Summer Clinical Practicum

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This one-month program offers an opportunity to develop specific skills in family therapy through simulation and live-family interviews. Students work in a small-group format as a consultation team in addition to conducting individual therapy interviews. Students learn relational interviewing skills and systemic approaches to change.

Eligibility: A primary degree in social work, clinical psychology or psychiatry.
Time: 9:30 am – 3:30 pm
Tuition: $2,130. Tuition is due upon acceptance into the program.
CE Credits: 60

Dates:

July 6 – July 29, 2010 - 12 sessions, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays
with Rachael Berezin Knight, LCSW

OR

July 27 – August 19, 2010 - 12 sessions, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays
with Manuel Munoz, LCSW

Faculty: Rachael Berezin Knight, LCSW, is a teaching faculty member at the Ackerman Institute for the Family where she currently holds a staff position as the Intake Coordinator. Rachael has worked in numerous community settings with individuals and families and is currently pursuing advanced training in EFT (Emotionally Focused Therapy) and as a yoga teacher.

Ms. Knight maintains a private practice seeing Families, Couples, and Individuals in Brooklyn and Manhattan.

Faculty: Manuel Munoz, LCSW, is a certified social worker with almost 20 years of post-master’s experience in working with children, adolescents and adults in a variety of community-based mental health and educational settings. A graduate of the Hunter College School of Social Work with a post graduate certificate in family therapy from The State University of New York Health Science Center, he has extensive experience in supervision, teaching, program planning and administration, as well as direct practice. Mr. Munoz’ affiliation with the Ackerman Institute began in 1992 as a member of the “Making Families Safe for Children” Project. He also worked in the Family-Schools Collaboration Program and presently is a faculty member teaching a live clinical course.

Currently, Mr. Munoz is the Clinic Director of the Children’s Aid Society’s East Harlem Counseling Center, a community based mental health clinic program. In addition, he supervises the Society’s Families Affected by Alcohol and Substance Abuse Initiative and is a clinical consultant to its Preventive Services Program. He has been an Adjunct Associate Professor of Social Work at New York University and has taught and supervised in the family therapy training programs of the Roberto Clemente Family Guidance Center and the Institute of Family and Community Care. Mr. Munoz has presented on topics related to working with poor, ethnic-minority families, school issues, and working within larger systems. In 1997, he co-authored a chapter with Carol P. Kaplan, Ph.D., “Working with Poor Ethnic Minority Adolescents and their Families: An Ecosystemic Approach” in Multicultural Perspectives in Working with Families, Springer Publishing Company.

Mr. Munoz maintains a part-time private practice in individual, couple and family therapy.

The Ackerman Institute is approved by the APA; NASW, CT, and therefore NASW, NJ and NASW, NY.

For more information please contact:
Suna Elmas
selmas@ackerman.org
212-879-4900 ext 111