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Issue #86, January 9, 2008
EDITOR'S EYE
Dear Social Work Colleagues,
Welcome to Issue #86 of the Social Work E-News. This e-mail newsletter is brought to you by the publisher of THE NEW SOCIAL WORKER magazine, SocialWorker.com, SocialWorkJobBank.com, and other social work publications.
I want to wish everyone a very happy and successful new year! 2008 marks the 15th year of publication for THE NEW SOCIAL WORKER magazine! I think it will be the best and most exciting year yet. It will be our first full year of electronic-only publication, and I am continuing to explore new and innovative ways to reach all the social workers and social work students "out there" who are embarking on or advancing in their social work careers. I recently joined the social networking site Facebook and set up a "page" for THE NEW SOCIAL WORKER. You can become one of our first fans! Go to http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=6689018002 and log in to your account (or create one), and you will be able to register as a fan of our page. You will then be able to receive special notices and take part in discussions on the page.
January is National Birth Defects Prevention Month. See the feature article in this e-newsletter to read about a special initiative of the March of Dimes. This month is also Cervical Health Awareness Month. See http://www.nccc-online.org for a wealth of information on this topic.
I am happy to announce that the Winter 2008 issue of THE NEW SOCIAL WORKER magazine is now available online. Go to http://www.socialworker.com to read the articles from this issue in Web format. You can also download this issue (and others) of THE NEW SOCIAL WORKER magazine in PDF format FREE at http://www.socialworker.com/home/component/remository/Download/TheNewSocialWorkerMagazine/TheNewSocialWorkerVol.15No.1(Winter2008)/
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The Social Work E-News now has almost 24,000 subscribers, and thousands of social workers (and people interested in social work) visit our Web sites. If you like our Web sites, The New Social Worker, and the Social Work E-News, tell a friend, student, or colleague! And if you're looking for a social work job (or to hire a social worker), be sure to check out SocialWorkJobBank at http://www.socialworkjobbank.com .
Until next time,
Linda Grobman, ACSW, LSW
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JOB CORNER
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The Jazz Foundation of America is looking for a part-time licensed social worker/musicians' advocate to join the team. LMSW required, LCSW preferred. We are an affirmative action, equal-opportunity employer, and looking to increase diversity. Work is case-by-case; personal and caring nature a must. Extensive experience with concrete services and state/federal entitlements such as Medicaid, Medicare, Social Security, disability required. Experience with the elderly and love of music preferred.
Duties include: Conduct client psychosocial evaluations and assess current needs, provide support to musicians dealing with medical and financial crises, identify need and refer clients to pro bono medical services, community and music-related agencies, confer with Director and recommend treatment and long-term solutions, follow up on care plans and individual client development, maintain accurate client records and complete documentation in timely manner, and communicate with other case workers. Perks include working with famous artists who dedicated their lives to making the world more beautiful.
To apply, please fax resume to: 212-245-3994 Attn: Amy Merrill or e-mail: info@jazzfoundation.org
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Eckerd Youth Alternatives, a leader in therapeutic programs for at-risk youth, seeks a Clinical Services Coordinator for our programs in Brooksville, FL and Colebrook, NH. The Clinical Services Coordinator's duties primarily focus on the delivery of quality clinical services. State licensure as a Professional Counselor, Clinical Social Worker, or Clinical Psychologist req'd. Minimum of two years experience in direct-care delivery of treatment or clinical services, plus 1 year of supervisory experience EOE, M/F/D/V, DFWP. Apply online @ www.eckerd.org or fax resume to C. Barwick @ 727-442-5911.
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FEATURES
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Compassion Fatigue: Being an Ethical Social Worker
By Tracy C. Wharton, M.Ed., MFT
(Ed. Note: This article is excerpted from the Winter 2008 issue of The New Social Worker. See link to the complete article at the bottom of this excerpt.)
When I was a young counselor just out of school, I took a job at an alternative school. I provided crisis intervention and behavioral therapy to children who were unable to succeed in normal educational environments. One of my clients was a six-year-old girl who had been repeatedly sexually abused and had been bounced around foster homes with her aggressive outbursts. After one particularly bad day of her active flashbacks, I found myself sitting in my clinical supervisor's office in tears.
"How do you do it?" I asked. "I can't sleep without thinking about her, about all of them. How do you deal with it?" He turned around and slammed his briefcase shut. "Like that," he said, latching the locks shut. "You just have to learn to walk away. If you can't do it, maybe you're in the wrong field."
I hated him at that moment, and suddenly I felt as if all my teachers had betrayed me for not letting me in on this little secret. Why hadn't anyone told me that this job would hurt so much sometimes?
