Social Work E-News #71, October 10, 2006

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Issue #71, October 10, 2006

EDITOR'S EYE

Dear Social Work Colleagues,

Welcome to Issue #71 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.

This month is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Each year, approximately 200,000 women in the United States are diagnosed with breast cancer. Read more about this important issue, which may affect you or your clients, in this E-News.

October 1-7 was Mental Illness Awareness Week. Also, Thursday, October 5 was Bipolar Disorder Awareness Day. As social workers, we are more aware than most about mental illness and its effects on individuals and families. But in our larger society, there is still much stigma associated with mental illness. I recently had the opportunity to hear Lizzie Simon, who was diagnosed with bipolar disorder at age 17, speak at a conference. She is working to remove the stigma that surrounds this and other mental illnesses.

There's exciting news at THE NEW SOCIAL WORKER! The Fall issue is now available. (If you are a print subscriber, you will receive it in the mail soon!) Go to http://www.socialworker.com to read selected articles from this and our past two issues in our new Web-based magazine format.

But waitthere's more! Now, you can download the full 32-page magazine from our Web site in PDF format. Go to http://www.socialworker.com/home/component/option,com_docman/task,doc_details/gid,1/Itemid,135/ to download the Fall issue right now. You will need the free Adobe Reader to read the magazine. (You can get this free at http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html if you don't already have it on your computer.)

We are making this PDF version of the magazine available FREE in preparation for a transition to a primarily electronic format for the magazine in the near future. My hope is that this will allow more people to have access to and benefit from the articles and information the magazine provides. So, PLEASE take advantage of this, and let others know that they can download it from http://www.socialworker.com/home/component/option,com_docman/task,doc_details/gid,1/Itemid,135/

The Fall issue of the JOURNAL OF SOCIAL WORK VALUES AND ETHICS is also online now. Go to http://www.socialworker.com/jswve to read this free full-text Web-based peer-reviewed journal. See the table of contents for this issue later in this E-News.

Share your experience and wisdom with others who may be interested in gerontological social work! There is still time to contribute a chapter to the book Dara Bergel Bourassa and I are working on. You may be familiar with my earlier books, DAYS IN THE LIVES OF SOCIAL WORKERS and MORE DAYS IN THE LIVES OF SOCIAL WORKERS. This new edition will focus on days in the lives of gerontological social workers. Please see the call for submissions in this issue of the E-News, under the "News" heading.

The Social Work E-News now has more than 21,900 subscribers, and thousands of social workers (and people interested in social work) visit our Web sites. If you like our Web sites and the Social Work E-News, tell a friend or colleague!

Until next time,
Linda Grobman, ACSW, LSW
Publisher/Editor
THE NEW SOCIAL WORKER®
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linda.grobman@paonline.com

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FEATURES

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Black Social Workers' Listserv

While working as a social worker in AIDS care in Seattle, David Lee (a licensed clinical social worker) realized that, locally, he was one of a kind in his field as an African American. Nationally, African Americans represent about half of the diagnosed AIDS cases. "Providing treatment to these patients is improved by having providers that represent similar cultural and racial backgrounds," says Lee. So, to get more social workers interested in the HIV/AIDS field in his area, he developed the Black Social Workers Listserv as a way to distribute information about job openings in the field of HIV.

Since its inception about three years ago, the list membership has grown to include social workers across the United States, and a few in Canada, the U.K., and Australia. Its usefulness has grown beyond the Seattle area and beyond the single purpose of distributing job announcements about social work jobs in HIV care. Members typically send information of general interest to black social workers, which still includes general job announcements, but also includes journal articles, conference information, trainings, and so forth.

Anyone is welcome to join by sending an e-mail to black_social_workers@u.washington.edu with SUBSCRIBE in the subject line.

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Lizzie Simon Spreads Message of No Stigma
By Linda May Grobman, ACSW, LSW

Lizzie Simon was the featured speaker at a conference I attended last month. Ms. Simon, now in her early thirties, was diagnosed with bipolar disorder at age 17 after having been misdiagnosed with depression. Treated successfully with lithium, she set out on a journey to find others with bipolar disorder who were living successfully. She traveled across the U.S. and interviewed other young adults with the disorder, documenting her experiences along the way. The result was her book, DETOUR: MY BIPOLAR ROAD TRIP IN 4D (http://shop.socialworker.com/item-0743446607).

