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Issue #104, July 14, 2009

Don’t Miss—Chat TONIGHT July 14, 9 p.m. Eastern Time at http://www.socialworkchat.org

EDITOR’S EYE

Dear Social Work Colleagues,

Welcome to Issue #104 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.

July marks the observance of Social Wellness Month, Juvenile Arthritis Awareness Month, and Purposeful Parenting Month, among others! July 26 is the 19^th anniversary of the Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA), as well. Coming in August: National Women’s Month and Happiness Happens Month.

Book club update: “The New Social Worker Book Club” now has an official group on Facebook. You can join the group at: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?&gid=98840583520 – the club already has grown to 331 members. We are reading the book, The Soloist, by Steve Lopez, and will be discussing it online in a live chat on July 26 at http://www.socialworkchat.org. I just finished reading the book two days ago, and I really enjoyed reading it. Join the Facebook group to stay updated on discussions of this and other books in the future.

Great news! The Summer issue of THE NEW SOCIAL WORKER is now available on our Web site! Go to http://www.socialworker.com to read the articles from this issue in Web format. You can also download this issue (and others) of THE NEW SOCIAL WORKER magazine in PDF format FREE at http://www.socialworker.com/home/component/remository/Download/TheNewSocialWorkerMagazine/TheNewSocialWorkerVol.16No.3(Summer2009)/

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You can read THE NEW SOCIAL WORKER’s blog at: http://blog.socialworker.com – MSW student columnist T.J., tech columnist Karen, and I are posting on the blog. I am very excited to let you know that Susan Mankita is joining our blog. Read her “Mentoring With Mankita” blog to get expert advice on issues to help you in taking your social work career to the next level. Please be sure to leave your comments. You can also subscribe to receive new blog posts by e-mail or in a feed reader. You can use the “Share” button on our blog to easily e-mail our blog posts to friends or share them on Facebook, Twitter, and a variety of other social media.

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I just want to mention here that I recently became aware of a project that I think is really great. It is the St. Lucy Orphanage Flute School, a “music education program set up at the St. Lucy Orphanage in Adigrat, Ethiopia. This school is to offer children orphaned by AIDS the opportunity to learn music through the flute and provide them with a richer way of life.” You can find more information at http://stlucyorphanagefluteschool.blogspot.com/, where you can see photos of these young children learning the flute. I learned through Celine Ferland, a U.S. flutist, that there are 45 students who want to be a part of this school, and so far, the school has about 10 donated flutes. If you happen to have a flute you no longer play and would like to donate, or know someone who does, let me know, and I’ll put you in touch with Celine. I will have the opportunity to meet her next month. As some of you know, besides being a social worker and an editor/publisher, I am a flutist and therapeutic musician…so this project really caught my attention!

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Article Excerpt: Seeing Is Not Believing: Group Supervision By Telephone

by Simon Y. Feuerman, PsyD, LCSW

(Editor’s Note: This article is an excerpt from the Summer 2009 issue of THE NEW SOCIAL WORKER. Read the full article at:

http://www.socialworker.com/home/Feature_Articles/Professional_Development_%26_Advancement/Seeing_is_Not_Believing%3A_Group_Supervision_By_Telephone/

I had always looked down on telephone supervision as inferior to face-to-face meetings. I even held the idea that it was a compromise in the worst sense, maybe even a sell-out—a watered-down, weak tea version of the “real thing.”

My own treatment and supervisory experiences seemed to lend support to this idea. My analyst and supervisor were on opposite ends of town, and both were far from where I lived and worked. I rode the subways, buses, and trains in all kinds of weather, hustling, hailing cabs. On occasion, when I had a car, I struggled to find a parking space, scrounged for fistfuls of quarters to shovel into the meter.

