Students learn about ethical and professional social work behavior, how to engage in research-informed practice and how to assess, intervene and evaluate the clients and populations they work with.
In an MSW program, students can expect to learn how to practice social work with individuals, families, groups, organizations and communities. Many MSW degree programs in California are offered both on-campus and online for distance learning. Various California MSW programs offer one- to four-year plans for obtaining an MSW degree. Master of Social Work (MSW) Programs in California and the USC Adolescent Trauma Training Center (USC-ATTC) – a designated Treatment and Service Adaptation Center of the National Child Traumatic Stress Network (NCTSN).Learn more about the Online Master of Social Work from USC. The program was presented by Greensboro AHEC in partnership with El Futuro Inc. After completing the training, participants were eligible for optional ongoing consultation via monthly conference calls with Lanktree and Briere. AHEC is doing something special in offering this training!”Ĭase studies were included in this program that emphasized working with unaccompanied minors, blended families, and acculturation in the Latino population. All of these are noteworthy and are impacting our health care providers. “The influx of unaccompanied minors into our area, high rates of human trafficking that are coming to our attention, and the way trauma during childhood affects brain development have increasingly received attention. “There are many reasons why this is relevant right now,” said Luke Smith, MD, psychiatrist and executive director of El Futuro, Inc. of Durham contacted Greensboro AHEC in hopes that this expertise could be shared with practitioners in North Carolina. Having been to a training with Briere and Lanktree in California last year, Karla Siu, MSW, LCSW, therapist and clinical program director at El Futuro, Inc. Thus, multiple treatments are usually necessary to aid these adolescents. A key message was that most trauma is complex in that individuals often suffer from multiple traumas over a lifetime and not just from a singular event. Hosted at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Social Work’s Tate Turner Kuralt Building, John Briere, PhD, and Cheryl Lanktree, PhD, of the department of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at the University of Southern California (USC) led a discussion of the central principles, assessments, components, treatments and interventions for complex trauma for adolescents. ITCT-A is an evidence-based treatment that was developed to assist clinicians in the evaluation and treatment of adolescents who have experienced multiple forms of psychological trauma, often in the context of negative living conditions such as poverty, deprivation, and social discrimination. Held October 14-15, 2015, Integrative Treatment of Complex Trauma for Adolescents (ITCT-A) provided an overview for clinicians, psychologists, social workers, counselors, substance abuse counselors, educators, and other mental health and health professionals. Cheryl Lanktree, PhD, and John Briere, PhD, department of psychiatry and behavioral sciences, University of Southern California Liz Griffin, MSW, LCSW, mental health continuing education coordinator, GAHEC and Christine Siegfried, MSSW, NCTSN Liaison, UCLA Neuropsychiatric Institute. Luke Smith, MD, psychiatrist & executive director, El Futuro, Inc.
Golding, MSN, RN, director of regional education-program development, Greensboro AHEC Karla Siu Daugherty, MSW, LCSW, therapist & clinical program director, El Futuro, Inc. Photo above (left to right): Lindsay Grether, project specialist, Greensboro AHEC Christopher S.