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Professional Development Program
Autumn 2009 Schedule
Winter/Spring 2010 PDP Schedule available January 4, 2010
Professional Development Instructors
Lynn Anderson, AM
Lynn Anderson is a licensed clinical social worker with more than twenty years of experience. In addition to her private clinical and consulting practice, she has significant experience in training, supervising, and evaluating students in field education programs. Ms. Anderson has also designed and delivered various workshops on supervision and instruction, and has served as an adjunct instructional staff member at the University of Chicago School of Social Service Administration (SSA) for several years, where she also earned her AM degree.
Ann Bergart, PhD
Ann Bergart is retired Associate Professor, School of Social Work, College of Professional Studies, Aurora University. She has been teaching group work and other subjects to social work students since 1989. During that year she started her private practice with individuals, couples, and groups. She also conducts in-service training workshops and group work consultation in local agencies. Ms. Bergart received her AM in social work from the University of Chicago School of Social Service Administration, where she later earned a doctorate. Prior to this, she worked in family service agencies for twenty years, where she trained and supervised staff and students in group work, as well as other modalities. Ms. Bergart has published numerous articles in professional journals and other media, including articles about group work in SocialWork with Groups. She serves on the International Board of the Association for the Advancement of Social Work with Groups (AASWG), and is Membership Chair of the Illinois Chapter of that organization.
Victor Bernstein, PhD
Victor Bernstein is Research Associate (Associate Professor) at the University of Chicago School of Social Service Administration. In addition, he is a consultant, trainer, and co-founder of the Ounce of Prevention Fund (Illinois) Developmental Training and Support Program. Mr. Bernstein conducts research on parent-child interaction. His principal interest is in using observation and inquiry to strengthen relationships in order to improve the developmental outcomes in children born at risk. He has written articles on how to use videotape and developmental demonstrations to encourage positive involvement between parents and children. He has trained staff from a variety of primary prevention, Early Head Start, early intervention (birth to three), child welfare and drug treatment programs in these techniques.
Norah Blackaller, MA
Norah Blackaller is Manager of Training and Development at the University of Chicago, where she oversees the development and delivery of workplace learning programs and provides organizational development guidance. Ms. Blackaller is an experienced instructor who has spent her entire career facilitating employee development. She earned her MA in organizational communication from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and pursued advanced training from the University of Chicago Graham School, the National Training Laboratories (NTL) Institute, the Society for Human Resources Management, and the Association for Psychological Type.
Robert Bloom, PhD
Robert Bloom is the Executive Director of the Jewish Child and Family Services of Chicago (a two year old merger of the Jewish Children's Bureau and the Jewish Family and Community Service). For over thirty years he has worked as a teacher, therapist, consultant, program director, and executive administrator in the fields of educational and psychological services to children with disabilities and their families. He has taught many courses on child development and childhood psychopathology, published widely, most recently on risk management topics such as institutional child sexual abuse, the malpractice risks of working in a managed behavioral health care system, and the management of residential treatment centers. Most recently, Mr. Bloom has been speaking about not-for-profit mergers and not-for-profit leadership. Mr. Bloom holds a BS from the University of Chicago, an MA from Northeastern Illinois University, and a PhD from the University of Minnesota.
William Borden, PhD
William Borden is Senior Lecturer at the University of Chicago School of Social Service Administration and Lecturer in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Chicago, where he teaches courses on contemporary psychodynamic theory, human development, and comparative psychotherapy. He has written articles, essays, and books on relational perspectives in contemporary psychoanalysis, integrative perspectives in psychosocial intervention, brief psychotherapy, and narrative psychology, and conducted empirical research on stress, coping, and development across the life course. His current work focuses on recent developments in neuroscience and integrative perspectives in psychosocial intervention. Mr. Borden has worked as a clinician, supervisor, and consultant in mental health settings since 1983. He received the SSA Excellence in Teaching Award in 2000, and has been teaching in the PDP at SSA for twenty years.
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Jerrold R. Brandell, PhD
Jerrold R. Brandell is Distinguished Professor, Wayne State University School of SocialWork, in Detroit,Michigan, where he has taught since 1992. Mr. Brandell previously held faculty appointments at Boston University and Michigan State University, and has been a Visiting Professor at The University of Canterbury, in Christchurch, New Zealand. He also received an Edith Abbott Doctoral Teaching Fellowship in 1981 while pursuing doctoral study at SSA. A practicing child, adolescent, and adult psychotherapist, and psychoanalyst, he is the author, coauthor, or editor of eight books, including Of Mice and Metaphors (Basic Books, 2000 and University of Sichuan Press, 2006); Psychodynamic SocialWork (Columbia University Press, 2004); and Attachment and Dynamic Practice (Columbia University Press, 2007). He is currently preparing a Second Edition of Theory and Practice in Clinical SocialWork, to be published in 2010 by Sage Publications, as well as a co-edited book on the clinical and theoretical dimensions of trauma (with Shoshana Ringel). Mr. Brandell is (Founding) Editor-in-Chief, Psychoanalytic SocialWork (now beginning its 16th year of publication), and in 2001 was recognized as a Distinguished Practitioner by the National Academies of Practice.