The truth is that he was wrong. He may be able to shut it all off at the end of each day, but research tells us that most of us cannot and do not. In fact, about 48% of the total social work workforce in the United States experiences high levels of personal distress as a result of their work (Strozier & Evans, 1998).
Personal distress can look like a lot of things, such as relationship problems at home, feelings of no longer being effective at work, depression, or more noticeable things like nightmares or hypervigilance. Researchers make the case that there is a strong connection between the helping professions and what they call Secondary Traumatic Stress (STS). There is a lot of literature out there that talks about the high incidence of suicide rates in social workers, high turnover rates in employment, high rates of burnout, and disruptive symptoms to personal lives resulting from traumatic stress (Figley, 2002; McCann & Pearlman, 1990; Meyers & Cornille, 2002; Pryce, Shackleford, & Pryce, 2007; Valent, 2002). We often are willing to write it all off as fatigue, or tell ourselves (or others) to "buck up," or "learn to deal," or even worse-to get out of the profession, as my supervisor had done with me. Can you imagine what would happen if every young social worker took such advice? There'd be no one left to help our clients. It took me less than six months to learn about the strains of the job, but it would be nearly a decade before I would find out that reactions like mine are common, and more importantly-normal.
Exposure to stressors is not necessarily a guarantee that there will be development of clinically significant symptoms. Job satisfaction and personal gratification protect us (this is that notion that we love what we do, even if it's very rough some days). We know that these things are true for our clients. What makes us think that our training makes us something other than human?
Read the rest of this article at: http://www.socialworker.com/home/Feature_Articles/Ethics/Compassion_Fatigue%3A_Being_an_Ethical_Social_Worker/
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March of Dimes Kicks Off New Curriculum for Children
Kids Learn About Good Health and Volunteerism
This school year, the March of Dimes is working with elementary and middle schools to introduce a new curriculum for grades K through 5 that educates children about the importance of good health, diet, and exercise and urges them to volunteer for charity -- including participating in a coin drive that will help the March of Dimes give every baby a healthy start in life.
"These education materials teach young students the importance of taking care of themselves and of civic responsibility," said Dr. Jennifer L. Howse, president of the March of Dimes. "It's a great way to bring students together in the classroom, the school, and in their community, while teaching them about fun volunteer activities that make a difference in the lives of others."
Dr. Howse noted that youth who volunteer are more likely to do well in school, graduate, vote, and be philanthropic, according to the UCLA/Higher Education Research Institute.
The new teacher-approved March of Dimes materials, "Change for America's Babies," convey age-appropriate health messages and follow national education standards.
Students were also asked to help raise funds for the March of Dimes by collecting coins. "Giving spare change to the March of Dimes is a long tradition that stretches back to the founding of our organization in the 1930s by President Roosevelt, who asked every American to send a dime to the White House," says Dr. Howse.
There is about $10.5 billion of loose change sitting idle in American households, according to estimates. To make it easy to donate coins, the March of Dimes partnered with Coinstar, which featured the March of Dimes on Coinstar Center screens during November and December 2007. Coins could be taken to any participating Coinstar Center or to any local March of Dimes office.
To download or order the curriculum for your school, find donation locations, or simply acquire more information on Change for America's Babies, visit http://marchofdimes.com/change.
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Scientists Can Predict Psychotic Illness in up to 80 Percent of High-Risk Youth
Youth who are going to develop psychosis can be identified before their illness becomes full-blown 35 percent of the time if they meet widely accepted criteria for risk, but that figure rises to 65 to 80 percent if they have certain combinations of risk factors, the largest study of its kind has shown. Knowing what these combinations are can help scientists predict who is likely to develop the illnesses within two to three years with the same accuracy that other kinds of risk factors can predict major medical diseases, such as diabetes.
Plans for studies to confirm the results, a necessary step before the findings can be considered for use with patients in health-care settings, are underway.
The research was conducted in youth with a median age of 16 and was funded primarily by the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), part of the National Institutes of Health. Results were published in the January 7, 2008, issue of the Archives of General Psychiatry, by lead researchers Tyrone D. Cannon, Ph.D., of the University of California Los Angeles, and Robert Heinssen, Ph.D., of NIMH, with colleagues from seven other research facilities.
The combinations of factors that predicted psychosis included:
deteriorating social functioning (for example, spending increasing amounts of time alone in one's room, doing nothing);
a family history of psychosis combined with recent decline in ability to function (such as a drop in grades not explained by other factors or an unexplained withdrawal from extracurricular school activities).
increase in unusual thoughts (such as thinking that strangers' conversations are about oneself);
increase in suspicion/paranoia (such as suspicion of being followed); and past or current drug abuse.
"When teens have a dive in grades or drop out of the school band, and it happens against a backdrop of family history of schizophrenia and recent troubling changes in perception & like hearing nondistinct buzzing or crackling sounds, or seeing fleeting images that disappear with a second glance & more often than not it indicates that psychosis is fairly imminent," Cannon said.
