Huda Adnan

Spearheaded pilot program to maximize success of 200+ social work internships

• Facilitated 50+ field focus internship support group sessions of varying topics
• Trained and mentored two students to conduct field focus sessions

Directed annual internship placement event with 200+ students and agencies

• Managed virtual event deployment consisting of 90+ clinical agencies, 50+ macro agencies, and 150+ students

Counseled 16 racially and socioeconomically diverse clients with trauma therapy

• Maintained client interactions and case management records using DrChrono system
• Incorporated various intake/evaluative assessments to monitor client progress

Recruited 8 at-risk South Asian and Muslim individuals to receive mental health services

• Integrated Urdu and Arabic language in culturally adapted therapeutic models and 4+ culture-interventions

Supervisors: Dr. Peta-gay Ledbetter - PhD, LPC-S & Amanda Yoder - LCSW, CGP

Facilitated and mediated 6 psycho-educational support group for South Asians

• Explored 12+ complex issues including abuse, identity, intergenerational trauma
• Promoted 8+ coping skills using strengths-based, culturally sensitive approaches

Previously selected to participate in 2020 SAYHU Virtual Summer Institute

• Engaged in 10 workshops discussing social justice, advocacy, community-building, vulnerable populations

Collaborated with administration to identify gaps in organizational interventions

• Coordinated tracking and managing monthly budget for financial assistance
• Created streamlined intake forms for standardization and referral process

Educated and instructed 60 members in community resources

• Improved client - case worker rapport and support by 47%

Learned process for for patient's individualized plan of care to achieve continuum of care and discharge planning goals

• Observed how to plan, assess, implement, deliver, monitor, and evaluate providers and services to help patients and their families cope with their acute medical, behavioral, or mental health conditions
• Reviewed psychosocial assessments, patient/family psychosocial risk evaluations, and evidence based, and client centered therapy

Attended in hospital department staff meetings with physicians, registered nurses, social workers, and the leadership team including the Chief Medical Advisor

• Participated in Psychosocial Plan of Care and Program Development for Purposes of Improved Quality of Care and Service Delivery

Developing & Enhancing Your Clinical Relationship: Improving the Therapeutic Alliance & Effective Treatment Engagement Strategies

• Learn the essential elements needed to develop and enhance a strong therapeutic alliance, how to manage therapeutic ruptures
• Be familiar with evidence-based engagement strategies and techniques to motivate clients and strengthen their commitment to the treatment.

Ethical Practices in Telehealth Services for Clinical and Macro Social Workers

• Grasp the scope of the medium of technology in their practice
• Identify the ethical standards impacting the use of technology in social work practice, the legal aspects needed to ensure ethical social work practice using technology (with a goal of helping the clinician protect themselves and their clients through situations and case scenarios problem solve in order to achieve a stronger ethical practice

Completed 11-hour training for Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy via Medical University of South Carolina

Completed required course: Core Concepts in Trauma Treatment of Children and Adolescents

Completed QPR Suicide Prevention Training

Training in Trauma-Focused Therapy Models and Evidence-Based Trauma-Informed Treatments including: Cognitive Processing Therapy, Dialectical Behavioral Therapy, and Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, Neuro-Sequential Model of Therapeutics, and Somatic Experiencing Therapy