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Winter 2006 (Vol. 13, No. 1)

• Student Role Model: Zip Zimmerman 
• Ethics & Field Placement: Navigating Through Dual Relationships: Applying an Ethical Continuum in a Rural Field Placement
• Ethics: Home on the Range: Social Work Ethics in a Rural Setting
• Field Placement: Saying Goodbye, or Thoughts on Completing My Internship
• Elective Self-Amputation: A New Practice Area for Social Work
• International Social Work II: Who Sets the Rules, Rules
• A Black Woman's Journey Toward Healing From Childhood Sexual Abuse
• Weathering the Storm: Social Workers and the 2005 Hurricane Season
• University of Alabama Faculty, Staff, and Students Mobilize to Aid Katrina Evacuees
• Notes From the Gulf: A Social Worker Reflects on Hurricane Relief
• Tools and Techniques: Quickly Bearing It All
• Career Talk: Giving Back: It's Never Too Early to Begin a Legacy
• Assuming a Stance of Uncertainty in Social Work With Teenagers
• Electronic Connection: Distance Learning: The Future Has Arrived!

• Ethics: ISM and IST: Effective Tools for Cultural Awareness
• Field Placement: Learning to Dance
• Surviving College and Moving Toward a Balanced Life: Strategies for Social Work Students
• International Social Work I: Poverty is a Grind
• My Professional Life as an EAP Social Worker
• Career Talk: Transferable Skill Extraordinaire: Suicide Intervention
• Electronic Connection: The Digital and Ethical Mindset of Social Work Students

Summer 2005 (Vol. 12, No. 3)

• Ethics: Ethics and Countertransference in Addressing Suicidal Ideation: Reflection on a Family Intervention 
• The "No-Comfort" Zone
• Field Placement: Words From the Wise: Recent and Soon-to-Be Graduates Speak on Field Placement 
• 10 Things Every Social Worker Should Know About Teens Who Self-Injure
• Grief and Loss: How Future Social Workers Can Address Death on Campus
• Making a Difference
• Safety First: Paying Heed To, and Preventing, Professional Risks 
• Career Talk: The Burnout Test

Spring 2005 (Vol. 12, No. 2)

• Ethics: My Social Work Beginnings: Understanding the dynamics of social welfare policy and its influence on my academic and professional work
• Field Placement: Field Placement in a Congressional Setting
• Poor Mothers, Mothers Who Work
• Tools and Techniques: Communication Skills for the Social Work Interview
• Creating Opportunities and Leveraging Relationships: Networking as an Effective Job Search Strategy
• Career Talk: School Social Work
• Electronic Connection: Malware, Spyware, Adware, and Phishing: Oh My!
• Helping Teenagers Make Waves

Winter 2005 (Vol. 12, No. 1)

• Ethics: Checking Off the Box Is Not Enough: Health Care Social Workers Confronting Child Welfare
• Field Placement: Ten Tips for Integrating the Classroom and Fieldwork
• Preparing for Social Work Licensure: Core Competencies
• Life & Death in the ICU
• Social Work Student Competitions
• El Salvador: An International Field Experience
• Outcome Oriented Supervision
• Career Talk: I Want to Be a Social worker, But...
• Electronic Connection: BSW Students Make History at BPD Conference in Detroit

Fall 2004 (Vol. 11, No. 4)

• Ethics: Human Rights and Social Work
• Field Placement: The Role of Field Education in Social Work Education
• I'm Straight! Does That Matter?
• Research: To Once and Future Research Students
• Working With Transgender Individuals: Guidelines for Beginning Practitioners and Students
• To Lead or to Serve: Using Theory to Do Both
• Career Talk: So You Have a Job: Now What?
• Scavenger Hunt for Humanity
• Electronic Connection: THE NEW SOCIAL WORKER Has New Online Look and Features
• Register, Vote, Get Involved, Get Informed! You Can Do It Online

Summer 2004 (Vol. 11, No. 3)