Summerson Carr, PhD
Summerson Carr is an Assistant Professor at the University of Chicago School of Social Service Administration and Associate Faculty in the Department of Anthropology and the Center for Gender Studies. Ms. Carr conducted ethnographic research at a drug treatment program for homeless women where she explored how American ideas about addiction, language, and personhood are put into practice by counselors, case managers, and clients. She recently initiated a second ethnographic study of motivational interviewing; she focuses on how practitioners are trained and develop expertise in this approach, which is currently impacting a number of fields of clinical practice, including addiction treatment. Ms. Carr received a PhD in Anthropology and SocialWork at the University of Michigan, where she also earned an MSW, an MA in Anthropology, and a Graduate Certificate in Women's Studies.
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Heather M. Caruso, PhD
Heather M. Caruso is an organizational and social psychologist whose research and teaching interests focus on intergroup collaboration (e.g., cross-functional teams) and value creation in negotiation. These interests grew out of her undergraduate training in psychology and economics at Stanford University, as well as from her career in the private sector, as Director of Engineering for a multinational Internet startup. This background allowed her to bring systematic analysis to her first-hand experiences with negotiation and collaboration between people from different ages, industries, training backgrounds, and cultural backgrounds. Ms. Caruso developed these analyses further in a subsequent academic career, receiving her PhD in Organizational Behavior from Harvard University in 2008. In the last several years, she has taught classes on teams, culture, negotiation, and management at the undergraduate, MBA, and executive level. Ms. Caruso is currently a postdoctoral scholar at the Center for Decision Research in the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.
Nancy Chertok, AM
Nancy Chertok is Associate Director of Field Education at the University of Chicago School of Social Service Administration. She provides consultation to field instructors, field liaisons, and students with the goal of optimizing learning experiences in the field. Ms. Chertok earned her master's degree from SSA and an LCSW from the State of Illinois. She has been the Director of Case Management Services at La Rabida Children's Hospital and Research Center, and program director for a multi-service program serving children and adults with autism, as well as providing clinical services to individuals and couples in private practice and through the Northwestern Medical Faculty Foundation. Ms. Chertok has worked in clinical, administrative, and supervisory positions for the past twenty-five years.
Jack G. Cox, MSW
Jack G. Cox is the school social worker at Lane Tech College Preparatory High School in Chicago. He has worked for the Chicago Public Schools system for twenty years, primarily with adolescents at the high school level. He also maintains his own private practice. His professional interests include adolescent treatment, educational policy, substance abuse, school social work, and field instruction. Mr. Cox is a licensed clinical social worker, holds Type 10 and 73 certificates, and is currently completing his certified alcohol and drug counselor training. He received a BEd from Illinois State University and an MSW from Loyola University Chicago.
Carroll Cradock, PhD
Carroll Cradock has focused on treatment and research with divorced- and single-parent families from a resilience perspective throughout her thirty-year career. Currently she is Director of Behavioral Health Services at Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center and Associate Professor of Psychology in Psychiatry at the College of Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago. In her private practice, she specializes in working with divorcing families as a clinical psychologist and as a divorce mediator. She also conducts research on resiliency in fathers raised without fathers.
Adam Davis, PhD
Adam Davis is Senior Research and Teaching Associate with the Project on Civic Reflection and the editor of Hearing the Call across Traditions: Readings on Faith and Service, as well as the co-editor of The Civically Engaged Reader and Talking Service: Readings for Reflection. Mr. Davis is the founder and lead facilitator of Justice Talking, a reading and discussion series for AmeriCorps and other service organizations, and an instructor in The Odyssey Project, a college level humanities program for low-income adults. Mr. Davis received his PhD from the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago, his MA from Boston College, and his BA from Kenyon College.
