Faculty | Susan Weeks
My teaching takes place on both the undergraduate and graduate level. Most of my courses are in the area of Counseling and Psychotherapy. I teach theory and provide training in counseling skills. Some of the special topics included in these individual and group counseling courses are grief counseling, HIV-AIDS counseling, multicultural counseling, feminist counseling and crisis counseling. In my Systems of Psychotherapy course we study Eastern and Western approaches to mind management.
My current research interests involve comparisons of supervision models for graduate students in Masters Degree Counseling Programs. This subject is of particular interest to me because I supervise graduate students in the Practicum in Counseling. I am engaged in studying resiliency in traumatized children through Play Therapy interventions.
This study interest has enabled me to develop a graduate course entitled Introduction to Play Therapy.
I sit on the Board of the New York State Mental Health Counselors Association. Part of my responsibilities include serving as graduate liason for all the Counselor Education Masters Programs in New York State. Much of our work at present in NYMCHA is devoted to the passage of the licensure bill for Masters level trained mental health counselors.
