Social Work E-News 
Issue #175, June 9, 2015
 
 
 
Social Work E-News
 
 
 
Editor's Eye
Hello --

Welcome to Issue #175 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.
 
The Summer issue of THE NEW SOCIAL WORKER is coming soon! Reminder: The Spring issue 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 published the top 3 poetry winners of the National Writing Contest for Social Workers, in honor of National Poetry Month.

Here’s a quick link for immediate download of the PDF edition for Spring 2015: Spring 2015 issue: Quick Download Now
 
The New Social Worker’s book club hosted a Twitter chat on May 20 with social worker and author Kristin Battista-Frazee about her memoir, The Pornographer’s Daughter. If you missed this event, you can still check it out…read the transcript. You can also read my book review here.
 
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Linda Grobman, ACSW, LSW
Publisher/Editor
THE NEW SOCIAL WORKER®
 
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This Month
June marks several observances, including but not limited to:
 
  • Men’s Health Month
  • National Safety Month
  • LGBT Pride Month
  • National Cancer Survivors Day (June 7)
  • Father’s Day (June 21)
  • National HIV Testing Day (June 27)
 
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Featured Excerpt
 
Teaching Parents About Their Young Digital Natives: Part 2
 
Editor’s Note: The following is an excerpt from the Spring 2015 issue of THE NEW SOCIAL WORKER. Read the full article at:
 
by Ellen Belluomini, LCSW

As if parenting during the teenage years was not hard enough—now enter the progress of technology. Technology can add function and dysfunction to the family system. The role of the social work practitioner is to identify technology’s role and use it as an advantage in the therapeutic process. A social worker will investigate, evaluate, and use appropriate interventions with parents struggling with their adolescent children. What parent would have thought their child would send nude pictures of herself on Snapchat or meet strangers on Tinder for hook-ups? Parents cannot turn a blind eye to the next advancing trend or slang term in social media.
 
Adolescence is a normal time for taking risks and learning to make decisions without parents. Technology gives teens autonomy. More than 80% of adolescents use a smartphone to text, keep up with social media, e-mail, and play games. While adults use Facebook to connect with their friends, their teens drift to other platforms, such as instant messaging apps, Instagram, or the latest trending social media site. The popularity of apps and their uses changes frequently. As soon as I hear a client discuss a new application, I research the potential effect it may have on the client, both positive and negative. Parents should be taught to do the same with apps their children are using.
 
Determining how technology fits into the identifying problem or solution is a skill. Unfortunately, because of the rate of change in innovations, adolescents are often at risk as technology progresses. A social worker will need to identify and address three areas specific to technology during treatment of the family system—boundaries, education, and resources.  
 
Defining Boundaries
 
Defining boundaries helps adolescents learn to set limits and create an area of safety for exploration into adulthood. Through boundaries, parents can protect an adolescent from unintentionally placing himself or herself at risk. Social workers help set the boundaries, working with the family to define healthy autonomy versus behaviors affecting the child’s mental health.
 
Boundaries can be in the form of time limits, sharing information about the adolescent’s use of technology platforms, limits on types of technology used, or behavior expectations of the adolescent. Parents can create a contract for smartphone usage requiring the child to discuss with the parent any new applications downloaded. Parents and children can then have discussions about the application and create boundaries around usage.
 
Education About Technology
 
Education in family therapy about an adolescent’s technology use is not just about explaining technology patterns to parents. Education includes context, content, and process. What is the context (beliefs or intentions) of why the technology is being used? How is the content affecting the behavior of the adolescent? What process will be used to optimally shift the adolescent from destructive to constructive behavior?
 
Families can use this structure in the future to evaluate adolescents’ behavior. Adolescents may be upset because their friends all have boyfriends or girlfriends, but they do not. They join a chatting/dating application. Parents can discuss with their adolescents the risks of these types of sites and expose them to a healthier platform to meet friends.
 
Read the rest of this article at:
 
Articles from the Spring 2015 issue of The New Social Worker include:
 

...and much more!
 
 
New articles! We have published some new web-only articles since the Spring issue came out. Check these out:
 
News & Resources
Participate in Research Study on Relationship Between Empathic Concern and Adherence to Ethical Standards
 
Brenda Eastman, LCSW, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor at the School of Social Work at East Carolina University. She and her students invite you to participate in their research project. Through this research project, they seek to investigate the relationship between empathic concern and adherence to ethical standards, and how their interplay may influence our practice. If you choose to participate, you will be asked to complete a series of questions, using either a rating scale or short answers, which should take approximately 15-30 minutes. Participation is anonymous and voluntary. Click here or copy and paste the link below into your web browser to access the survey.
 
 
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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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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.
 
Please contact Linda Grobman, editor/publisher of THE NEW SOCIAL WORKER, at: lindagrobman@socialworker.com
 
 
 
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:
 
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 following:

THE NONPROFIT HANDBOOK: Everything You Need to Know to Start and Run Your Nonprofit Organization (7th Edition), by Gary M. Grobman

IMPROVING QUALITY AND PERFORMANCE IN YOUR NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATION, by Gary M. Grobman.
 
 
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