Joan Berzoff
Biographic Data
| ID | 5937830 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Joan Berzoff |
| GIVEN NAMES | Joan |
| FAMILY NAME | Berzoff |
| SIGNATURE | BERZOFF J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Smith College |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4984-2431 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 40 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Teaching Clinical Social Work Under Occupation
The authors were invited to teach clinical social work in the Palestinian West Bank. In order to teach, we designed a study exploring how 65 Palestinian social work students described the psychological and social effects of working under occupation. Students described social stressors of poverty, unemployment, lack of infrastructure, violence, imprisonment, separation of families, and severe constraints on travel. They identified depression, suic…
Obituary
Dr Phyllis Silverman, a pioneer in the field of death and bereavement, died in Lexington, Massachusetts, on 10 June 2016. A tiny, fit, silver-dark-haired woman, who swam almost every day of her adult life until she became ill, was a forceful, perceptive and outspoken proponent of valuing and listening to the expertise of the bereaved and of learning from them. In the course of her learning, she wrote or co-authored twelve books, fifty book chapte…
Preparing PhD-Level Clinical Social Work Practitioners for the 21st Century
Social work doctoral programs are not adequately preparing students to educate future clinical practitioners. Social work is predominantly a practice profession. Social work’s PhD programs must continue the education of excellent researchers while also educating for excellence in practice, teaching, field liaison, and the supervision of practice. Nevertheless, The Group for the Advancement of Doctoral Education in Social Work (GADE) and the socia…
Retracted
This article has been retracted.View retraction statement:Retraction Additional informationNotes on contributorsJoan BerzoffDr. Joan Berzoff is the director of the End of Life Certificate Program and the cochair of Human Behavior in the Social Environment Sequence at the Smith College School for Social Work. She is also in private practice in Northampton, MA
Group Therapy With Homeless Women
Women's groups are a treatment of choice for homeless women who have been abused, used substances, have mental health concerns, and have suffered traumatic events that have ruptured their attachments. Women in dialogue can learn to see themselves reflected, find each other's strengths, and make advances in empathy, which can alter relational abilities. Their experiences of sharing similar traumatic events in a safe and containing environment can …
It Is Called a Mother Tongue for a Reason
This article is a qualitative study that explored therapists' understanding of the role of language in psychotherapy with bilingual clients. Among the findings were that it is typical for bilingual clients to switch back and forth between primary and secondary languages in psychotherapy, as their narratives are often expressed incompletely in a second language. Bilingual clients tend to return to their mother tongues when expressing strong affect…
Why We Need a Biopsychosocial Perspective with Vulnerable, Oppressed, and At-Risk Clients
This article considers why we need to take a biopsychosocial perspective in assessment and treatment of individuals. Using psychological concepts drawn from drive theory, ego psychology, object relations, attachment theory, self psychology and relational theory, the author makes explicit the need to connect these ideas with social and biological contexts. Arguing that psychodynamic theories contain the social as well as the psychological, the aut…
Innovations in Doctoral Education
This study evaluated the impact of a distance education program to meet the practice learning needs of first‐year doctoral students. The program, a six‐session case‐based telephonic seminar, was taught to 19 first‐year doctoral students. Evaluation of the program included self‐report quantitative and qualitative data gathered pre‐ and postseminar, as well as qualitative data gathered three months postseminar. Quantitative and qualitative analysis…
Nonsuicidal Self-Injury Among Nonclinical College Women
This article presents a qualitative study that explored nonsuicidal self-injury among relatively psychologically healthy college women. It examines the phenomenon of self-injury through a social theoretical perspective using Foucault's concepts. Key arguments are that self-injury in women may be a reaction to an insidious form of social control and a reflection of the social pressures for productivity that are enacted on the body. Self-injury may…
Innovative Models for Developing Post-Masters Curriculum in End-of-Life Care
Given two million deaths annually in the U. S., social work education and training have been cited as woefully inadequate in end-of-life care. In response, two of the authors developed two post-Masters programs in end-of-life care for social work. This paper describes their curricula and the methods used to evaluate both programs, including measurements of the participants' self-efficacy before and after the programs. The analysis of evaluative d…
