Bio
Alec Ross has worked in the field of clinical social work for over 40 years. Working with children, adolescents, and families, he has provided a wide array of crisis intervention, early intervention, and prevention services as well as clinical treatment to individuals, couples, families and groups. Currently, Al is the Senior Director of Clinical Practice at Juvenile Protective Association (JPA) providing ongoing supervision and training for all the agency’s clinical services, including teacher consultation and school-based therapy, in several Chicago South Side and West Side neighborhoods. In addition to my work at JPA, he maintains a small private practice, mostly focused on providing clinical services for people confronting encountering addiction related issues.
I am deeply committed to the field of clinical social work practice and am passionate about what differentiates clinical social work practice from our colleagues in other clinical disciplines. Recognizing and integrating the socio-political context in our thinking about the development of the person, the evolution of problematic experiences and clinical approaches that embrace the larger context, is, in my mind, a significant difference in terms of how we look at and address the human condition in all our work.
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