Social Work E-News 
  Issue #156, November 13, 2013
SOCIAL WORK E-NEWS
 
 
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Editor's Eye
Hello --

Welcome to Issue #156 of the Social Work E-News! Thank you for subscribing to receive this e-mail newsletter, which is brought to you by the publisher of THE NEW SOCIAL WORKER magazine, SocialWorker.com, SocialWorkJobBank.com, and other social work publications.
 
I have a BIG announcement. THE NEW SOCIAL WORKER has a new website! Please check it out at http://www.socialworker.com. We have completely redesigned and upgraded the site, so it is now easier to navigate and read. It also has some new features, such as an audio and video section (under “Extras”), a calendar of events (to which you can submit events for consideration), comments, and more. The new site is mobile-friendly, so you can more easily read articles on any device.
 
The content from the previous site has been transferred to the new site. However, the URLs (addresses) have changed, so I ask that you update any existing links to THE NEW SOCIAL WORKER that you have in syllabi, websites, or other documents. The front page of the site is http://www.socialworker.com. The process for downloading the free digital edition of the magazine has changed. You can now find the digital editions at http://www.socialworker.com/magazine/digital-edition/the_new_social_worker_digital_issues

Most of the previous URLs will automatically redirect to the new ones. It is still important to update these links. If you need help finding a particular article or other content, please let me know.
 
Last month, I attended the Council on Social Work Education conference in Dallas, Texas. It was great to see some of you there. It is always a pleasure to meet up with old and new friends and colleagues at professional meetings such as this one. Maybe I’ll see YOU at a future conference.
 
If you are not familiar with Ogden Rogers’ new book, Beginnings, Middles, & Ends: Sideways Stories on the Art & Soul of Social Work (or if you are), I invite you to listen to his recent interview on Wisconsin Public Radio. It is entertaining and a good discussion of the social work profession, as well as about his book, which makes a great gift for any social worker!
 
The Fall 2013 issue of THE NEW SOCIAL WORKER is still available at http://www.socialworker.com! Highlights of the Fall issue include supervision, public housing, resiliency in early career social workers, student advocacy and service projects, mandated reporting, and more. It also features some poetry, including an audio feature—social worker and poet Mozart Guerrier reads his poem inspired by his work as a housing social worker.
 
 

I have also added Jonathan Singer’s Social Work Podcast interviews with our ethics columnist, Allan Barsky, on our new audio page at http://www.socialworker.com/extras/audio. One podcast is about social work values and ethics, and the other is about social workers in court.
 
You can find information about THE NEW SOCIAL WORKER print and digital editions at the new page at http://www.socialworker.com/magazine.
 
Individual articles from this issue are also available on our Web site in Web format. Just go to http://www.socialworker.com and start reading!
 
Don't forget--THE NEW SOCIAL WORKER is available in a print edition at http://newsocialworker.magcloud.com. You can also purchase all four issues from 2011, 2012, or 2013 in one perfect-bound volume. They are available at:
 
November marks several observances, including but not limited to: National Adoption Awareness Month, Pancreatic Cancer Awareness Month, Alzheimer’s Disease Awareness Month, American Diabetes Month, National Homeless Youth Awareness Month, National Hospice and Palliative Care Month, and more.
 
Coming in December: World AIDS Day (December 1), International Survivors of Suicide Day (December 23), and more.
 
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The Social Work E-News has 31,000+ 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, please help us spread the word by using the "Share" button on the right side of this newsletter to share the newsletter with your friends and contacts. Tell your friends, students, or colleagues to visit us at http://www.socialworker.com, where they can download a free PDF copy of the magazine, become one of our 27,000+ fans on Facebook, and more. If you have a social work-related Web site, please feel free to link to us (www.socialworker.com) and let me know about your site, too, so I can check it out.
 
Until next time,
Linda Grobman, ACSW, LSW
Publisher/Editor
THE NEW SOCIAL WORKER®
 
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Job Corner
 
Find 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. Post your confidential résumé at http://jobs.socialworkjobbank.com/c/resumes/resumes.cfm?site_id=122
 
 
If you or your agency are hiring social workers, don’t forget to post your jobs on SocialWorkJobBank.com. Please check the SocialWorkJobBank “products/pricing” page at http://jobs.socialworkjobbank.com/r/jobs/post/index.cfm?site_id=122 for job posting options and SPECIAL offers.  Our audience of professional social workers is active and engaged in the job search, receiving more than 511,000 e-mail job alerts last year and actively applying to open positions. Your jobs will gain additional exposure to our social networks on Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter.  Also, please note that SocialWorkJobBank.com is part of the Nonprofit Job Board Network. You can post your job to SocialWorkJobBank and get exposure on other network sites for a reasonable additional fee.
 