Lizzie is a compelling speaker. She is young, attractive, and a successful speaker and writer. She was diagnosed at 17 and has been on the same dose of lithium since that time with no additional hospitalizations. She has been in therapy and has a supportive environment. Not every patient has the same level of success, and Lizzie realizes that hers is only one of many stories. She is involved in continuing efforts to put real faces on the issue of bipolar disorder and mental illness, to show that people with mental illnesses can be successful, and to destigmatize mental illness.

One of her current efforts can be seen at http://www.nostigma.org & the Web site of the National Mental Health Awareness Campaign. If you or your organization are looking for speakers on mental health/mental illness issues, this looks like an excellent resource. The Web site also provides educational information about mental illness for students and adults.

She is also involved in the Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law (http://www.bazelon.org/). This organization provides legal advocacy for people with mental illness. The Center also publishes a number of publications, available through its Web site, on mental health law.

For more information about Lizzie Simon and bipolar disorder, see the following links:

Lizzie Simon's Web Site: http://www.lizziesimon.com
TIME magazine article: http://www.time.com/time/covers/1101020819/detour.html
Furious Seasons: http://www.furiousseasons.com/
NIMH: Bipolar Disorder: http://www.nimh.nih.gov/publicat/bipolar.cfm

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Social Workers Support World Hospice and Palliative Care Day

WASHINGTON, DC & The National Association of Social Workers (NASW) honored World Hospice and Palliative Care Day, which was recognized around the world by social workers and others on October 7. The theme for World Hospice and Palliative Care Day 2006 was Access to care for all & highlighting the fact that everyone has the right to high quality end of life care but that more needs to be done to enable everyone to access that care.

Social workers have been involved in hospice and palliative care services since the inception of the hospice movement. The values of hospice, palliative care, and social work correlate with an emphasis on the whole person, the family unit, access to appropriate care, the quality of a person's life, and the ability to live and die free of pain.

NASW provides its members with products and services that enhance their understanding of and service to those in need of end of life and palliative care. NASW has comprehensive Standards for Social Work Practice in Palliative and End of Life Care and a Policy Statement on End of Life Care as reference documents for social workers. Additionally, NASW has developed a series of online continuing education courses, called WebEd, for social workers, including Understanding End of Life Care: The Social Worker's Role. Other WebEd courses with end of life content include Understanding Cancer: The Social Worker's Role and Understanding Aging: The Social Workers Role.

NASW has partnered with the Hospice Foundation of America in promoting annual teleconferences on end of life care. NASW is also a partner with the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization in the Caring Connections campaign, which promotes advocacy to quality care by educating consumers on end of life care and needs.

For more information about social workers' involvement in end of life and palliative care, visit: http://www.helpstartshere.org/health_and_wellness/death_and_dying/default.html. For more information about World Hospice and Palliative Care Day, visit: http://www.worldday.org.

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New Campaign, Featuring Smokers' Personal Stories, Encourages Tobacco Users to "Be a Quitter"

Smokers and tobacco users trying to quit will soon have a potent ally-fellow smokers. The "Quit Now" Challenge, a new initiative featuring the inspirational stories of people who want to quit smoking, was announced by The National Cancer Institute (NCI) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), both agencies of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). Now through October 27, 2006, 1-800-QUIT-NOW will accept submissions from cigarette smokers and other tobacco users explaining, in their own words, why they want to "Quit Now!" Interested participants can visit 1800quitnow.org for specific instructions on how to submit video entries. Successful quitters whose stories are chosen will be announced on February 1, 2007.

The "Quit Now" Challenge, part of the "Be A Quitter" campaign, enhances NCI and CDC's ongoing National Network of Tobacco Cessation Quitlines initiative. Participants - chosen among men and women between 18 and 29 years old - will be available for local television, radio, and newspaper interviews. These participants also will be encouraged to help others quit by posting daily diaries and sharing their personal stories of QUIT-NOW experiences on the official 1-800-QUIT-NOW Web site, 1800quitnow.org. Callers to 1-800-QUIT-NOW, which is a single point of access to state-based quitlines, will continue to receive practical, effective help quitting smoking, information materials, and referrals to other resources.

"Since 1-800-QUIT-NOW was launched in 2004, it has remained an important resource for the 45 million Americans who smoke, and for other tobacco users, to help them end their addiction," said HHS Secretary Mike Leavitt. "Such a program is vital to help improve the public health of this country, as young people continue to light up, and others continue to die from tobacco-related disease."

