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N.C. social work group honors Duke’s Cooley Gaffigan
posted April 5th, 2010Cooley Gaffigan of the Duke Family Care Program, which helps women with substance abuse problems with issues related to their children, will be honored as social worker of the year by The North Carolina Society for Clinical Social Work at its annual ethics conference.
Gaffigan has worked in DUMC's Family Care Program, where she provides psychotherapy and case management services for mothers with addiction problems and their young children.
The April 10 event in Chapel Hill -- "On the Diagnosis and 'Treatment' of Homosexuality: When Prejudice Masquerades as Science. A Retrospective on Ethics" -- features William S. Meyer, MSW, BCD, director of training for the Deparment of Social Work and associate clinical professor in the Departments of Psychiatry and Ob/Gyn at Duke Medical Center.