Wendy Smith
Expert in mental health and treatment, with an emphasis on children and foster youth
Director of Instructional Enhancement
Adjunct Professor
USC School of Social Work
Contact at: (310) 471-6607, (213) 740-1391 or wsmith@usc.edu
Expertise:
- mental health problems and treatment
- child and adolescent development
- effects of abuse and neglect on development and relationships
- effects of disrupted attachments
- transitional living for former foster youth
- youth aging out of foster care
- individual and couple psychotherapy
- disaster mental health (apartment fires, plane crash)
- Author, "Youth Leaving Care: A developmental, relationship-based approach to working with foster youth"
- Licensed Clinical Social Worker and Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in private practice
- Board Certified Diplomate, American Board of Examiners in Clinical Social Work
- Diplomate in Clinical Social Work, National Association of Social Workers
- Fellow in psychoanalytic psychotherapy, Wright Institute Los Angeles
- Board chair, United Friends of the Children
- Advisory committee, Human Rights Watch Children's Rights Division
- USC Mellon Award, Excellence in Mentoring
- George D. Nickel Award for Outstanding Professional Service in Social Welfare, California Social Welfare Archives
- Community Partnership Award, Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services
- Phi Beta Kappa
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