Psychodynamic theories in grief and bereavement
This paper considers those psychodynamic theorists who contribute to our understanding of the ways in which loss, grief, and bereavement may lead to structural and internal changes. The ways in which loss may promote or undermine psychological growth are considered. Cross‐cultural and constructivist views on loss and bereavement are considered with recognition that grief and mourning take many forms and are not necessarily ever resolved
Introduction
(2003). Introduction: Special issue on end‐of‐life care Smith college studies in social work June 2003. Smith College Studies in Social Work: Vol. 73, End‐of‐Life Care, pp. 259-271
Teaching intersubjectivity
Intersubjective theories and practice reflect current postmodern epistemological shifts that deconstruct the therapist's knowledge, power, and authority. These theories and clinical methods pose particular challenges and dilemmas, however, for beginning trainees who struggle with their own therapeutic legitimacy. The authors discuss some of the pedagogical dilemmas and paradoxes that they have encountered in teaching intersubjective practice to n…
Fusion and Heterosexual Women's Friendships
This paper will discuss the phenomenon of fusion in heterosexual women's adult relationships; first as it emerged clinically in my treatment of women in group therapy; next as it hsa been discussed in the literature and finally as it emerged in my study of healthy women's friendships. There, the most differentiated and autonomous women in my study reported experiencing fusion in their closest female friendships. The paper then explores the meanin…
From Separation to Connection
This article considers the theories of adult development that have led to shifts in understanding the psychology of women. A male-defined life cycle of adult development has been succeeded by a self-in-relation psychology of women. The implications of this shift in paradigm for social policy and practice with women are discussed in relation to a number of issues. Group therapy for women is recommended as the treatment of choice, given the role of…
The therapeutic value of women's adult friendships
(1989). The therapeutic value of women's adult friendships. Smith College Studies in Social Work: Vol. 59, No. 3, pp. 267-279
Nonsuicidal Self-Injury Among Nonclinical College Women
This article presents a qualitative study that explored nonsuicidal self-injury among relatively psychologically healthy college women. It examines the phenomenon of self-injury through a social theoretical perspective using Foucault's concepts. Key arguments are that self-injury in women may be a reaction to an insidious form of social control and a reflection of the social pressures for productivity that are enacted on the body. Self-injury may…
It Is Called a Mother Tongue for a Reason
This article is a qualitative study that explored therapists' understanding of the role of language in psychotherapy with bilingual clients. Among the findings were that it is typical for bilingual clients to switch back and forth between primary and secondary languages in psychotherapy, as their narratives are often expressed incompletely in a second language. Bilingual clients tend to return to their mother tongues when expressing strong affect…
Psychodynamic theories in grief and bereavement
This paper considers those psychodynamic theorists who contribute to our understanding of the ways in which loss, grief, and bereavement may lead to structural and internal changes. The ways in which loss may promote or undermine psychological growth are considered. Cross‐cultural and constructivist views on loss and bereavement are considered with recognition that grief and mourning take many forms and are not necessarily ever resolved
Teaching intersubjectivity
Intersubjective theories and practice reflect current postmodern epistemological shifts that deconstruct the therapist's knowledge, power, and authority. These theories and clinical methods pose particular challenges and dilemmas, however, for beginning trainees who struggle with their own therapeutic legitimacy. The authors discuss some of the pedagogical dilemmas and paradoxes that they have encountered in teaching intersubjective practice to n…
Teaching Clinical Social Work Under Occupation
The authors were invited to teach clinical social work in the Palestinian West Bank. In order to teach, we designed a study exploring how 65 Palestinian social work students described the psychological and social effects of working under occupation. Students described social stressors of poverty, unemployment, lack of infrastructure, violence, imprisonment, separation of families, and severe constraints on travel. They identified depression, suic…
Innovative Models for Developing Post-Masters Curriculum in End-of-Life Care
Given two million deaths annually in the U. S., social work education and training have been cited as woefully inadequate in end-of-life care. In response, two of the authors developed two post-Masters programs in end-of-life care for social work. This paper describes their curricula and the methods used to evaluate both programs, including measurements of the participants' self-efficacy before and after the programs. The analysis of evaluative d…
