Course Lecturer: SWRK 635 - Use of Self na McGill University
McGill University · Sherbrooke, Canadá · Onsite
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Name of Hiring Unit: School of Social Work
Course/Term: SWRK 635 – Use of Self, Section 001, Fall 2025 Term
Time/Location: Wednesdays, 11:35-14:25, SH680 1820
TQRs:
- MSW or MA in mental health field (i.e., Psychology, Social Work, Counselling Psychology)
- Supervisory Experience – minimum 5 years of clinical supervisory experience
- Completed Graduate or Post-graduate training in advanced clinical practice in an accredited university or training center
- At least 5 years of demonstrated clinical practice experience
Demonstrated practical application of, and/or teaching experience in, the following areas:
- Knowledge and critical reflection of a range of clinical theories that inform clinical practice (psychodynamic: object relations; psychoanalytic and attachment theories); systemic/communication; behavioral; humanistic and more recent theories related to interpersonal neurobiology, the centrality of the relationship in clinical practice.
- Knowledge of concepts of transference and counter-transference; as well as defenses and containment; coping mechanisms and therapeutic alliance.
- Command of recent theories related to interpersonal neurobiology, and the role of compassion and self-compassion in clinical practice (attunement, embodied self-awareness).
- Knowledge of the application of self-strategies involving creativity and mindfulness in clinical social work (attention; attunement; affect regulation, empathy).
- Knowledge of family-of-origin as an organizing framework for the development of the professional self.
- Understanding vicarious trauma/vicarious resilience for the therapist
- Ability to critically appraise and interpret empirical psychotherapy process and outcome studies.
- Ability to teach to the course objective of leading students to deepen their work with others, learn how to draw upon their own internal resources (and unblock access to those reserves), and promote self-awareness and resilience in themselves and those they serve.
- Ability to: stimulate and facilitate dialogue around diversity with respect to gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, race/ethnicity, class/socio-economic status, immigration status, etc.; and, guide discussions on the role of power within client-worker relationships, peer relationships, supervisor/supervisee relationships, student/instructor relationship contextualized within larger systems.
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