Mary Fabri, PsyD
Mary Fabri is Director of Torture Treatment Services and International Training at Heartland Alliance Marjorie Kovler Center in Chicago, Illinois. Ms. Fabri was previously a staff psychologist
at Cook County Hospital and program director for the Bosnian Mental Health Program and the Refugee Mental Health Training Program, both at Heartland Alliance. She has published and presented internationally on the psychological consequences of torture, refugee mental health, working with interpreters in mental health settings, and cross-cultural psychotherapy. She is currently working in Rwanda and Kurdistan, training health providers on the long-term consequences of trauma and implications for treatment. Ms. Fabri received her doctorate in psychology from the Illinois School of Professional Psychology.
Paulette Freed, MSW
Paulette Freed is a licensed clinical social worker with over thirty years of experience in a variety of social service agencies. From 1990 to 2007 she worked at Youth Guidance, a school based agency targeting at-risk children and youth. She is also in private practice. Ms. Freed is currently an Affiliate Psychotherapist at the Family Institute where she sees individuals and families, and a consultant at the Chicago Childcare Society. She received her MSW from Boston University in group work.
Jill R. Gardner, PhD
Jill R. Gardner has been an Adjunct Instructional Staff member at the University of Chicago School of Social Service Administration and a Visiting Professor at the Institute for Clinical Social Work. She is a frequent presenter at workshops and in-service programs and has published papers on the use of self psychology in brief treatment and supervision. She also does executive coaching and has consulted to numerous organizations and businesses on management and organizational issues. Ms. Gardner is a licensed psychologist with more than thirty five years' experience in community mental health and private practice in Chicago.
Gary Gilles, MA, MDiv
Gary Gilles is a licensed clinical professional counselor in practice since 1987. In addition to a private practice in Palatine, Illinois, he serves as an Adjunct Faculty member in psychology for Trinity International University and Argosy University. Mr. Gilles also conducts training workshops and provides consultations to business and social service professionals. He has been an instructor in the Professional Development Program at SSA since 2000.
Nancy Good, AM
Nancy Good provides psychotherapy, biofeedback, stress management training, eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR), and consultation in her private practice. She holds an MSW from the University of Illinois and completed an additional three-year postgraduate training program in family systems theory at the Georgetown University Family Institute. Ms. Good is certified by the NASW, EMDRIA, and BCIA.
Diane Gould, LCSW
Diane Gould began working professionally with children with special needs in 1980. Since that time, she has been dedicated to serving children with developmental disabilities and their families. Ms. Gould has worked both in special education and for social service agencies, including Northwest Suburban Special Education Organization and Niles Township District for Special Education. Ms. Gould was the Childhood Disability and Family Support Specialist at the Jewish Children's Bureau for ten years. She has published on the topic of home visiting and has led support programs for parents and siblings. She has also been active in working on social skills and facilitating inclusion of students with special needs. In addition to being a clinician, Ms. Gould is a Board Certified Behavior Analyst. She provides behavioral interventions to schools and families and has a private practice in Highland Park. Ms. Gould is a member of the Autism Society of Illinois and serves on its professional advisory board.
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Scott M. Granet, MSW
Scott M. Granet is a licensed clinical social worker based in Northern California. He has worked with the Palo Alto Medical Clinic Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health since 1989, where he provides individual, couples, family, and group therapy. He specializes in the treatment of Obsessive-Compulsive Spectrum disorders. In 2008 Mr. Granet opened the OCD-BDD Clinic of Northern California. He earned his MSW from New York University.
Neil Guterman, PhD
Neil B. Guterman is the Mose and Sylvia Firestone Professor at the University of Chicago School of Social Service Administration and a Faculty Associate at the Chapin Hall Center for Children. His scholarly interests are concerned with services targeting children and violence, and he holds special interest in child abuse and neglect prevention, as well as children's exposure to violence outside the home. He is the director of the Beatrice Cummings Mayer Program in Violence Prevention at SSA, and serves as Chair of the Institutional Review Board at SSA and Chapin Hall. At SSA he teaches courses on direct social work practice and violence prevention. As a noted authority on children and violence exposure, his expertise has been tapped by the U. S. Surgeon General's Office, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the International Society for Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect, Prevent Child Abuse America, and the National Conference of State Legislatures. Mr. Guterman holds a Ph.D. in Social Work and Psychology from the University of Michigan, an M.S.W. in clinical practice with families and children, also from the University of Michigan, and a B.A. in psychology with highest honors from the University of California, Santa Cruz.
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Paul Holmes, PsyD
Paul Holmes is Founder and Managing Partner of the Emotion Management Program (EMP). He has wide-ranging experience working with multiproblem client populations and has provided dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) services since 1994. Mr. Holmes's current interests focus on the impact of mindfulness on private experiences associated with self-injurious behavior and emotional dysregulation. Mr. Holmes is an Adjunct Instructor at the University of Chicago School of Social Service Administration and was previously a faculty member in the University's Department of Psychiatry. He has been an instructor in the Professional Development Program at SSA since 2001.
