and stages of life as well as in specialized populations such as gay and lesbian adolescents, parents, and older adults.

Spirituality and Social Work Practice
Instructor: Mary Ragan, PhD, LCSW

The experience and impact of spirituality and religion in the lives of individuals, families, groups, communities, and organizations in our society will be examined. Practice within a context of diverse populations will be addressed. Attention will be given to different approaches to spirituality and to plural religious perspectives.

Social Work Practice with Battered Women
Instructor 001: Beth A. Silverman-Yam, DSW
Instructor 002: Ovita Williams, LCSW

Students examine the issue of violence against women in families. The demographics of the population, theories of domestic violence, crisis intervention, and short- and longterm clinical issues will be examined, as will service modalities for women victims and survivors, batterers,
and their children.

Section: 001 Tuesdays,
4:10 – 6:00pm

Section: 002 Wednesdays,
4:10 – 6:00pm

Section: 001
Tuesdays,
2:00 – 3:50pm

Section: 002 Tuesdays,
4:10 – 6:00pm

Section: 003
Wednesdays,
6:10 – 8:00pm

The purpose of this course is to provide students with an accessible introduction to ego psychology and object relations theories and to enable them to begin to apply concepts of these theories in practice.  The course reviews the development and evolution of these psychoanalytically oriented theories from the time of Freud through their contemporary conceptualizations and applications.

Section: 001 Tuesdays,
9:00 – 10:50am

Section: 002
Tuesdays,
2:00 – 3:50pm