Participants who quit smoking by the challenge's end will be selected to share their success stories. The NCI and CDC hope that these stories will help further increase quit rates in the United States. The North American Quitline Consortium, corporate partners, and local organizations in communities across the country are key collaborators in 1-800-QUIT-NOW, providing their expertise to help raise awareness about this toll-free access number.

For additional information about tobacco cessation, go to http://smokefree.gov or call 1-800-QUIT-NOW. For more information about tobacco, go to the National Cancer Institute's "Tobacco and Cancer" home page at http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/tobacco or the Center for Disease Control and Prevention's Tobacco Information and Prevention Source (TIPS) home page at http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/.

For information about cancer, visit the National Cancer Institute Web site at http://www.cancer.gov, or call NCI's Cancer Information Service at 1-800-4-CANCER (1-800-422-6237).

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NATIONAL BREAST CANCER AWARENESS MONTH

October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month (NBCAM). Since the program began in 1985, mammography rates have more than doubled for women age 50 and older, and breast cancer deaths have declined.

This is exciting progress, but there are still women who do not take advantage of early detection at all and others who do not get screening mammograms and clinical breast exams at regular intervals.

Women age 65 and older are less likely to get mammograms than younger women, even though breast cancer risk increases with age.
Hispanic women have fewer mammograms than Caucasian women and African American women.
Women below poverty level are less likely than women at higher incomes to have had a mammogram within the past two years.
Mammography use has increased for all groups except American Indians and Alaska Natives.

If all women age 40 and older took advantage of early detection methods & mammography plus clinical breast exam & breast cancer death rates would drop much further, up to 30 percent.

For more information about NBCAM, visit http://www.nbcam.org. For additional information, call one of the following toll-free numbers: American Cancer Society, (800) 227-2345, National Cancer Institute (NCI), (800) 4-CANCER, Y-ME National Breast Cancer Organization, (800) 221-2141.

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New Findings Offer More Complete View of Breast Cancer Gene Mutations in U.S. Population
NIH-Supported Study Among The First to Include African Americans, Older Women

A large study funded by the National Institutes of Health provided the clearest picture yet of the prevalence in the U.S. population of mutations in two genes associated with an increased risk of breast cancer. The genes are called Breast Cancer 1 (BRCA1) and Breast Cancer 2 (BRCA2). In addition, the study identified key predictors for assessing which women are most likely to carry these genetic mutations.

Each year, approximately 200,000 women in the United States are diagnosed with breast cancer.

The majority of breast cancer cases are caused by genetic changes that occur during a woman's lifetime and not by genetic mutations inherited from her parents. However, researchers estimate that inherited mutations play a role in anywhere from 5 to 27 percent of all breast cancer cases. In the mid 1990s, researchers found that mutations in the BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes are a major cause of the hereditary form of the disease. Women inheriting these mutations have a 40 to 85 percent lifetime risk of developing breast cancer, as well as an increased risk of ovarian cancer.

To date, most of the studies on BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutations have focused on families known to be at high risk for breast cancer and on women who develop breast cancer at a relatively young age. The new study, published in the journal Cancer Research, looked at the prevalence and predictors of BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutations in under-studied groups of women, such as African Americans and older women.

"Studies of any notable size have focused almost exclusively on white women and young women. This research clearly was needed to improve our means of assessing the likelihood of carrying BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutations in a wider spectrum of women," said one of the study's lead investigators, Elaine Ostrander, Ph.D., chief of the Cancer Genetics Branch in the National Human Genome Research Institute's Division of Intramural Research. Dr. Ostrander was previously head of the genetics program at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, which is the institution that led the study.

The researchers examined the prevalence and predictors of BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutations in 1,628 women with breast cancer and 674 similar women without breast cancer, all of whom were participants in the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development's (NICHD's) Women's Contraceptive and Reproductive Experiences (CARE) study. The women involved in the study were white and African American women, ages 35 to 64, who lived in the Atlanta, Detroit, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, and Seattle metropolitan areas.

"The advantages of this study include its large sample size, inclusion of under-studied groups of women, and the fact that the results are population based," said one of the study's co-authors, Robert Spirtas, Dr. P.H., former chief of NICHD's Contraception and Reproductive Health Branch and now retired.

Researchers found that 2.4 percent of the breast cancer patients had BRCA1 mutations and 2.3 percent had BRCA2 mutations. BRCA1 mutations were more common among white breast cancer patients, 2.9 percent, than among African American patients, 1.4 percent. Breast cancer patients of Jewish ancestry were also significantly more likely to have BRCA1 mutations than non-Jewish patients, 10.2 percent compared to 2.0 percent. For BRCA2, African American patients were slightly more likely to have mutations, 2.6 percent, than were white patients, 2.1 percent.