Fusion and Heterosexual Women's Friendships
This paper will discuss the phenomenon of fusion in heterosexual women's adult relationships; first as it emerged clinically in my treatment of women in group therapy; next as it hsa been discussed in the literature and finally as it emerged in my study of healthy women's friendships. There, the most differentiated and autonomous women in my study reported experiencing fusion in their closest female friendships. The paper then explores the meanin…
From Separation to Connection
This article considers the theories of adult development that have led to shifts in understanding the psychology of women. A male-defined life cycle of adult development has been succeeded by a self-in-relation psychology of women. The implications of this shift in paradigm for social policy and practice with women are discussed in relation to a number of issues. Group therapy for women is recommended as the treatment of choice, given the role of…
Group Therapy With Homeless Women
Women's groups are a treatment of choice for homeless women who have been abused, used substances, have mental health concerns, and have suffered traumatic events that have ruptured their attachments. Women in dialogue can learn to see themselves reflected, find each other's strengths, and make advances in empathy, which can alter relational abilities. Their experiences of sharing similar traumatic events in a safe and containing environment can …
Why We Need a Biopsychosocial Perspective with Vulnerable, Oppressed, and At-Risk Clients
This article considers why we need to take a biopsychosocial perspective in assessment and treatment of individuals. Using psychological concepts drawn from drive theory, ego psychology, object relations, attachment theory, self psychology and relational theory, the author makes explicit the need to connect these ideas with social and biological contexts. Arguing that psychodynamic theories contain the social as well as the psychological, the aut…
Preparing PhD-Level Clinical Social Work Practitioners for the 21st Century
Social work doctoral programs are not adequately preparing students to educate future clinical practitioners. Social work is predominantly a practice profession. Social work’s PhD programs must continue the education of excellent researchers while also educating for excellence in practice, teaching, field liaison, and the supervision of practice. Nevertheless, The Group for the Advancement of Doctoral Education in Social Work (GADE) and the socia…
Retracted
This article has been retracted.View retraction statement:Retraction Additional informationNotes on contributorsJoan BerzoffDr. Joan Berzoff is the director of the End of Life Certificate Program and the cochair of Human Behavior in the Social Environment Sequence at the Smith College School for Social Work. She is also in private practice in Northampton, MA
Innovations in Doctoral Education
This study evaluated the impact of a distance education program to meet the practice learning needs of first‐year doctoral students. The program, a six‐session case‐based telephonic seminar, was taught to 19 first‐year doctoral students. Evaluation of the program included self‐report quantitative and qualitative data gathered pre‐ and postseminar, as well as qualitative data gathered three months postseminar. Quantitative and qualitative analysis…
From Separation to Connection
This article considers the theories of adult development that have led to shifts in understanding the psychology of women. A male-defined life cycle of adult development has been succeeded by a self-in-relation psychology of women. The implications of this shift in paradigm for social policy and practice with women are discussed in relation to a number of issues. Group therapy for women is recommended as the treatment of choice, given the role of…
The therapeutic value of women's adult friendships
(1989). The therapeutic value of women's adult friendships. Smith College Studies in Social Work: Vol. 59, No. 3, pp. 267-279
Fusion and Heterosexual Women's Friendships
This paper will discuss the phenomenon of fusion in heterosexual women's adult relationships; first as it emerged clinically in my treatment of women in group therapy; next as it hsa been discussed in the literature and finally as it emerged in my study of healthy women's friendships. There, the most differentiated and autonomous women in my study reported experiencing fusion in their closest female friendships. The paper then explores the meanin…
Teaching intersubjectivity
Intersubjective theories and practice reflect current postmodern epistemological shifts that deconstruct the therapist's knowledge, power, and authority. These theories and clinical methods pose particular challenges and dilemmas, however, for beginning trainees who struggle with their own therapeutic legitimacy. The authors discuss some of the pedagogical dilemmas and paradoxes that they have encountered in teaching intersubjective practice to n…
Psychodynamic theories in grief and bereavement
This paper considers those psychodynamic theorists who contribute to our understanding of the ways in which loss, grief, and bereavement may lead to structural and internal changes. The ways in which loss may promote or undermine psychological growth are considered. Cross‐cultural and constructivist views on loss and bereavement are considered with recognition that grief and mourning take many forms and are not necessarily ever resolved