All of this seemed part and parcel of the “work,” whatever “work” meant. Once, while driving into Manhattan to get to a supervision appointment, I became stuck in a mammoth traffic jam in the Lincoln Tunnel. I pleaded with my supervisor to be allowed to have the session on the telephone while I sat idly in traffic. He wouldn’t hear of it. “No way,” he said brusquely. “You’re either here or you’re not. See you at your next appointment.” I turned around and went home. There would be no session and no makeup. Precious dollars and time seemingly wasted. My supervisor at that time was an ex-Marine. He was renowned for his brilliance, but also for being stubborn and inflexible. He insisted on making his point: There was no way of getting around the substantial investment that was needed to get intellectual and emotional nourishment. It’s not helpful or progressive to look for shortcuts.

When I questioned him about it, he explained that under certain extenuating conditions, one could work on the phone, when no other alternative existed, but as a general rule, this was no way to conduct a relationship. If I was late, that was not his problem.

In addition to the individual supervision and analysis I underwent, I was a member of a supervisory group that also met in person. Part of what I had thought kept the group coherent and connected with each other was the fact that we could see each other. There was so much you could learn by watching people. What kind of group could it be when people could not see each other? How would they make connections with each other that were emotional?

People make profound connections when they put their feelings into words—feelings are almost always connected to and registered in the body—our own and someone else’s. In one group I was in, a man told a woman that her legs were perfectly sculpted—“Michelangelo could not have done a better job.” Her eyes were like “chocolate chips” and her blonde hair was a “burst of sun.” I can assure you that she will never forget those comments, because the body has a memory of its own.

On the basis of these experiences, I operated from the framework that a group on the phone would be all but impossible. At least that is what I thought until about two years ago, when serendipitously, I participated in a telephone conference with a few therapists from all over the country. Perhaps there was something magical about that one night, but there was a therapist from Grand Rapids, MI and one from Jupiter, FL and a third one from Encino, CA, and we were talking about fees in treatment. I could “feel” Sallie from Grand Rapids. To this day, I do not know whether it was the timbre of her voice, or that lilt or that accent, but I felt something toward her. In fact, a warmth blanketed the whole group. It sounds corny, but I thought of us late into the evening as little points of light twinkling over the United States.

That night after I hung up the phone, I thought to myself: I bet this kind of group supervision could be done on an ongoing basis via telephone. I began to invite acquaintances to join group supervision on the telephone. Several therapists that I knew immediately accepted. I was surprised. Most of them were in metropolitan areas where face-to-face groups were feasible and accessible. Why did they want to “settle” for phone supervision?

Read the rest of this article at:

http://www.socialworker.com/home/Feature_Articles/Professional_Development_%26_Advancement/Seeing_is_Not_Believing%3A_Group_Supervision_By_Telephone/

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SPECIAL: Web Article

The Social Work Raison D’etre

by Michael Garvin, MSW

Several weeks ago, I was in a social work class discussing the pharmaceutical industry with my classmates and the professor. I was trying to make the point that the rate of profit on several medicines manufactured by these pharmaceutical companies is so high that they should be labeled as criminals for exploiting someone else’s misfortune. As an example of what I was talking about, I was using the example that Michael Moore illustrated in his movie Sicko.

In a particular scene, Moore chartered a boat, filled it with 911 rescue workers who were suffering from several different ailments, and who have been dropped from their insurance rolls because they couldn’t work, as a result of their ailments. The boat was headed for Cuban waters, specifically, Guantanamo Bay. It is here that the U.S. detains many of its worse international criminals. Moore, with his gift of irony and sarcasm, televised clips of U.S. military officials defending the care that they were providing for detainees at Guantamano after allegations that U.S. military prisons were using torturous techniques to get information from detainees and not giving proper medical attention. At one point, Moore got on a bull horn just outside the military base in the bay and asks if he could bring the sick rescue workers in for treatment just like the detainees were getting. The military authorities sounded an alarm and Moore, the boat, and crew were all turned away. There was one woman in Moore’s crew that had a breathing ailment that required an inhaler, and it was very expensive because of the astronomical prices that pharmaceutical companies were charging for the medicine. She could not afford it, so Moore took her, and others, to the Cuban medical authorities, in a socialist country, where they received care. At the end of the stay, the woman received a large amount of the medicines she needed for only a fraction of what she was being charged in the U.S., to include the inhalers, and was sent back to Moore’s crew. One of my classmates tried to compare this with a story about the cost of medicine in Africa. What she didn’t realize was that medicine for Africa probably came in the form of aid from a western nation operating on the laws of supply and demand. This concept is widely misunderstood, even in capitalist countries.