• Ethics: Asserting Myself: Do I Dare?
• Field Placement: Shaping Your Professional Self in the Practicum
• Traumatic Stress and Prostitution: Reexperienced Trauma for Regained Control
• A Miracle Among Devastation: My Semester in Zimbabwe
• Reflections on Social Work for Graduates
• Career Talk: Getting Prepared for the Job Interview
• How to Avoid the Crash and Burn
• Electronic Connection: New Technologies Reshaping Social Work: Emerging Issues

Spring 2004 (Vol. 11, No. 2)

• Ethics: Ethical Attributes and Professional Skill Development
• Policy: Taking No Action is An Action
• Field Placement: 10 Tips to Maximize the Student-Field Instructor Relationship
• Research: Student Perceptions of Persons Utilizing Income Maintenance ("Welfare") Services
• Career Talk: The Perfect Résumé: What You Need to Know to Have One!
• Riding the Waves of Palliative Care
• Letting Go
• Electronic Connection: Social Work in the Fast Lane
• My Shoes

Winter 2004 (Vol. 11, No. 1)

• Ethics: A Touchy Subject
• Field Placement: Top 5 Things (x2) They Never Told You (Or You Weren't Ready to Hear)
• Policy: Reflections on the 2003 BPD Summer Policy Fellowship
• Staying True to Our Roots: Social Work and the American Poor
• The Mattress
• Career Talk: Marketing Your BSW or MSW: A-Z
• Texas Students March on State Capitol
• Electronic Connection: Reminiscing About the Future
• Research: A Few Bumps Along Research Road
• Books: review of Family Health Social Work Practice: A Knowledge and Skils Casebook; book briefs of Stranger to the System, Foster Care Odyssey: A Black Girl's Story, Temple of the Soul: Real Life ER Stories from Las Vegas

Fall 2003 (Vol. 10, No. 4)

• Ethics and Research: The Tuskegee Syphilis Study and Its Implications for the 21st Century (discuss this article at our online discussion forum under "Interactive Articles")
• Field Placement: Developing and Managing Field Placement Relationships
• Caring for Our Children After a Tragedy
• Micro and Macro Tensions in Generalist Practice
• Tools and Techniques: Autobiographical Writing: An Effective Tool for Personal and Psychological Development
• Nazareth Social Work Students Get Hands-On Learning at Family AIDS Retreat
• Electronic Connection: Confronting Spam
• Books: reviews of Spirituality and the Black Helping Tradition in Social Work; Social Work Advocacy: A New Framework for Action; Advocacy, Activism, and the Internet: Community Organization and Social Policy

Summer 2003 (Vol. 10, No. 3)

• Ethics: Boundary Issues in Pediatric Oncology: Utilizing the Multidisciplinary Team Approach to Maintain Clear Boundaries
• Field Placement: Vulnerability in Field Placement: Student and Field Instructor Voices
• Investing in the Future of the Profession: Developing Leadership Talent
• Tools and Techniques: 3-Session Marital Counseling: An Intense Change Focused Model
• A Domestic Violence Vigil
• 10 Things Every Social Worker Needs to Know About Domestic Violence
• Electronic Connection: Communicating Online—Professionally!
• Sole Man: Neal Vernon
• Poetry: Unreported News
• Books: review of Social Work Speaks: 6th Edition

Spring 2003 (Vol. 10, No. 2)

• Friday at 3 O'Clock: A Memoir of the Field
• Grandparents Raising Grandchildren
• Ethics: Coming Full Circle: Putting Advocacy Ethics Into Action
• Ethics & Field Placement: Ethical Decision Making Meets the Real World of Field Work (discuss this article at our online discussion forum under "Interactive Articles")
• Policy: 50 Years of Homelessness: An Analysis of Federal Housing Policy
• Electronic Connection: Telephone Tips
• Older Adults and HIV
• Social Work, Dreams, and Passion in an Ideal World

Winter 2003 (Vol. 10, No. 1)