Based on their findings, the researchers went on to calculate the prevalence of BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutations in the general U.S. population. Among white and African American women ages 35 to 64, the prevalence of BRCA1 mutations is 0.06 percent and the prevalence of BRCA2 mutations is 0.4 percent, the researchers estimated.

"These findings from our large, population-based study are compatible with earlier estimates made by extrapolating from smaller studies. However, we found a slightly lower frequency of BRCA1 mutations and higher frequency of BRCA2 mutations," said the study's other lead investigator, Kathleen Malone, Ph.D., Member of the Public Health Sciences Division at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center. "We think the difference lies in the fact that earlier studies were confined mainly to whites, and that African American women carry BRCA2 mutations more often than white women."

The researchers also identified key predictors of whether a woman with breast cancer is likely to carry a BRCA1 or BRCA2 mutation. Such information is important because it can help to improve means of assessing which women may benefit the most from genetic testing, increased breast cancer screening, and other measures aimed at early detection, treatment, or prevention. The most significant predictors for BRCA1 mutations were: Jewish ancestry, a family history of ovarian cancer, and a family history of breast cancer occurring before age 45.

For BRCA2 mutations, researchers uncovered fewer predictors and they had more modest effects. Among the breast cancer patients studied, the only significant predictors of a BRCA2 mutation were early age of onset (before age 45) in the patient herself or early onset of breast cancer in mother, sisters, grandmothers, or aunts.

"These findings underscore why women need to learn as much as they can about their family health history and then share that information with their health-care professionals. However, it must be emphasized that the presence or absence of a predictive factor does not automatically equate with a high or low likelihood of carrying a breast cancer gene mutation," said NIH Director Elias A. Zerhouni, M.D. "The majority of women with breast cancer - even those with a family history of the disease - do not carry mutations in these genes. These predictors need to be considered in the context of each woman's complete family health history."
In addition to the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, NHGRI, and NICHD, the team included researchers from the National Cancer Institute; Bay State Medical Center, Springfield, MA; the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia; University of Southern California, Los Angeles; and Wayne State University, Detroit.

How to Create a Family Health History

To help people in the task of creating their family health histories, HHS offers a free, computerized tool that organizes health information into a printout that can be can taken to health care professionals. The tool, called "My Family Health Portrait," is available at https://familyhistory.hhs.gov/.

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SOME RECENTLY PUBLISHED BOOKS RECEIVED IN THE NEW SOCIAL WORKER'S OFFICE

Broken Glass: A Family's Journey Through Mental Illness, by Robert H. Hine, University of New Mexico Press
http://shop.socialworker.com/item-0826339972

Ellie: A Story of Profound Loss and Abuse, by Deborah Rose, PublishAmerica
http://shop.socialworker.com/item-141378920x

Therapy's Best: Practical Advice and Gems of Wisdom from Twenty Accomplished Counselors and Therapists, by Howard Rosenthal, Haworth Press
http://shop.socialworker.com/item-0789024756

Women, Work, and Poverty, by Heidi Hartmann (Editor), Haworth Political Press
http://shop.socialworker.com/item-0789032465

Ethical Standards in Social Work: A Review of the NASW Code of Ethics, 2nd Edition, by Frederic G. Reamer, NASW Press
http://shop.socialworker.com/item-0871013711

Addressing Racism: Facilitating Cultural Competence in Mental Health and Educational Settings, by Madonna G. Constantine and Derald Wing Sue (Editors), Wiley
http://shop.socialworker.com/item-0471779970

Ethics in Social Work: A Context of Caring, by David Guttmann, Haworth Press
http://shop.socialworker.com/item-0789028522

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JOB CORNER

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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. We are proud of the fact that this site was chosen as one of 350 (out of 40,000+ employment sites) to be included in Weddle's Recruiter's and Job Seeker's Guide to Employment Web Sites 2004 and 2005/2006.

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All job seeker services are FREE-including searching current job openings, posting your confidential resume/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.

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NEWS

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Days in the Lives of Gerontological Social Workers

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
Deadline for Submissions: December 1, 2006

Linda May Grobman and Dara Bergel Bourassa are planning a new gerontology edition in the DAYS IN THE LIVES OF SOCIAL WORKERS book series. The editors are seeking social workers in a wide variety of roles within the gerontology field. Please pass this call for submissions along to colleagues, alumni, and others who may have a unique story to contribute to this exciting new collection.

