Alan Levy, DSW

Title: Associate Professor

Education: 
B.A., New York University
M.S.W., Simmons College
D.S.W., Columbia University

Awards and Recognitions:
NYU, Founder’s Day Award
Sarnat Fellow, University Of Southern California
Distinguished Career Award, Simmons College School of Social Work
Distinguished Scholar, National Academies of Practice

Current Research Projects: 
Neurobiology of child psychotherapy
Psychoanalytic treatment of children with Asperger’s Syndrome

Courses Currently Teaching/Teaching Areas: 
Human Behavior in the Social Environment I
Principles and Interventions in Clinical Social Work
Clinical Social Work Treatment of Children

Community and Professional Service: 
Clinical Social Work Association, National Board of Directors
American Psychoanalytic Association, Committee on Psychoanalysis and Social Work Education
American Association for Psychoanalysis in Clinical Social Work, Member

International Experience: 
Paper presented at the 4th World Conference on Psychotherapy, Beijing, China: Once More with Feeling: The Therapeutic Action of Play in the Treatment of Children  with Asperger’s Syndrome.

Recent Faculty Scholarship:
• Levy, AJ (2008). The therapeutic action of play in the psychodynamic treatment of children: a critical analysis. Clinical Social Work Journal, 36(3):281-291.