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Publisher's Thoughts
Publisher's Thoughts & Table of Contents Fall 2007
Happy Fall! I am very excited about this issue of The New Social Worker, because it is packed with lots of great information to help you get a jump-start on the new academic year (if you are a student...
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Ethics
Confidentiality & the Duty to Warn: Ethical and Legal Implications for the Therapeutic Relationship
What are the ethical and legal imperatives of client confidentiality, and what impact do they have on the therapeutic relationship? Perhaps the relationship that exists between the mental health syste...
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Your SW Career
Making Friends With the Impostor
As a new social worker, you might be concerned with making mistakes. Sometimes this thought even leads to the belief that maybe you chose the wrong profession or are just not ready to be a social work...
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Welcome, social work students and professionals! Read articles from the Fall 2007 edition of The New Social Worker magazine, now in its 14th year! While you're here--we have job listings, a lively discussion forum , our Calendar of Events, and more for you and your social work career!

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Fall 2007 Edition
Also in this issue...
Making the Most of Field Seminar
    When you are a social work student in a field placement, you will be offered the opportunity to integrate your internship experiences and academic work through a seminar course or practice class. There are several options available that social work schools use to provide an integr...
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Coming Out in Field Placement: Some Considerations for LGBT Students
    Students approaching their field placements experience a mix of emotions, expectations, and apprehensions. For lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) students, the anticipation of the field placement may bring about issues that are related to sexual orientation or transgend...
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December E-News Article
E-NEWS ARTICLE: The New Social Worker's Holiday Shopping Guide for Social Workers
I’m not really much of a shopper myself. I’m just not one of those people who love to shop ‘til they drop. However, December is a time when shopping seems to be on everyone’s mind. Is it on yours? I like to take a social work approach to shopping. Assess the situati...
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Professional Life
10 Things I've Learned From Clients
As a social worker in the medical field, I have spent many hours listening to the words of my clients. Their words have led me to know that they are the survivors of this system we call American life. These survivors of life have taught me many things. Mostly, they have taught me that surviving is n...
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A Bad Feeling Can Be a Good Thing A Bad Feeling Can Be a Good Thing
Everyone hates a bad feeling. That seems to be a universal human condition. Even we psychotherapists, who are trained to deal with bad feelings—we hate them too. And how!...
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I Am a Geriatric Social Worker: A Walking, Talking, Living Resource For All Your "What Ifs"
It seems nearly inevitable that anyone who becomes a social worker will eventually end up functioning as the “resource” person for their family and friends, particularly when something happens to them that they are sure you just might know something about. If you are a social worker, the...
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11 Tips for Professional Behavior in the Classroom 11 Tips for Professional Behavior in the Classroom
In my six years as a social work professor, I have seen a drastic change in the behavior of social work students in social work courses. After reading the syllabus aloud to my students, many of them still come to class unprepared, apathetic, disrespectful, and unmotivated. When I was a graduate stud...
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Book Reviews
Book Review: Sexual Orientation and Gender Expression in Social Work Practice
Book review of Sexual Orientation and Gender Expression in Social Work Practice: Working With Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender People, by D. R. Morrow & L. Messinger (Editors)....
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Book Review: Age Matters: Realigning Feminist Thinking
Book review of Age Matters: Realigning Feminist Thinking, by T. Calasanti & K. Slevin (Editors)...
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Electronic Connection
Electronic Connection: Report From Toronto: HUSITA8 Electronic Connection: Report From Toronto: HUSITA8
This past August, the eighth international conference of Human Services Information Technology Applications (HUSITA: http://www.husita.org/) was held in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. According to the conference program, “HUSITA is an international virtual association dedicated to promoting the eth...
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News
Lipscomb Students Complete Critical Research for CAL, Inc.
During the Fall 2006 semester, seven senior social work students at Lipscomb University completed critical research for Choral Arts Link (CAL, Inc.) as part of their Applied Social Work Research class project. Their work proved to be significant in allowing the nonprofit agency to move forward with ...
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Advertiser Index Fall 2007
The following is a list of advertisers for the Summer 2007 edition of THE NEW SOCIAL WORKER. Please visit their Web sites for more information.Temple University HarrisburgUniversity of Tennessee College of Social WorkWayfarer Books Augsburg CollegeBorderChild.com Web DesignSmith College School for S...
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