Dear Social Work Colleagues,
Hello! Welcome to Issue #140 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.
Congratulations to all new social work graduates, and to incoming social work students! You are embarking on a very rewarding profession, and I wish you all the best! See our 2012 Recent Social Work Graduates slideshow at: http://www.flickr.com/photos/newsocialworker/sets/72157630388818324/. It is part of our Summer issue (see information below)!
July marks the observance of Bereaved Parents Awareness Month, National Minority Mental Health Awareness Month, Juvenile Arthritis Awareness Month, World Hepatitis Day, and more.
Coming in August: National Breastfeeding Month, National Immunization Awareness Month, and more.
I will be at the NASW Restoring Hope conference in Washington, DC, this month. If you are going to the conference, please stop my booth in the exhibit hall!
Now for the news…. The Summer 2012 issue of THE NEW SOCIAL WORKER is available NOW! Highlights of the Summer issue include: FAQs about the NASW Code of Ethics, learning from a first intern, social work in an HIV/AIDS clinic, a foster child removal experience, @SWSCmedia Twitter debates, poetry, book reviews, and more! Also included is a photo montage of recent social work graduates (to go along with the slideshow mentioned above).
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Tech Topics: @SWSCmedia: Bringing Social Workers Together Globally
by Linda May Grobman, ACSW, LSW
Editor’s Note: The following is an excerpt from an article from the current (Summer 2012) issue of THE NEW SOCIAL WORKER. Read the full article at:
With the rapidly changing technology all around us, it seems that new online social work communities and resources are springing up all the time.
One such community and a leading resource in this area is @SWSCmedia. According to its Web site at http://swscmedia.wordpress.com/, “@SWSCmedia is a knowledge community of practice that brings social work and social care practitioners, organisations, academics, researchers, students, policy makers, users of service and other allied professionals, stakeholders or enthusiasts, and interested parties together, to discuss issues, innovations, opportunities, dilemmas, and challenges, as well as relevant developments in relation to social work and/or social care.”
The UK-based group has about 4,000 followers and has attracted as many as 100 participants interacting simultaneously in some of its Twitter “debates.”
Claudia Megele (@ClaudiaMegele), a Senior Lecturer and Module Leader for MSc Step up to Social Work Programme at the University of Hertfordshire who also holds psychotherapy clinics both privately and at NHS, recognized the power of Twitter to connect people professionally and to enhance learning. She explains, “As a researcher, I was interested in social psychology and psychoanalytic sociology of Twitter, and as an academic, I could see its enormous potential for social learning, knowledge dissemination, and community building. We have used Twitter in creative ways, ranging from debates/chats to case study discussions, speeches, focus groups, mock interviews, and panel discussions.” Megele’s vision was to create an open access community for all, and the network has indeed become a global knowledge and learning community. In addition to being the founder of @SWSCmedia, Megele also started the @MHChat and @U4Change networks.
In October 2011, Megele announced the first @SWSCmedia debate, and the network has grown substantially ever since. @SWSCmedia debates are held Tuesdays (8:00 p.m. UK), often with a guest speaker. A second weekly debate is held every Sunday (6:00 p.m. UK) focusing on case studies, focus groups, student issues, and other activities. The debates have attracted people primarily from the UK and the U.S. and have overall participation from more than 20 countries.
Read the rest of this article at:
Articles from the Summer 2012 issue of THE NEW SOCIAL WORKER include:
• Student Role Model: Tayloe Compton (in PDF version only)
• Poetry (in PDF version only)
• On Campus (in PDF version only)
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RAISING AWARENESS
National Minority Mental Health Awareness Month
Bereaved Parents Awareness Month
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Family Acceptance Project Releases Family Education Materials to Help Mormon Families Support Their LGBT Children
For more than a decade, the Family Acceptance Project (FAP) at San Francisco State University has been studying the impact of family acceptance and rejection on the health, mental health, and well-being of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) young people and developing research-based tools, resources, and interventions to help diverse families support their LGBT children. This includes developing culturally and linguistically appropriate resources to prevent serious negative outcomes like suicide, HIV, and homelessness and to promote well-being, and helping families balance deeply held values and beliefs with love for their LGBT children. The first of these faith-based family education resources, Supportive Families, Healthy Children: Helping Latter-day Saint Families with Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Children, was published in June 2012 by the Family Acceptance Project.
Written by FAP Director Dr. Caitlin Ryan, a clinical social worker with nearly 40 years of research and practice experience on LGBT health and mental health, and Dr. Bob Rees, a former Mormon Bishop who teaches Mormon Studies at Graduate Theological Union, this is the first research-based educational resource to help Mormon families support their LGBT children. As with other family education booklets from the Family Acceptance Project, Supportive Families, Healthy Children has been designated as the 1st “Best Practice” resource for suicide prevention for LGBT people by the national Best Practices Registry for Suicide Prevention, and it is the only such resource for Latter-day Saint (Mormon) families. The Best Practices Registry, coordinated by the Suicide Prevention Resource Center (SPRC) and the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention (AFSP), maintains an expert-reviewed compendium of approved “best practices” to prevent suicide that address specific aims of the national suicide prevention plan and have met objective review criteria.
