Jerry Floersch is a founder of Triangle Psychotherapies & Consultation LLC. He is an associate professor of social work at Rutgers University. Dr. Floersch is the author of Meds, Money, and Manners: The Case Management of Severe Mental Illness, published by Columbia University Press (2002), where, utilizing ethnographic and socio-historical methods, he examined the rise of community support services, the rise of the case manager and case management. He is a NIMH K08 recipient (2004-2009) for training in and development of qualitative methods to study youth subjective experience of psychotropic treatment. Dr. Floersch conducted a follow-up ethnography to Meds, Money & Manners, which led to a second book, On Having andBeing a Case Manager (2010). His practice methodology is developed in a book Qualitative Methods for Practice Research (2013), published on Oxford University Press. From 2010 to 2017 he was the director of Rutger's DSW program, where he developed a case study method and curriculum for advanced clinical training. He is the past co-president (2017-2019) of the American Association for Psychoanalysis in Clinical Social Work. In 2019 he was inducted as a fellow in the Society for Social Work and Research, the flagship society for social work research.
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Dr. Floersch's has practiced across many settings: in-patient hospitals, outpatient substance abuse, and community mental health centers. He conducted emergency psychiatric assessments and interventions in a large urban hospital for nearly 15 years and supervised a group home for individuals living with severe mental illness. He utilizes a variety of psychodynamic theories and approaches. His research on adolescent subjective experience of psychiatric medications has led to an expertise in helping patients understand and take control of their particular medication narrative. He has expertise with adolescents and young adults, especially among those having difficulty making transitions from home to college, home to work, or from home to independent living.