Tally Moses
Ph.D.
Assistant Professor

Assistant Professor; M.S.W., Ph.D., University of California-Los Angeles, 2003. Mental Health Services for adolescents, Mental Health Treatment Strategies and Outcomes for youth in out-of-home care; psychopharmacology treatment and its psychological implications.

Contact Information

University of Wisconsin, Madison - Social Work
308 School of Social Work
1350 University Avenue
Madison, WI 53706
Phone: 263-3674
Email: moses@wisc.edu

Education

M.S.W., Ph.D., University of California-Los Angeles, 2003.

Research Interests

I have clinical experience in outpatient, inpatient and residential settings with children/adolescents, adults and families. During my studies for the B.S.W. at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem, I gained significant clinical experience in the two, year-long internships (this B.S.W. program was structured very much like typical M.S.W. programs in American universities). During the first year, I provided in-home counseling (family, dyadic (mother-child, as well as individual) to individuals seeking services at a municipal social service agency (poor, multi-problem). My second year internship was in a child and adolescent outpatient mental health clinic, where much of my caseload was comprised of children under the age of 12 with psychological and/or behavioral problems as well as their families. My early training was primarily in psychodynamic and family systems theories. Following my B.S.W., I spent two and a half years in the Israeli military as a ?mental health officer?, a position which involved working with a high caseload of soldiers (young adults, aged 18-22) as well as, to a much lesser degree, with their commanders and families. Aside from a great deal of diagnostic services and crisis-oriented treatment, I provided long-term, brief and crisis oriented psychotherapy to a caseload of Israeli soldiers (young adults) with diverse problems. During this time, I also developed unit-wide mental health programming, educated and provided ongoing consultation to all levels of command regarding soldiers? mental health related issues, and conducted several support groups. In the military, I received supervision and training in various treatment methodologies, including cognitive and behavior therapy (especially dealing with PTSD and acute stress), crisis intervention, and family systems therapy.

In the years leading up to the M.S.W. studies, I worked as a counselor in various residential group home settings with youth placed through the juvenile justice system (JJ) or child protective services (CPS). For one year, I also worked as a counselor with autistic and developmentally disabled latency-aged children living in a therapeutic community (Devereux Foundation). In the M.S.W. program, I pursued my clinical interests in adolescent mental health and did my internship in a psychiatric inpatient mental health unit in a community mental health center. In this setting, I was part of a multi-disciplinary team, providing individual, family, and group therapy to hospitalized adolescents and their families/caretakers. The emphasis of my clinical studies at the time was on family-systems work as well as inter-personal treatment.

In the years following the M.S.W. program, I worked as a clinician in residential treatment settings for a total of three years or so. I provided case-management as well as individual, family and group therapy to adolescent and pre-adolescent boys and girls placed through JJ, CPS or DMH. The population I worked with generally involved hard-to-place and hard-to-reach youngsters, many of whom had been in the out-of-home care system for many years. It is in this population where much of my current clinical interests lie.