Education
Columbia University School of Social Work, New York, NY. MSW, Health/Mental Health and Clinical Practice. Honors: The Overbrook Award for Excellence in Advanced Clinical Practice.
Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH. BA in English. Honors: The Hannah Croasdale Award, for helping to improve the quality of life for women at Dartmouth; the Samuel Aronowitz Award, for outstanding service to the community.
Experience
Private Practice Psychotherapist, Durham, NC. Individual, couples, family, and group therapy. Special interest in substance abuse, trauma, stress and anger management, grief and loss. 1999 to present.
Raleigh Employee Assistance Program, Raleigh, NC. Provided brief counseling, workshops in workplaces, and Critical Incident Stress Debriefings. Contributed brief articles on preventing workplace violence and the family dynamics of addiction, among others. 2000-2002.
ARP/Phoenix dba The Recovery Partnership, Durham, NC, http://www.arp-phoenix.com/. Clinical director of this private outpatient substance abuse treatment program. 1997-2000.
Columbia University, Social Intervention Group, New York, NY, www.columbia.edu/cu/ssw/sig. Project Manager. Directed two federally-funded studies testing the effectiveness of brief motivational interventions in detox settings. 1995-1997. Article abstract: http://rsw.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/12/6/711.
North Shore University Hospital, Glen Cove, NY. Social work intern, Adolescent Day Treatment Program. Provided individual, group, and family therapy in a program for youths with emotional, behavioral, and substance abuse problems. 1994-1995.
Montefiore Rikers Island Health Services, Queens, NY. Social work intern, Anna M. Kross Center (C-95). Provided crisis intervention and supportive therapy to incarcerated men housed in a mental observation unit. 1993-1994.
CUSSW Task Force on Public Health. Co-founded this student caucus at Columbia University and organized a colloquium uniting leading researchers, clinicians, policy advocates and media professionals to help maximize the effectiveness of AIDS prevention strategies. 1993-1995.
Presentations
Plagues of Our Times: The Ethics of Action in Disaster. The North Carolina Society for Clinical Social Work, Chapel Hill NC, April 2009.
Foundations of Disaster Mental Health. With Claude Deal. Central North Carolina Chapter of the American Red Cross, Durham NC, May and June 2007.
Drinking Between the Lines: Working with Clients with Moderate Alcohol Use. Clinical Connections, Jewish Family Services, Durham NC, March 2007.
Treating Substance Abuse with Sense and Sensibility. With Marilyn Bara LCSW. The North Carolina Society for Clinical Social Work, Raleigh NC, March 2006.
Addiction Treatment: Helping Clients Trade Pills or Thrills for Skills. Clinical Connections, Jewish Family Services, Durham NC, November 2004.
College Binge Drinking: Motivational Enhancement Strategies. With James Finch MD and Roger Hartman MLS. Student College Health Association Conference, Florida State University, Tallahassee FL, March 2004; and the Annual Meeting of the New England College Health Association, Portsmouth NH, November 2004.
EAP Workplace Presentation Topics, 1999-present: Drug Testing in the Workplace, Depression in the Workplace, Win-Win Communication, Dealing with Difficult People, Stress Management, Coping with Change, Respect in the Workplace, Simplify Your Life, Building Resiliency, Avoiding Burnout.
The Theory and Practice of Motivational Interviewing. National Development and Research Institute, Inc., New York NY, February 1997.
Multidisciplinary Team Building Between Medicine, Nursing & Social Work and Motivating Detox Patients to Continue in Treatment and Maintain Abstinence. 20th Annual AMERSA National Conference, Washington DC, November 1996.
Additional Interests and Skills
Member of the National Association of Social Workers (http://www.naswdc.org/), the North Carolina Society for Clinical Social Work (http://www.ncscsw.org/) and the Carolinas Group Psychotherapy Society (http://www.carolinasgps.org/). Co-Chair, Red Cross Disaster Mental Health Services, Central North Carolina Chapter. Certified in the Mitchell Model of Critical Incident Stress Management and American Red Cross Disaster Mental Health Response. Fluent in Spanish.
Jane Finch, LCSW, is a clinical social worker in private practice in Durham, NC.
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