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Joel Skolnick is a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker and is the Founder and CEO of ProCredit-ceu.com and Chief Operating Officer of the Metro Boston Mental Health Units at the Lemuel Shattuck Hospital MBMHU at the Lemuel Shattuck Hospital.

Clinical Specialty Mr. Skolnick has specialized in the treatment of Sexual Offenders and has published and taught in this area of expertise. He is a clinical member of ATSA Association for the Treatment of Sexual Abusers and MATSA Massachusetts Association for the Treatment of Sexual Abusers. Mr. Skolnick has specialized in treating individuals convicted of sexual offenses in coordination with Parole, Probation and the Courts. This has included utilization of polygraph and working in concert with intensive models of community supervision and has published on this topic Intensive Parole for Sex Offenders: Putting the Containment Model Into Practice. While the primary modality is group treatment, family therapy is often utilized when there is a question of re-integration of the offender in the family system. Mr. Skolnick also was one of the Sex Offender Therapists who assessed one of the Fells Acres day care workers accused of sexually offenders and opined that the methodology applied in the initial investigation established a faulty premise for her guilt A Fells Acre Chronolgoy(http://forthilldesign.com/_fellsacres/amichron.html ). This case received a great deal of notoriety in that it has been referenced as one of the cases that used faulty interview techniques leading to false memories Fells Acre Day Care Pre School Trial

Career in working with the Mentally Ill Mr. Skolnick started his career in Madison, Wisconsin working in Dane County Mental Health Center at the start of the movement for de-institutionalization of patients who had been hospitalized on locked inpatient psychiatric units, often for decades. Mr. Skolnick worked side by side with programs such as PACT (Program for Assertiveness Training) and in one of the first Club House models for psychiatric patients returning to the community. Mr. Skolnick later established and directed outpatient clinics, and managed community based group homes. From 2000 through 2010 Mr. Skolnick was the Chief Operating Officer for two State Hospitals run by the Department of Mental Health in Massachusetts. He oversaw the successful transition of patients hospitalized at Medfield State Hospital and Westborough State Hospital to community placement leading to those hospitals consolidation and then closure. At the Lemuel Shattuck Hospital on the Mental Health Units Mr. Skolnick adapted a model of the Violence Prevention Community Meeting originally piloted at the Veterans Administration Hospital in New Bedford MA, to a Safety & Respect program designed to reduce violence on inpatient psychiatric units.

Educational Presentations, Enterprises and Publications: Mr. Skolnick has co-authored research in Supervisory practices Target Attributes as Determinants of Influence Use in Supervisory Situations as well as presented and taught Mental Health professionals in areas in various specialty areas of mental health and forensic mental health practice Sexual Offending: Prevention and Management for Families, Agencies and Communities. In 2014, Mr. Skolnick founded a web based educational company to address key learning needs for Clinical Social Workers ranging from topics such as Medical Marijuana to Intimate Partner Violence and barriers to treatment of Psychiatric patients Web based Continuing Education for Social Workers: ProCredit-CEU.com