- Higher Education Experience
- Consulting & Research
- Practice Experience
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- Licensure and Certifications
- Professional Organizations
- Community Work
Jonathan Fast Ph.D., M.S.W.
Curriculum Vitae
Higher Education Experience
9/05 - present
WURZWEILER SCHOOL OF S.W., YESHIVA UNIVERSITY* NYC
Tenured Associate Professor
--Teaches Research I and Reserach II, Psychosocial Pathology, and Social Work in Schools to Masters level students.
--Web Master for Wurzweiler SSW website. Redesigned entire website. Organized (with muich help from MIS) online calendar, faculty web-pages, and "What's New" section.
9/01 - 9/2005
Chairman of Foundations Sequence
--In charge of all issues relating to the practice foundations courses including updating curriculum, and interface with field work office and administration.
9/99 - 9/2005
Assistant professor
--Taught Research I and Reserach II, Psychosocial Pathology, Foundations of Social Work Practice, and Social Work in Schools to Masters level students.
9/98-6/99
Instructor
--Taught Research I and Reserach II, and psychopathology to Masters level students.
--Taught Doctoral statistics lab.
6/97-6/98
Adjunct professor
--Taught Research I and Research II to Masters level students.
--Tutored doctoral students.
9/83 - 5/93
FAIRFIELD UNIVERSITY, UNIVERSITY OF BRIDGEPORT
Adjunct professor
--Taught creative writing courses for continuing education program.
Consulting & Research
September, 1999
PORT CHESTER MIDDLE SCHOOL * PORT CHESTER, NY
Principle researcher
--Designed and implemented evaluation component for state grant to reduce school violence through assignment of positive social roles. (See "social work related publications").
January, 1999
SIECUS (SEX INFORMATION AND EDUCATION COUNCIL OF THE UNITED STATES) * NY
Statistical consultant
--Worked on, Between the Lines: States' Implementastion of the Federal Government's Section 510(b) Abstinence Education Program in Fiscal Year 1998.
9/92-5/93
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF SOCIAL WORK * NY, NY
Research Assistant to Howard Polsky, PhD
--Participated in study of the formation of positive social norms in adolescent offenders attending boot camp-style prisons.
--Interviewed inmates at Camp Roulston in Cleveland, Ohio.
--Helped formulate theoretical model, and co-authored article (see "social work related publications").
Practice Experience
4/95- 6/98
HEALTH CENTER, BRIEN MCMAHON H.S. * NORWALK, CT.
Director, Clinical Social Work
--Provided assessments, individual, group, and family therapy.
--Was member of the team that started the Health Center at Brien McMahon High School. Negotiated complex issues involving confidentiality, referral protocol, crisis protocols, protocols for student and group scheduling during classes and study halls, and other systems issues with the school principal and the head of social services of the Norwalk school system.
-- Was pivotal in convincing the town of Norwalk to bring AIDS testing and counseling to the Health Center.
-- Organized first school-wide pregnancy prevention and STD prevention program (1996) and conducted the program evaluation.
-- Oversaw trial implementation of GAPS (Guidelines for Adolescent Preventive Services) a system of assessment and intervention developed by the American Medical Association, at Brien McMahon High School Health Center and Norwalk High School Health Center and supervised program evaluation.
12/93-4/95
CPES, CHILDREN'S DAY HOSPITAL, ST. RAPHAEL'S * NEW HAVEN, CT
Clinical Coordinator
-- Was in charge of all clinical work and organizing and coordinating group activities.
-- Provided psychosocial assessments, and individual, group, and family therapy.
-- Handled a caseload of ten patients ages 5 to 14 with acute psychiatric problems.
(Program defunded in the Spring of 1995)
7/93-12/93
CHILD GUIDANCE CENTER * BRIDGEPORT, CT.
Staff Therapist
-- Managed a caseload of individual clients, ages 5 to 16.
-- Provided individual, group, and family therapy.
9/70 - 5/73
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON HIGH SCHOOL * N.Y.C, NY
Teacher
--Taught emotionally disturbed adolescents.
Other Experience
1970 - 1991
Professional writer (more information available on request).
