An Integrative Approach to Clinical Social Work Practice with Children of Incarcerated Parents

Anna Morgan-Mullane, LCSW-R, was born and raised in Bellingham, Washington, USA, where she first found her love of community organizing rooted in her family values, with two parents who worked in spaces impacted by injustice. Dr. Morgan-Mullane obtained her Master's in Social Work from Fordham University and her Doctorate in Social Welfare from NYU Silver School of Social Work. After 18 years living and working within her community of Brooklyn, New York, she serves as President of Mental Health Services at Children of Promise, NYC for 12 years and the President of Clinical Policies and Practices to Fresh Youth Initiatives in New York. Dr. Morgan-Mullane conducts an extensive training program for MSW and MHC interns, Licensed Clinical Social Workers, Licensed Mental Health Counselors, psychiatrists, and licensed creative art therapists that allows everyone to gain anti-racist and critical culturally responsive therapeutic skills needed to support individuals, families, and communities impacted by the injustice system, complex trauma, and intergenerational trauma. In 2012, Dr. Morgan-Mullane and Sharon Content successfully established the first outpatient mental health clinic in the United States specifically designed to address the experiences and narratives of children and adolescents impacted by hyper-incarceration. Dr. Morgan-Mullane has also developed clinical policies and practice guidelines and launched an evidence-informed treatment model which includes the employment of Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Narrative Therapy, complex trauma systems theory, and Mitigation Practices. Dr. Morgan-Mullane's work explores the intersection of clinical social work, social policy, and systemic racism within all injustice systems. Dr. Morgan-Mullane is an adjunct professor in the NYU Silver School of Social Work and Simmons University, where she teaches in their several courses in theirMaster's and Doctoral programs which she developed on the intersectionality of clinical policy and practice within injustice reform and abolition and mental health implications for those impacted by systemic oppression. Dr. Morgan-Mullane has presented her research over the last 15 years at the National NASW conference in Washington D.C., NASW-NYC, Third and Fourth Annual CE Conferences, and at the Global Prison Conference in South Africa at the University of Johannesburg. Anna identifies proudly as an individual, therapeutic, and community abolitionist, as she believes the only way toward true healing will be through the reimagining of all mental health care systems globally.

Part I: Intersectionality of Social Work Practice and Mass Incarceration,- Why Criminal Justice Is Relevant to All Clinical Practitioners.- Impact of Secondary Incarceration: Collateral Consequences for Children and Families.- Psychosocial Stressors for Children of Incarcerated Parents: Conspiracy of Silence and Ambiguous Loss.- Part II: Clinical Applications Grounded in Cultural Responsiveness.- Narrative Therapy.- Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy.- Prolonged Exposure Therapy for PTSD.- Attachment Theory and Relational Therapy.- Mitigation and Advocacy.- Part III: Enhancing Practice Through Supervision and Training.- Supervision and the Therapeutic Alliance: Critical Consciousness and Anti-racist Clinical Training and Undoing.- Clinical Partnership: Application of Dismantling Anti-Blackness Through Anti-oppressive Practice and Critical Consciousness.- An Integrative Model to Transform Clinical Practice.- Conclusion.