I will be the first to admit that whenever we are talking about this kind of story, we must take into consideration the propaganda factor. Yes, Cuba is a socialist country, and the message they wanted to send to Americans will always have a “bend.” But that also holds true with American-speak. The point of telling this story is to illustrate the fact that propaganda, from either side, distorts your thinking if you have no understanding of what is actually being discussed. And that is what was happening in my class that day. Ultimately, I hoped that the conversation would turn to socialized medicine, since Cuba is a socialist country, but the rest of the class stood firm in arguing this issue from an extreme nationalistic position. This is a direct example of the cultural hegemony that exists as a result of mandatory indoctrination labeled as education and extreme commercialization. Americans spontaneously give consent to policies that benefit the bourgeois and completely ignore any policy that would benefit the working man. A basic understanding of economics would permit anyone to have a clearer view of socialized medicine as well as cultural hegemony.

I did not start my academic pursuits in the realm of social work. I went to a liberal arts institution and majored in history for my undergraduate degree. When I asked several of my classmates about their economics class from their undergraduate years, most said they never took economics. One day, I started to investigate various social work curricula on the Internet, and I was surprised to see that they didn’t require economics, but students could take it as an elective if they wanted to. I believe that if you want to be a social worker, you should definitely have a basic understanding of the history of the American economy. It is the reason we even have an industry called social work, and this is why.

The study of the welfare state is not very common among American social workers, so let me set the stage. Historically speaking, society has always assumed the responsibility of taking care of the vulnerable. Many of the organizations that have assumed these responsibilities were of a religious nature. We learned about them in policy classes at the onset of our studies. The Guardians of the Poor were a very big part of poor relief in Philadelphia. They built almshouses where the sick and old could be taken care of and where some of the members could be somewhat industrious and make things that could be sold. But the important part of this story starts with the stock market crash in 1929.

The decade after the crash, deemed the Great Depression, turned out to be the impetus for the rise of the social work profession. Many Americans were living in deplorable conditions, and unemployment was at 25%. The classical economists told everyone to relax—that the market would repair itself and we would all be back to normal in no time. This was not happening. These economists believe in what was deemed “laissez-faire” economics. In this theory, the state should not interfere with the economy.

The market was guided by the “invisible hand” as put forth by Adam Smith, the grandfather of capitalism. In this theory, the players of capitalism, worker, capitalist, and landlord are all in a process of economic activity for themselves. Workers want to work for an industry that allows them to live a comfortable life, the capitalist is in it to command the market and make profit, and the landlord wants the most for his land so he can live comfortably. The invisible hand theory states that the self-interest of all these players will result in the market maintaining equilibrium between the cycles of inflation and recession. Inflation is the condition in which there is too much investment, too much money in the circular flow in society, and the value of that money is low. Recession is the opposite. There is not enough investment, not enough money in the circular flow, and it is characterized by high unemployment. Proponents of Adam Smith stated that the “invisible hand” should compel investors to reduce wages, and therefore increase profit that will spur more investment. The worker would be grateful for any job, regardless of the wage offered, because he had no job in the first place. But in order to do that, the capitalist had to invest in the business. This was not happening. Capitalists were afraid of investing, because they knew that no one had any money to buy their products or services. All in all, psychological fear was the cause of this depression.

A British economist by the name of John Maynard Keynes came in and provided an explanation and a solution for the economy. He stated that fear was the major culprit for the lack of investment, and that government had to become the prime investor in the economy. An investment of this size would trigger businesses to invest once they knew people would have money to buy goods and services.

