LCSW Fellowship Activities
Service Delivery:
- Under the supervision of LCSW-S and Clinical Psychologists, fellows provide evidence-based mental health services to children and youth.
- Each LMSW carries a clinical caseload between 5-10 children and youth (4 – 17 years ) and provides 1-2 therapy sessions per day.
Clinical Supervision:
- Individual and group clinical supervision towards LCSW licensure is provided weekly.
- Clinical supervision adheres to best practice recommendations established by the National Association of Social Workers and includes topics on:
- Delivery of evidence-based psychotherapy and treatment fidelity
- Provider resilience and burnout prevention
- Cultural competence
- Ethics
- Psychiatric diagnosis using DSM-V criteria
- Trauma-informed care
- Administration and interpretation of validated clinical assessments to tailor treatment
Monthly Didactic Topics in collaboration with Psychology Interns and Psychiatry Residents:
- Evidence-based child/youth mental health treatment
- Impact of social determinants of health on mental health
- Impact of adverse childhood experiences on mental health
- School mental health
- Mental health of children/youth in out-of-home placement.
- Play therapy
- Suicide assessment and safety planning
- Interprofessional practice