Northcentral University

N O RT H C E N T R A L U N I V E R S I T Y: N C U M F T S U P E RV I S O R C O R N E R 1 0 DAVID CASTINE, LMSW, LMFT, AAMFT-Approved Supervisor Tell us about your clinical training/licensure, experience, and current work setting/location. I would like to introduce myself by saying it has been a genuine pleasure to work with multiple NCU interns over the last 4 years by providing them with off-site MFT supervision in my private practice setting in Metro Detroit. The interns have worked primarily at various mental health settings. It has been a welcome challenge to have them explore and apply family systems and relational approaches to these traditional mental health settings. Their coursework at NCU has given them an excellent foundation in theory and practice, and they come to supervision with an abundance of knowledge and an ability to apply it to their clinical work. I obtained my MSW from Wayne State University, School of Social Work, in Detroit in 1977. I subsequently became a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist. For the first 25 years of my career, I worked in several state-run inpatient psychiatric settings for children and adolescents. As I learned Structural Family Therapy, it became an approach that seemed especially relevant in understanding and working with these clients and their frequently dysfunctional families. It is an approach that has remained a foundation of my clinical work. Narrative and Solution Focused approaches have come to influence my work as well. As I have expanded my private practice over the last 25 years, especially working with couples, the work of the Gottmans and Sue Johnson has significantly informed my work. I began providing clinical supervision to MSWs and MFTs 25 years ago, often accompanying their advancement toward full licensure. I have been an AAMFT-Approved Supervisor for 20 years. How do you support supervisees' awareness of diversity, equity, and inclusion? My other professional passion has been to work as an adjunct professor at Wayne State University, School of Social Work, for the past 30 years. I teach courses in the graduate Family Systems Concentration and serve as a Faculty Field Liaison. Teaching at an urban university has contributed to my awareness of the importance and connection between diversity, inclusion, and equity. Responding to multiple racial/ethnic backgrounds, gender, gender identities, sexual orientation, age, religion, and the many other identities

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