Social Work E-News 
  Issue #159, February 11, 2014
SOCIAL WORK E-NEWS
 
 
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Hello --

Welcome to Issue #159 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 NEW SOCIAL WORKER is now in its 21st year of publication! We are conducting a Reader Survey for 2014.  Please let us know your thoughts and what you would like to see in THE NEW SOCIAL WORKER.  The survey is at: http://www.socialworker.com/2014-reader-survey
 
I am looking for submissions of essays and other writings/creative work for our Social Work Month series on SocialWorker.com. Please see details below, under “Special Call for Submissions” in the “Features” section. We will post selected works throughout the month of March at http://www.socialworker.com/topics/social-work-month-2014.
 
February marks several observances, including but not limited to: Black History Month, American Heart Month, Teen Dating Violence Awareness Month, African Heritage and Health Week (February 1-7), National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day (February 7), National Donor Day (February 14), and more.
 
In honor of Black History Month, we have published a sneak peak at our next issue—our article on Bayard Rustin, written by social work educator Melinda Pilkinton.  She writes, “Rustin’s skills as an organizer, planner, and leader were highly valued by prominent leaders in the Civil Rights Movement. Yet, Rustin was relegated to the background during the Movement. He was a gay man, which he guarded from public scrutiny. He and other leaders feared that his sexual orientation would diminish the progression of the movement and reflect badly on the image of Civil Rights leaders.” Read the article, “The Staggering Talents of Bayard Rustin: Lessons From Backstage.” Also, if you have not done so, I invite you to listen to social worker/poet Mozart Guerrier’s poem, Merely a Man, about Martin Luther King, Jr.
 
Coming in March: Social Work Month! March is also National Kidney Month, National Problem Gambling Awareness Month, National Youth Violence Prevention Week (March 7-11), National Women and Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness Day (March 10), National Native American HIV/AIDS Awareness Day (March 20), and more.
 
Our newest book, Ogden Rogers’ Beginnings, Middles, & Ends: Sideways Stories on the Art & Soul of Social Work, has been getting great reviews. Bradford W. Shaefor, Ph.D., professor emeritus at Colorado State University, said, “Many textbooks, including my own, carefully describe social work and what social workers do. Few of these books, however, capture art and heart required when applying the knowledge, values, and skills of this important profession. Ogden Rogers, in Beginnings, Middles, & Ends: Sideways Stories on the Art & Soul of Social Work, provides a masterful complement to the existing texts.” Hear a new excerpt, read by the author! “Decathexis” is a short story about a social worker’s interaction with a client at the end of life, and illustrates the unique needs of each person to die with dignity and respect in his or her own way. This audio excerpt is only about 3 minutes in length and is well worth your time. The book is available on Amazon in print and Kindle editions.
 
The Winter 2014 issue of THE NEW SOCIAL WORKER is available now! Read articles from the Winter issue now at http://www.socialworker.com! Highlights of the Winter issue include ethics in private practice, becoming a successful field supervisor, what social workers need to know about the DSM-5, the Social Work Reinvestment Act, digital advocacy, mandated reporting, and more. It also features poetry, movie commentary, and two slideshows (slideshows on the website only).

 
 

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Linda Grobman, ACSW, LSW
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Job Corner
Behavioral Clinical Therapist
Tomah, WI
 
Mayo Clinic Health System is a group of clinics, hospitals and health care facilities that provide primary and specialty care close to home. Across all locations, you'll find life-changing career opportunities within a culture of teamwork, professionalism and mutual respect. Mayo Clinic Health System is consistently recognized as among the best health care systems in the nation.   Mayo Clinic Health System in Tomah, WI, is seeking a Behavioral Clinical Therapist. This position functions as part of an interdisciplinary team providing counseling and psychotherapy services addressing a broad range of behavioral health issues. The Behavioral Clinical Therapist provides services as needed in the following areas: screening, treatment, planning crisis intervention, intake, counseling/psychotherapy education, orientation case management, consultation, assessment record keeping, and referrals.  
 
A Master’s degree in Social Work is required. The candidate must have supervised clinical post-Master’s experience of 3,000 hours in a mental health setting. This candidate must be eligible for Wisconsin MA certification.  
 
