Social Work E-News 
  Issue #169, December 10, 2014
SOCIAL WORK E-NEWS
 
 
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Editor's Eye
Hello --

Welcome to Issue #169 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.
 
December marks several observances, including but not limited to: World AIDS Day (December 1), International Day of People With Disability (December 3), Human Rights Day (December 10), and others.
 
December is a time of many celebrations. I would like to personally wish each and every one of you a very happy and meaningful season, whichever traditions you observe and celebrate. Holidays can also be a difficult time for some, and for all who are experiencing sadness or difficulty of any kind, I wish you comfort and peace.
 
Also, I would like to congratulate all December social work graduates—welcome to the profession!
 
In our Fall issue, we introduced a new column, “Achieving Racial Equity Through Social Work.” The NASW Code of Ethics mandates states that Social workers respect the inherent dignity and worth of the person.” It also states: “Social workers should act to prevent and eliminate domination of, exploitation of, and discrimination against any person, group, or class on the basis of race, ethnicity, national origin, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, marital status, political belief, religion, immigration status, or mental or physical disability.” As social workers, we know that much work is still needed to achieve racial equity in our society. It is important that we become educated on how these issues affect our society, our clients, and ourselves.  I hope you will read and share our new column.
 
I also want to bring to your attention that social worker and author Ogden Rogers will be interviewed tomorrow morning, December 11, on “The Social Workers” Radio Talk Show! Ogden is the author of Beginnings, Middles, & Ends, a book that we published last year. Many have found this collection of social work stories to be a GREAT gift for social workers or future social workers. I hope you will listen to his interview.  You can listen in live December 11 at 9 a.m. EST at: http://www.albany.edu/the-social-workers/listen_live.php 
 
The Winter issue of THE NEW SOCIAL WORKER is coming soon! For now, read articles from the Fall issue at http://www.socialworker.com! Highlights of this issue include social workers in public libraries, the importance of agency culture, burnout and self care as a process, Ebola and the ethics of using unproven drugs, networking for your career, four new book reviews, and more.
 
You can find information about THE NEW SOCIAL WORKER print and digital editions at the magazine page at http://www.socialworker.com/magazine. Here’s a quick link for immediate download of the PDF edition for Fall 2014.
 
Individual articles from this issue are also available on our Web site in Web format. Just go to http://www.socialworker.com and start reading!
 

 
 

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LOOKING FOR THE PERFECT SOCIAL WORK  GIFT?
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GRADUATION AND HOLIDAYS ARE COMING SOON. LOOKING FOR THE PERFECT SOCIAL WORK GIFT? Now is a good time to put this on your wish list for a holiday, graduation, or birthday. What does a life in social work look like? You might look at it as a series of “sideways” stories! “If life were black and white, we’d have no need for social work.” Read Ogden Rogers’ collection, Beginnings, Middles, & Ends: Sideways Stories on the Art & Soul of Social Work. Listen to a recent episode of the Social Work Podcast that includes author Ogden Rogers reading from 6 of the 99 stories in the book. Now available on Amazon.com (print and Kindle), Google Play (e-book), directly from the publisher, and other bookstores. Do you know a social worker or social work student who loves to read? This book is a welcome retreat from academic textbooks. For info, see http://www.beginningsmiddlesandends.com.
 
 
 
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The 4th edition of our nonprofit textbook, An Introduction to the Nonprofit Sector: A Practical Approach for the 21st Century, has just been published! For more information, contact Gary Grobman.
 
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Job Corner
 
 
Clinical Director
 
Spring Lake Ranch (Cuttingsville and Rutland, VT) is a residential recovery community and 650 acre farm offering a uniquely relational therapeutic setting, which supports and empowers people with mental health and addiction challenges to grow, thrive, and gain independence.
 
The Clinical Director oversees the continuum of client therapeutic experience, supervises the clinical staff, oversees the crisis team, and supports family relations.  Master’s degree in psychology, social work, or counseling. Clinical licensure is strongly preferred. 
 
More information at www.springlakeranch.org  Send resume to tom@springlakeranch.org  
 
 
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Physicians, Family Practice  
 
Tri-Area Community Health with locations at Laurel Fork, Ferrum. and Floyd, VA, has immediate full time and part time employment opportunities available for board certified, Primary Care Physicians, Clinical Psychologist, LCSW, Psychiatric NP, and Case Managers for behavioral health, outreach, and enrollment. 
 
