Laura Alongi Brinderson
Laura Alongi Brinderson
Practicum Education Faculty of Social Welfare
Education:
MSW, University of California, Los Angeles 1992
Areas of Interest:
Children and Families, Mental health, Practicum EducationPhone:
310-206-9201Email:
alongi@luskin.ucla.eduOffice Location:
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Laura Alongi is a licensed clinical social worker whose interests lie in mental health issues with children, adolescents, and their families. She is also interested in parenting education and training, and the early childhood bonding process.
As a practicum consultant with the California Social Work Education Center program, a statewide program that trains social workers to become professional public child welfare workers, she works with first- and second-year students, and is involved in recruiting promising child welfare candidates.
Alongi has worked as a social worker in community mental health clinics including South Bay Child Guidance, the Didi Hirsch Community Mental Health Center, and Aviva Children and Family Services. She worked primarily with emotionally disturbed children and their families, both in individual/family and group modalities. She was also a supervisor for several years, and was involved in program development and administration when she served as a program director for the Didi Hirsch Community Mental Health Center.
Currently, she has a small private practice, and provides supervision and consultation to new and unlicensed social workers.