Mayo Clinic provides the highest quality patient care by placing the needs of the patient first. You'll discover a culture of teamwork, professionalism and mutual respect and most importantly, a life-changing career. We invite you to join our diverse team as we provide health, hope and healing to people from all walks of life.  
 
CLICK HERE to apply online.  
 
Mayo Clinic is an affirmative action / equal opportunity educator and employer.  
 
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Featured Excerpt
What I Learned in Miss Martha’s Preschool
by Gina Maguire, MSW, LSW
 
Editor’s Note: The following is an excerpt from the Winter 2014 issue of THE NEW SOCIAL WORKER. Read the full article at:
 
Most of what I need to know as a healthy person, I learned in preschool... if only I had paid better attention. I went to preschool in a small, private, Jewish preschool on the first floor of one of the buildings in the projects where we lived. Living near Pelham Parkway in the Bronx, I was raised Catholic, but all of the three- and four-year-olds in the 2250 building went to this Jewish preschool. I can still remember my teacher, Miss Martha.  
 
Looking back now, I realize that Miss Martha taught me most of what is important to know in life, and as a social worker. I’d like to share her lessons with you, in case you, like me, didn’t pay close enough attention back then.
 
First, she taught us about colors. We had crayons and we had finger paint. When we used the finger paints, we wore smocks. When we used crayons, we didn’t have to. We were always allowed to use all of the colors! Miss Martha never chose one color as “the best color,” nor did she ever tell us that any colors were bad to use or have. In that class were children of several religions, races, and ethnicities. We were as colorful as our crayons, and we mixed as well as our finger paints.
 
Miss Martha taught us our shapes. We drew circles, triangles, squares, rectangles—well, you get the idea. We learned that circles had to have curves. Triangles never had curves, and squares had all equal sides. Again, all of the shapes were equally represented in examples, and equally desirable to draw. Why, then, do we look down upon the different shapes of our bodies, and the bodies of others, as we age? Why do we love the curves of a circle as a child, but turn our noses up at “curvy” women who do not fit the “norm” seen in magazines? Why do we look at the rectangular shapes of super models and aspire to that one shape? When did rectangles become the norm? If I remember correctly, Miss Martha showed us many shapes, not just rectangles. We liked them all.
 
We learned about numbers, too. Amazingly, when you put two numbers together, you get a new number. A number always represents a numerical value. That’s what I remember. Amazingly, as I grew up, I was taught by others that this was not always the case. I learned that a woman who weighs 120 pounds and gains 30 pounds becomes fat. Shouldn’t she just become 150 pounds? Why then does a high number for age equal a lower status in society? Who decides at which number we change from a number of pounds to “fat or skinny”? Who decides that 66 is old, not simply one year more than 65? I like the math Miss Martha taught me much better. I am 43. I will be 44, and so on. I will not be “old” until I DECIDE that I am old, and I want to act old. Until then, my age is only a number. It defines neither my personality nor my abilities.
 
Read the rest of this article at:
 
Articles from the Winter 2014 issue of THE NEW SOCIAL WORKER include:
 

...and much more!
 
Special Features
 
 
The above is just a sample of the content of the Winter issue. Visit our website for the full list of online articles and to download the full issue!
 
Features
Special Call for Submissions: Submit an Essay or Other Creative Work for Social Work Month!
 
THE NEW SOCIAL WORKER is seeking submissions for our 2014 Social Work Month series. These will be short essays, poems, artwork, videos, audios, photos, or other creative work that express your passion for the profession of social work and/or inspire others.  Selected entries will be published on our website during Social Work Month in March.
 
Possible topics for the Social Work Month series include (but are not limited to):
  • What I love about social work
  • Why I became a social worker
  • My best (most interesting, most unusual, most inspiring, etc.) social work moment
  • Who inspires me as a social worker
  • What I want you to know about social work
 
These are a few possibilities. Please be creative!  Entries can be a few paragraphs, or full essays of 500-750 words in length.
 
Please send Social Work Month entries to the editor no later than February 21.
 
