NYU Social Work faculty, through the Division of Lifelong Learning and Professional Development, are pleased to offer customized training for your agency. The content and format will be planned with your unique needs in mind.
categories and topics for agency based training
Abuse, Violence and Trauma
- Clinical Practice with Adult Survivors of Childhood Abuse
- Conflict Resolution, Skills and Processes
- Coping with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
- Domestic Violence Issues in Social Work Practice
- Domestic Violence: Identification and Treatment
- Migration Trauma for Refugees: How Refugee Children Cope With It
- The Cycle of Victim-Victimizer
- Therapeutic Methods for Clients Dealing with Anger
- Treatment Issues in Working with Aggressive Clients
- Violence in American Society
- Violence in the Schools and in the Workplace
- Working with Abusive Clients: Transference and Countertransference Issues
- Working with Families: Transference and Countertransference Issues
- Working with Survivors of Sexual Trauma
- Working with Victims of Crime and Other Mass Upheavals (i.e. Bosnia)
Children, Youth and Adolescents
- Adolescents in Care: Preparation for Independent Living
- Child and Adolescent Treatment
- Childhood Life Stressors and Maladjusted Behavior
- Dealing with Teenage Depression
- Effective Peer Counseling Among Adolescents in a Prevention Program
- Group Work with Children and Adolescents
- Identification and Treatment of Child Sexual Abuse
- Object Relations Theory and Treatment with Traumatized Children
- Play Therapy Techniques with Children
- The Acting Out Adolescent Girl
- The Impact of Trauma and Environment on Foster Children
- The Use of Relational Psychoanalytic Theory in Child and Adolescent Treatment
- Working with Adolescent Sex Offenders and Their Families
Clinical Practice: Individuals and Groups
- Advanced Seminar in Group Treatment
- Assessment and Intervention with Dually Diagnosed Clients
- Clinical Issues in Working with Immigrants and Refugees
- Co-Therapy with Couples
- Eating Disorders and Depression
- Effects on Body Image and Food Challenges in Women Suffering from Anorexia: A Model for Group Intervention
- Girls Without Fathers: Group Therapy with Latency Age Girls
- Group Practice
- Growing Up with Mental Illness: The Impact on the Well Sibling
- Implications of Infertility
- Issues in Group Psychotherapy with Bulimic Patients
- Menopause-A Developmental Crisis Intervention
- Professionals and Family as Partners in the Treatment and Rehabilitation of Adults Suffering from Schizophrenia
- Psychosocial Treatment of Schizophrenia
- Psychotherapy and Schizophrenia
- Sanctioned Bias: Homophobia and its Impact Upon the Therapeutic Process
- Schizophrenia and its Impact on Family Life
- Suicide Risk, Assessment and Crisis Intervention
- Team Building and Group Dynamics
- The Borderline Personality
- The Influence of Social Work on Psychoanalysis
- The Role of the Family in the Treatment of Mental Patients
- Treatment Issues in Working with the Lesbian and Gay Client
- Treatment With Couples
- Understanding Phobias and Panic Disorders
- Working with Immigrant and Refugee Clients
Cultural Diversity
- Bilingualism and the Memory of Trauma
- Cultural Diversity: Ethno-Cultural Issues in Clinical Practice
- Culturally Sensitive Treatment of Latino Clients
- Pushing the Frame: The Impact of Client Cultural Diversity on Traditional Therapeutic Models
End of Life Care: Bereavement, Mourning and Loss
- Anxiety, Depression, Grief and Health: The Impact of Caregiving Dynamic on Caregivers of the Mentally Ill
- Bereavement Issues: Helping Clients and Staff Deal with Mourning and Loss
Managed Care
- Adapting Long-Term Skills to Short-Term Treatment Models
- Managed Care: Measuring Clinical Practice (Outcome Studies)
- Managed Care: Short Term Treatment with Children, Adolescents and Adults
Social Work Practice
- Engagement and Assessment Skills Development
- Case and Cause Advocacy
- Clinical Assessment tests for Professionals
- Crisis and Short-Term Intervention
- Culture and Domestic Violence: Implications for Social Work Practice
- Engagement and Assessment with the Hard to Reach Client
- Ethical Dilemmas in Current Social Work Practice: Handling and Avoiding Them
- Ethical Issues in School-Based Practice
- Managed Care and Short-Term Therapy
- Object Relations and Attachment Theory
- Psychodynamics of Case Management
- Seminar on Basic Interviewing and Diagnostic Assessment
- Social Work Practice and Child Welfare
- Social Work Practice and the Law
- Social Workers as Case Managers and Treatment Coordinators
- Supervision Techniques in Social Work Practice
Stress Management and Mental Health
- Anger Management in Social Work Practice
- Compassion Fatigue-Burnout and Secondary Traumatic Stress of Mental Health Professionals
- Coping with Life Stresses: Adolescence to Retirement
- Mental Health and Stress Management Issues
- Stress and Burnout Among Health Care Providers Working with HIV Infected Clients
- Stress Management in the Workplace
Substance Abuse and AIDS
- HIV/AIDS-An Overview
- AIDS: The Person Behind the Diagnosis
- Clinical Work with Substance Abusing Clients
- Gender Issues in the Addictions
- Group Psychotherapy with the Alcoholic
- Helping People Live with AIDS
- HIV Disclosure Issues
- Methadone Maintenance in the Treatment of Addiction
- Psychodynamics of Substance Abuse
- Recognition and Clinical Response to the Effects of Parental Alcohol and Other Drug Problems on Children and Adolescents
- The Culture of the Addicted Client
Working with Families
- Clinical Practice with Children and Families Impacted by Alcohol and Substance Abuse, Physical and Sexual Abuse, AIDS, Violence and Homelessness
- Family Therapy: Transference and Countertransference
- Multiple Family Group: The Theories Behind this Intervention and Its Implications
- Severe Mental Illness and Impact on Family Life
- Strength-Based Practice with Chronically Stressed Inner City Families
- Understanding and Treating the Borderline Family
To discuss this in more detail please contact:
Eileen Wolkstein, PhD
Director, Division of Lifelong Learning and
Professional Development
1 Washington Square North
New York, NY 10003
Phone: (212) 998-9099
Email: eileen.wolkstein@nyu.edu