The first program the government initiated was the Works Progress Administration (WPA). This was followed by the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC). These programs hired individuals to build up infrastructure for community use and preserve the forests and wildlife. The next program, which started in 1935, was the Social Security Act. This legislation addressed the needs of the vulnerable. The elderly, the sick, orphans, disabled veterans, and many others were now being given a check so they could buy the things they needed for survival. The Social Security Act changed many times over the years with regard to who it was serving, but it remains one of the biggest forms of government aid today. Social welfare spending rose from 3.8% of the GDP in 1929 to 20.6% in 1993. These programs were named “The New Deal” of the Roosevelt Administration.

For those who are still reading this article, do you see anything going on today that closely resembles our economic history? Clearly, I have demonstrated how social programs have provided a function for free-market economies. They can spark a slow economy through government investment, while simultaneously providing resources for the most vulnerable. This is what President Obama is “trying” to do, but it is a little different from what Roosevelt did. Roosevelt created a job program through the government and handed paychecks directly to the workers. They, in turn, went out and purchased goods and services for themselves and their families. This spurred many other businesses to invest, so they could share in the newly-generated wealth. This created more jobs, and more people became employed and then spent money. A cycle of healthy economic activities flourished, and the economy as a whole improved. Let me reiterate, the government programs handed paychecks directly to the workers. President Obama is handing tax dollars directly to banks and auto manufacturers. The hope is that these organizations will recover from the economic paralysis they find themselves in today. Then, it is hoped, they will invest the money in their businesses, and this will create jobs. One thing that hasn’t been said about this plan is that it sounds dangerously similar to the concept of “trickle down” economics of the Reagan years. What occurred then baffled economists around the world. We experienced “stagflation.” This happens when you have a high inflation rate at the same time you have a high unemployment rate.

This leads me to make a concluding point. Roosevelt’s programs over the following years, despite many changes here and there, have been deemed as welfare. This is a naughty word in our country, creating an image of a lazy parasite who lives off the labor and tax dollars of others. Let me introduce you to a different concept. How about corporate welfare? As of today, I read that the final cost of the 21^st century bailout would be $9.7 trillion. Banks and auto makers are the ones that the government is bailing out vis-à-vis trickle down economics. So I thought I would leave you with one thought. Hypothetically speaking, let’s say that the $9.7 trillion that is going to corporations was instead being forwarded to every person in the country. It is estimated that there are 300 million people in this country. If the government divided that money with everyone, then each one of us would get $32,333.00. So a family of four would get $129,332.00. What would that do for the purchasing power of the common citizen in the U.S.? Would the American public spend that in places that would be beneficial to U.S. businesses? Would the speculators on Wall Street jump out of their skins and rejoice? Yes, they would, but this idea would never be given serious consideration. Instead, we must trust banks and manufacturers with the responsibility of doing the right thing with our money.

It bothers me when I hear social workers (and many people in general) say that their politics are liberal, but that they are fiscally conservative. If this economy was run conservatively, and without government regulation, there wouldn’t be a profession called social work. Furthermore, with social workers having a strong understanding of our economic policies and all of their nuances, they would be able to create better budgets for their agencies. They would have a better understanding of the politicians who make impossible campaign promises. They could intelligently participate in dialogue consisting of terms such as socialized medicine, inflation, and recession. I think every social worker should be required to take economics so that they understand their raison d’etre.

Michael Garvin, MSW, is a recent graduate of Temple University’s MSW program. Michael is entertaining the idea of developing a supplement to the standard social policy class that deals with American economics and the welfare state.

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The White House Agenda on Disabilities

http://www.whitehouse.gov/agenda/disabilities/

“... We must build a world free of unnecessary barriers, stereotypes, and discrimination. Policies must be developed, attitudes must be shaped, and buildings and organizations must be designed to ensure that everyone has a chance to get the education they need and live independently as full citizens in their communities. ”

President Barack Obama, April 11, 2008

President Barack Obama and Vice-President Joe Biden have a comprehensive agenda to empower individuals with disabilities in order to equalize opportunities for all Americans.

In addition to reclaiming America's global leadership on this issue by becoming a signatory to, and having the Senate ratify, the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, the plan has four parts, designed to provide lifelong support and resources to Americans with disabilities. They are as follows:

First, provide Americans with disabilities with the educational opportunities they need to succeed by funding the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, supporting early intervention for children with disabilities and universal screening, improving college opportunities for high school graduates with disabilities, and making college more affordable. President Obama and Vice President Biden will also authorize a comprehensive study of students with disabilities and issues relating to transition to work and higher education.