Martha Holstein, PhD
Martha Holstein has worked in the field of aging for over thirty years and has been doing training in and teaching ethics for more than twenty years. She is an independent consultant with the Center for Long-Term Care Reform, a program of the Health and Medicine Policy Research Group. Ms. Holstein writes frequently on ethical issues and aging largely from a feminist perspective. She earned her master's degree in history from the University of Missouri and her Ph.D. in medical humanities from the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston. She teaches Professional Ethics at Northwestern University and at the Spertus Institute for Jewish Studies, and Health Care Ethics and Ethics and Aging at Loyola University.
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Nancy Johnstone, AM
For thirty-two years, Nancy Johnstone was the Executive Director of Youth Guidance, a social service agency noted for its high-quality, innovative, school-based programs targeted to Chicago's at-risk children and youth. Since November 2005, she has been the Executive Director of the Chicago Child Care Society, a child welfare agency serving vulnerable children, youth, and families. She is also involved in the broader area of human service delivery through her volunteer work with United Way and participation on the Visiting Committee to the University of Chicago School of Social Service Administration. She is an adjunct instructor at the University of Chicago School of Social Service Administration and a frequent presenter in the Professional Development Program. In 1994, Ms. Johnstone received an Alumni Public Service Citation from the University of Chicago Alumni Association for exemplary leadership in voluntary service. She received her bachelor's degree from Wittenberg University in Ohio and her master's degree in social work from Carleton University in Canada.
Susan Knight, AM
Susan Knight has been the Director of Field Education at the University of Chicago School of Social Service Administration since 2005. She has taught field instructor training workshops and facilitated applied learning seminars to bridge theory and practice for graduate social work students. Prior to coming to SSA, Ms. Knight held clinical, program development, and supervisory positions in a variety of hospital-based, maternal child health programs. Ms. Knight is a licensed clinical social worker who received a BA in psychology from Pitzer College, and an AM from the University of Chicago School of Social Service Administration.
Bruce Koff, MSW
Bruce Koff is Partner and COO of Live Oak, Inc., an organization that provides counseling and educational services to enhance the emotional and psychological well-being of individuals, families, organizations, and communities. He is an associate faculty member at the Chicago Center for Family Health, an affiliate of the University of Chicago, and an adjunct instructor at the University of Chicago School of Social Service Administration. Mr. Koff is the former Executive Director of the Center on Halsted (formerly Horizons Community Services) and former Clinical Director of the Evelyn Hooker Center for Gay and Lesbian Mental Health, a program of the University of Chicago Department of Psychiatry. He is also a former adjunct faculty member for the Illinois School of Professional Psychology. Mr. Koff is the coauthor of Something to Tell You: The Road Families Travel When a Child Is Gay (Columbia University Press, 2000) and a member of the American Family Therapy Academy. He has expertise in a wide range of LGBT issues, including clinical practice with individuals, couples, and families; domestic violence; working with youth; ethical issues; HIV; and recovery from trauma (including childhood abuse).
SuAnne Lawrence, AM
SuAnne Lawrence serves as Director of the Midwest Regional Training Center and Project Manager in the Youth Guidance Comer School Network. Her area of specialization is training and adult education. She holds primary responsibility for designing and delivering conferences, workshops, and in-service programs for the Chicago Comer School Network as well as for the Comer School Development Program 101 Leadership Academy. Ms. Lawrence has assisted schools in Virginia, Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Chicago in implementing the Comer School Development Program. She received a master's degree from the University of Chicago School of Social Service Administration in 1976 and holds a bachelor's degree in secondary education from the University of Illinois at Chicago. She is a national faculty member for the Yale University School Development Program.
Carla M. Leone, PhD
Carla Leone is a licensed clinical psychologist with a private practice specializing in the treatment of children, adolescents, adults, couples, and families from the perspective of self psychology. She also consults with community groups regarding crisis situa¬tions. Ms. Leone has served as the director of training at Turning Point Behavioral Health Center, where she developed, planned, and implemented a training program for pre-doctoral psychology interns and supervised interns. She earned her PhD in clinical psychology at Loyola University–Chicago, and has published several papers on therapy from the perspective of self psychology.
