Phyllis Caroff Obituary, Death – This fellowship was established in memory of Phyllis DSW, Professor Emerita at the Hunter College School of Social Work, and Joseph Caroff, who was her husband and a designer. A student who demonstrates a need for financial assistance and who has an interest in mental health will be selected to receive this prize. A number of scholarships, including the following, will be awarded:
The numbers can change. Dr. Phyllis Caroff was born in 1924 and is still active in the social work industry today as a pioneering theorist, administrator, educator, and practitioner. She established the very first advanced clinical training program within a school of social work while she was a faculty member at the Hunter College School of Social Work. She was the driving force behind the conception of the first model of multi-professional education and training in social work inside a healthcare context. Dr. Caroff was a member of a number of university-wide committees.
most notably the task force that was responsible for the creation of a curriculum for the concurrent teaching of medical and social work students at Mount Sinai Hospital. This was an early example of efforts to collaborate across multiple disciplines. Dr. Caroff completed both her Master of Social Work degree in 1947 and her Doctor of Social Work degree in 1969 at Columbia University’s School of Social Work. In 1944, she graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree from Douglass College in New Jersey.
She also holds a Doctor of Humane Letters degree, which she earned from Hunter College. Dr. Caroff is now known as a Professor Emerita at Hunter College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. She was quite involved at both of these institutions during her time there. Beginning in 1976, she was a member of the faculty at the Hunter School of Social Work in the capacity of Professor of Social Work. Between the years 1972 and 1974, Dr. Caroff was the Chairperson of the Mt. Sinai TaskForce on Interprofessional Education.
In 1979, he also served as the Co-chairperson of the Committee on Professional Education and Training at the Mt. Sinai School of Medicine/Hunter College Long Term Care Gerontology Center. She established and served as the Director of the Post-Program Master’s in Advanced Clinical Social Work offered between the years 1976 and 1986. In addition to that, she held the position of Adjunct Professor in the Department of Community Medicine at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine.
Maintained a private practice specializing in marriage and family counseling. In addition, Dr. Caroff was a member of the Society for Social Work Administrators in Health Care, the Council on Social Work Education, a Fellow of the Society of Clinical Social Workers, and he served on the editorial boards of Social Work in Health Care for more than 20 years and the Journal of Geronotological Social Work for more than 25 years. These are just a few of Dr. Caroff’s many accolades and accomplishments.