SANVILLE FACULTY MEMBERS
RECOGNIZED BY THE NATIONAL ACADEMIES OF PRACTICES
AS DISTINGUISED SCHOLARS

Dr. Judith Kay Nelson, Dean, and Dr. Samoan Barish, former Dean and current faculty member, were inducted into the National Academy of Practice in Social Work in a ceremony in Washington, DC on November 3, 2007 as Distinguished Scholars who have made significant contributions to the field of Social Work. Other members of this august, elite body associated with The Sanville Institute include Ellen G. Ruderman, PhD, PsyD; Jean B. Sanville, MSW, PhD; and Chester F. Villalba, MSW, LLD.

The National Academies of Practice, founded in 1981 to advise governmental bodies on problems of healthcare, is dedicated to quality health care for all, by serving as the nation's distinguished interdisciplinary policy forum that addresses public policy, education, research, and inquiry.

Dr. Judith Schore, Dean of Students, is teaching a course on Attachment and Neurobiology at Reiss-Davis Child Study Center Post Degree Certificate Program and will chair a clinical presentation panel at the UCLA Attachment Conference in March 2008. She recently co-authored an article with Dr. Allan N. Schore, to be published in the March 2008 issue of the Clinical Social Work Journal, entitled Modern Attachment Theory: The Central Role of Affect Regulation in Development and Treatment.

Dr. Samoan Barish, former Sanville dean and current faculty member, is president of the American Association for Psychoanalysis in Clinical Social Work (APPCSW) (formerly NMCOP) and a board member of the International Federation for Psychoanalytic Education.

Dr. Cynthia O'Connell is an active member of the C. G. Jung Institute of San Francisco. She has been a member of the Board of Governors since 1999, and was Co-Chair of the Curriculum Committee, 2000 - 2001.

Dr. Sylvia Sussman is providing research consultation to the Sanville Institute Board of Trustees's project on the lives of prominent clinical social workers.

Dr. Judith Kay Nelson's book, titled Seeing Through Tears: Crying and Attachment, was published by Routledge in 2005. Dr. Nelson's book is a comprehensive view of crying behavior from the standpoint of attachment theory and research. On her book tour, she has presented at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City, to the Health Plan of New York, the New York Society for Clinical Social Work Annual Conference, and to the John Bowlby Center for Attachment-based Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy in London. For the past several summers she has taught in the summer program at Smith College: School for Social Work as part of the ongoing collaboration between The Sanville Institute and Smith College: School for Social Work. This collaboration was conceived and is sponsored by our Founding Dean, Dr. Jean Sanville, who has long-standing close ties with both institutions.

Dr. Elinor Grayer's article "The Case of 'A'" was published in the Spring 2005 issue of Clinical Social Work Journal. Her recent presentations, courses, and seminars include: "The Process of Aging Therapists: Older Clients or Younger Clients," The American Group Psychotherapy Association in San Francisco, February 2006; Group Therapy at the Threshold Conference in Belfast, Ireland, August 2005; "Therapists' Use of Improvizational Acting in Group Psychotherapy," The Canadian Group Psychotherapy Association in Vancouver, B.C., November 2005 ; and Group Psychotherapy course, The Wright Institute, Los Angeles

Dr. Mary Coombs presented on her current study at the Society for Psychotherapy Research (SRP) annual international meeting in Madison, WI on 21 June 2007. Together with Daniel Coleman, she presented "Therapist self-disclosure in CBT (Cognitive-Behavior Therapy) and IPT (Interpersonal Psychotherapy) sessions: Characteristics, correlates, and effects of therapist selfdisclosure in the NIMH (National Institute of Mental Health) treatment of depression collaborativeresearch program (TDCRP). As a researcher with the Berkeley Psychotherapy Research Project- Dept. of Psychology, UC Berkeley, she presented the results of their psychotherapy process research in a talk titled: "Interaction Structures in Long-Term Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy of Depression using the Psychotherapy Process Q-set." This presentation was an invited symposium sponsored by the SPR during their annual national conference.

Her recent publications include: Austin, M., Coombs, M.M., Barr, B. (2006). Community-centered clinical practice: Is the integration of micro and macro social work practice possible? Manuscript accepted for publication in Journal of Community Practice. Castonquay, L., Holtforth, M., Coombs, M.M., Beberman, R., Kakouros, A., Boswell, J., Reid, J.J., Jones, E.E. (2006). Relationship factors in treating dysphoric disorders. In Louis Castonguay and Larry Beutler (Eds.) Principles of therapeutic change that work (pp. 65-81). NY: OxfordUniversity Press.