If participants had an unrealistic belief that they were being followed, for example, but could be shown that their troubling thoughts were unfounded, the researchers considered them as having a risk factor, but not yet psychosis. But if the participants' sense of being followed became unshakable, despite evidence to the contrary, or became disabling, the researchers considered them as having crossed a threshold to psychosis.
Research shows that intervention during the early stages of psychosis improves outcomes, but it is not yet clear if even earlier intervention, before a psychotic illness develops, is effective.
"Having this more accurate ability to measure who's likely to develop psychosis will be a great asset. Identifying young people in need of intervention is crucial, but the results of this research can help us do more than that. It can eventually help us determine the most effective time to intervene," said NIMH Director Thomas R. Insel, M.D.
Researchers from the facilities that conducted the study used similar criteria and techniques to evaluate 291 high-risk youth, about three times as many as had been evaluated in any previous study of this kind. In addition to being smaller, earlier studies had used different criteria and measuring techniques from one another, which clouded the picture and resulted in only moderate accuracy in predicting psychotic illness.
In this study, a total of 35 percent of participants with at least one risk factor developed a psychotic illness within the 30-month study timeframe. However, when researchers broke the data down further, they found that the youth who had two or three additional risk factors developed psychosis at a rate of 68 to 80 percent, depending on which risk factors were combined.
A separate group of 134 healthy people with no known risk factors for psychosis served as a control group, for comparison. None of them developed a psychotic illness.
Researchers also found that the youth who progressed to a psychotic disorder tended to do so relatively quickly. Twenty-two percent developed psychosis within the first year of follow-up, an additional 11 percent by the end of the second year, and 3 percent more by two-and-a-half years.
"The message here is that once we identify people as being high risk, we have a very good chance of knowing whether or not they're likely to develop a serious mental disorder like schizophrenia and that, if they do, it will happen fairly quickly. That's such a critical window of opportunity for getting them the help they need," said Heinssen.
The investigators who conducted the study are part of a consortium of nine research centers, the North American Prodromal Longitudinal Study (NAPLS), whose goal is to improve the accuracy of predicting psychosis. The consortium is funded by NIMH, which also provides administrative leadership.
In addition to Cannon and Heinssen, scientists who participated in the research included Kristin Cadenhead, M.D., University of California San Diego; Barbara Cornblatt, Ph.D., Zucker Hillside Hospital; Scott W. Woods, M.D., Yale University; Jean Addington, Ph.D., University of Toronto; Elaine Walker, Ph.D., Emory University; Larry J. Seidman, Ph.D., Harvard Medical School; Diana Perkins, M.D., University of North Carolina; Ming Tsuang, M.D., University of California San Diego; and Thomas McGlashan, M.D., Yale University.
The Staglin Foundation also provided support for the research.
For more information about schizophrenia, visit the NIMH web site at http://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/topics/schizophrenia/index.shtml.
Reference: Cannon TD, Cadenhead K, Cornblatt B, Woods SW, Addington J, Walker E, Seidman LJ, Perkins D, Tsuang M, McGlashan T, Heinssen R. Prediction of Psychosis in High Risk Youth: A Multi-Site Longitudinal Study in North America. Archives of General Psychiatry. January 7, 2008.
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NEWS & RESOURCES
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BPD 25th Annual Conference to be Held in Destin, FL March 5-9
The Association of Baccalaureate Social Work Program Directors (BPD) is celebrating its 25th annual conference from March 5-9, 2008 at the lovely San Destin Golf and Beach Resort in Destin, Florida. The conference will offer participants an opportunity to participate in a host of activities related to practice, research, education, and teaching. There will be workshops, roundtable discussions, papers, and poster presentations, as well as many networking opportunities.
This year's conference theme is "Honoring Our Past: Celebrating Our Present and Affirming Our Future." BPD will acknowledge past leaders of the organization for their contributions, celebrate the organization's accomplishments, and plan for future challenges and opportunities. In addition, the conference will reflect on 25 years of the development and influence of BPD on undergraduate social work education.
For details on the conference schedule, registration, continuing education hours available, student volunteering, housing, sponsorship, and other conference-related information, see the BPD Web site at: http://www.bpdonline.org
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Social Work Evidence-Based Practice Scale Validators Needed
Latrice Rollins is a second-year social work doctoral student at the University of Georgia. She and her classmates have created a scale, Social Work Evidence-Based Practice Scale, for their measurement class. They need to collect responses to validate the scale. The link to the scale is listed below.
If you would like more details about the study, please contact Latrice at mspelman@uga.edu. The survey is anonymous and has been approved by the University's Institutional Review Board for Human Subjects.
