Hermila Melero
Hermila
Melero
Adjunct Faculty (POC)
Campus:
- Pasadena
- Department
- Cultural & Family Psychology
- Institution
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Pacific Oaks College
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Address
- 45 W Eureka Street
- Pasadena, CA 91103
- Biography
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I've been working in the social work field since 1995 primarily with pregnant and parenting teens in group home settings. I earned my MSW degree from USC School of Social Work in 1998 and have been licensed in 2003. My clinical experience includes providing individual, family, and group therapy with children, youth, and families primarily within community based, non-profit agencies addressing issues of community violence and trauma, intimate partner violence, child abuse and neglect, and sexual abuse and assault, in both English and Spanish. My clinical specialization is trauma-specifically adult survivors of child sexual abuse and in the last 10 years I have been focusing more on trauma and addiction.
- Education History
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Degree Institution Year BA Pomona College, Claremont 1994 MSW USC School of Social Work, Los Angeles 1998 - Licenses
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LCSW, California - Areas of Expertise
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Area Expertise Trauma Trauma Informed Practices - Question and Answer
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Please describe your teaching philosophy. My teaching philosophy is to create a safe, inclusive, collaborative learning community where students are encouraged to express their own ideas and participate in their education experience. This includes engaging and relationship building with their class peers and myself— skills necessary for their growth as burgeoning practitioners/professionals. My goal is to elicit insight, self-reflection and bridging together theory and direct practice.
- Publications
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Journal Hermila Melero, Maria Y. Hernandez, Sofya Bagdasaryan (2021). Field Note—Social Work Field Education in Quarantine: Administrative Lessons From the Field During a Worldwide Pandemic. Journal of Social Work Education, 57 (Sup 1), p 162-167.