About

My name is Sean Erreger and I am Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW, MSW) in New York State with an undergraduate degree in psychology. I have 20 years of practice experience in a variety of settings including foster care prevention, psychiatric emergency room, adolescent day treatment, adult inpatient, and clinical case management for children and adolescents. In July of 2023 I switched to program evaluation role and work with how data can inform practice. Additionally I currently pursuing a doctorate in social work.

I have experience teaching and developing CEU trainings. I have been an adjunct instructor at the University of Buffalo Social Work teaching a course on policy and practice connections. I also do clinical consulting for a company called Awake Labs that is using wearable technology to assist individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities.

My page is inspired by brainstorming with colleagues about resources, cases, anecdotes, and things we have read to help ourselves and our clients make progress. It is that desire to get ourselves and our clients “unstuck”  about complex issues that drives me to share information. It started out with my interest in the therapeutic alliance and it has evolved (and so have I) into a focus on technology and health information technology. I am interested in how technology can be an adjunct to behavior change and understanding the challenges that come along with that. I will be started my Doctorate in Social Work in the Fall of 2022 to study this issue further.

I also do consulting/speaking/freelance writing about the therapeutic alliance, crisis intervention, care coordination, and last but least social media best practices. Please visit my work with me page for more info. Also feel free to email me at stuckonsw@gmail.com. 

  1. Thank you so much for providing this valuable resource on the web. Thank you also for your service as a social worker. You make the world a better place. God bless you.

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      1. Thank you. One of these days I intend to write up some of the stories I heard as a counselor. Changing names and details, of course. Truth can be more interesting and at times horrifying than fiction. Humans find creative ways of surviving horrendous abuse. When helping adolescents in residential treatment, as I once did, you witness the both devastating effects of abuse and triumph of the human spirit in spite of it.

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  3. In a recent post you wrote:
    “Thinking back to working on a psychiatric inpatient unit for adults, I really struggled with the complete lack of insight that comes with psychosis and delusions. I remember meeting with a client who was begging for a discharge due to having an active delusion,…”

    If you’d be willing, it would be very helpful to hear how you would recognize psychosis and delusions in youth, especially when the adolescent has marked intellectual limitations.

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    1. I am going to defer to my friends in psychology to do some good testing. I would ask about projective testing and a good neuropsychological evaluation to get a better idea what is going on with thought process.

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        1. I guess you would need to define concerns. If there are immediate safety concerns please address those. Adolescents and children sometimes experience ‘voices’ in a lot of ways (especially those with intellectual disabilities) and psychology is the best ways to rule those out and give you guidance for treatment. Please email me at stuckonsw@yahoo.com for further communication.

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