Preparing Leaders to Help Families and Children

PREPARING LEADERS TO HELP FAMILIES AND CHILDREN

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Salem State University offers a number of graduate programs that specifically prepare professionals to work with families and children.

Our graduate programs are affordable and our faculty are exceptional.

BEHAVIOR ANALYSIS This program prepares students as basic or applied scientists in research and applied settings. Our course sequence meets the requirements to apply to the BACB to apply to take examinations related to Board Certified Behavior Analyst (BCBA). This is a growing field in which practitioners are employed by hospitals, clinics, social service agencies, schools and other related areas. For more information, contact Darlene Crone-Todd at dcronetodd@salemstate.edu.

COUNSELING This program is designed to provide you with the academic preparation and applied practicum/internship training experiences necessary for a professional career in counseling and related fields. Students may select one of two specialty areas: Mental Health Counseling or School Adjustment Counseling. Both specialties promote the development of skills and behaviors essential for ethical and effective clinical work in diverse settings with diverse populations, and facilitate reflective practice and professional development. For more information, contact Michael Mobley, PhD at mmobley@salemstate.edu.

SCHOOL COUNSELING We offer four unique pathways within the School Counseling Program: Master of Education in School Counseling: For those seeking licensure in school counseling. 54 credits including a 500-hour practicum where students gain experience working in public schools under the supervision of a professional school counselor.

Master of Education in School Counseling/School Adjustment Counseling: For those seeking dual licensure in both school counseling and school adjustment counseling. 60 credits including a 450-practicum to earn school counseling initial licensure (K-8 or 5-12) and one 900-hour practicum to earn school adjustment counseling initial licensure.

School Counseling Licensure Only: For those who already hold a master’s in counseling or psychology and are seeking an initial licensure in school counseling.

Licensure Only in School Adjustment Counseling: For those who hold a Master of Education in School Counseling from Salem State and are seeking initial licensure in school adjustment counseling.

For more information, contact Laurie Dickstein-Fischer, PhD at ldicksteinfischer@salemstate.edu.

The mission of this program is to educate social workers for practice as clinical practitioners, leaders, and change agents in our ever-changing world.

Students have the opportunity to create a unique MSW experience through their choice of electives, and options for study include our Saturday Cohort program, the School Adjustment Counselor track, and the Advanced Standing option. Our MSW program was named the highest ranked public program in Massachusetts. For more information, contact Michael Melendez at mmelendez@salemstate.edu

SCHOOL ADJUSTMENT COUNSELOR Salem State University is pleased to announce the launch of a new School Adjustment Counseling (SAC) program, the first of its kind in Massachusetts.

The program is unique because graduate students can approach SAC licensure from three separate disciplines; School Counseling, Social Work, and Counseling/Psychology. For more information, contact the graduate coordinator within each discipline to learn more.

EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION This program recognizes the unique time in a child’s development and that it takes special skills and competencies to provide children with the grounding needed to build the rest of their education. This program leads to initial licensure in Massachusetts to teach public school preschool through second grade.

For more information, contact Christina Cassano at ccassano@salemstate.edu.

ELEMENTARY EDUCATION This program inspires your passion for learning and leading students as they develop their skills needed as both learners and people. Our program is designed for individuals who already hold an undergraduate degree and who are seeking a masters’ degree and an initial license and/or training in elementary education. For more information, contact Anneliese Worster, PhD at aworster@salemstate.edu.

SPECIAL EDUCATION Our program is geared toward cultivating the skills, methods, and strategies needed to support students with mild to moderate special education needs for inclusion in general education classrooms. Whether you want to become a teacher, strengthen your existing teaching skills, or simply take course to improve your ability to work with individuals who have exceptional learning needs, this graduate program can take you there. For more information, contact Kristina Scott at kscott@salemstate.edu.

TEACHING ENGLISH TO SPEAKERS OF OTHER LANGUAGES (TESOL) This program prepares you to teach in a variety of settings, combining theory and practice in preparing speakers of other languages to become fluent in English.

This is a dynamic interdisciplinary program jointly administered by the English and Education departments. Students in this program can chose to apply for licensure in Massachusetts or they can explore a non-licensure track for a career in ESL at colleges, community organizations, adult education, or overseas. For more information, contact Melanie González at mgonzalez@salemstate.edu.

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SOCIAL WORK

Interested in taking a class or learning more about our graduate programs - contact one of our Program Coordinators or the School of Graduate Studies.

For a list of courses, log on to: salemstate.edu and salemstate.edu/taking-classes If you need some help, you can contact the School of Graduate Studies at 978.542.6232 or email us at graduate@salemstate.edu.

Felix Caraballo is a teacher at the East Somerville Community School‘s UNIDOS Dual Language Program. UNIDOS students split their class time between Spanish and English immersion environments. Caraballo is bilingual and bicultural which lends unique insights to his university teaching. He earned his MEd in TESOL from University of Puerto Rico, his MEd in Middle School Science Education from Northeastern University, and his CAGS in School Administration from the American International College.

Christina Cassano is an Associate Professor of Childhood Education and Care at Salem State University. She holds an EdD in literacy and language development from Boston University and is a licensed classroom teacher and literacy specialist. Her teaching and research interests focus on supporting monolingual and dual language learners (DLLs) and their families in the early years. She teaches a variety of graduate and undergraduate courses in the early childhood and reading specialist programs including Supporting Dual Language Learners and their Families and Reading, Writing, and Child Development in Early Childhood. Christina’s co-edited book Pivotal Research in Early Literacy: Foundational Studies and Current Practices was published

by Guilford Press in July 2018.

