Dennis Miehls
Biographic Data
| ID | 5747770 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dennis Miehls |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dennis |
| FAMILY NAME | Miehls |
| SIGNATURE | MIEHLS D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Smith College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 21 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Neuroscience Insights That Inform Clinical Supervision
This article makes links between neuroscience literature that helps to inform a clinical supervision relationship. There has been a beginning, but limited, application of neuroscience to clinical supervision; this article offers vignettes of supervisory dyads that illustrate how understanding right-hemisphere communications between the supervisor and supervisee can further a more complex understanding of the clinical processes that are being disc…
Introduction to Neurobiology and Clinical Work
The purpose of this article1 is to familiarize the readers of this Special Issue of Smith College Studies in Social Work with fundamental theoretical concepts that are elaborated and deepened in th
An Educator's Guide to the Development of Advanced Practice Competencies in Clinical Social Work
The 2008 Educational Policy and Accreditation Standards identified 10 core competencies that all social work graduates should master. MSW programs found themselves with a need to identify knowledge, values, and skill statements that reflected what concentration-year students were expected to know and be able to do. In 2009 a group of educators convened at the Council on Social Work Education in Alexandria, VA to develop a model of advanced practi…
The Developmental Model of Supervision as Reflected in the Experiences of Field Supervisors and Graduate Students
Schools of social work invest an enormous amount of time and money training new field instructors to ensure their ability to help students integrate the knowledge, skill, and values of the profession. Some schools, like the one described here, frame their training in the context of a developmental model of supervision. Such models presume that student professional development follows a series of sequential, hierarchical stages from less to more c…
Transforming the legacies of childhood trauma in couple therapy: The biopsychosocial assessment as compass and anchor
This paper explicates a brief overview of a synthetic couple therapy practice model along with a detailed account of the institutional, interactional, and intrapersonal factors that are relevant in completing a thorough bio‐psychosocial assessment. It is based on a chapter expected to be published by Columbia University Press in an upcoming book titled Couple Therapy with Trauma Survivors. The text presents a practice model that demonstrates why …
Constructing social work identity based on the reflexive self
Journal Article Constructing social work identity based on the reflexive self Get access D Miehls, D Miehls Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar K Moffatt K Moffatt Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Social Work, Volume 30, Issue 3, June 2000, Pages 339–348, https://doi.org/10.1093/bjsw/30.3.339 Published: 01 June 2000
Development of Student Identity: Evolution from Neutrality to Subjectivity
In this paper, the authors illustrate how a diverse classroom can become the cite of the development of social work identity. The authors point out that social work principles of neutrality and objectivity may veil strategies of power that some learners adopt in order to facilitate the formation of a helping identity. Using a Foucaldian analysis of classroom interactions, the authors encourage students to understand that identity which is sociall…
Couple therapy: An integration of object relations and intersubjective theory
In this paper, a detailed clinical example of a couple therapy highlights how the integration of object relational and intersubjective theory is beneficial for the growth of the couple system. Theory based on Benjamin's (1992) formulation of “where objects were, subjects must be” (p. 44) frame the intersubjective treatment techniques reported here. In addition, a case example demonstrates how a couple began to manage the difficult challenge of ma…
Somatic illness: An attempt to further intrapsychic growth in couple systems
As a form of triangulation, somatic illness is conceptualized as serving symbolic functions in a couple system. Highlighting aspects of object relational couple theory, this paper examines the way in which a somatic illness becomes the catalyst for psychological growth in individuals who are in an intimate partnership. Clinical examples point to the need for differential diagnosis; differing levels of development influence the symbolic meaning of…
Conjoint treatment with narcissistic couples: Strategies to increase empathic interaction
Specific interventions which target the increase of empathic interactions in narcissistic couple systems are demonstrated. An affective appreciation of painful family of origin experiences of one's partner contributes to the overall cohesion of the couple system. This paper provides an overview of narcissistic couples and the use of a treatment technique which alters the empathic understanding of the individuals. Clinicalvignettes demonstrate the…
Constructing social work identity based on the reflexive self
Journal Article Constructing social work identity based on the reflexive self Get access D Miehls, D Miehls Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar K Moffatt K Moffatt Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Social Work, Volume 30, Issue 3, June 2000, Pages 339–348, https://doi.org/10.1093/bjsw/30.3.339 Published: 01 June 2000
The Developmental Model of Supervision as Reflected in the Experiences of Field Supervisors and Graduate Students
Schools of social work invest an enormous amount of time and money training new field instructors to ensure their ability to help students integrate the knowledge, skill, and values of the profession. Some schools, like the one described here, frame their training in the context of a developmental model of supervision. Such models presume that student professional development follows a series of sequential, hierarchical stages from less to more c…
Development of Student Identity: Evolution from Neutrality to Subjectivity
