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THE NEW SOCIAL WORKER® Social Work E-News
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Issue #87, February 12, 2008
ALERT: New social work chat feature! Chat tonight
see details below!
EDITOR'S EYE
Dear Social Work Colleagues,
Welcome to Issue #87 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.
February is getting off to a great start here at THE NEW SOCIAL WORKER! I am very excited to announce a new development that has been in the works. THE NEW SOCIAL WORKER has teamed up with the National Association of Social Workers and former AOL Social Work Forum host Susan Mankita to bring you SocialWorkChat.org! This site features an ongoing series of online live chats among social workers, students, and educators. Don't miss the chat TONIGHT, February 12, on the topic of private practice, at 9 p.m. EST, at http://www.socialworkchat.org . Read more about this service below, under "Features"!
I also want to remind you to visit our Facebook page at http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-New-Social-Worker-Magazine/6689018002 & once you get there, log in to your Facebook 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. In the short time (less than two months) that I've been a Facebook user, I have found that it really is an incredible place to network with other social workers. My state chapter (PA) of NASW has a group there, and there are other social work groups, as well.
February is American Heart Month, International Prenatal Infection Prevention Month, AMD/Low Vision Awareness Month, National Children's Dental Health Month, and others. We observe National Burn Awareness Week (February 3-9), Children of Alcoholics Week (February 10-16), and National Eating Disorders Week (February 24-March 1).
Looking forward to next month, National Social Work Month is coming in March! How are you celebrating? Let me know!
Sadly, social worker Diruhi Mattian was fatally stabbed last week while at a client's home in Massachusetts. She was described in news reports as "dedicated to helping others." This tragedy and others like it bring to our awareness the risks that social workers take in their day-to-day duties. Although, thankfully, these occurrences are rare, it is important to be mindful of them, to recognize the sacrifices the victims have made, and to look at ways to prevent similar tragedies from happening again.
Don't forget 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)/
You can now go to http://www.socialworker.com/home/menu/Subscribe/ and subscribe (free) to receive an e-mail reminder and table of contents of each issue of THE NEW SOCIAL WORKER magazine when it is available.
Do you have a story to share with our readers? If so, send it to me at linda.grobman@paonline.com.
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
Publisher/Editor
THE NEW SOCIAL WORKER®
http://www.socialworker.com
linda.grobman@paonline.com
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IN THIS ISSUE
Words From Our Sponsors
Job Corner/Current Job Openings
Features
News & Resources
On Our Web Site
In Print
Newsletter Necessities
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WORDS FROM OUR SPONSORS
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Powerful Coaching for Social Workers.... A Special teleseminar on Wednesday, March 19th will give you the chance to learn about the skill set that is being adopted quickly by social workers across the country. Why? Not only is coaching a complementary and powerful skill set to add to your present training and expertise, but it can also help you establish a private practice generating fees from $150 - $300 hour while working predominantly with clients that want to reach new heights and partner with you to get them there. Hosted by Francine Carter, a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, Certified Empowerment Coach, and Professional Credentialed Coach, you'll get all your questions answered, from how coaching compares to therapy, what are the credentialing requirements, what is the Core Energy Coaching process, and much more.
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JOB CORNER
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H.E.L.P.
Torrance, CA
H.E.L.P. (Healthcare and Elder Law Programs Corporation) seeks an experienced social services/gerontology professional committed to working with older adults and families. Responsibilities include supervising community services staff, providing information and referrals, and presenting classes. Qualifications include Bachelor's Degree in social work, sociology, gerontology, psychology, or related field; two years related work experience; and public speaking skills. Master's Degree/Spanish speaking preferred. Competitive nonprofit salary, commensurate with qualifications and experience; benefits. Please e-mail cover letter and resume (including "Director of Community Services" in subject line) to jobs@help4srs.org. Full description available at http://www.help4srs.org/about/dcs.htm.