The survey is located at:
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=lUaWUrcsXDE2G8heFugMpQ_3d_3d
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NASW Announces Social Work Month 2008 Theme
The National Association of Social Workers has announced that the theme for Social Work Month 2008 is "Building on Strengths. Social Workers--Help Starts Here." The month of March has been celebrated as an annual recognition of professional social workers since 1984. This year's theme "recognizes that the foundation for growth and change in an individual, a family, or a community is in the strengths of each, and that social workers are educated from the 'strengths perspective' to help clients and communities understand the strengths and resources they have for problem solving and achieving their goals," says NASW. See http://www.socialworkers.org for more information about Social Work Month.
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Irwin Nesoff's Social Welfare Blog
The Social Welfare Spot is "an electronic resource for information on current issues impacting social welfare, serving as a clearing house for resources to stay current on the politics and economics of social welfare policy in the United States." Developed by Kean University associate professor Irwin Nesoff, the blog can be found at: http://socialwelfarespot.blogspot.com/
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The Winter 2008 issue of THE NEW SOCIAL WORKER is now available to download in PDF format at: http://www.socialworker.com/home/component/remository/Download/TheNewSocialWorkerMagazine/TheNewSocialWorkerVol.15No.1(Winter2008)/
THE NEW SOCIAL WORKER's Web site at http://www.socialworker.com includes the full text of many articles from past issues of the magazine. The current issue is featured on the site's main page. The last several issues can be found under "Magazine Issues" on the top right column of the page. For full-text articles from issues prior to Spring 2006, click on "Feature Articles Archive" on the left side of the page. The magazine is also available for FREE download in PDF format.
Current articles from the Winter 2008 issue now online include:
Compassion Fatigue: Being an Ethical Social Worker -- http://www.socialworker.com/home/Feature_Articles/Ethics/Compassion_Fatigue%3A_Being_an_Ethical_Social_Worker/
Taking the Wheel: Put Yourself in the Driver's Seat of Your Field Placement Experience -- http://www.socialworker.com/home/Feature_Articles/Field_Placement/Taking_the_Wheel%3A_Put_Yourself_in_the_Driver%27s_Seat_of_Your_Field_Placement_Experience/
There's a Place for Us: How Community Fits Into Social Work -- http://www.socialworker.com/home/Feature_Articles/Professional_Development_%26_Advancement/There%27s_a_Place_for_%22Us%22--How_Community_Fits_Into_Social_Work/
Poetry: My Life is in Your Hands (From a client's perspective) -- http://www.socialworker.com/home/Feature_Articles/General/Poetry%3A_My_Life_is_in_Your_Hands_%28From_a_client%27s_perspective%29/
How Not to Panic When Your Client Talks to Dead People -- http://www.socialworker.com/home/Feature_Articles/Professional_Development_%26_Advancement/How_Not_to_Panic_When_Your_Client_Talks_to_Dead_People/
Protecting the Protectors: Am I Really Safe? -- http://www.socialworker.com/home/Feature_Articles/General/Protecting_the_Protectors%3A_Am_I_Really_Safe?/
Untangling the Intercultural Knot With an African Colleague -- http://www.socialworker.com/home/Feature_Articles/Professional_Development_%26_Advancement/Untangling_the_Intercultural_Knot_With_an_African_Colleague/
Electronic Connection: Teach Your Teachers -- http://www.socialworker.com/home/Feature_Articles/Technology/Electronic_Connection%3A_Teach_Your_Teachers/
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JOURNAL OF SOCIAL WORK VALUES AND ETHICS-WINTER ISSUE AVAILABLE NOW!
The Journal of Social Work Values and Ethics is a free, online, peer-reviewed journal published by the publisher of THE NEW SOCIAL WORKER. It is published twice a year (with occasional special issues), in full text, online at: http://www.socialworker.com/jswve
We have published the Winter 2007-08 edition, and it is available online now. This edition is in addition to the two regularly scheduled editions, already published in the 2007 calendar year.
Editorial Comment: From Our October 2007 Editorial Board Meeting
http://www.socialworker.com/jswve/content/view/72/54/
Letters to the Editors Winter 2007-2008
http://www.socialworker.com/jswve/content/view/71/54/
What is Sacred When Personal and Professional Values Collide?
http://www.socialworker.com/jswve/content/view/69/54/
Promoting Ethical Research
http://www.socialworker.com/jswve/content/view/68/54/
The Ethics of Social Work Practice in a Nursing Home Setting: A Consultants' Dilemma
http://www.socialworker.com/jswve/content/view/67/54/
Social Work Values in an Age of Complexity
http://www.socialworker.com/jswve/content/view/66/54/
Ethics and Decision Making for Social Workers
http://www.socialworker.com/jswve/content/view/70/54/
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