Second, end discrimination and promote equal opportunity by restoring the Americans with Disabilities Act, increasing funding for enforcement, supporting the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act, ensuring affordable, accessible health care for all, and improving mental health care.

Third, increase the employment rate of workers with disabilities by effectively implementing regulations that require the federal government and its contractors to employ people with disabilities, providing private-sector employers with resources to accommodate employees with disabilities, and encouraging those employers to use existing tax benefits to hire more workers with disabilities and supporting small businesses owned by people with disabilities.

And fourth, support independent, community-based living for Americans with disabilities by enforcing the Community Choice Act, which would allow Americans with significant disabilities the choice of living in their community rather than having to live in a nursing home or other institution, creating a voluntary, budget-neutral national insurance program to help adults who have or develop functional disabilities to remain independent and in their communities, and streamline the Social Security approval process.

Autism

President Obama and Vice President Biden are committed to supporting Americans with Autism Spectrum Disorders (“ASD”), their families, and their communities. There are a few key elements to their support, which are as follows:

First, President Obama and Vice President Biden support increased funding for autism research, treatment, screenings, public awareness, and support services.

Second, President Obama and Vice President Biden support improving life-long services for people with ASD for treatments, interventions and services for both children and adults with ASD.

Third, President Obama and Vice President Biden support funding the Combating Autism Act and working with Congress, parents, and ASD experts to determine how to further improve federal and state programs for ASD.

Fourth, President Obama and Vice President Biden support universal screening of all infants and re-screening for all two-year-olds, the age at which some conditions, including ASD, begin to appear. These screenings will be safe and secure, and available for every American that wants them.

Reprinted from DBTAC National Network of ADA Centers. Celebrate the ADA Anniversary at http://adaanniversary.org.

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The New Social Worker Book Club!

In May, I announced that I was starting a book club for social workers—The New Social Worker Book Club! Our first book selection is The Soloist, by Steve Lopez. You may have seen the movie by the same title, which was released in theaters in April.

I have just finished reading the book. Do you want to read it, too? There is still time before the July 26 chat (see next paragraph). You can go to Amazon to order it. (This link will take you directly to The Soloist’s page.)

We will be discussing this book in a live chat at http://www.socialworkchat.org on July 26. If you are on Facebook, you can join the club’s Facebook group at http://www.facebook.com/group.php?&gid=98840583520, where we already have 331 members! I will be posting announcements about the club on this page. I have also posted some links there to various Web sites about or related to The Soloist.

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Attractive rates. Please forward résumé to: hr@extendedhc.net or Fax: (212) 563-0775 www.extendedhc.net

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We want you! We are looking for social workers to relocate to London. We will be interviewing in New York in early August 2009 for social workers who have experience working with children and families. We will sponsor your visa and assist you financially with your relocation.

We have vacancies within investigations teams, teams working with families with children who have safety plans, children who are in care/fostered/adopted or with kinship placements or with children who are aging out. You will be the second group of Americans to join us, and we’re really excited about your arrival! Benefit from a practical orientation programme and yearly salary $44,000.00-$60,000, training and development opportunities and 30 days vacation.

You must have BSW or MSW, 12 months post qualifying experience with children and families, knowledge of child protection issues, and court experience. Send your résumé to uksw@haringey.gov.uk

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NEWS & RESOURCES

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July is Juvenile Arthritis Awareness Month

Approximately 294,000 children under the age of 18 are affected by pediatric arthritis and rheumatologic conditions. The JA Alliance, a virtual community connected through the Arthritis Foundation Web site, provides information and support for parents, professionals, volunteers, patients, and anyone affected by these conditions. See http://www.arthritis.org/ja-alliance-main.php for more information.

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New Child Abuse and Neglect User Manual Available

The Role of Professional Child Care Providers in Preventing and Responding to Child Abuse and Neglect is the latest release in the Child Abuse and Neglect User Manual Series and is now available for download from the Child Welfare Information Gateway Web site.