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Jazz Foundation of America
New York, NY
The Jazz Foundation of America is looking for a part-time licensed social worker/musicians' advocate to join the New York City team. LMSW required, LCSW preferred. An affirmative action, equal-opportunity employer, we're 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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Community Behavioral Health Services
Page, AZ
CBHS provides family, individual, group, and substance abuse services in an outpatient setting. Successful candidate will work closely with local community resources to empower, educate, and enhance strengths of children and families. Insurance and 401K, $40K starting salary negotiable DOE. MA required. Contact: Michele Axlund. Michelea.page@NARBHA.org. Phone: 928-645-5113, ext. 212. Fax: 928-645-3254.
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Find more jobs for new grads and experienced social work practitioners at http://www.socialworkjobbank.com, THE NEW SOCIAL WORKER's online job board and career center. We are proud of the fact that this site was chosen as one of 350 (out of 40,000+ employment sites) to be included (for the third consecutive time) in Weddle's Recruiter's and Job Seeker's Guide to Employment Web Sites 2007/2008.
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As of this morning, there are 128 jobs currently posted on this site.
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FEATURES
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SocialWorkChat.org Launched &New Service of THE NEW SOCIAL WORKER® and NASW
Connect with other social workers online! THE NEW SOCIAL WORKER® magazine and the National Association of Social Workers have teamed up with the Social Work Forum to bring you SocialWorkChat.org, an online community of social workers offering twice-weekly online real-time chats on a variety of topics. The chats are being held on Sunday and Tuesday nights at 9 p.m. EST. Upcoming chats include:
February 12: Private Practice (TONIGHT!)
February 17: Field Placements
February 19: Narcissistic Personality Disorder
February 24: School Social Work
February 26: Creating a Meaningful Retirement
March 2: In-home and wraparound Services for children and families
March 4: Complicated Bereavement Part II
March 9: SOCIAL WORK MONTH CELEBRATION
March 11: Interview with social worker and mystery writer Elizabeth Zelvin
The SocialWorkChat.org site grew out of the former AOL Social Work Forum, which became a major resource for social workers, thanks to the efforts of Susan Mankita, LCSW, of Miami, Florida, and a group of highly motivated and dedicated social work volunteers. "Susan is highly skilled at facilitating online chats, as well as being an insightful social worker who can really get to the heart of the issue," said Linda Grobman, ACSW, LSW, publisher and editor of THE NEW SOCIAL WORKER. "I am very excited that she is taking the reins at this new site, and that we have the opportunity to work with her to offer this exciting service."
The site plans to offer:
* An active, participant-rich online community of social workers
* Twice weekly moderated chats on assorted social work topics
* Categorized, monitored bulletin boards
* Weekly e-mail with chat topics and screened, related web links
* Monthly newsletter
* Colleagues to bounce ideas off of, literally at your fingertips
* A unique and accessible way of getting ongoing professional education
Chats will be listed on THE NEW SOCIAL WORKER's calendar of events at http://www.socialworker.com/home/menu/Calendar_of_Events/
Registration is free! Chats will be about an hour. Check regularly for chat topics or sign up for e-mail reminders.
Go to http://www.socialworkchat.org to register and participate in the chats and other features of the site. To prepare for tonight's chat on private practice, you may want to take a look at the following articles from THE NEW SOCIAL WORKER:
Private Practice: When It's Not Right for You
http://www.socialworker.com/home/Feature_Articles/Professional_Development_&_Advancement/Private_Practice:_When_It%92s_Not_Right_For_You/
The Business of Starting a Private Practice
http://www.socialworker.com/privprac.htm
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From Our Winter Issue
How Not to Panic When Your Client Talks To Dead People
By Michael Sanger, MSW, Ph.D.
Imagine you are a relatively new social worker interviewing a woman in her late seventies. You might be working in a hospital, an assisted living facility, or a social service agency. The interview is progressing nicely, and the two of you are bonding. Then the woman sitting across from you starts telling you how just the other night she was talking with her mother, who died two years ago. Or perhaps she mentions glimpsing her deceased husband standing by the kitchen window. Or that every time she sees the vapor trail of a jet in the sky, she knows it's her brother sending her a message.