Jeff Levy, MS, MSW
Jeff Levy is President/CEO of Live Oak, Inc., along with being a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and a Certified Therapeutic Recreation Specialist. He is also an Adjunct Instructional Staff member at SSA, University of Chicago. He holds dual master's degrees in social work and recreation therapy. Mr. Levy specializes in offering services to children, adolescents, families, and gay men-with an emphasis on addressing issues surrounding violence and trauma. He has presented workshops and seminars locally, regionally, and nationally. He has published several articles-the most recent of which have been published in In The Family Magazine-a publication for LGBT therapists and allies. Prior to his work at Live Oak, Mr. Levy was the Clinical Director at Teen Living Programs in Chicago and the Director of Program Development at The Center for Contextual Change in Skokie, specializing in services to individuals and families impacted by trauma.
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Regina Lopata Logan, PhD
Regina "Gina" Lopata Logan's professional life unites research, teaching, and practice in the field of adult development. She received a master's degree in adult education in 1984 and a doctorate in human development from Northwestern University in 1993. Ms. Lopata Logan, a developmental psychologist, is a Research Assistant Professor at the Foley Center for the Study of Lives, in the School of Education and Social Policy at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. She works with a team of personality, clinical, community, and narrative psychologists, studying personality in adulthood. Ms. Lopata Logan teaches courses in the areas of adult development, gender, and career development. In addition, Ms. Lopata Logan is the principal of Heartsong Consulting. For over thirty years, she has conducted workshops, seminars, and retreats in career/life planning, facilitator training, teaching and learning in adulthood, and the spiritual journey.
Katharine Mann, Ph.D.
Katherine Mann is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with a part-time private practice. She is also an Adjunct Instructional Staff member at SSA, University of Chicago. Ms. Mann specializes in short- and long-term treatment of adolescents, adults, and couples, along with infertility, adoption, and women's depression. Prior to teaching at SSA, she was a part-time faculty member at the Institute for Clinical Social Work, Chicago. Ms. Mann is a board member with the Scholarship and Guidance Association; a member of the Support Services Committee with Resolve of Illinois, Inc.; and a member of NASW of Illinois' Committee on Inquiry, where she has been on a panel hearing allegations of NASW ethics and personnel policy violations since 1980. She earned her A.M. and Ph.D. from SSA.
Ord Matek, MSW
Ord Matek is an Associate Professor Emeritus at Jane Addams College of Social Work at the University of Illinois at Chicago. In his private practice, he specializes in marital counseling, depression, anxiety, and grief, and has expertise in residential treatment. Mr. Matek has been teaching in the PDP at SSA for more than 17 years.
Dennis McCaughan, PhD
Dennis McCaughan is a licensed clinical psychologist in the independent practice of psychotherapy and consultation. He received his doctorate from the University of Chicago and for many years was affiliated with the adolescent services at Illinois State Psychiatric Institute, where he held a number of clinical and training positions. He is currently on the faculty of the Institute for Clinical Social Work and has taught at Northwestern University, the University of Illinois, and at SSA since 1997 in the areas of human development, interpersonal psychoanalysis, and psychotherapy. Mr. McCaughan is a consulting psychotherapist at the St. James Cathedral Counseling Center, Chicago and The Community House, Hinsdale, Illinois, and is a contributing editor to Schools: Studies in Education.
Stanley G. McCracken, PhD
Stanley G. McCracken is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Chicago School of Social Service Administration. He has published in the areas of evidence-based practice, psychiatric rehabilitation, chemical dependence, behavioral pharmacology, behavioral medicine, aging, and staff training. He is co-author of Interactive Staff Training and Practice Guidelines for Extended Psychiatric Residential Care. Mr.McCracken has thirty years of experience as a clinician, educator, and consultant specializing primarily in mental health, chemical dependence, and dual disorders. He serves on a number of editorial, review, and advisory boards in evidence-based practice, mental health, chemical dependence, and multicultural/multilingual mental health services.Mr.McCracken is a licensed clinical social worker and registered dual disorder professional.
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Susan McCracken, PhD
Susan McCracken is a licensed psychologist in private practice, specializing in the diagnosis and treatment of anxiety disorders, mood disorders, eating disorders, stress-related illnesses, and pain syndromes in children, adolescents, and adult survivors of incest and sexual abuse. In addition to over thirty-two years' experience in medical centers and hospitals across the city, she has significant teaching experience and has been an adjunct instructional staff member at the University of Chicago School of Social Service Administration since 1995.
Paul-Brian McInerney, PhD
Paul-Brian McInerney holds a PhD in sociology from Columbia University. He is currently an Assistant Professor of Sociology at The University of Illinois at Chicago. Mr. McInerney's research concerns information technology in the nonprofit sector, particularly IT consultants. He has authored numerous reports, book chapters, and articles in the information technology area. He also worked for several years as a consultant to nonprofit organizations in New York City.