Competitive salary and benefits package. Set in the beautiful mountains of Southwest Virginia near the Blue Ridge Parkway with lakes, rivers, and multitudes of outdoor activities.   
 
Please send CV to hr@triarea.org or call (276) 398-2292(276) 398-2292  for more information.  E/O/E   
 
 
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PROGRAM DIRECTOR  
 
Nexus is seeking a Program Director for a new, intensive residential treatment program for adolescent females, located in a southwestern suburb of Minneapolis, MN.
 
Responsibilities include:
  • Providing leadership, operational efficiency, financial management and program management of the site within all applicable rules and regulations of Nexus, as well as external regulating agencies. 
  • Directing the development, implementation, and maintenance of all components of a new treatment program (individual and group therapies incorporating trauma-focused programming, psychology, treatment culture, aftercare, etc.) and ensuring that program services operate under family-centered treatment principles.
  • Developing and implementing client treatment plans and strategies and providing direct client services to maximize therapeutic effectiveness.
  • Participating in the selection, training, and performance evaluation of program staff.
  • Participating in budget development and monitoring site budget/expenses to ensure the site’s and Nexus’ revenue goals are achieved.
  • Managing and monitoring the program milieu and ensuring an emotionally and physically safe environment for clients.
  • Developing and fostering positive relations with internal and external stakeholders.
 
Nexus provides comprehensive residential treatment services dedicated to helping youth with emotional and behavioral issues, as well as providing a continuum of services for foster care, adoption, treatment foster care, and home-based counseling services.  We offer a competitive compensation and benefits package.   
 
Nexus is an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer and does not discriminate against applicants or employees on the basis of gender, race, disability or veterans status. EEO/AA.
 
Qualified candidates must possess:
  • Master’s degree in Social Services, Psychology, or clinically related field, along with related clinical licensure(s), plus a minimum of 5 years in adolescent counseling and/or residential experience. 
  • Minimum of two years supervisory experience is strongly preferred.
  • Knowledge of currently accepted therapeutic practices and demonstrate problem resolutions skills and the ability to handle emergency or crisis situations
  • Effective leadership, communication, organization and planning skills.

 
 
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Social Worker - Dodge City, Kansas  
 
Work with children/families in the DCF Reintegration contract to develop permanency options for the children through reintegration with originating-family or other permanency alternatives.  
 
Requires:   Bachelor’s degree in Social work or Master’s degree in Social Work, Psychology, Marriage and Family Therapy or Counseling from an accredited college or University   Licensed or Ability to license in the state of Kansas  
 
Contact: Kerri Kemp
Phone: 620-757-3280620-757-3280 
 
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Featured Excerpt
The Importance of Agency Culture and Balanced Boundaries
 
Editor’s Note: The following is an excerpt from the Fall 2014 issue of THE NEW SOCIAL WORKER. Read the full article at:
 
by Alyssa Lotmore, LMSW
 
Imagine being 23 years old and fresh out of the social welfare program. You have just passed the licensure exam. You land your ideal job and are thrilled. Then, when you begin your job, you realize that your boss is severely burned out, and the staff is under heightened stress from negative leadership, which is causing poor worker-client relationships.
 
That is what happened to me a few years ago as a brand new social worker. My boss, who had a counseling background, created a tense environment. Within my first two months, I could see the emotional toll having a negative workplace culture was taking on both the staff and youth being served in the agency. One day, a staff member broke down in my office after being reprimanded for a menial task, and I witnessed a power struggle between staff and youth that left both angry and frustrated.
 
I went home that night and was at a loss as to what to do. Do I stay in an environment that is far from the therapeutic culture that I felt was needed? I knew I was not ready to leave. I had started to build relationships with the youth, and I honestly would have felt bad leaving them in such an environment. I decided I was going to get a good night’s sleep and go to work the next day thinking about ideas to make the culture better.
 
As I looked at my boss and saw the impact she had on staff, I began to wonder how a person with a counseling background could end up in such a state. I also saw how her leadership had had a negative impact on the staff. Poor leadership yields unhappy staff, which can be felt by the population being served. In the end, the organization itself will stray from its mission and fail.
    In my coursework, I had learned a lot about boundaries. The focus was always on how to avoid entangled boundaries, which could lead to burnout. Entangled meant that the worker was over-involved and investing time and emotional energy into a client in a way that was not helpful to the client.
 