What do you do? Do you panic and get flustered and change to a more comfortable topic? Do you decide she's probably crazy and needs some serious medication? Or do you listen to her, let her share her thoughts, and perhaps ask a few probing questions about her experience?
I know what you would do, even if you don't. And in a minute I'll share that with you. But first, let me tell you a story.
Introduction
I became a social worker shortly after my wife died. Anne had been diagnosed with stomach cancer a few years after we were married, and she died less than two years later. While her dying was painful for both of us, that pain was eased through the assistance we received from our local hospice.
At the time, Anne and I had owned a blue four-door Toyota Corolla, and a few days after her death, a drawing appeared traced in grime inside the back seat window, on the driver's side. It was a silhouette of Anne's face just after she died, lying on the hospice bed. I assumed that somehow Anne's spirit had made the drawing as a final message. I didn't particularly believe in that kind of thing-messages from beyond the grave-but there was the picture staring me in the face.
I gradually got used to the idea that this was a final message from Anne, letting me know that she was okay. I told a few of my friends about it, and they looked at the car window, agreed it was probably Anne, and that was that.
Then, after getting my MSW, I entered a PhD program. My dissertation explored how social workers worked with clients who felt they had been in contact with deceased loved ones-like I had been, with Anne. That research tells me how you'll react if a client ever tells you she was talking with her dead mother.
Do clients really talk to dead people?
In this study, I interviewed twenty-one social workers about how they dealt with clients who felt they'd had what the literature called an "ideonecrophic experience (IE)." Three of these social workers were still in school, and the others averaged 12 and a half years of experience in the field. The responses shared by the students were almost identical to those shared by the MSWs. These social workers had worked with IEs experienced by:
* schoolchildren,
* people in both individual and group therapy,
* people in therapy for grief-related issues,
* people who were not particularly addressing grief-related issues,
* people who were in the process of dying, and
* clients who were seen in private practice, medical settings, and social service agencies.
Read the rest of this article at:
http://www.socialworker.com/home/Feature_Articles/Professional_Development_%26_Advancement/How_Not_to_Panic_When_Your_Client_Talks_to_Dead_People/
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Screening for Domestic Violence Woefully Weak in Welfare Offices
Even though federal welfare reform legislation calls for case workers to screen for domestic violence and most states have agreed to implement this requirement, just nine percent of women applying for Temporary Assistance to Needy Families were screened for domestic violence, according to data from a University of Washington study.
An analysis of 782 transcripts of in-person interviews between case workers and clients in four states by researchers from the UW's School of Social Work also showed that just slightly more than one percent of the women actually received effective screening that resulted in their revealing that they were victims of domestic violence.
"This is not about bad case workers. This lack of screening is an institutional problem that existed across states, across different welfare offices, and different workers," said lead author Taryn Lindhorst, a UW associate professor of social work. "Policy makers have placed the focus in assistance programs on getting women into the workforce and off of welfare rolls. Unfortunately, even in situations of great potential harm to women and their children, welfare offices do not effectively identify these women or help them access needed resources in the agency and community."
"For poor women, the welfare office is a place that could contribute to their safety and that of their children, but the offices largely don't provide help, despite a legislative mandate to screen and provide services for victims of domestic violence," she said.
For the study, the UW researchers analyzed transcripts from assistance interviews conducted in 11 welfare offices in New York, Texas, Michigan, and Georgia between 1999 and 2000. They found only 73 out of 782 cases in which there was any screening for domestic violence.
Previous research has shown that between 30 and 60 percent of welfare recipients report having experienced domestic violence, said Lindhorst. That means welfare offices are missing huge numbers of women who could be helped in dealing with potentially life-threatening situations caused by abuse.