 
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Moving the Race Conversation Forward: Race Forward Research Presents Solutions for Real Race Talk 
 
A new report released in January by Race Forward: The Center for Racial Justice Innovation aims to reshape and reform the way we talk about race and racism in the United States. "Moving the Race Conversation Forward" includes a content analysis of mainstream media, an overview of harmful racial discourse practices, recommendations, five powerful case studies, profiles of five successful campaigns, and an accompanying video.
 
Part One of the report features a content analysis of mainstream media in 2013, finding that two-thirds of race-focused media coverage fails to consider how systemic racism factors into the story, instead typically focusing upon racial slurs and other types of personal prejudice and individual-level racism.
 
“We looked at nearly 1,200 articles and transcripts from the highest circulation newspapers and cable TV outlets across the country to better understand the portrait that mainstream media paints of contemporary racism,” said Race Forward research director Dominique Apollon. “The majority of coverage gives readers the impression that racism is simply a personal failing, or even worse, that racism is no longer a problem at all."
 
Seven harmful racial discourse practices are identified, which reinforce the common misconception that racism is simply a problem of rare, isolated, individual attitudes and actions:
 
  • Individualizing Racism - concentrating attention on thoughts or acts of personal prejudice
  • Falsely Equating Incomparable Acts - drawing a parallel between an act or expression of racial bias from whites and people of color, without taking power dynamics into account, encouraging a blanket standard of “colorblindness”
  • Diverting From Race - asserting that other social identities (such as class, gender, sexual orientation) are the real determining factors behind social inequity, inhibiting an understanding of compounding effects
  • Portraying Government as Overreaching - depicting government efforts to promote racial equity as misguided, unnecessary, or improper
  • Prioritizing (Policy) Intent over Impact - focusing on intention and far less on the daily impact on people and communities of color
  • Condemning Through Coded Language - substituting racial identity with seemingly race-neutral terms
  • Silencing History - omitting, dismissing, or deliberately re-writing history
 
Part Two of “Moving the Race Conversation Forward” provides case studies and profiles of recent interventions and initiatives advanced by the racial justice field to challenge mainstream discussions of race and racism, and the negative policy impacts that dominant frames and narratives have on people of color. They include: Drop the I-Word, Migration is Beautiful, ALEC on the Run, Fruitvale Station, and Ending the Schoolhouse-to-Jailhouse Track.
 
The accompanying video, produced by Jay Smooth, breaks down the report in engaging, accessible ways. Smooth is the founder of New York's longest running hip-hop radio show, WBAI's Underground Railroad, and Race Forward Video & Multimedia Producer.
News & Resources
Social Work Headlines

The following are some recent headlines related to social work:
 
 
 
Hoffman and the terrible heroin deaths in the shadows: http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2014/02/hoffman-and-the-terrible-heroin-deaths-in-the-shadows/283533/ (article by social worker Jeff Deeney)
 
An open letter to those defending Woody Allen: http://psychcentral.com/blog/archives/2014/02/06/an-open-letter-to-those-defending-woody-allen/ (This is one of many recent articles regarding Dylan Farrow’s open letter and Woody Allen's response. This article is written by a social worker who is a survivor of child sexual abuse and trafficking.)
 
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Write for THE NEW SOCIAL WORKER
 
I am seeking 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
  • what every new social worker needs to know about…
  • social work job search/career development
  • 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).
 
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
On Our Web Site
WINTER 2014 ISSUE OF THE NEW SOCIAL WORKER IS NOW AVAILABLE!
 
The Winter 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 hundreds of articles from past issues of the magazine. The current issue is featured on the site’s main page. Articles in various categories, such as field placement, ethics, and technology, can be found by clicking on “Articles” in the top navigation of the site.
 
In addition to the free PDF and Web versions of the magazine, the magazine is available in PRINT at http://newsocialworker.magcloud.com! Order it today!
 
You can also purchase bound volumes for 2011, 2012, and 2013 at Amazon.com. Search for “The New Social Worker” (in quotes).
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:
 
NEW--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 NONPROFIT HANDBOOK: Everything You Need to Know to Start and Run Your Nonprofit Organization (6th Edition) and IMPROVING QUALITY AND PERFORMANCE IN YOUR NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATION, by Gary M. Grobman.
 
 
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