Leslie Nelson - Licensed Clinical Social Worker
Education
“Learning is not Attained by Chance, it Must be Sought for with Ardor and Attended to with Diligence.” Abigail Adams
University of Southern California, USC, Los Angeles, 2007 to 2009
Master of Social Work, MSW, 2009
Macro concentration:
COPA--Community Organization, Planning, and Development: Large Civic Systems
Micro concentration:
Adults, Older Adults, Addiction, Mental Illness: Small Systems
University of California, Irvine, 2003 to 2007
Cultural Anthropology, BS, 2007
Macro Concentrations: Large Systems
Social structures: cultures, subcultures, underground and countercultures
Kinship structures: Matrifocal, Patrifocal, Moieties, Clans, Biological, Fictive
1970s evolution of 2nd wave feminism correlated to the devolution of masculinity
The use of sci-fi and comedy as delivery vehicles broadcasting active cultural change
Similarities between cultures and similar differences within cultures
The Politics of Information and The Politics of Style
School Concentration: Asian Pacific Islanders
Medical Anthropology Studies
Macro Concentration: Large and Small Systems
The body politic, the body social, the body individual
Cultural definitions of disease and root causes of disease
American Indian and Alaskan Native Healing Arts
Cross Cultural Evaluation and Treatment Planning
Aboriginal and Mainstream Recovery Models
Neurobiology, Neurodiversity, and Neuroscience
Onset of Infantile Gender Assignment and Reassignment Surgery
Onset of Pre-pubescent and Post-pubescent Gender Reassignment Surgery
Gender Studies, BA, (2007)
Macro Concentrations: Large and Small Systems
Transnational definitions of masculinity and femininity and the impact on gender, law, science, religion, politics, education and medicine from historic to contemporary social structures.
The 21st C Loss of Homosocial Groups and the Increase in Heterosocial Groups
Scientific Roots of the Binary Gender System
Micro Concentrations: Large and Small Systems
Rites of Passage, Ages of Consent, Division of Labor, Situational Gender Performance, Gender Complementarity, and Individual and Social Identity Markers such as perceived race, class, gender, sexuality, nationality and ethnic origin.
Queer Theory, Minor, (2007)
The interdisciplinary questioning of all things considered inherently dualistic in nature and how broad concepts of normal and abnormal developed into social standards and customary practice.
Imperial Valley Community College, 1998 to 2003
World Literature AA, 2003
Full time studies of multiple disciplinary learning for 6 years.
Summary
This continuous 12-year period of education in multi-cultural studies enhances dual diagnoses evaluations via the convergence of the micro-Anthropology and Gender studies component of kinship and family systems with the macro Social Work component of organizational systems bringing together the person and the systems in which the person is involved with and the systems that the person has historically been involved in for a more comprehensive and robust understanding of the foundation of the behaviors and motivations.
Continuing Education
30 or more Continuing Education Units per year including the NWIAS annual 3-day conference focusing on substance use disorders every year since 2016.
20 hours of Native American and Alaskan Native CEUs related to addiction, suicide and culture in 2024.
20+ hours of addiction CEUs in 2024.