Catherine G. McNeilly, PsyD
Catherine G.McNeilly is on the Core Doctoral Faculty at the Adler School of Professional Psychology. She recently served as Chief of the Office of Quality Improvement and Senior Consultant to the Office of Training in the Division of Clinical Services and Program Development at the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services. She had previously been the Manager for Mentally Ill Substance Abuser (MISA) programs for the Division of Alcoholism and Substance Abuse (DASA) in Illinois.Ms.McNeilly received her degree in clinical psychology from the Adler School of Professional Psychology in Chicago. She has extensive experience as a trainer, both nationally and locally. She is a certified drug and alcohol counselor who has worked in the field for over fifteen years.
Michael A. McNulty, PhD
Michael A. McNulty is a psychotherapist with over twenty years experience who maintains a private practice in Evanston and Highland Park, Illinois. He is a Certified Gottman Relationship Therapist. He is an Adjunct Faculty member of The Chicago School of Professional Psychology, where he has taught couples therapy, psychopathology, and international perspectives on mental health in Chicago and various counseling courses in Sri Lanka.
Jason T. McVicker, AM
Jason T. McVicker is a licensed clinical social worker and registered dual disorder professional with more than fifteen years of experience in a variety of settings. He is the former Director of Mental Health Services at Center on Halsted, the largest LGBT community center in the Midwest. He worked previously as Program Supervisor at Chicago House and Social Service Agency, Inc. He is a former Master Practitioner Instructor at the University of Chicago School of Social Service Administration (SSA), where he also earned his AM degree. Mr. McVicker currently serves as a Core Field Consultant for SSA and is a member of the advisory board for the Chicago School of Professional Psychology's Latino Studies Program. He maintains a clinical and consulting practice in the Uptown neighborhood of Chicago.
Darby Morhardt, MSW
Darby Morhardt is Research Associate Professor and Director of Education for the Cognitive Neurology and Alzheimer's Disease Center (CNADC) at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. She is a licensed clinical social worker with twenty-five years' experience counseling older adults and persons with Alzheimer's disease and their families in multidisciplinary healthcare settings, in addition to developing programs and support services for these clients. She conducts research in early onset and early-stage dementias. She holds an MSW from the University of Illinois at Chicago, where she also completed postgraduate work in family therapy.
Jennifer Mosley, PhD
Jennifer Mosley is an Assistant Professor at the University of Chicago School of Social Service Administration. Her fields of special interest include policy advocacy and lobbying, government-nonprofit relations, human service organizations, civic engagement, and social justice philanthropy. Her research focuses on the role of nonprofit organizations as political actors. At SSA, she teaches courses on policy formulation and implementation, advocacy & social change, and organizational theory. Her practice experience is in the areas of child welfare, community-based advocacy, and regional grantmaking. Ms. Mosley received her BA in psychology from Reed College and her MSW and PhD in social welfare from the University of California, Los Angeles.
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Nancy B. Perlson, AM
Nancy B. Perlson earned her AM in social work from the University of Chicago School of Social Service Administration. As a licensed social worker, she served as the Outreach and Education Coordinator for Willow House, an organization working with grieving children, teens, adolescents, and their families. Ms. Perlson developed the Willow House Survivors of Suicide Support Program. She serves on several advisory boards and committees, nationally and locally, dedicated to the prevention, intervention, and postvention support, advocacy, and education around mental illness and suicide.
Scott R. Petersen, AM
Scott R. Petersen is Director of Clinical Operations for Mental Health and Addiction Services at Heartland Health Outreach and maintains a private psychotherapy practice. He has been working with people affected by mental illness and substance use for over fifteen years as an outreach worker, case manager, psychotherapist, and program manager. He is a member of the Midwest Harm Reduction Institute, and the Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers (MINT), as well as an Adjunct Instructor at the University of Chicago School of Social Service Administration. Mr. Petersen received his master's degree from the University of Chicago School of Social Service Administration and completed addictions counseling training through Grant Hospital's Clinical Training Program for Addictions Counseling.
Janice M. Pyrce, AM, MBA
Janice M. Pyrce is President of Pyrce Healthcare Group and a member of the adjunct instructional staff at the University of Chicago School of Social Service Administration. She has been a national speaker on many health-care topics and has presented at meetings of the American Hospital Association, National Association of Psychiatric Health Systems, and other professional organizations. Ms. Pyrce has over two decades of health-care experience at the executive level and has been teaching in the Professional Development Program since 1997.
