Advancing Social Work in Mental Health through Strengths-based Practice
Fellow in early psychosis and mental health with the mental health service . Melissa is particularly engaged in , and committed to , research co-production with people with lived experience of mental illness and their families . Contact : melissa . petrakis @ monash . edu
Michael D . Clark ( MSW , LMSW ) is Licensed Master of Social Work , a trainer and a consultant to the helping professions . Mr Clark has served as a national faculty member ( contractual ) for the United States Department of Justice . He is now the director of the Centre for Strength-Based Strategies that is committed to the research , development and training of strength-based strategies for our helping professions . Mr Clark has delivered training internationally for government organizations ( and NGO ’ s ) in Canada , Guam , Puerto Rico , Croatia , Australia , New Zealand , Switzerland , Brazil and Malta . Mr Clark gave an invited guest lecture to the 12th United Nations Congress on crime prevention and criminal justice that convened in Salvador , Brazil ( 2010 ). He is a member of the Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers ( MINT ) and is known as a strengthbased consultant to the field of addictions , mental health , child welfare , and criminal justice and is currently an Executive Board member for the International Association for Correctional Forensic Psychology ( IACFP ).
Contact : buildmotivation @ aol . com
Dr . Meliha Bijedic , is Assistant Professor at the Department for Behaviour Disorders , Faculty of Education and Rehabilitation Sciences at the University of Tuzla , Bosnia and Herzegovina . Meliha obtained her Doctor of Science in Behavior Disorders from the University of Zagreb , Croatia . Meliha teaches into the first and second cycle studies in Social Pedagogy , Pedagogy of children with Behaviour disorders , and course work in planning and programs for prevention of risk behaviour . Meliha worked on has about 8 international research projects . More recently Meliha has been elected to the position
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