• Student Role Model: Delene Porter
• Identifying and Assessing Battered Women in Emergency Room and Trauma Settings
• Social Work Salaries: Keeping Up With the Times?
• Ethics: Lunch Talk
• Combatting Vicarious Trauma
• Field Placement: Feedback in Practicum: Givin' It and Takin' It
• The BPD Policy Fellowship: A Summer Experience in Washington
• Electronic Connection: Working with Deaf Colleagues and Clients—Think a TTY is Enough? Read On...
• Books—review of Ties Across Time: A Woman's Life in Social Work
• On Campus—reports from student social work organizations

Fall 2002 (Vol. 9, No. 4)

• Student Role Model: Norma Viola Cantъ
• Mutt Strut 5K: A Fun Run
• Put It In Writing: Tips on Writing for Professional Publication
• Ethics: Practicing With Honorable Spirit: The Use and Non-Use of Spirituality in Social Work Practice
• An Eye-Opening Diversity Assignment
• Field Placement: The Field Learning Agreement—A Step-by-Step Guide
• Are You Ready for International Study? 10 Considerations Before You Sign Up!
• The Joy of Working with Adolescents

Summer 2002 (Vol. 9, No. 3)

• So You Want to Practice in Mental Health
• Job Search Tips for Social Workers
• Unconditional Acceptance and the School Social Work Bulletin Board
• Ethics: Social Work and Economic Justice: The Basics
• Forensic Social Work: A Developing Field of Practice
• Field Placement: A Research Practicum
• Essays
• Poetry: My Kind of Group Work

Spring 2002 (Vol. 9, No. 2)

• The Importance of Cultural Competence for Social Workers
• The Smiths: A Rural Family
• Virgo and the Sunshines: Working with a Rural Black Elderly Couple
• Ethics: Cross-Cultural Parenting Practices
• Field Placement: Termination and Your Field Placement
• Islam and the Peoples of the Book: A Social Work Perspective
• The Social Work Public Policy Forum
• The Basics of Social Work Licensing

Winter 2002 (Vol. 9, No. 1)

• Mentorship: What It Can Do For You
• Social Workers in Managed Care
• Zero Degrees of Separation (article on 9/11/01)
• Field Placement: The Road to Practicum: I Want a Great One!
• LifeBooks and Lip Smacking Stories
• Poetry: invizible kids on the edge of 5 boroughz
• Ethics: How to Practice Ethically: Part 2 (of 2), by Frederic G. Reamer

Fall 2001 (Vol. 8, No. 4)

• How to Practice Ethically, Part 1 (of 2), by Frederic G. Reamer
• Understanding Published Research to Enhance Competent Practice
• The BSW Group: An Alaskan Model for Self-Care
• Field Placement: Ten Tips for Miximizing Your Field Liaison Relationship
• Experto Credite: New Social Work Graduates Share Their Wisdom
• The Male Action Coalition of Columbia University School of Social Work: An Example of Successful Community Organizing
• Tools and Techniques: Social Work and the Arts
• Book Review: My Journey With Jake

Summer 2001 (Vol. 8, No. 3)

• 10 Principles of Successful Fundraising for Social Work Student Organizations
• Group Process with Inner City Latino Youth: Learning to Be Culturally Competent
• Field Placement: It Sort of Fits: When Practicum Leads to a Not-Exactly-Perfect Job
• From the Classroom to the Clinic: The Challenge of Creating a New Professional Identity in Midlife
• Ethics: Parental Notification in Higher Education—Is It Necessary?
• Foster Children and Their Emotional Trash
• Book Review: Got It Goin' On II

Spring 2001 (Vol. 8, No. 2)

• Your Summer Vacation—or Is It? The Value of Experiential Learning
• Can You Sit With Me at the Computer? An AmeriCorps *VISTA Personal Journey
• Working with Gay and Lesbian Youth
• Dismantling Prejudice
• Field Placement: Good Habits for Practicum Students
• Field Placement: When the Change Agent Experiences Unplanned Change
• The Search: Obtaining the Right Job, Finding Your Self, and Crafting a Career
• Ethics: When the Ideal Meets the Real
• Electronic Connection: The Basic Computer Literacy Skills of a Social Worker

