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Welcome to Issue #174 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 am extremely honored to announce that THE NEW SOCIAL WORKER has once again been nationally recognized. We were named the Best Trade Publication in the 2015 NASW Media Awards, making THE NEW SOCIAL WORKER a two-time winner in these awards. Thank you so much for your support, for reading the magazine, writing for it, spreading the word to students and colleagues, following us on social media, and for voting for us. I appreciate ALL of you and all you do!
Reminder: The Spring issue of THE NEW SOCIAL WORKER is available NOW! Read articles from this issue at http://www.socialworker.com. Highlights of this issue include risks of risk management, finding your first supervisor, body dysmorphic disorder, salary negotiation for social workers, genograms in social work practice, four new book reviews, and more. The genogram article has been especially popular, as has the article on salary negotiation. Also, in the PDF version only, we have published the top 3 poetry winners of the National Writing Contest for Social Workers, in honor of National Poetry Month!
I finished reading Kristin Battista-Frazee’s book last week and am looking forward to her Twitter chat with The New Social Worker’s book club on May 20 from 9-10 p.m. ET. Her book is a memoir, The Pornographer’s Daughter. Read more about the upcoming Twitter chat. I hope you will join us!
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May marks several observances, including but not limited to:
- Mental Health Awareness Month
- Foster Care Month
- Arthritis Awareness Month
- Older Americans Month
- Healthy Vision Month
- National Teen Pregnancy Prevention Month
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 I would have LOVED to have this book as a graduation gift when I got my MSW! What does a life in social work look like? You might look at it as a series of “sideways” stories! “If life were black and white, we’d have no need for social work.” Read Ogden Rogers’ collection, Beginnings, Middles, & Ends: Sideways Stories on the Art & Soul of Social Work. Listen to a recent episode of the Social Work Podcast that includes author Ogden Rogers reading from 6 of the 99 stories in the book. Now available on Amazon.com (print and Kindle), Google Play (e-book), directly from the publisher, and other bookstores. Do you know a social worker or social work student who loves to read? This book is a welcome retreat from academic textbooks. For info, see http://www.beginningsmiddlesandends.com.
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The 4 th edition of our nonprofit textbook, An Introduction to the Nonprofit Sector: A Practical Approach for the 21st Century, is available! For more information, contact Gary Grobman.
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Detroit Area Agency on Aging - Chief Internal Operations & Program Officer
The Detroit Area Agency on Aging is seeking a seasoned, experienced
Executive level professional to be the Chief Internal Operations &
Program Officer for a Detroit nonprofit organization (100 to 150
employees) that provides home community based services. The incumbent
will oversee five social service departments to develop and manage staff
ensuring quality, efficiency, coordination, and consistency of internal operations as well as positive outcomes. The incumbent will develop key performance indicators and metrics working as a team with top level executives. This position reports directly to the CEO.
Must have Lifelong learning and educational achievements
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Phone: 313-446-4444 313-446-4444 Ext. 5300
Fax: 313-446-4453
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Your First Supervisor - Finding Your Alice
Editor’s Note: The following is an excerpt from the Spring 2015 issue of THE NEW SOCIAL WORKER. Read the full article at:
by Nancy White-Gibson, MSW, LCSW
My social work career has been a ride I never would have imagined. During my internship, I worked at a shelter for domestic violence survivors and their children, where I developed skills I would use throughout my career. As a new graduate, I started practicing in a hospital in a physical rehabilitation unit. I learned to work with families and patients who were primarily struggling with strokes, traumatic brain injuries, or spinal cord damage.
I eventually moved to a large city and started working in employee assistance programs. I also worked in longer-term counseling situations, and additionally worked in the field of adoption. The learning and growing in the field has been a fascinating and rarely, if ever, boring life. As I look back on my 20-plus years of work, I can honestly say that one of the most important connections I made was a happy accident.
Graduation brought a sense of urgency to find a position. I wanted to help people, as we all do, but I also sought to make a living—something that would help me pay off my graduate school debt! I had an offer from the agency where I had interned, but it would pay less than the job I had held prior to entering my MSW program. I felt I needed to at least make a bit more money to start chipping away at the bills, so I went to a job fair. There were several avenues I considered, but one job seemed to float to the top as an optimal opportunity.
Little did I know that a wonderful thing had occurred the moment I accepted that first position. I not only got my start as a social worker, but fortunately for me, the placement also came with an excellent supervisor and mentor—Alice.
Supervision seems to be understood as a necessity for a beginning social worker, but it wasn’t always emphasized in terms of its true importance. Good supervisors can take you to incredible heights. They help you learn to fly, providing the wind beneath you, and providing a net for when you fall. A shoulder is offered at just the right times, and assurance is given regarding your abilities. Constructive criticism and reality checks are also important along the way, so you have an honest and clear view of your work and, in general, reality. A great supervisor helps prevent those falls but knows how to be unobtrusive. You think you are doing it all on your own and can feel that sense of success and accomplishment that is especially important.
Still, you also know someone has your back, should you happen to falter. Alice could do all that, and more.
Read the rest of this article at:
Articles from the Spring 2015 issue of The New Social Worker include:
...and much more!
March was Social Work Month! This year, we featured social workers’ talent on The New Social Worker website! We published essays, articles, poetry, art, music, and more. The full series is at http://www.socialworker.com/topics/social-work-month-2015/ and new items were posted each day throughout the month. Thank you to everyone who submitted to our Social Work Month Series and Talent Show! Here is a sampling of the series:
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Making the Tough Call: Social Workers as Mandated Reporters
As you may know, THE NEW SOCIAL WORKER ran a series of articles by Kathryn Krase on social workers as mandated reporters. The first seven of these articles were published in the magazine. We have recently added three new web-only installments in the series—(Part VIII) what if I don’t report, (Part IX) what about elder abuse and intimate partner violence, and (Part X) protecting vulnerable adults. You can find the entire 10-part series on mandated reporting here.
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Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy—Special Issue Available Online
The Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy (ANZJFT) Publications Committee has published a special issue on Dialogical Practices, which is freely available at:
This special issue offers a fresh and diverse collection of papers exploring dialogical theory, practice, and research. The issue brings together local and international contributions, covering practice in a range of modalities (including family, couple, group, and individual therapies; and research approaches), from authors with diverse professional backgrounds and contexts.
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Write for THE NEW SOCIAL WORKER
I am seeking a limited number of 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 and practice skills/tips
- what every new social worker needs to know about…
- articles related to various awareness months (i.e., Mental Health Month, Foster Care Month, Alzheimer’s Awareness Month, and so forth)
- social work news items
- other topics of interest to social work students, new graduates, and seasoned professionals. Some popular topic examples include those related to getting into graduate school, becoming licensed in social work, private practice issues, advocacy, and social worker burnout.
Our style is conversational and educational, and articles typically run 1,500-2,000 words for feature articles (considerably shorter for news items). We want positive articles that social workers can use to help them advance in their careers.
I also welcome submissions of poetry, photographs, illustrations, artwork, videos, audio, and other creative work depicting social work and related topics.
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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, holidays, or other occasions) for yourself, or for your friends, students, and colleagues in social work!
Briefly, those currently in print are:
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
THE NONPROFIT HANDBOOK: Everything You Need to Know to Start and Run Your Nonprofit Organization (6th Edition), by Gary M. Grobman
IMPROVING QUALITY AND PERFORMANCE IN YOUR NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATION, by Gary M. Grobman.
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