However, I knew that was not what I was observing. This was more of a rigid boundary between staff and youth, in which a significant distance within the relationship was noticeably felt. This type of boundary failure could result in client neglect, client abandonment, and uninformed assessments.
 
The relationship between the worker and client is very important for the therapeutic process. With boundaries placed on a continuum, with rigidity at one extreme and entanglement at the other, how do I help the staff fall somewhere in the middle and be considered “balanced”? I began to learn that the professional setting can influence where the worker lies on the boundary continuum. For example, a setting where the staff has high caseloads, is unsupported, deals with resistant clients, or is under pressure from administration can lead to more boundary rigidity. I realized that having an environment in which staff feel appreciated, valued, and respected is critical in having a positive outcome for the client population.
 
Over the next few months, I began having youth create motivational pieces that I displayed around the workplace. Hand-made posters and original artwork allowed staff to connect more and be reminded of what the youth needed. I made sure to check in each morning with staff, just offering a friendly, “Hello, how is everything going this morning?”
 
Read the rest of this article at:
 
Articles from the Fall 2014 issue of THE NEW SOCIAL WORKER include:
 

...and much more!
 
EXTRA—Bonus! We have published a “Web exclusive” article by Eva Forde on “10 Reasons Why Social Workers Don’t Talk About Money and 3 Reasons Why They Should.”  Check it out!
 
EXTRA—Bonus #2! Read Linda May Grobman’s acceptance speech for the 2014 Pennsylvania NASW Social Worker of the Year—The Who, What, When, Where, Why, and How of Social Work
 
 
News & Resources
Social Work Management: Impacting Communities and Changing Lives
June 4-5, 2015
Howard University, Washington, DC

The Call for Proposals is open for the Network for Social Work Management’s 26th Annual Conference to be held on June 4-5, 2015, at Howard University in Washington, DC.
 
The Network for Social Work Management brings together managers, researchers, educators, practitioners, and emerging leaders from multiple disciplines to advance new knowledge and innovative practice for the 21st century health and human services.
 
This year’s theme challenges us to think about the critical role social work managers play in lives of communities and individuals. 
 

Submission Deadline: Proposal submissions are due MondayFebruary 16, 2015.

Abstract Notification: All authors will be notified via e-mail of abstract status on Monday, March 16, 2015.
 
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Journal of Social Work Values and Ethics Term Paper Contest
 
 
The Journal of Social Work Values and Ethics (JSWVE) is sponsoring a term paper contest. The term papers will be collected by the JSWVE editorial board and judged by a board of professionals not associated with JSWVE. Winning papers will be published in the Fall 2015 issue of the Journal.
 
Details for the contest are listed below.
  • Must have a central theme of social work values or social work ethics
  • Must be written as an MSW or BSW student (student may have graduated)
  • Must be nominated by a faculty member (the nominating professor’s name will be published)
  • Must follow the general manuscript submission guidelines found at http://www.jswve.org/images/PDFs/jswvemanuscriptformat1207.pdf
  • Must be in APA citation style (except NO headers, NO footers, and NO page numbers)
  • Deadline for submission: May 15, 2015
  • Paper must be submitted by e-mail to smarson@nc.rr.com with a copy sent to donnadanddennisv@gmail.com
  • Winning term papers will be published in The Journal of Social Work Values and Ethics in the fall issues of 2015.
  • Judges will be professionals who are NOT associated with the JSWVE editorial board
Judging criteria will include:
  • Demonstration of Critical Thinking
  • Relevance to Theme of Social Work Values and Ethics
  • Relevance and Interest of Essay to Social Work Students, Practitioners, and/or Academics
  • Coverage of the Topic
  • Use of Relevant, Scholarly Citations
  • Coherence (flow of ideas)
  • Quality of Writing (literary competence, spelling, grammar, organization)
  • Originality (of topic, ideas, and/or arguments)
 
 
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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). 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
 
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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 (6th Edition), by Gary M. Grobman
 
IMPROVING QUALITY AND PERFORMANCE IN YOUR NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATION, by Gary M. Grobman.
 
 
HOW TO ORDER
 
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You can also view and download our catalog in PDF format.
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Featured Excerpt
News & Resources
On Our Web Site
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