Winter 2001 (Vol. 8, No. 1)

• The Puzzling World of International Social Work Careers
• Teachers and Social Workers: Can We Collaborate?
• Field Placement: Facing the Future—A Model Interprofessional Program in a School
• The Police/Social Service Connection: Changing Attitudes, Helping People
• Ethics: To Tell or Not To Tell—A Case Study (Interactive Article—also available in PDF format)—A Case Study (Interactive Article—see http://www.socialworker.com/discus for online discussion)
• The Advanced Rural Generalist
• Electronic Connection: What Do You Mean There's a Binary File Attached to Your E-Mail Message? or How Stella Got Her E-Mail Back
• Preparation

Fall 2000 (Vol. 7, No. 4)

• Adult Learning: A Lifelong Approach
• Advanced Placement: Essential Information on Completing Your MSW in One Year
• Student Code of Ethics Project
• Eliminating Bad Habits in the Social Work Interview
• The Metaphor
• Policy: Now May Be the Time for a New Vision of Welfare in the U.S.

Summer 2000 (Vol. 7, No. 3)

• Welcome to the Brave New World of Social Work: Top 10 Tips on How to Survive and Thrive in the Profession
• Tools and Techniques: An Introduction to Family Sculpting
• Social Policy: The U.S. Alcohol Problem: History, Politics, and a Preventive Proposal
• Countertransference (Book preview from Welcome to Methadonia: A Social Worker's Candid Account of Life in a Methadone Clinic)
• Field Placement: Facing Ethical Dilemmas in the Field
• Ethics: Internet Ethics for Social Workers
• Electronic Connection: A Defensive Driving Course for Your PC
• Social Work in a Behavioral Health Program

Spring 2000 (Vol. 7, No. 2)

• Marketing Your Private Practice
• Tools Social Workers Can Use to Enhance Their Creativity—An Assessment
• Job Search: How Experienced Are You?
• Family Ties: A Vital Support for Elderly Who Are Ill
• The Power of Group Work
• AASWG Standards for Social Work Practice With Groups
• Could Stevie Wonder Read Your Web Page?
• Wearing Multiple Hats as a Social Worker
• Hope VI and the Effect on Charlotte Public Housing

Winter 2000 (Vol. 7, No. 1)

• Psychotropic Medication: What's Social Work Got to Do With It?
• Field Placement: Listen Up!
• Ethics: Self Determination and the Disabled Adult
• The Chinese Immigrant in the United States
• On the Streets Where We Live
• Research and Action: Implementing Organizational Change in a College of Social Work—A Student Initiative

Fall 1999 (Vol. 6, No. 4)

• Field Placement: 10 Tips for the Transition—From Field Placement to Employment
• Private Practice: Is It Time to Start?
• Ethics: A Recipe for Cultural Competence
• The Story of Patty F.
• Evaluate Your Career Path: A Lesson in Trusting Your Instincts
• Working with Clients in Crisis
• The Journey: Becoming a Social Worker (Part 10—Final Installment)

Summer 1999 (Vol. 6, No. 3)

• Vicarious Traumatization in Student Field Placements
• Peer Education on a College Campus
• Promoting Worker Safety in a Changing Society
• Homophobia: Problem or Challenge?
• Service Learning Teaches Cultural Competence with Sexual Diversity
• The Journey: Becoming a Social Worker (Part 9)

Spring 1999 (Vol. 6, No. 2)

• Watch for Animal Abuse: It Might Save Your Client's Life
• Ethics: Unraveling Ethical Dilemmas
• Field Placement: Promoting Social Justice Within the Practicum
• Volunteering in Tanzania with the UNHCR
• Math Anxiety Among Social Work Students: Fact or Fiction?
• The Unique World of Social Work Supervision
• Governmental Assistance, Social Work, and the Self
• The Journey: Becoming a Social Worker (Part 8)
• Questions and Answers About Social Work in Grant-Funded Programs

Winter 1999 (Vol. 6, No. 1)

• Who Are We?
• Ethics: Issues for Interns
• Field Placement: Choosing a Field Placement—Wisely!
• Social Work and Black History—An Innovative Approach to Professional Development
• Uncovering UnCover: A Cool Tool for Social Work Research
• The Journey: Becoming a Social Worker (Part 7)
• From Student to Professional: Making the Transition

Fall 1998 (Vol. 5, No. 4)

• Self-Disclosure: How Much Should I Tell?
• Developmental Disabilities Case Management: A Delicate Balance
• Ethics: Beyond Our Responsibility to Clients
• Field Placement: Online Supervision for Social Workers
• The Journey: Becoming a Social Worker (Part 6)
• Social Worker Heal Thyself
• Coping with the Death of a Client

Summer 1998 (Vol. 5, No. 3)

• Settlement Houses: Old Idea in New Form Builds Communities (This article also available in PDF format. Download PDF version by clicking here. You will need the Adobe Acrobat reader, available free from www.adobe.com, to open this document.)
• Self-Advocacy in the Social Work Profession
• Ethics: Maintaining the Confidence in Confildentiality
• Field Placement: Counting Blessings
• The Journey: Becoming a Social Worker (Part 5)
• Beginning Again
• When You're the Only Social Worker
• Thoughts from a Retiring Social Worker

Spring 1998 (Vol. 5, No. 2)

• 6 Steps to Effective Client Advocacy for Funding of Medical Equipment and Other Devices
• Issues and Ethics in Social Work with Batterers
• Ethics: How to Keep Boundary Issues from Compromising Your Practice
• Surviving the Student Experience: Campus Resources Can Help
• One Campus Resource: Smith's Writing Program for Social Work Students
• The Importance of Peer Support for the New Social Worker
• Field Placement: Ten Tips for a Successful Field Placement
• The Journey: Becoming a Social Worker (Part 4)
• Fighting the Voices

Winter 1998 (Vol. 5, No. 1)

• Advanced Clinical Training: Beyond the Master's Degree in Social Work
• Poetry Therapy and Early Career Development in Social Work
• Flying with the Winds of Change: 6 Ways to Prevent Burn-Out in Times of Transition and Change in Social Work Practice
• The Portfolio Approach for BSW Generalist Social Work Students
• Ethics: Everyday Ethics and Values for Social Workers (Part 1 in a Series)
• Field Placement: Concerns in the Field Placement
• The Journey: Becoming a Social Worker (Part 3)
• My First Week as a Social Worker

Fall 1997 (Vol. 4, No. 4)

• Social Work and Juvenile Justice: Distant Cousins or Collaborators?
• Write On! Practical Suggestions for Preparing Social Work Records
• Temp Positions an Option in Social Work
• Ethics in Working with the Elderly
• A Paid Practicum? Do I want one? How do I find one?
• The Journey: Becoming a Social Worker (Part 2)

Summer 1997 (Vol. 4, No. 3)

• Stressed Out by Self Awareness: Looking at Your Self
• Thoughts of a Social Worker Becoming Less Green
• The Journey: Becoming a Social Worker (Part 1)
• Research: A Learning Experience
• NASW/CSWE Team Up for Managed Care Project
• Spelling Out Managed Care
• The Art of Being New
• Volunteering for the American Red Cross—A First Experience
• Licensing at the Administrative Level
• Observing Students in the Field and Being Observed—From the Student's View

Spring 1997 (Vol. 4, No. 2)

• Disabilities--Is Social Work Accessible?
• Choices for the Developmentally Disabled
• Learning a New Way: A German Studies Independent Organizing Models
• Is An Overseas Job in International Social Work the Job for You?
• Job Search @ the Internet
• Social Work Graduate School: Why and When?
• Evaluating Your Field Instructor
• Listening to the Sound of My Voice: An Autobiography