The manual explores the responsibilities that are essential to child care providers:

Recognizing physical abuse, sexual abuse, psychological maltreatment, and neglect
Reporting child abuse and neglect
Minimizing the risk of maltreatment in child care programs
Preventing and responding to child abuse and neglect
Caring for maltreated children and children at risk for maltreatment
Supporting parents

The manual is part of the third edition of the User Manual Series, developed to reflect increased knowledge and the evolving state of practice. The User Manual Series, from the Office on Child Abuse and Neglect within the Children’s Bureau of the Administration for Children and Families, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, provides a foundation for understanding child maltreatment and the roles and responsibilities of child welfare practitioners in prevention, identification, investigation, assessment, and treatment.

Read the manual at http://www.childwelfare.gov/pubs/usermanuals/childcare

The entire User Manual Series is available at http://www.childwelfare.gov/pubs/usermanual.cfm

For more information, contact Child Welfare Information Gateway at info@childwelfare.gov or 1-800-394-3366.

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P.O.V.’s 22nd season

P.O.V. is a series of “documentaries with a point of view.” Check your local PBS TV listings for exact times in your area.

The following are upcoming films to be shown in the P.O.V. series. For more information, see http://www.pbs.org/pov/.

THE RECKONING: THE BATTLE FOR THE INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT July 14, 2009

by Pamela Yates

Over 120 countries have united to form the International Criminal Court (ICC) — the first permanent court created to prosecute perpetrators, no matter how powerful, of crimes against humanity, war crimes and genocide. The Reckoning follows dynamic ICC Prosecutor Luis Moreno Ocampo and his team for three years across four continents as he issues arrest warrants for Lord’s Resistance Army leaders in Uganda, puts Congolese warlords on trial, shakes up the Colombian justice system, and charges Sudan’s President Omar al-Bashir with genocide in Darfur. Like a deft thriller, The Reckoning keeps you on the edge of your seat. An Official Selection of the 2009 Sundance Film Festival.

THE BETRAYAL (NERAKHOON) July 21, 2009

by Ellen Kuras and Thavisouk Phrasavath

Filmed over 23 years, The Betrayal is the Academy Award®-nominated directorial debut of renowned cinematographer Ellen Kuras in a unique collaboration with the film’s subject and co-director, Thavisouk (“Thavi”) Phrasavath. After the U.S. government waged a secret war in Laos during the Vietnam War, Thavi’s father and thousands of other Laotians who had fought alongside American forces were abandoned and left to face imprisonment or execution. Hoping to find safety, Thavi’s family made a harrowing escape to America, where they discovered a different kind of war. Weaving ancient prophecy with personal testimony and stunning imagery, The Betrayal is a story of survival and the resilient bonds of family. A Diverse Voices Project co-production with support from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB); funded in part by the Center for Asian American Media (CAAM). An Official Selection of the 2008 Sundance Film Festival.

HOLD ME TIGHT, LET ME GO July 28, 2009

by Kim Longinotto

Variety describes it as a film “mixing ferocity with tenderness, delicacy with tenacity” —exactly like the unusual school it explores. In Hold Me Tight, Let Me Go, one of Britain’s leading documentary filmmakers takes a vérité look at Oxford’s Mulberry Bush School for emotionally disturbed children. Mulberry’s heroically forbearing staff greets extreme, sometimes violent behavior with only consolation and gentle restraint. Kim Longinotto’s unblinking camera captures an arduous process and a nearly unhinged environment, but it also records the daily dramas of troubled kids trying to survive and the moments of hope they achieve with Mulberry’s clear-eyed staff.

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SocialWorkChat.org–A Service of THE NEW SOCIAL WORKER and NASW

Connect with other social workers online! THE NEW SOCIAL WORKER magazine and the National Association of Social Workers have teamed up with the Social Work Forum to bring you SocialWorkChat.org, an online community of social workers offering twice-weekly online real-time chats on a variety of topics. The chats are held on Sunday and Tuesday nights at 9 p.m. Eastern Time. Susan Mankita is the manager of SocialWorkChat.org.