Scott D. Pytluk, PhD
Scott D. Pytluk is Associate Professor of Clinical Psychology at the Illinois School of Professional Psychology at Argosy University in Chicago. He is a faculty member at Live Oak, Inc.'s Postgraduate Training Program. Mr. Pytluk serves as cochair for the Division 39 Committee on Sexualities and Gender Identities and as liaison between Divisions 44 (Society for the Scientific Study of Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Issues) and 39 (Psychoanalysis) of the American Psychological Association. He has expertise in gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender psychology, diversity, and psychoanalytic theory. Mr. Pytluk maintains a private practice in Chicago working with LGBT individuals and the general population.
Brian Quinn, PhD
Brian Quinn is a clinical social worker in private practice in Huntington, New York. He is the author of Wiley Concise Guides to Mental Health: Bipolar Disorder (Wiley, 2007) and The Depression Sourcebook, (2nd ed., Lowell House, 2000). He earned his master's degree from the University of Chicago School of Social Service Administration in 1979 and his doctorate in clinical social work from New York University in 1994. He also has a postgraduate certificate in psychoanalytic psychotherapy from Beth Israel Medical Center in New York City.
Ann Fisher Raney, AM
Ann Fisher Raney is the Chief Executive Officer of Turning Point Behavioral Health Center in Skokie, Illinois and maintains a private psychotherapy practice. Since 1994, Ms. Raney has taught courses in psychotherapy and spirituality at SSA. She is a graduate of St. Olaf College and has earned master's degrees from The Divinity School at The University of Chicago,McCormick Theological Seminary, and SSA. Ms. Raney is a Board member of the Center for Religion & Psychotherapy of Chicago and the Program Committee of the Executive Service Corps of Chicago. In 2007, she received a certificate in Leadership Arts from The University of Chicago Graham School of General Studies. She will be a member of the 2009-2010 Leadership Evanston class.
Tina L. Rzepnicki, PhD
Tina L. Rzepnicki is a Professor at the School of Social Service Administration at the University of Chicago. Her fields of special interest include child welfare services, case decision-making, task-centered and behavioral practice, and practice research. Ms. Rzepnicki is also the Director of the Center for Social Work Practice and Principal Investigator of the Program Practices Project, Office of Inspector General, the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services. She has published broadly on issues of child welfare, family reunification, parenting, permanency planning, and direct practice, and is co-author of four books. Most recently, she edited, with Harold E. Briggs, Using Evidence in Social Work Practice: Behavioral Perspectives (Lyceum Books, 2004). Ms. Rzepnicki received her A.M. and Ph.D. degrees from SSA.
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Gina M. Samuels, PhD
Gina M. Samuels is an Assistant Professor at the School of Social Service Administration, a Faculty Affiliate of the Center for the Study of Race, Politics & Culture and a Faculty Associate at the Chapin Hall Center for Children at the University of Chicago. Ms. Samuels's work also promotes the application of interpretive research to inform foster care and adoption practice and policy. She has practiced social work in the areas of child welfare and child protective services, juvenile justice,Africentric school-based tutoring programs, and group therapy with female youth. She currently serves as a Research Expert on the Illinois Adoption Advisory Council and a Board Member of MAVIN Foundation, a national organization addressing the needs and concerns of multiracial populations and transracial adoptees in the United States. Her publications explore issues of kinship, sociocultural development, and racial/ethnic identity for youth and adults whose lives and family systems have been shaped by adoption or foster care. Ms. Samuels earned her MSSW and PhD in social welfare at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
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Gustavo Santana, MA
Gustavo Santana has worked as a Spanish and French professor at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) for twenty years. He received his MA in Comparative Literature and has two specializations: the Teaching of Foreign Languages and Mexican Studies. He has taught courses in Spanish and Mexican Culture and created on-line activities to teaching Spanish grammar. He is currently a faculty member of the UNAM Chicago Campus. Mr. Santana has collaborated as a translator in Mexican newspapers and cultural magazines in the United States and currently publishes in Internet magazine articles related to the field of literature, Spanish as a foreign language, and music.
Matthew D. Selekman, AM
Matthew D. Selekman is a couple and family therapist and addictions counselor in private practice. He is the co-director of Partners for Collaborative Solutions, an international family therapy training and consulting firm in Evanston, Illinois. He is an Approved Supervisor with the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy. Mr. Selekman received theWalter S. Rosenberry Award in 2006, 2000, and in 1999 from The Children's Hospital in Denver, Colorado for having made significant contributions to the fields of psychiatry and the behavioral sciences. He is the author of numerous family therapy articles and five professional books. Mr. Selekman has presented workshops on a collaborative strengthsbased brief family therapy approach with challenging children, adolescents, and adults extensively throughout the United States, Canada, Mexico, South America, Europe, Singapore, Indonesia, Hong Kong, and Australia.
