Straussner, Shulamith Lala Ashenberg

Dr. Lala Straussner, LCSW, DSW, CEAP, BCD, CAS is a Professor of Social Work and Chair of the Practice area at the NYU Silver School of Social Work. She directs the School's Post-Master Certificate Program in The Clinical Approaches to Addictions. She is the Founding Editor of the "Journal of Social Work Practice in the Addictions." She is also on faculty at the annual Summer Institute on Addictions Studies, International School for the Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands.