Margalit Kern

MSW, Psychotherapist

Hananel 7

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Jerusalem, Israel 99310

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Education

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Psychoanalytic Institute of Jerusalem

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• Advanced psychotherapy studies. 2013 - 2016

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University of Bar Ilan,  Ramat Gan, Israel

 

• M.A. in Social Work, 1997

• Clinical Social Work major

 

University of Bar Ilan,  Ramat Gan, Israel

 

• Special concentration studies in psychodynamic psychotherapy of children, 1992-1993

 

University of Bar Ilan,  Ramat Gan, Israel

 

• B.A. in Social Work, 1990 - Completed with Honors

• Increased Judaica studies (Midrasha) - Completed with Honors

 

Experience

2011 - 2016

Outpatient Clinic for Children and Adolescence in Memory of Dr. Ilan, Jerusalem, Israel

 

Clinical Social Worker

 

• Coordinated a team providing therapy to parents who suffer from mental illness (הורות בצל מחלת נפש)

• Provided supervision to social workers

• Provided individual therapy for children, and parents

• Collaborated with social workers, psychologists, psychiatrists, teachers, physicians and others involved in the child’s physical health, mental health and education

• Participated in direct clinical supervision and seminars

 

2008-2010

Yale University School of Medicine The consultation Center, New Haven, CT USA

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Program Coordinator of the Community Support Services Team (CSST)

 

• Coordinator of the Community Support Services Team at Riverside Education Academy (a New Haven public high school).

• Provided clinical supervision and support for multi-disciplinary team members that included a lawyer, social worker, nurse and a substance abuse clinician, psychology fellow and a social worker student.

• Provided clinical services to teenagers with special emotional needs, including teenage parents 

• Provided individual therapy, family therapy and placement evaluation for the teenagers themselves or their children.

• Provided support to teachers and school administrators.

 

1997 - 2004

Yale Child Study Center, New Haven, Connecticut

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Clinical Instructor, Yale Intensive In-Home Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Service

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• Provided clinical services to children with special emotional needs.

• Provided individual therapy, family therapy, and placement evaluation.

• Collaborate with social workers, psychologists, psychiatrists, teachers, school administrators, physicians and others involved in the child’s physical health, mental health and education.

• Participated in ongoing in-home service training, departmental conferences and direct clinical supervision.

 

1991 - 1997

Or Shalom, Jerusalem, Israel

 

Social Worker

Public organization that manages group homes for children with special needs that are placed out of home

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• Provided intensive psychotherapy to children as well as family therapy.

• Supervised staff at a group home that included foster parents and volunteers.

• Organized a project that recruited, classified and prepared National Service volunteers

• Supervised students of the Social Work department in Hebrew University as part of their B.A. requirements, Psychology B.A. students and Social Workers in their first and second years.

 

1990 - 1991

Gilat,  Jerusalem, Israel

 

Social Worker

Public organization operated by the Psychological Educational Services of Jerusalem 

 

• Worked with infants (birth to three) at high risk of environmental retardation.

• Addressed special needs of infants and families during the Gulf War.

 

1986 - 1987

National Service Gilat, Jerusalem,

 

Public organization operated by the Psychological Educational Services of Jerusalem

 

• Volunteered with infants (birth to three) at high risk of environmental retardation.

• Contributed towards research implementing Free Association techniques to support cognitive development of children with high risk of environmental retardation.