Education
YESHIVA UNIVERSITY, WURZWEILER SCHOOL OF SOCIAL WORK * NYC, NY
Ph.D., 1999. Dissertation title: Loss-Compensation Behavior as an Antecedent of Early Child Bearing.
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF SOCIAL WORK * NYC, NY
MSW, 1993.
SARAH LAWRENCE COLLEGE * BRONXVILLE, NY
BA, 1970.
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY * PRINCETON, NEW JERSEY
1966 - 1968.
Licensure and Certifications
-- Red Cross certified disaster mental health worker, 2003
-- Licensed clinical social worker, Connecticut, 1997 through present
-- Certified field instructor. Completed SIFI (Seminar in Field Instruction) at Wurzweiler School of Social Work, 1996-1997.
-- Trainer for GAPS (Guidelines for Adolescent Preventive Medicine). Certified by the American Medical Association, 1996. GAPS is a system of assessment and treatment of adolescent morbidities developed by the AMA. Only social worker chosen from CT by national program as trainer.
-- Certificate in Clinical Hypnosis, NYSEPH (New York Society for Ericksonian Psychotherapy & Hypnosis), 1995
-- Certified Social Worker, New York State, 1993 through present
-- School Social Worker Certificate, Connecticut State Board of Education, 1993
Social Work-related Presentations
-- Enhancing Community in a Graduate Social Work School through Commons Day. Poster presentation in collaboration with other Wurzweiler faculty and administration at CSWE Anuual Program Meeting, February 28, 2004.
-- Creating Mental Health Services in Schools. Invited panel member, National Conference on School-linked and School-based Services. Marymount College, Tarrytown, NY, April 24, 2003.
-- Using Powerpoint as a Multi-media Platform. Faculty enrichment presentation, Wurzweiler School of Social Work, New York City, February 11, 2003.
-- Hollywood Meets Hull House Part II: Creating Video to use as a Social Work Teaching Took. Educational Innovations paper presented at CSWE Annual Program Meeting, February 27, 2002.
-- Dunphy and Bion: Two groups Theories reconsidered. Paper presented at XXIIIrd Annual Symposium of the Association for the Advancement of Social Work with Groups, October, 2001.
-- How Becoming a Mediator Affects Aggressive Students. Paper presentation/ Workshop at the National School Social Work Conference, March, 2001
-- Hollywood Meets Hull House: Turning Theatrical and Television Films into Social Work Teaching Tools. Educational Innovations paper presented at CSWE Annual Program Meeting, March, 2001.
-- Blackboard.com, Non-traditional Students, and the Digital Divide. Paper presented at Blackboard Users Conference 2000, November, 2000.
-- Kagemusha: Reducing Agression in Disadvantaged Middle School Children Through Positive Role Assignment. Paper presented at XXIInd Annual Symposium of the Association for the Advancement of Social Work with Groups, October, 2000.
-- The Downside of Cyberspace: Cheating Made Easy. Faculty enrichment presentation, Wurzweiler School of Social Work, New York City, November 16, 1999
-- Loss-Compensation Behavior as an Antecedent to Early Childbearing. Presentation at the Doctoral Conference, Wurzweiler School of Social Work, New York City, May 7, 1999
-- Predictors of Early Childbearing. Poster presentation at Society for Adolescent Medicine (SAM), March 17 - 21, Los Angeles, 1999.
-- Where were you Fifth Period? Five Strategies for High School Group Formation in the '90s. Poster presentation at National Assembly of School Based Health Care, June 25-27, 1998.
-- The Use of Healing Stories in Groups. Paper presented at XVI Annual Symposium of the Association for the Advancement of Social Work with Groups, October 1994.
Professional Organizations
-- Council on Social Work Education
-- National Association of Social Workers
-- Association for the Advancement of Social Work with Groups
--New York Academy of Science
Community Work
Melcher Book Award Committee of the Unitarian Universalist Association, 9/2003
--Sits as a judge on a committee of five that presents this award for an outstanding work --published in America during the past calendar year and judged to be the most significant contribution to religious liberalism.
Greenwich Red Cross,
--Disaster Assistance Team (DAT) since 9/2002
--Disaster Human Resource System (DHRS) Mental Health specialist, since 9/2005