Helene M. Snyder, JD
Helene M. Snyder is a graduate of the University of Chicago Law School and has a background in both private practice and public interest law, including two years as a guardian ad litem with the Office of the Cook County Public Guardian representing children in abuse and neglect proceedings and supervising courtroom attorneys. Her legal practice includes representation of children as their court-appointed attorney in custody and visitation cases and representation of parents in abuse, neglect, custody and visitation cases. Since 2005, she has taught courses on social work and law and on family policy at SSA. She is the immediate past chair of the Chicago Bar Association Domestic Relations Committee and presently serves on the Board of Directors of the Family Defense Center.
Karen Teigiser, AM
Karen Teigiser is Senior Lecturer and Deputy Dean for Curriculum at the University of Chicago School of Social Service Administration. Her fields of special interest include clinical work with children, curriculum design and evaluation, and community mental health. Ms. Teigiser teaches advanced generalist methods, clinical case seminars, and the treatment of children and their parents. She has taught review course material to faculty across the country and has taught SSA's review course for the LSW and LCSW exams for over twenty years. She is the 1999 recipient of the SSA's Excellence in Teaching Award. In addition to teaching, she oversees curriculum development and implementation in the master's degree program. From 1982 to 1999 she was director of SSA's Professional Development Program. She earned her AM from the University of Chicago School of Social Service Administration and is a licensed clinical social worker.
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Laura A. Wald, MSW
Laura A. Wald has been a clinical and special education social worker for thirty-four years. She received her undergraduate degree in Sociology and Psychology from Indiana University and a MSW from The GeorgeWarren Brown School of Social Work atWashington University in St. Louis. Her background includes working with children of all ages with learning disabilities, behavior disorders, chronic illness, and developmental disabilities, including autism-spectrum disorders. Her particular area of interest has been working with families through all life-cycle phases, helping them through the period of diagnosis and beyond. Her work also has included helping families through the emotional issues they face in trying to understand disability and providing supportive services to couples and families. Ms.Wald is a frequent presenter on family therapy and developmental disabilities. She is an instructor in Autism Spectrum Disorders and family issues at the Erikson Institute in Chicago. She is a member of the Autism Society of Illinois and serves as co-chair of its professional advisory board.
Steve Wallman, AM
Steve Wallman is a licensed clinical social worker in private practice in Evanston and Chicago. Previously he worked for eleven years at Youth Guidance as the Project Prepare/Mayor's Office of Workforce Development Program Manager. During that time, he developed a curriculum for leading groups for elementary and high school students. He used the curriculum to lead groups in the Chicago Public Schools and train school-based social workers. In his private practice, Mr. Wallman provides group therapy for adults specializing in relationship issues and major life transitions, as well as general counseling for individuals, couples, and families. As a member of the Illinois Group Psychotherapy Society, Mr. Wallman has participated in professional conferences, institutes, and trainings on group therapy. He also specializes in men's issues and is very active in the Chicago men's movement, Victories of the Heart, and the ManKind Project. Mr. Wallman received an AM from the University of Chicago School of Social Service Administration.
Rebecca White, PhD
Rebecca White is a quantitative psychologist who specializes in the study of judgment and decision making. Her primary research interests include the study of self-predictions of goal achievement and individual differences in decision making processes. Ms.White received her PhD from the Ohio State University in 2005, after which she was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Waterloo from 2005-2007. Ms.White has held research fellowships with the National Academy of Sciences and the National Opinion Research Center, through which she had the opportunity to apply her expertise in judgment and decision-making to projects that influenced public policy. In her consulting work as a Behavioral Research Specialist for Hewitt Associates, Ms.White provided analysis of the application of behavioral decision research to management and human resource issues, particularly with regards to retirement and health care programs. Ms.White has taught several courses on psychological topics including judgment and decision making, social psychology, and statistics for behavioral science. Currently, she is a postdoctoral scholar at the Center for Decision Research in the Chicago Booth School of Business.
Jill Zimmerman, AM
Jill Zimmerman is Vice President of the Alford Group, Inc., a national consulting firm to not-for-profit organizations based in Evanston, Illinois. She has more than twenty years of experience in the not-for-profit sector and has expertise in fund development, organizational development, corporate and foundation giving, and staff management. Before joining the Alford Group, Ms. Zimmerman was the Development Director for Alternatives, a youth and family service agency in Chicago. She also volunteers as a therapist at the Kovler Center for Victims of Torture and Abuse at the Heartland Alliance and has developed programs for UNICEF in Liberia, Africa. Ms. Zimmerman is a licensed clinical social worker who earned her master's degree from the University of Chicago School of Social Service Administration.