Background: The book DAYS IN THE LIVES OF SOCIAL WORKERS, now in its third edition, is a collection of narratives focusing on "typical" days in the lives of social workers. This book serves as a career resource for social workers, students, and those considering entering the profession, and is used as a textbook for Introduction to Social Work and other courses. Each chapter is written by a professional social worker with a bachelor's, master's, or doctorate degree in social work. Chapters are written in first person, describing a day in the writer's life as a social worker.

The gerontology edition: The editors are seeking submissions for a new book, tentatively titled DAYS IN THE LIVES OF GERONTOLOGICAL SOCIAL WORKERS, which will follow the same first-person narrative format, featuring professional social workers whose work is with or on behalf of older adults. If you work in or have experience in direct or indirect gerontological social work practice and are interested in submitting a chapter about your work, please e-mail linda.grobman@paonline.com for the guidelines.

The submission deadline is December 1, 2006.

We want to hear from you! For further information, contact: Linda Grobman: linda.grobman@paonline.com or Dara Bergel Bourassa: dpberg@ship.edu

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Child Welfare Information Gateway Releases Adoption Products

The Basics of Adoption Practice (http://www.childwelfare.gov/pubs/f_basicsbulletin/f_basicsbulletin.pdf) is written for those new in the field. It provides an overview of adoption practices and the responsibilities of adoption workers, with links to more detailed information. Some of the topics covered include family assessment, child assessment, birth parent involvement, placing children with families, and prefinalization and postadoption services.

Intercountry Adoption: Where Do I Start? (http://www.childwelfare.gov/pubs/f_inter/f_inter.pdf) provides an overview of the steps involved in any intercountry adoption. These include deciding whether intercountry adoption is right for your family, selecting a country and agency, and meeting eligibility requirements.

For more information on these or other products, visit Child Welfare Information Gateway at http://www.childwelfare.gov or contact 1.800.394.3366 or info@childwelfare.gov

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ON OUR WEB SITE

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THE NEW SOCIAL WORKER's Web site at http://www.socialworker.com includes the full text of many articles from past and current issues of the magazine. The current issue is featured on the site's main page, with links to several current full-text articles. Click on "Print Edition" under "Main Menu" to find Tables of Contents of the current and back issues, and click on "Feature Articles Archive" to find full-text articles.

Current articles now online include:

Ethics: Culturally Competent Social Work Practice With Latino Clients
Field Placement: Team Supervision-Is It For You?
Special Report: Racism-The Challenge for Social Workers
My Civil Rights Journey
Career Talk: Keeping Track of It AllBuilding Your Social Work Portfolio
Electronic Connection: Nothing New Under the Sun?

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 "Discussion Forum" in the left menu).

Be sure to check out http://www.ceu4u.com/tnsw for online continuing education offerings.

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JOURNAL OF SOCIAL WORK VALUES AND ETHICS-FALL 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, in full text, online at http://www.socialworker.com/jswve

The Fall 2006 edition is available online now. Articles in this issue include:

A Co-operative Inquiry into Structural Social Work Students' Ethical Decision-Making in Field Education

Managed Care and the Care of the Soul

Applying NASW Standards to End-of-Life Care for a Culturally Diverse Aging Population

Teaching Ethics Through Self-Reflective Journaling

A Part Versus Apart: The Relationship Between Social Workers' Political Ideology and Their Professional Affiliation

Sexual Harassment or Consensual Sexual Relations? Implications for Social Work Education

Book Review: Ethical Standards in Social Work: A Review of the NASW Code of Ethics (2nd Edition)

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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IN PRINT

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FALL ISSUE OF THE NEW SOCIAL WORKER AVAILABLE NOW!

The Fall issue of THE NEW SOCIAL WORKER magazine is available now! Print subscribers will receive the magazine by mail very soon. Highlights of this issue include:

Student Role Model: Darnell Morris-Compton
Ethics: Culturally Competent Social Work Practice With Latino Clients
Field Placement: Team Supervision-Is It For You?
Special Report: Racism-The Challenge for Social Workers
My Civil Rights Journey
The Inherent Value of Social Work
Learning From Living: My Mexico Experience
Career Talk: Keeping Track of It AllBuilding Your Social Work Portfolio
Electronic Connection: Nothing New Under the Sun?
Honoring the Legacy: Building a Professional Identity in Clinical Social Work With Families
and more!

See our Web site at http://www.socialworker.com for more details and full-text articles from this and previous issues, and to download this issue in PDF format.

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