Introduction
(2003). Introduction: Special issue on end‐of‐life care Smith college studies in social work June 2003. Smith College Studies in Social Work: Vol. 73, End‐of‐Life Care, pp. 259-271
Innovative Models for Developing Post-Masters Curriculum in End-of-Life Care
Given two million deaths annually in the U. S., social work education and training have been cited as woefully inadequate in end-of-life care. In response, two of the authors developed two post-Masters programs in end-of-life care for social work. This paper describes their curricula and the methods used to evaluate both programs, including measurements of the participants' self-efficacy before and after the programs. The analysis of evaluative d…
Nonsuicidal Self-Injury Among Nonclinical College Women
This article presents a qualitative study that explored nonsuicidal self-injury among relatively psychologically healthy college women. It examines the phenomenon of self-injury through a social theoretical perspective using Foucault's concepts. Key arguments are that self-injury in women may be a reaction to an insidious form of social control and a reflection of the social pressures for productivity that are enacted on the body. Self-injury may…
Innovations in Doctoral Education
This study evaluated the impact of a distance education program to meet the practice learning needs of first‐year doctoral students. The program, a six‐session case‐based telephonic seminar, was taught to 19 first‐year doctoral students. Evaluation of the program included self‐report quantitative and qualitative data gathered pre‐ and postseminar, as well as qualitative data gathered three months postseminar. Quantitative and qualitative analysis…
Why We Need a Biopsychosocial Perspective with Vulnerable, Oppressed, and At-Risk Clients
This article considers why we need to take a biopsychosocial perspective in assessment and treatment of individuals. Using psychological concepts drawn from drive theory, ego psychology, object relations, attachment theory, self psychology and relational theory, the author makes explicit the need to connect these ideas with social and biological contexts. Arguing that psychodynamic theories contain the social as well as the psychological, the aut…
Group Therapy With Homeless Women
Women's groups are a treatment of choice for homeless women who have been abused, used substances, have mental health concerns, and have suffered traumatic events that have ruptured their attachments. Women in dialogue can learn to see themselves reflected, find each other's strengths, and make advances in empathy, which can alter relational abilities. Their experiences of sharing similar traumatic events in a safe and containing environment can …
It Is Called a Mother Tongue for a Reason
This article is a qualitative study that explored therapists' understanding of the role of language in psychotherapy with bilingual clients. Among the findings were that it is typical for bilingual clients to switch back and forth between primary and secondary languages in psychotherapy, as their narratives are often expressed incompletely in a second language. Bilingual clients tend to return to their mother tongues when expressing strong affect…
Preparing PhD-Level Clinical Social Work Practitioners for the 21st Century
Social work doctoral programs are not adequately preparing students to educate future clinical practitioners. Social work is predominantly a practice profession. Social work’s PhD programs must continue the education of excellent researchers while also educating for excellence in practice, teaching, field liaison, and the supervision of practice. Nevertheless, The Group for the Advancement of Doctoral Education in Social Work (GADE) and the socia…
Retracted
This article has been retracted.View retraction statement:Retraction Additional informationNotes on contributorsJoan BerzoffDr. Joan Berzoff is the director of the End of Life Certificate Program and the cochair of Human Behavior in the Social Environment Sequence at the Smith College School for Social Work. She is also in private practice in Northampton, MA
Teaching Clinical Social Work Under Occupation
The authors were invited to teach clinical social work in the Palestinian West Bank. In order to teach, we designed a study exploring how 65 Palestinian social work students described the psychological and social effects of working under occupation. Students described social stressors of poverty, unemployment, lack of infrastructure, violence, imprisonment, separation of families, and severe constraints on travel. They identified depression, suic…
Obituary
Dr Phyllis Silverman, a pioneer in the field of death and bereavement, died in Lexington, Massachusetts, on 10 June 2016. A tiny, fit, silver-dark-haired woman, who swam almost every day of her adult life until she became ill, was a forceful, perceptive and outspoken proponent of valuing and listening to the expertise of the bereaved and of learning from them. In the course of her learning, she wrote or co-authored twelve books, fifty book chapte…
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