SSW adjunct faculty member, Arlene Istar Lev, LCSW-R, CASAC, is mentioned in this New York Times article about the "Sex and Attachment: Coming Together" symposium, sponsored by the New York Center for Emotionally Focused Therapy.
Lev is the author of "The Complete Lesbian and Gay Parenting Guide" and "Transgender Emergence: Therapeutic Guidelines for Working with Gender-Variant People and their Families," which won the American Psychological Association (Division 44) Distinguished Book Award in 2006. She teaches "Clinical Skills Working with Gender Nonconforming Children and Transgender Youth" in SSW's Professional Education Seminars.
For more information, visit http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/05/fashion/first-comes-sex-talk-with-these-renegades-of-couples-therapy.html
The final lecture in SSW's 2015 Public Lecture Series brings alumna Dr. Maria Yellow Horse Brave Heart back to Smith on July 27--and draws a delegation from Maine-Wabanaki REACH. Brave Heart's work and its implications for the Wabanaki group are explored in this Smith College Grecourt Gate article.
For more information, visit http://www.smith.edu/news/talk-by-ssw-alumna-brave-heart/