2. LCSW Children’s Mental Health Fellowship
  3. LCSW Fellowship Activities

LCSW Fellowship Activities

Program Outline:

  • Service delivery to include supervised mental health assessments and therapeutic sessions covering assessing, diagnosing, treatment planning, discharge planning, and connection to community care
  • Under the supervision of the Program Director and Licensed Clinical Social Work Supervisor, fellows provide evidence-based mental health services to children, youth, and adults
  • Each LMSW carries a clinical caseload and provides 1-4 therapy sessions per day
  • Weekly, competency based didactic sessions for increased knowledge on social work core competencies
  • Weekly group supervision
  • Monthly individual supervision
  • Multidisciplinary team engagement to include social work, psychologists, and psychiatrists
  • Fellows will see patients through the Texas Child Health Access Through Telemedicine (TCHATT) program and the BBSB Psychiatry Clinic

Clinical Supervision:

  • Monthly Individual and weekly group clinical supervision towards LCSW licensure is provided
  • 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
    • Case conceptualization
    • Ethics
    • Psychiatric diagnosis using DSM-V-TR criteria
    • Trauma-informed care
    • Personal growth as an independent clinician
    • Administration and interpretation of validated clinical assessments to tailor treatment

Fellowship Alignment with CSWE Standards

The Council on Social Work Education (CSWE) underscores the importance of competency based education to prepare social workers for ethical, evidence-informed practice. The fellowship advances this mission by:

  1. Providing advanced clinical training that strengthens fellows’ capacity to deliver high quality, culturally responsive, and client-centered care across diverse populations in the outpatient setting.
  2. Bridging research and practice by ensuring that clinical interventions are grounded in current evidence and emerging developments in social work.
  3. Fostering lifelong professional growth by cultivating reflective practice, ongoing skill development, and a commitment to adapting to evolving to community needs and societal challenges.