Job seeker services are FREE—including searching current job openings, posting your confidential résumé/profile, and receiving e-mail job alerts. Please let employers know that you saw their listings in the SOCIAL WORK E-NEWS and at SocialWorkJobBank.com.
 
There are 1,087 jobs currently posted on SocialWorkJobBank.com. Check it out today.
Featured Excerpt
Consideration in Group Supervision
by Claudia J. DeWane, D.Ed., LCSW, BCD
 
Editor’s Note: The following is an excerpt from the Fall 2013 issue of THE NEW SOCIAL WORKER. Read the full article at:

By day, I’m a social work professor, by night, a social work clinical supervisor.  Some social workers do not get the benefit of social work supervision in the workplace; many are supervised by those in other professions. The intense and sometimes emotionally-depleting work of our profession demands that the work (and worker) be supervised by someone who knows what the work entails and the toll it can take on the worker.
 
In addition, social workers looking for clinical licensure sometimes do not have clinical supervision available to them on the job, and therefore need to seek it privately. When I realized that  many of the MSW graduates I had taught had no social work supervision, a colleague and I started a clinical supervision group. It is in a social work supervision group that social workers can be heard, understood, guided, protected, validated, supported, and reassured!
 
The specialization I chose in my MSW program was group work, and my doctoral dissertation was about learning in self-help groups, so doing supervision in a group format provides the best of several worlds to me. It can include the “teaching” aspect that I love, it keeps me aware of system and social justice issues in our field, and I get to be involved in client work without having to endure some of the unpleasant facets of direct care, such as billing and on-call work!
 
Several supervision group members have commented that they appreciate the opportunity to be with like-minded workers in the group. Some of them may be the only social worker in their agency and often have no one who views situations through the multiple lenses that social workers do. Most importantly, when ethical dilemmas arise, social workers become what I call “the conscience of the agency.” At times, workers from other disciplines fail to see the potential consequences of a sticky ethical boundary crossing or some other situation with potential ethical implications.  
 
Freda Brashears (1995) calls social work supervision a form of social work practice. She claims that making social work practice and social work supervision two separate entities is constructing a false dichotomy. Her re-conceptualization of supervision is one based on mediation and mutual aid. The most fascinating part of group work for me is the concept of mutual aid.  In self-help groups, this concept is known as the “helper-therapy principle.” When one helps someone else, the helper is also helped. This concept is especially salient in group supervision. All help all in a supervision group, including the leader. I learn so much from the group sessions and members!
 
It is particularly satisfying to see social workers from different work areas be able to generalize concepts across settings.  For example, there may be six people in a group: one working in hospice, one in private therapy practice, another in family-based services, one in the VA, another in medical oncology, and another working in a brain injury program.  The group membership is sufficiently heterogeneous to provide diversity and a variety of experiences to discuss, yet homogeneous enough to find common practice issues and similar professional development needs.
 
Supervision groups can be theme-centered, case-centered, or worker-centered. For theme-centered sessions, we may discuss a topic such as self-disclosure in social work interventions, or I may introduce a particularly relevant journal article for discussion. For case or work-centered sessions, we may discuss a particular case for which a member would like collegial input, or an interdisciplinary conflict, or a difficult systems issue or co-worker!  And finally, and perhaps what I consider the most important aspect of group supervision, is discussing the impact of the work on the worker. What emotional toll might the worker anticipate?  What personal impact may give a clue to countertransference issues?  And what can be done to ameliorate some of the stresses incurred at and because of the work? One purpose of the group is to provide a safe and rejuvenating place where people can share fears and emotional consequences of their profession and discover ways to deal with work-related stress.
 
Read the rest of this article at:
 
Articles from the Fall 2013 issue of THE NEW SOCIAL WORKER include (these are the NEW links on our new website):

...and more!
 
Features
November: Adoption Awareness Month
 
In recognition of November as National Adoption Month, I have put together this list of articles, blogs, and other links on adoption. I hope you find them useful!
 
 
 
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November: National Hospice and Palliative Care Month

Here are some links on hospice and palliative care.
 
 
News & Resources
 
Medication-Assisted Treatment for Opioid Addiction: New Booklets Available in Chinese, Russian and Vietnamese

The Facts About Buprenorphine for Treatment of Opioid Addiction provides patients with information on buprenorphine and medication-assisted treatment for opioid addiction. The booklet describes addiction and withdrawal, how buprenorphine works, its proper use, its side effects, and how it fits with counseling in the recovery process.
Medication-Assisted Treatment for Opioid Addiction: Facts for Families and Friends gives patients’ families and friends information about medication-assisted treatment for opioid addiction. The booklet defines prescribed opioid medications, their proper use and side effects, withdrawal symptoms, and how medications fit with counseling in the recovery process.
 
