Social workers with two years of post-graduate experience are encourage to apply to this unique certificate program in our Continuing Education program.
Social workers encounter death, dying and bereavement in every setting in which they work, but few have been prepared to take leadership in changing the culture in work with the dying and with their families. This program, the first in this country and now in its ninth year, provides social workers relational ways of learning in a community of colleagues, with an outstanding faculty of leaders in the field. Students take advanced coursework over two long weekends, punctuated by a clinical internship where they study two to three study cases intensively using individual telephonic supervision, and telephonic group supervision, and where they are mentored in taking leadership in the field, including in publishing.
This certificate program is co-sponsored by Baystate Medical Center, a part of Tufts New England Medical Center. Supervisors are outstanding practitioners chosen by the program. The program is directed by award-winning faculty member, Dr. Joan Berzoff.
The dates of the 2014-2015 certificate are October 23-26, 2014 and April 16-19, 2015. The application deadline is September 1, 2014.
57 Continuing Education credits are awarded on completion of the Certificate.
For more information, visit http://www.smith.edu/ssw/acad_cont_graduate_elc.php