Said Dr. Caitlin Ryan, Director of the Family Acceptance Project: “Many parents and families think they have to choose between a gay child and their deeply held beliefs--a choice no parent should ever have to make. We wrote this booklet to show Mormon families what our compelling research has found--how families react to their LGBT children really matters. This booklet provides critical, specific information on how to support LGBT children and youth, how to build their self-esteem and well-being, reduce their risk for suicide, substance abuse, HIV and homelessness and keep their faith. Our hope is that every Mormon parent, bishop, and religious leader reads it and uses it.”
Dr. Robert Rees, co-author, educator, and former Mormon bishop, noted: “Supportive Families, Healthy Children will save lives, keep families together and give Church leaders a resource for helping families support their LGBT sons, daughters, and other family members.”
The newly-released version of Supportive Families, Healthy Children for Latter-day Saint families is available for download on the FAP website at: http://familyproject.sfsu.edu/publications Printed copies are available for distribution from the Family Acceptance Project in orders of any size. FAP provides guidance and training on using these materials and FAP’s research-based supportive family intervention model and other resources and tools. Contact fap@sfsu.edu to obtain printed versions and for information on consultation and training.
Information on Supportive Families, Healthy Children’s “Best Practice” designation for suicide prevention is available on the Best Practices Registry’s web page hosted by the Suicide Prevention Resource Center at www.sprc.org.
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Write for THE NEW SOCIAL WORKER
Please consider sharing your expertise, knowledge, and passion with other social workers and social work students! I am seeking articles for upcoming issues of THE NEW SOCIAL WORKER magazine. I am especially interested in articles in the following categories:
· social work ethics
· field placement
· practice specialties
· news of innovative social work practice
· technology
· 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 for feature articles (considerably shorter for news items).
I also welcome submissions of poetry, photographs, illustrations, artwork, and other creative work depicting social work and related topics.
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CALL FOR PAPERS: SPECIAL ISSUE OF SOCIAL WORK AND CHRISTIANITY
Topic: Congregational and Social Work Responses to Older Adult Vulnerability
Date of Issue: Summer 2013
Guest Editors: Dennis Myers & Jim Ellor
Deadline: December 15, 2012
Gerontological social work is a high demand area in workforce projections, and educational preparation for practice with older persons is a priority within the profession. In this special issue of Social Work and Christianity, the editors highlight innovative responses of congregations to personal, relational, and/or spiritual vulnerability in the 55+ population and the role of social work in the design, delivery, and/or evaluation of these congregational initiatives. Public and private sector responses to the urgency of increasing vulnerability must include congregations in the mix of service arrangements. For this special issue, the editors are seeking articles that equip congregations and social workers to reduce vulnerability and strengthen resiliency among persons 55+.
All authors are strongly encouraged to contact the special edition editors by e-mail or phone by early July 2012 to discuss ideas for paper submissions. The deadline for all paper submissions is December 15, 2012.
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Advances in Social Work: Special Issue on Latinos/Latinas
Call for Papers
Advances in Social Work invites manuscript submissions for a special issue on “The Impact of Socio-Economic, Cultural, Political, and International Factors on Latinos/Latinas in the United States” to be published in Spring 2013. The submission deadline is September 30, 2012. Dr. Irene Queiro-Tajalli will serve as the editor of this issue.
This special issue, scheduled to appear in Spring 2013, seeks to highlight the assets, challenges, and opportunities of Latinos in this country and to make the connections between this community and the impact of the socio-economic, political, and cultural relations between the US and Latin America.
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Social Work-Related News Headlines
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Summer 2012 ISSUE OF THE NEW SOCIAL WORKER IS NOW AVAILABLE!
The Summer 2012 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 many articles from past issues of the magazine. The current issue is featured on the site’s main page. Past issues can be found under “Magazine Issues” in the right column of the page. For selected 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.
Individual articles from the Summer 2012 issue now online include:
• Student Role Model: Tayloe Compton (in PDF version only)
• Poetry (in PDF version only)
• On Campus (in PDF version only)
• Reviews http://www.socialworker.com/home/Reviews/Book_Reviews/Book_Reviews%3A_Summer_2012/
…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).
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JOURNAL OF SOCIAL WORK VALUES AND ETHICS SPRING ISSUE AVAILABLE
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, in full text, online at: http://www.socialworker.com/jswve
The Spring 2012 edition is available online now at:
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.
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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 graduation or other occasions) 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: 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.
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
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