Before I was hired at UMD, I had 10 different jobs and internships, from 1975 to 1988. I worked in 3 psychiatric hospitals (Springfield State Hospital in Sykesville, Chestnut Lodge in Rockville and Montgomery General Hospital in Olney); Great Oaks, a State residential facility for people with intellectual disabilities – although in those days it…
Category Archives: Reflections
I have mentored 10 or 12 graduate social work interns over the years and always gave them the same advice: try and spend at least a few years working in an inpatient psychiatric hospital. This is where you get to see mental health diagnoses in their most acute and serious stages, which helps you to…
I left Chestnut Lodge for an opportunity to become a counselor at a Rockville Boys Home right down the street from The Lodge. Karma House was one of many Boys and Girls Homes in Montgomery County that offered an alternative to juvenile lockup, for boys between the ages of 14-18. Most had been arrested and…
I was fortunate to have met Dr. Dale Masi in a winter term class in grad school titled “Social Work in Industry”. This is where I first learned what an Employee Assistance Program (EAP) was. We hit it off immediately and she hired me as a paid intern in her federal HHS EAP. Once I…