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Social Work to offer two new certificate programs
By CHRISTINE VIDAL
Contributing Editor
The School of Social Work will offer two new, intensive training programs for mental-health and human-services professionals during the 2003-04 academic year.
The Post-Graduate Certificate Program in Clinical Supervision and the Post-Graduate Certificate Program for Clinical Practice with Children and Adolescents will utilize core/integrative seminars and full-day workshops to increase practitioners' knowledge of the values, principles, issues and challenges that guide their work in their respective fields.
The clinical supervision certificate program is designed to allow practitioners to integrate theory with practice in order to deepen their understanding of the clinical supervision process.
The program is appropriate for MSW graduates or clinicians who have completed an advanced degree in another, related mental-health or human-services discipline and who currently are supervising staff or interns.
The goal of the program is to allow participants to increase their own self-awareness and learn to address transference and counter-transference issues with their supervisees; focus on the nature of supervision as a developmental process; refine their skills for performing effective, ongoing supervisory evaluations; learn tools to strengthen the clinical skills of their supervisees; examine and learn to address legal and ethical issues that may arise during supervision, and increase their own diversity self-awareness and develop skills to help in the development of diversity-sensitive clinicians.
Coursework will consist of a traditional seminar with curriculum and classroom exercises, along with case consultation led by senior clinicians. The seminars are designed by colleagues to integrate the coursework, participants' increasing supervisory knowledge and practical experiences through discussion of their own supervisory relationships.
Seminars will be held approximately twice a month from 5:45-8:45 p.m. on Tuesdays from mid-September through May in 684 Baldy Hall, North Campus.
Seminar instructors will include Maria Picone, Catholic Charities; Sharon Herlehy, assistant director of field education in the School of Social Work, and Liz Snider, field unit supervisor in UB Counseling Services.
In addition to the seminars, participants will be required to attend full-day workshops approximately once a month on topics that include:
Advanced Skills of Clinical Supervision
The Supervisory Relationship
Building Self-Awareness: Transference and Counter-Transference and the Therapeutic "Use of Self"
Developing a "Diversity Self Awareness:" Issues of Culture, Race, Class, Gender and Sexual Orientation
The Supervisor as Teacher and Evaluator
Ethical and Legal Issues in Supervision
Supervising the Management of Crisis and Its Impact on Workers
Techniques and Tools of Supervision
The Art of Developing Leaders
Contextualization of Supervision for Present Day Realities
The clinical practice with children and adolescents certificate program is designed to deepen participants' understanding of the psychotherapeutic process to more effectively integrate theory into practice.
Participants will increase their knowledge of the principles that guide the assessment, diagnosis and treatment of children and adolescents, and will refine their skills in assessment and diagnostic formulation in order to choose the appropriate treatment for specific age groups and presenting problems.
A key focus of the program is to enhance participants' "understanding of their own cognitive and affective reactions to the work, and to use this skill to become more effective clinicians.
The program is appropriate for MSW graduates or clinicians who have completed an advanced degree in another, related mental-health or human-services discipline and who currently are working with children, adolescents and their families.
Coursework will consist of a series of 16 core seminars with curriculum focusing on the psychotherapeutic process, theories of psychological development and practice theories that inform the assessment and treatment of children, adolescents and their families.
In addition, clinicians will participate in integrative seminars—ongoing case conference/consultations led by senior clinicians. Participants will use case material from their practice experience to help understand and synthesize the knowledge gained throughout all components of the programs.
The core/integrative seminars will meet approximately twice a month from 5:45-8:45 p.m. on Wednesdays from mid-September through May in 684 Baldy.
Seminar instructors will be Bonnie Glazier, executive director of Child and Adolescent Treatment Services, and Emily Ets-Hokin, a clinical psychologist.
Seminar topics will include theoretical perspectives of psychological development; principles of assessment and diagnosis of children and adolescents; understanding the therapeutic process; developing diagnostic formulations; understanding and working sensitively with children, adolescents and families from diverse cultures; treatment planning, methods and process for work with children and adolescents; working with families and parents, and working with children, adolescents, their families and multiple systems.
In addition, participants will be required to attend full-day workshops approximately once a month on topics that include:
Attachment
Overview of the Diagnosis and Treatment of Child and Adolescent Disorders
Building Self-Awareness: Transference, Counter-Transference and the "Therapeutic Use of Self"
Developing a "Diversity Self-Awareness:" Issues of Culture, Race, Class, Gender and Sexual Orientation
Play Therapy with Children
Approaches to Treatment of Adolescents
Working with Parents.
Applications to both programs will be accepted in the order in which they arrive, and for best consideration, participants are encouraged to apply by Sept. 5. Class sizes will be limited.
For more information on either program and its admission requirements, certificate requirements and fees, contact the School of Social Work Office of Continuing Education, 232 Parker Hall, South Campus; 829-3939 or email SW-CE@buffalo.edu.