"Other research with battered women indicated that they want to be asked about domestic violence, provided that their information is kept confidential and the person asking is motivated by a genuine desire to help. The bottom line is we can't help women until we know that they are in these dangerous circumstances. We know there are many women who could be identified and have services offered if welfare offices conducted more and more effective screening," Lindhorst added.
Lindhorst said inquiries during the interviews by caseworkers were mostly cursory, at best. Clients were typically asked about domestic violence once as part of a laundry list of routine questions. But there are a number of more effective ways to help women disclose violence and get help, she said. They include:
1. Assuring confidentiality.
2. Establishing rapport with clients.
3. Telling clients what is going to happen to them. Many have concerns such as losing their children. Clients need to know how telling about violence will help them.
4. Asking directly about abuse. Workers need to ask if clients have been threatened by a partner, hit, or abused sexually.
5. Providing the client multiple opportunities to disclose abuse.
To improve the situation in the welfare office, the UW researchers said that a major cultural shift in welfare organizations is needed, including requiring welfare offices to report to Congress the number of women they identify as victims of domestic violence and the services they provide to them.
"Welfare offices need to focus on ways to support women who have limited financial resources, and who are experiencing abuse from a partner," Lindhorst said.
"Welfare workers need to see screening for domestic violence as part of their responsibility. To do that they need training and they need to be rewarded for helping clients, even if this means that they remain on the welfare rolls. Right now, they are only being held responsible for how many people they remove from their caseloads, not how many they assist."
Co-authors of the study are Marcia Meyers, a UW professor of social work and director of the West Coast Poverty Center, and Erin Casey, a UW Tacoma assistant professor of social work. The paper was published in the current issue of the journal Violence Against Women.
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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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World Social Work Day-April 15, 2008
Social workers around the world will celebrate the second World Social Work Day on April 15, 2008. This annual event is held to focus on social work's contributions to society and be part of an ongoing dialogue with all partners on how challenges linked to social conditions can be met by communities.
The theme for World Social Work Day, "Social Work -- Making a World of Difference," is initiated by the International Federation of Social Workers, a global body for social workers in 84 countries around the globe.
See http://www.ifsw.org for more information.
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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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Second Annual Professional Development Conference for Undergraduate Seniors Interested in Graduate Training in Family and Child Services-March 1, 2008 Application Deadline
The School of Social and Family Dynamics at Arizona State University (Tempe, AZ) is hosting the second annual Professional Development Conference for Undergraduate Seniors Interested in Graduate Training in Family and Child Sciences on September 26-28, 2008. This conference brings together eager and bright students to learn about the exciting changes and facets of research-oriented graduate training in family and child sciences. Undergraduate students from across the country who will be seniors in 2008 and who plan to pursue doctoral graduate education in 2009 in a discipline related to family and child sciences will spend a weekend at this competitive conference allowing them to learn more about the profession, develop networks of faculty and students from across the country, and help prepare themselves for graduate school and beyond.
From an endowment provided to the School (http://www.asu.edu/ssfd ), students who are selected to attend will be provided with funding to pay for all travel-related expenses (airfare, local transportation, hotel, and meals).
Applications are to be completed online and are due March 1, 2008.
Conference Web site: http://www.asu.edu/ssfd/conf
Online application: http://www.asu.edu/clas/ssfd/conf/register.html
Questions: Contact the conference organizers at study@familychildsciences.net.
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Gift From Within
Gift From Within is a 501(c) 3 nonprofit organization dedicated to those who suffer post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), those at risk for PTSD, and those who care for traumatized individuals. See http://www.giftfromwithin.org to find information about GFW's publications, tapes, CDs, and DVDs. Recent CDs provide "sage advice" for trauma survivors, caregivers, and therapists.
