Advanced Clinical Practice

Post-Master's Certificate Program

The Post-Master's Certificate in Advanced Clinical Practice is a two semester course of study. The program is unique in providing an integrated and broad spectrum of contemporary theories and models of practice.

Program Highlights

• Contemporary psychoanalytic, relational, attachment, and trauma and their practice implications
• Treatment principles and process, particularly with respect to the therapeutic relationship and dialogue
• Issues related to multiculturalism and diversity
• Emotional disorders
• Childhood trauma
• Contemporary Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and its application to treatment issues
• Dialectical Behavioral Therapy and treatment
• Self- and other regulatory principles in couples and individuals
• Working with fathers in treatment
• Introduction to Somatic issues in treatment
• Object Relations and Self Psychology theories and practice
• Work with LGBTQIA+ populations
• Introduction to EMDR
• Contemporary innovations in Psychodynamic theories and practice, including: Mentalization and Reflective Function, concepts of Implicit Knowing and trauma, and the work of the Boston Change Process Study Group, which utilizes Attachment Research (EBT) in treatment concepts and perspectives

This certificate requires the completion of 18 two-hour sessions over the course of two semesters at NYU's Washington Square campus in Greenwich Village, NYC. Assignments include weekly readings and a final learning assessment in the form of a written assignment.

The program runs in-person on Thursdays at New York University's Washington Square Campus in NYC from 4:55–6:55pm ET, over the course of the 2023-24 academic year. Specific dates will be announced shortly.

Dr. Raashida Edwards, DSW, LCSW

Dr. Raashida Edwards is an Advanced Clinical Practice Program graduate. She received her Doctor of Social Welfare (DSW) in Clinical Social Work from the New York University (NYU) Silver School of Social Work and her Master of Science in Social Work from the Columbia University School of Social Work (CUSSW).

Dr. Edwards completed her post-graduate training at New York University, The Ackerman Institute for the Family, Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy (ICP), and The Metropolitan Institute for Training in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy (MITPP). She recently presented her clinical work with professional sex providers who are also adult survivors of prepubescent sexual abuse at the International Psychohistorical Association (IPA) and the American Association for Psychoanalysis in Clinical Social Work (AAPCSW) conferences.

From the Director: 
The Post-Master's Certificate Program in Advanced Clinical Practice (ACP) is an 18-session bi-weekly course scheduled from September until June. The ACP is customized for newly graduated and seasoned mental health professionals.

The program addresses contemporary models of treatment used in both agency and private practice. We do not favor one model over another but instead encourage critical thinking. All models presented highlight issues of race, class, gender, systemic disparities, and the effects of COVID-19 on the micro, mezzo, and macro aspects of mental health. All coursework is supported by their respective current research.

Students will learn psychodynamic/psychoanalytic, object relations theory, contemporary self-psychology, attachment-related treatment, classic DBT, multifamily DBT, CBT and its applications to depression, anxiety, and trauma, affirmative therapy with LBGTQIA+ individuals, somatic experiencing, dissociation and the trans experience, and treatment applications for adult survivors of prepubescent sexual abuse.

Classes are in-person to restore and bolster opportunities for connections lost during the pandemic.

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.

Access the Post-Master's Certificate application here.

Application Deadline: August 15, 2023

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/DSW/PhD alumni
  
• 25% discount for field instructors currently working with NYU Silver School of Social Work graduate students.
• 15% discount for applicants 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.