In this paper, the authors illustrate how a diverse classroom can become the cite of the development of social work identity. The authors point out that social work principles of neutrality and objectivity may veil strategies of power that some learners adopt in order to facilitate the formation of a helping identity. Using a Foucaldian analysis of classroom interactions, the authors encourage students to understand that identity which is sociall…
Conjoint treatment with narcissistic couples: Strategies to increase empathic interaction
Specific interventions which target the increase of empathic interactions in narcissistic couple systems are demonstrated. An affective appreciation of painful family of origin experiences of one's partner contributes to the overall cohesion of the couple system. This paper provides an overview of narcissistic couples and the use of a treatment technique which alters the empathic understanding of the individuals. Clinicalvignettes demonstrate the…
An Educator's Guide to the Development of Advanced Practice Competencies in Clinical Social Work
The 2008 Educational Policy and Accreditation Standards identified 10 core competencies that all social work graduates should master. MSW programs found themselves with a need to identify knowledge, values, and skill statements that reflected what concentration-year students were expected to know and be able to do. In 2009 a group of educators convened at the Council on Social Work Education in Alexandria, VA to develop a model of advanced practi…
Conjoint treatment with narcissistic couples: Strategies to increase empathic interaction
Specific interventions which target the increase of empathic interactions in narcissistic couple systems are demonstrated. An affective appreciation of painful family of origin experiences of one's partner contributes to the overall cohesion of the couple system. This paper provides an overview of narcissistic couples and the use of a treatment technique which alters the empathic understanding of the individuals. Clinicalvignettes demonstrate the…
Somatic illness: An attempt to further intrapsychic growth in couple systems
As a form of triangulation, somatic illness is conceptualized as serving symbolic functions in a couple system. Highlighting aspects of object relational couple theory, this paper examines the way in which a somatic illness becomes the catalyst for psychological growth in individuals who are in an intimate partnership. Clinical examples point to the need for differential diagnosis; differing levels of development influence the symbolic meaning of…
Development of Student Identity: Evolution from Neutrality to Subjectivity
In this paper, the authors illustrate how a diverse classroom can become the cite of the development of social work identity. The authors point out that social work principles of neutrality and objectivity may veil strategies of power that some learners adopt in order to facilitate the formation of a helping identity. Using a Foucaldian analysis of classroom interactions, the authors encourage students to understand that identity which is sociall…
Couple therapy: An integration of object relations and intersubjective theory
In this paper, a detailed clinical example of a couple therapy highlights how the integration of object relational and intersubjective theory is beneficial for the growth of the couple system. Theory based on Benjamin's (1992) formulation of “where objects were, subjects must be” (p. 44) frame the intersubjective treatment techniques reported here. In addition, a case example demonstrates how a couple began to manage the difficult challenge of ma…
Constructing social work identity based on the reflexive self
Journal Article Constructing social work identity based on the reflexive self Get access D Miehls, D Miehls Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar K Moffatt K Moffatt Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Social Work, Volume 30, Issue 3, June 2000, Pages 339–348, https://doi.org/10.1093/bjsw/30.3.339 Published: 01 June 2000
Transforming the legacies of childhood trauma in couple therapy: The biopsychosocial assessment as compass and anchor
This paper explicates a brief overview of a synthetic couple therapy practice model along with a detailed account of the institutional, interactional, and intrapersonal factors that are relevant in completing a thorough bio‐psychosocial assessment. It is based on a chapter expected to be published by Columbia University Press in an upcoming book titled Couple Therapy with Trauma Survivors. The text presents a practice model that demonstrates why …
The Developmental Model of Supervision as Reflected in the Experiences of Field Supervisors and Graduate Students
Schools of social work invest an enormous amount of time and money training new field instructors to ensure their ability to help students integrate the knowledge, skill, and values of the profession. Some schools, like the one described here, frame their training in the context of a developmental model of supervision. Such models presume that student professional development follows a series of sequential, hierarchical stages from less to more c…
An Educator's Guide to the Development of Advanced Practice Competencies in Clinical Social Work
The 2008 Educational Policy and Accreditation Standards identified 10 core competencies that all social work graduates should master. MSW programs found themselves with a need to identify knowledge, values, and skill statements that reflected what concentration-year students were expected to know and be able to do. In 2009 a group of educators convened at the Council on Social Work Education in Alexandria, VA to develop a model of advanced practi…
Neuroscience Insights That Inform Clinical Supervision
This article makes links between neuroscience literature that helps to inform a clinical supervision relationship. There has been a beginning, but limited, application of neuroscience to clinical supervision; this article offers vignettes of supervisory dyads that illustrate how understanding right-hemisphere communications between the supervisor and supervisee can further a more complex understanding of the clinical processes that are being disc…
Introduction to Neurobiology and Clinical Work
The purpose of this article1 is to familiarize the readers of this Special Issue of Smith College Studies in Social Work with fundamental theoretical concepts that are elaborated and deepened in th
Psychology (10 works) · Social Psychology (6 works) · Counseling, Therapy, and Family Dynamics (5 works) · Psychotherapist (5 works) · Social Psychology (5 works) · Social Work (5 works) · Political science (4 works) · Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications (4 works) · Social Work Education and Practice (4 works) · Sociology (4 works)