COMMENCEMENT 2012
Commencement 2012 will be held on Friday, August 17, at 4:00 p.m. in John M. Greene Hall.
COMMENCEMENT SPEAKER
The School for Social Work is pleased to welcome Nancy McWilliams, Ph.D., as its 2012 Commencement speaker. Dr. McWilliams was enthusiastically received in Summer 2011 as the E. Diane Davis Memorial Lecturer at Annual Conference.
Nancy McWilliams teaches at Rutgers University’s Graduate School of Applied & Professional Psychology and has a private practice in Flemington, NJ. She is author of Psychoanalytic Diagnosis: Understanding Personality Structure in the Clinical Process (1994; rev. ed. 2011), Psychoanalytic Case Formulation (1999), and Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy: A Practitioner’s Guide (2004), all with Guilford Press, and was Associate Editor of the Psychodynamic Diagnostic Manual (2006). She is a former president of the Division of Psychoanalysis (39) of the American Psychological Association, and is on the editorial board of Psychoanalytic Psychology.
Dr. McWilliams’s books have been translated into fourteen languages, and she has lectured widely both nationally and internationally. Her book on case formulation received the Gradiva Award for best psychoanalytic clinical book of 1999; in 2004 she was given the Rosalee Weiss Award for contributions to practice by the Division of Independent Practitioners of the American Psychological Association; in 2006 she was made an Honorary Member of the American Psychoanalytic Association. The American Psychological Association chose her to represent psychoanalytic therapy in a 2011 remake of the classic film, “Three Approaches to Psychotherapy” (www.apa.org/pubs/videos/ ) in which one client sees three different therapists (McWilliams, Judith Beck, and Les Greenberg). A graduate of the National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis, Dr. McWilliams is also affiliated with the Center for Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy of New Jersey and the National Training Program of the National Institute for the Psychotherapies in New York City.
Photography
GradImages™ representatives will takeindividual photos of the graduates at Commencement. Information will be sent in September to graduates' Smith email addresses.
Tickets
Tickets are not needed for the Commencement ceremony. They are, however, required for the reception that follows, which is held in the Campus Center.
Graduates are entitled to a total of five tickets, which includes one for themselves. They may also invite as many people as they wish to either Commencement or the reception, but each additional ticket is $10 for guests attending the reception. SSW will place complimentary tickets in graduating students' mailboxes prior to Commencement or mail tickets to graduating post-resident doctoral and M.S.W. students. Additional tickets will be available for purchase at the reception desk in Lilly Hall prior to Commencement.
If you are a graduating PhD student or a graduating post-resident student and are unable to come in to purchase extra reception tickets ($10 each), please contact the Receptionist in Lilly Hall, (413) 585-7950.
Commencement 2011
See photos here. Congratulations, graduates!
Updated 7/13/12