Darlene Crone-Todd, PhD is the Coordinator of the Behavior Analysis master’s degree program. Her research interests include basic learning principles involved in computer-assisted teaching and learning; higherorder thinking and complex behavior; the shaping and chaining process; and the application of behavioral principles with difficult behavioral problems.

Crone-Todd recently published “Using words instead of randomly arranged characters as stimuli in a keyboarding training program improves fluency outcomes for adult learners” in the Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis.

Laurie Dickstein-Fischer, School Counseling/School Adjustment Program Coordinator. Dickstein-Fischer was awarded the 2017 Massachusetts Counselor Educator of the Year Award and was recently nominated to be a board member at Massachusetts School Counselors Association (MASCA).

She received her Master’s from John Hopkins University and her PhD from Northeastern University in the combined counseling psychology and school psychology program. During her academic and clinical career, she has worked towards integrating her research, teaching, and clinical endeavors.

She is an experienced clinician who has worked with children and adults of all ages, across a broad spectrum of clinical settings. She has trained and provided psychological interventions at Baltimore City Public Schools, Massachusetts Mental Health Center (Harvard Medical School Department of Psychiatry), Edith Nourse Rogers Memorial Veterans Hospital, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, and Columbia Valley Community Health department of behavioral medicine. She is often featured in the newspaper and television for her research pertaining to autism and her robot named PABI!

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FACULTY BIOGRAPHIES

Melanie C. González is the coordinator of the Salem State University program in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages. She serves as an Assistant Professor of English as a Second Language (ESL) and Literacy in both the Secondary and Higher Education Department and the English Department at Salem State University. She earned her PhD in TESOL from the University of Central Florida in 2013. Prior to joining the Salem State University community, she taught in a variety of English as a variety of ESL-related contexts including a university-based intensive English program, English for academic purposes composition courses, community English classes, and middle school ESL. Currently, she teaches a variety of courses in the MA TESOL program at Salem State including two Methods courses, a research in TESOL course, and a reading, writing and vocabulary course. Her research interests center on second language vocabulary acquisition, second language writing, and ESL teacher preparation.

Michael Melendez graduated from the Boston University School of Social Work and received his doctorate from Case Western Reserve University. He is the former Associate Director for Behavior Health for the Boston Public Health Commission’s Bureau of Addiction Prevention Treatment Recovery Support Services. His responsibility consists of clinical oversight and development of four clinical addiction programs that are gender specific, OPD, Residential and bilingual. He is Professor Emeritus of the MSW program at Simmons College School of Social Work and a former clinical research scholar at the Institute of Urban Health Research Northeastern University. Melendez has been trained in providing psychotherapy to adults and children, family therapy and evidenced based practice in the treatment of co-occurring disorders. He has served and been president of a number of non-profit social service organizations including AIDS Action Committee, Latin American Health Institute and both the National and Mass Chapter of NASW. He has received awards for his work with AIDS activism and in teaching including the 2006 Greatest Contribution to Social Work Education from the MA Chapter of NASW. Melendez’s research interests are culturally responsive clinical practice, spirituality, HIV/AIDS and addictions.

Michael Mobley is an associate professor in Psychology, has taught at Salem State University since 2012. He received his PhD in Counseling Psychology from Penn State University in 1998. He currently serves as the graduate program coordinator of the MS Counseling program. For more than 15 years, he taught at University of MissouriColumbia and Rutgers. His interests include multicultural counseling competencies, perfectionism, risks and protective factors among culturally diverse adolescents, and racial/ethnic and gay/lesbian identity development models. He served as Associate Editor of The Counseling Psychologist. He is Past President of the Society of Counseling Psychology during 2014-2015, American Psychological Association (APA) Fellow (Divisions 17 and 45), and past Chair of the Committee on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Issues (CLGBTI). He presently serves on the Board for the Advancement of Psychology in the Public Interest (BAPPI) within APA. In addition, he has offered training and consultation on diversity, equity, and social justice issues. From 1999-2006, Mobley served as Principal Investigator of a 2.75 million dollar U.S. Department of Education GEAR UP grant, the MU REACH Project in Kansas City, Missouri. He was president of a nonprofit organization, Community-University Partnership (CUP) for 5 years, which sponsored the Columbia PEAK Project, an after-school tutor/mentor project primarily for African American K-12 students.

Anneliese Worster coordinates the Elementary Education graduate program.

Worster received her PhD from the University of New Hampshire. An environmental educator at heart, her research and teaching focuses on the role and sense of place in increasing civic engagement. She is committed to helping prepare future education. Her professional interests and research agenda are in the areas of service learning, place based education, sustainability, and globalization.

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Kristina Scott is an assistant professor and the graduate coordinator of master’s degree program in Special Education. Scott graduated from the University of Massachusetts – Lowell. Prior to coming to Salem State she was a partial inclusion autism specialist. She has served as the president of NHLDA, a training specialist for DESE, and the faculty advisor to the sign language club on campus. Her research examines cohesively targeting social development and academic programs for students with autism.

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