Winter 1997 Contents (Vol. 4, No. 1)

• Student Role Model: Laura Wernick
• A Couple of Social Workers
• Models Used by Experienced Social Workers in the Treatment of Mental Illness
• Self-Help Groups a Viable Resource for Social Workers in Managed Care Era
• Social Workers: Fad-Chasing Jackasses or Still on the Side of the Angels?
• Ethics: Personal Values, Professional Questions
• Running an Effective Task Group: The Five C's
• Field Placement: A Building Block to Your Career
• It's All Academic
• Preparing for Academic Job Hunting

Fall 1996 Contents (Vol. 3, No. 2)

• Student Role Model: Myrlene Augustin
• The Business of Starting a Private Practice
• Religion and Social Work
• Social Work's Religious Roots
• The First Social Worker
• Ethics: Informed Consent
• Field Placement: Can I Do My Practicum Where I Work?
• Strategy for the Job Interview
• Writing an Effective Personal Statement
• Working with the Haudenosaunee: What Social Workers Should Know

Spring 1996 Contents (Vol. 3, No. 1)

• Student Role Model: Andrea Bazan Manson
• Hospital Social Work: Challenges, Rewards
• Ethical Balances: The Real Practice of Social Work
• Professional Dreams: Have You Had One?
• Politics: Who Needs It? Me?
• My Practicum: Why Do I Hate It So?
• Salaries for New Social Workers
• How to Negotiate a Salary You Can Live With (and On)
• Luncheons in May
• There IS a Job Market for BSW Graduates!
• Myths of Private Practice
• Pioneers Seek Alternatives to Dehumanizing Soviet Giantism

Fall 1995 Contents (Vol. 2, No. 2)

• Student Role Model: Bill Gray
• Violence: An Ounce of Prevention
• Field Placement: Preparing for Supervision
• Let's Get Involved! (Advocacy)
• Ethics: Should I Protest?
• Walk a Mile in Their Shoes: A Poverty Encounter on Campus
• When a Client Dies: Do Students Get Support?
• Is My Degree Accredited?
• Interview: Jim Parham
• UC Berkeley's Intercambio Program
• First Impressions: Make Yours Sparkle (Job Interviews)
• Is There a Ph.D. in Your Future?

Spring 1995 Contents (Vol. 2, No. 1)

• Student Role Model: Toni Pipkin
• AIDS and Social Work
• Be Careful, It's a Jungle Out There: A Look at Risks in Field Placement
• School-Based Health Clinics: A Marriage of School and Medical Social Work
• Dear Jenny: Letters to a Beginning Social Worker
• References Available on Request
• Myths of the Public Sector
• School's Out--Or Is It? (Social Work Continuing Education)
• A Social Work Student's Code of Ethics
• Choosing the Right Graduate School for You

Fall 1994 Contents (Vol. 1, No. 2)

• Student Role Model: Cory Frese
• An Interview with Ann Abbott, NASW President
• The Ups and Downs of Public Child Welfare
• What Social Work Students Should Know about Field Instruction
• Commonly Asked Questions About Electronic Communication and Computer Networking
• Pen Pals, the Internet, and the Information Superhighway at JMU
• Social Work Born in Armenia
• Profile: Policy-Maker Uses Social Work Skills
• Fond Memories of the NFSSW
• Break into New Alternatives (alternative spring breaks)

Spring 1994 Contents (Vol. 1, No. 1)

• Student Role Model: Nicole Jesser
• Social Work Licensing: What's It All About?
• The Alphabet Soup of Licensing, Registration, and Other Credentials
• School Social Work: Can You Make the Grade?
• Profile: For Levines, Social Work is Family Affair
• Job Recruiters--What Do They Really Want?
• Write a Stand-Out Resume
• The Many (Unexpected) Advantages of Volunteering