Joel Kanter, MSW, LCSW has been a practicing social worker since completing his graduate education at Smith College School for Social Work in 1974. A graduate of the Advanced Psychotherapy Training Program at the Washington School of Psychiatry, he is currently a Senior Clinician with Fairfax County (Virginia) Mental Health Services and is in private practice in Silver Spring, Maryland. He has taught, lectured and written extensively on many topics involving the community treatment of mentally ill clients, including case management, family consultation and day treatment. His publications in th...