Download or order free copies

The booklets are available at http://store.samhsa.gov or through the links below:
 
The Facts About Buprenorphine for Treatment of Opioid Addiction
Chinese (SMA) 11-4442Chinese; Russian (SMA) 11-4442Russian;
Vietnamese (SMA) 11-4442Vietnamese
 
Medication-Assisted Treatment for Opioid Addiction: Facts for Families and Friends
Chinese (SMA) 11-4443Chinese; Russian (SMA) 11-4443Russian;
Vietnamese (SMA) 11-4443Vietnamese
 
 
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5 Things You Should Know About a Social Worker's Role in a Pediatric Hospital

Seattle Children’s Hospital published a blog post titled “5 Things You Should Know about a Social Worker’s Role at a Pediatric Hospital,” as told by a social worker at Seattle Children’s Craniofacial Center.   
 
The post seeks to debunk the myth that social workers only help families when problems arise, and outlines social workers’ responsibilities in helping patients and families receive the appropriate resources and support throughout the course of their medical care.
 
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Lilly Reintegration Scholarship Applications Available for 2014-2015 Academic Year
 
Eli Lilly and Company recently announced that applications for the 2014-2015 school year are now available for the 16th annual Lilly Reintegration Scholarship. Since its inception, the program has directed more than four million dollars in tuition, books, and laboratory fees to hundreds of colleges, trade and vocational schools, and high school equivalency programs across the United States to fund educational pursuits of students living with bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, or schizo-affective disorder. This year, the program expands to include the diagnosis of major depressive disorder.
 
Further information is available at www.reintegration.com.
 
 
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Write for THE NEW SOCIAL WORKER
 
I am seeking articles for upcoming issues of THE NEW SOCIAL WORKER magazine and/or our website. I am especially interested in articles in the following categories:
 
  • field placement
  • practice specialties
  • what every new social worker needs to know about…
  • other topics of interest to social work students, new graduates, and seasoned professionals
Our style is conversational and educational, and articles typically run 1,500-2,000 words for feature articles (considerably shorter for news items).
 
I also welcome submissions of poetry, photographs, illustrations, artwork, videos, audio, and other creative work depicting social work and related topics.
 
Please contact Linda Grobman, editor/publisher of THE NEW SOCIAL WORKER, at: lindagrobman@socialworker.com
On Our Web Site
The Fall issue of THE NEW SOCIAL WORKER is available now! It is available to download in PDF format at:
 
 
THE NEW SOCIAL WORKER’s Web site at http://www.socialworker.com includes the full text of hundreds of articles from past issues of the magazine. The current issue is featured on the site’s main page. Articles in various categories, such as field placement, ethics, and technology, can be found by clicking on “Articles” in the top navigation of the site.
 
In addition to the free PDF and Web versions of the magazine, the magazine is available in PRINT at http://newsocialworker.magcloud.com! Order it today!
 
You can also purchase bound volumes for 2011, 2012, and 2013 at Amazon.com. Search for “The New Social Worker” (in quotes).
In Print
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 graduation, holidays, or other occasions) for yourself, or for your friends, students, and colleagues in social work!
 
Briefly, those currently in print are:
 
NEW--BEGINNINGS, MIDDLES, & ENDS: Sideways Stories on the Art & Soul of Social Work, by Ogden W. Rogers
 
DAYS IN THE LIVES OF SOCIAL WORKERS: 58 Professionals Tell Real-Life Stories From Social Work Practice (4th 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.
 
RIDING THE MUTUAL AID BUS AND OTHER ADVENTURES IN GROUP WORK: A “DAYS IN THE LIVES OF SOCIAL WORKERS” COLLECTION, edited by Linda May Grobman and Jennifer Clements
 
IS IT ETHICAL? 101 SCENARIOS IN EVERYDAY SOCIAL WORK PRACTICE: A DISCUSSION WORKBOOK, by Thomas Horn
 
THE FIELD PLACEMENT SURVIVAL GUIDE: What You Need to Know to Get the Most From Your Social Work Practicum, 2nd Edition, edited by Linda May Grobman
 
THE SOCIAL WORK GRADUATE SCHOOL APPLICANT’S HANDBOOK: The Complete Guide to Selecting and Applying to MSW Programs, by Jesus Reyes
 
We also publish books on nonprofit management. Want to start your own agency? Check out THE NONPROFIT HANDBOOK: Everything You Need to Know to Start and Run Your Nonprofit Organization (6th Edition) and IMPROVING QUALITY AND PERFORMANCE IN YOUR NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATION, by Gary M. Grobman.
 
 
HOW TO ORDER
 
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You can also download our catalog in PDF format.
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