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NIDA Networking Project
http://nnp.drugabuse.gov
The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), has launched a new Web site designed to encourage drug abuse researchers, practitioners, and policy makers to share information across disciplines, networks, and institutions. The NIDA Networking Project (NNP) Web site provides access to the locations, people, and resources of NIDA-sponsored research networks, including, for example, the National Drug Abuse Treatment Clinical Trials Network (CTN) and the NIDA Genetics Consortium (NGC). The principal Web site features includes:
* An interactive U.S. map with locations and contacts for nearly 200 NIDA network sites
* Network missions and descriptions
* Links to 15 network Web sites with scientific protocols and papers, procedural policies, and manuals
* NIDA news and events of interest to scientists, clinicians, and addiction specialists
* NNP Colleagues Directory-a searchable database of network participants' expertise and research interests.
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Continuing education credit is available for the following issues of THE NEW SOCIAL WORKER (2 hours/credit per issue):
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JOURNAL OF SOCIAL WORK VALUES & ETHICS CONTINUING EDUCATION PROGRAM
The Journal of Social Work Values & Ethics, a free, online, peer-reviewed journal published by the publisher of THE NEW SOCIAL WORKER, now offers continuing education credit. Beginning with the Spring 2007 issue of the journal, you are able to read selected articles and then take an online exam and receive continuing education credit. See http://www.socialworker.com/jswve/content/view/57/52/ for complete details of this program.
CE credits for the Journal of Social Work Values & Ethics are offered in cooperation with CE-Credit.com. To see a complete listing of the 600+ courses that CE-Credit.com offers, go to: http://www.socialworker.com/cecredit.html
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ON OUR WEB SITE
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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/
and more!
Our online discussion forum/message board is a place for open discussion of a variety of social work-related issues. Join in our discussion at http://www.socialworker.com (click on the "Forum" link).
Be sure to check out http://www.ceu4u.com/tnsw for online continuing education offerings, including courses based on reading THE NEW SOCIAL WORKER magazine. Receive a 15% discount on all courses you take at http://www.ceu4u.com/tnsw.
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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/
Go to the journal Web site at http://www.socialworker.com/jswve to read this and other available issues. You can also sign up for a free subscription, and you will be notified by e-mail when each issue is available online.
Get continuing education credit for reading selected articles from the Journal of Social Work Values & Ethics. See http://www.socialworker.com/jswve/content/view/57/52/ for details.
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White Hat Communications, publisher of THE NEW SOCIAL WORKER magazine and the Social Work E-News, has published several books about social work. These books make great gifts for yourself, or for your friends, students, and colleagues in social work!
Briefly, those currently in print are:
DAYS IN THE LIVES OF SOCIAL WORKERS: 54 Professionals Tell Real-Life Stories From Social Work Practice (3rd Edition), edited by Linda May Grobman
MORE DAYS IN THE LIVES OF SOCIAL WORKERS: 35 Real-Life Stories of Advocacy, Outreach, and Other Intriguing Roles in Social Work Practice, edited by Linda May Grobman
DAYS IN THE LIVES OF GERONTOLOGICAL SOCIAL WORKERS: 44 Professionals Tell Stories From Real-Life Social Work Practice With Older Adults, edited by Linda May Grobman and Dara Bergel Bourassa.
THE SOCIAL WORK GRADUATE SCHOOL APPLICANT'S HANDBOOK: The Complete Guide to Selecting and Applying to MSW Programs (2nd Edition), by Jesus Reyes
THE FIELD PLACEMENT SURVIVAL GUIDE: What You Need to Know to Get the Most From Your Social Work Practicum, edited by Linda May Grobman
HOW TO ORDER
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If you wish to order these books from Amazon.com, follow these links:
Days in the Lives of Social Workers series of books:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/search?ie=UTF8&keywords=days%20in%20the%20lives%20of%20social%20workers&tag=newsocialwork-20&index=na-books-us&linkCode=ur2&camp=1789&creative=9325
Social Work Graduate School Applicant's Handbook:
http://www.amazon.com/dp/1929109148/?tag=newsocialwork-20
Field Placement Survival Guide:
http://www.amazon.com/dp/1929109105/?tag=newsocialwork-20
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