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Announcement
November 28, 2006
School of Social Work Offers Evidence-Based Practice in Mental Health Course
The Columbia University School of Social Work (CUSSW) is partnering with the New York State Office of Mental Health (NYS-OMH) and other schools of social work across the state to train social workers in evidence-based practices for adults diagnosed with serious mental illness.
The course is aimed at developing recovery-oriented knowledge and skills such as motivational interviewing techniques, illness self-management, family psychoeducation, treatment strategies for co-occurring substance abuse disorders, medication management, assertive community treatment (ACT), supported employment, social skills training, and several other treatments. Students will learn to examine research literature to determine the various levels of support for specific interventions and essential principles for translating research into practice. In addition, they will identify the appropriate treatment outcomes that reflect effective, quality, mental health practice. Each evidence-based practice presented will be examined for its utility with diverse groups. In the spring of 2007 the course will be co-taught at CUSSW by Professors Ellen Lukens and Kathy Shear.
OMH employees, who are members of CSEA, PEF, or designated M/C, may be able to receive partial or full tuition reimbursement for this course. Interested employees should check to see if reimbursement can be granted under their specific tuition reimbursement program prior to applying to any of the participating schools. Tuition reimbursement information and requirements may be found for:
To learn more about this course, visit: http://www.omh.state.ny.us/omhweb/ebp/sw/. For more information on registration requirements at CUSSW, please contact Karma Lowe at 212-851-2364 or [email protected].
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About CUSSW (www.socialwork.columbia.edu)
For more than 100 years, the Columbia University School of Social Work has been the leader in practice and policy. Located in New York City, the School offers Master’s and Doctoral programs which are nationally and internationally recognized for their excellence. With a signature curriculum and far-reaching field education experience, CUSSW continues to be at the forefront of clinical practice, public policy, teaching, research and social work innovation in the 21st Century.
About Ellen Lukens
Dr. Lukens has extensive experience in the development and application of educational and psychoeducational interventions designed to improve the course of illness for people with severe mental illness, and their family members. She is particularly interested in the use of group interventions, and how professional and practical knowledge of leaders and participants can be used together to enhance both the educational and therapeutic aspects of treatment, strengthen resiliency and coping skills and reduce stress. In addition she has clinical expertise related to practice with families and children, and with siblings of persons with chronic illness. Currently she is involved in several research projects related to her clinical interests.
About Katherine Shear
Dr. Shear graduated with honors from the University of Chicago and attended Tufts University Medical School. After completing residencies in Internal Medicine and Psychiatry, and a research fellowship in psychosomatic medicine, she joined the faculty in the Department of Psychiatry at Cornell University Medical College. During her tenure at Payne Whitney Clinic she established the Department’s first clinical research program in Anxiety Disorders. This multidisciplinary group served as an important training site for pre and post-doctoral students, fellows and faculty, and established strong collaborative links, both within Cornell and at other institutions. Dr. Shear’s well funded research group obtained grants from NIMH, private foundations and pharmaceutical companies. Their work made a major contribution in the area of Panic Disorder, including theoretical and practice-based publications.
In addition to a major focus on treatment studies, Dr. Shear has engaged in a line of investigation related to development and testing of assessment instruments. Among the instruments that resulted from this work are the widely used Panic Disorder Severity Scale, as well as a newer Generalized Anxiety Disorder Severity Scale, a structured version of the Hamilton Rating Scale for Anxiety, an instrument to assess adult separation anxiety disorder and several new grief assessment measures. She has served on the scientific advisory board of the Italy-based Spectrum Project (www.spectrum-project.org). Most recently, she has worked in the area of bereavement and grief. She developed and tested a novel treatment for the newly identified condition of complicated grief. This work culminated in the publication in June 2005 of the first randomized controlled treatment study for complicated grief.
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