Upcoming Chats

Sunday, July 26—The New Social Worker Book Club Chat—Discussion of THE SOLOIST

Registration is free! Chats will last about an hour. Check regularly for chat topics or sign up for e-mail reminders.

Go to http://www.socialworkchat.org to register and participate in the chats and other features of the site.

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JOURNAL OF SOCIAL WORK VALUES & ETHICS CONTINUING EDUCATION PROGRAM

The Journal of Social Work Values & Ethics, a free, online, peer-reviewed journal published by the publisher of THE NEW SOCIAL WORKER, now offers continuing education credit. Beginning with the Spring 2007 issue of the journal, you are able to read selected articles and then take an online exam and receive continuing education credit. See http://www.socialworker.com/jswve/content/view/57/52/ for complete details of this program.

CE credits for the Journal of Social Work Values & Ethics are offered in cooperation with CE-Credit.com. To see a complete listing of the 600+ courses that CE-Credit.com offers, go to: http://www.socialworker.com/cecredit.html

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Summer 2009 ISSUE OF THE NEW SOCIAL WORKER IS NOW AVAILABLE!

The Summer 2009 issue of THE NEW SOCIAL WORKER is now available to download in PDF format at: http://www.socialworker.com/home/component/remository/Download/TheNewSocialWorkerMagazine/TheNewSocialWorkerVol.16No.3(Summer2009)/

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” on the top 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.

Current articles from the Summer 2009 issue now online include:

·         Student Role Model: Kelly Lee

·         Ethics and Economics

·         Social Work Intern Logs: An Effective Learning Exercise for Reflecting on a First Hospice Experience

·         Seeing Is Not Believing: Group Supervision by Telephone

·         An MSW Student’s Life

·         The Evolution of a Social Work Researcher

·         Program Evaluation: Lessons Learned From the Field

·         Reflections on War

·         SW 2.0: How Tweet It Is: Social Tweeters

·         Identifying Substance Abuse Among Clients With Intellectual Disabilities

·         Africa: A Bucket Half Empty or a Bucket Half Full?

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).

Be sure to check out http://www.ceu4u.com/tnsw for online continuing education offerings, including courses based on reading THE NEW SOCIAL WORKER magazine. Receive a 15% discount on all courses you take at: http://www.ceu4u.com/tnsw

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JOURNAL OF SOCIAL WORK VALUES AND ETHICS SUMMER SPECIAL 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 (with occasional special issues), in full text, online at: http://www.socialworker.com/jswve

The Summer 2009 special edition on international ethics and values is available online now at: http://www.socialworker.com/jswve/content/blogcategory/21/68/

Articles in this edition include:

Special Comment on the Special Issue: International Ethics & Values

Editorial: IFSW code of practice in comparison to national codes

Letter to the Editor Summer 2009

Ethical Codes of Practice in the US and UK: One Profession, Two Standards

Ethics in Social Work: A Comparison of the Intl Statement of Principles in SW with the British Code

Reflecting on the Use of the Code of Ethics in SW Practice: A Newfoundland and Labrador Perspective

Are the Intl and National Codes of Ethics for Social Work in the UK as Useful as a Chocolate Teapot?

Intl & Natl Professional Social Work Codes of Practice: Australia & Policy & Practice w/Older People

Book Review: Experiments in Love and Death: Medicine, Postmodernism, Microethics and the Body

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.

Get continuing education credit for reading selected articles from the Journal of Social Work Values & Ethics. See http://www.socialworker.com/jswve/content/view/57/52/ for details.

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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: 54 Professionals Tell Real-Life Stories From Social Work Practice (3rd 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.

THE SOCIAL WORK GRADUATE SCHOOL APPLICANT’S HANDBOOK: The Complete Guide to Selecting and Applying to MSW Programs (2nd Edition), by Jesus Reyes

THE FIELD PLACEMENT SURVIVAL GUIDE: What You Need to Know to Get the Most From Your Social Work Practicum, edited by Linda May Grobman

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