Social Work Training

Director: Elese Hairston, ACSW Assistant Professor
UPC Livonia
Phone: 734.464.4220

The Social Work Training Program offers masters level social work graduate students an opportunity to learn and work within a multidisciplinary team. Our goal is to contribute a social work perspective to the psychosocial rehabilitation of adults and children with mental illness, emotional disturbances, developmental disabilities, and substance abuse. To this end, the focus of training is on developing assessment skills, learning a variety of treatment interventions, and participating in clinical research. Upon completion of the internship, students will be prepared for prominent roles in inpatient and outpatient mental health facilities, residential facilities, and family service organizations.

Students are selected for placement at either our University Psychiatric Center-Livonia or University Psychiatric Center-Jefferson site. The program at Livonia focuses on mental health in children and adolescents from five through seventeen years of age; there is an opportunity to do family therapy as well as individual/play therapy. The two programs at Jefferson focus on mental health in adults. One of the adult programs is specifically directed to those individuals who have recently been diagnosed with psychosis; the focus is on early interventions with the goal of reducing the severity of symptoms and improving the long-term prognosis. In the second of our adult programs, the student will divide his/her time between the adult psychiatry training program and the Community Clinic. They will be involved in completing assessments, leading psycho-educational groups, case management, and some individual therapy.

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