Clinical Practice with Adolescents

Online Certificate Program

This post-master’s certificate program offers comprehensive and eclectic theoretical framework and practice approaches focused on specialized clinical practice skills in engagement, assessment, treatment, and prevention with adolescents and their families. It provides in-depth, culturally competent clinical knowledge and skills in areas of practice most relevant to work with adolescents and their families seen in diverse urban practice settings (health/mental health, psychiatric, youth development, community-based agencies, schools, day/residential treatment) and/or private practice. It is designed for clinicians as well as supervisors and program directors specializing in practice with adolescents.

Program Highlights

• Comprehensive, culturally competent clinical skills in engagement, assessment, treatment, and prevention
• Individual, family, and group skills for this population
• Psychodynamic, cognitive-behavioral, and family systems approaches
• School functioning and school problems; substance use/mis-use
• Case studies

"This program provides a fabulous overview of the unique issues that are tricky to navigate with adolescents, a rethinking of treatment modalities and their combinations, and focuses on issues that are particularly prevalent in adolescence such as depression, acting out, eating disorders, sexuality, and substance abuse. The talented professionals, specialists in their fields, who presented their ideas to us, provided us with valuable information and exposed us to what is current. I will be able to better serve my clients and their families."

- Sharon Kosakoff, MSW ’85, School Social Worker

This certificate is comprised of 18 sessions over two semesters, running bi-weekly Monday evenings 6:20 - 8:20 pm (dates to be determined). Assignments include weekly readings and a final learning assessment in the form of a case presentation.

DIane Mirabito, DSW, LCSW

Diane Mirabito is a Clinical Professor at NYU Silver. Dr. Mirabito’s areas of expertise in practice, teaching, and scholarship include integrated behavioral health; clinical practice and program development with adolescents and their families; social work practice in school-based settings; crisis intervention, trauma and brief treatment; and field instruction/advisement. She has presented her work in global Social Work settings and teaches a trauma elective course in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

36 NYSED and ASWB/ACE Continuing Education Contact Hours will be awarded for this program.

55 jurisdictions accept ACE-approved provider CE contact hours. ACE is not an approved Continuing Education provider in the states of New York (though NYU Silver is NYSED CE approved in NYS) and West Virginia, unless the event is outside of West VA. ACE only approves individual courses in New Jersey, though NYU Silver is CSWE-accredited and therefore accepted for licensed NJ professionals. Here is a full list of statutes related to social work CE.

This program will not run during the 2020-2021 academic year. Please check back in spring of 2021 for information about the 2021-2022 program.

The cost of this certificate program is $1,980, which includes registration fee and cost of an online compendium of readings.

Available discounts include:

• 25% discount for NYU Silver School of Social Work MSW/PhD alumni
  
• 25% discount for field instructors currently working with NYU Silver School of Social Work graduate students
• 15% discount for applications who have already completed one NYU Silver certificate program
• 50% discount for veterans

Please note: discounts may not be combined.

Deposit: Upon acceptance into the program, a $250 non-refundable deposit is required to secure your place. This deposit is applied to the total cost of tuition.