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Publisher's Thoughts
Publisher's Thoughts & Table of Contents Winter 2008
Dear Reader,    It’s 2008! This issue marks the beginning of our 15th volume of The New Social Worker!    As we begin our 15th year and I reflect back, many thought...
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Field Placement
Taking the Wheel: Put Yourself in the Driver's Seat of Your Field Placement Experience
Editor’s Note: To give you a flavor of the writers’ own voices, we left this article in an Australian “accent,” using words such as uni and prac.     As social ...
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Community Work
There's a Place for "Us"--How Community Fits Into Social Work
As a student who chose to concentrate on the community organizational aspect of the social work profession, I constantly struggled to understand the difference between the methods of a clinical practi...
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Welcome, social work students and professionals! Read articles from the Winter 2008 edition of The New Social Worker magazine, now in its 15th 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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Winter 2008 Edition
Also in this issue...
Ethics
Compassion Fatigue: Being an Ethical Social Worker
When I was a young counselor just out of school, I took a job at an alternative school. I provided crisis intervention and behavioral therapy to children who were unable to succeed in normal educational environments. One of my clients was a six-year-old girl who had been repeatedly sexually abused a...
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Professional Issues
How Not to Panic When Your Client Talks to Dead People
Imagine you are a relatively new social worker interviewing a woman in her late seventies. You might be working in a hospital, an assisted living facility, or a social service agency. The interview is progressing nicely, and the two of you are bonding. Then the woman sitting across from you starts t...
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Untangling the Intercultural Knot With an African Colleague Untangling the Intercultural Knot With an African Colleague
Mukasa and I were stalled at an interpersonal intersection. After several years of working together, he as the Director of a human rights organization and I as the Director of NGOabroad, a “volunteer-sending” organization, we hit a knot.     It was clear that w...
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Protecting the Protectors: Am I Really Safe?
Boni Frederick: 67 years old. Social Service Aide. I did not know her, but I respected her just the same—her work, her accomplishments, her life. She was a partner, if you will: A partner in ensuring the protection of the greatest gift that humankind has to offer, a child....
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Horseshoe Farm Tutoring and Mentoring Program
“I’d rather do this than watch TV!” Kavoris, age 12     When asked why he preferred the Horseshoe Farm tutoring/mentoring program to watching television, he gave a very simple answer.       “Because this is real,” he replied....
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Poetry
Poetry: My Life is in Your Hands (From a client's perspective)
A poem by social work student Stephanie Griffey....
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Electronic Connection
Electronic Connection: Teach Your Teachers
Today’s social work students’ parents were exhorted to “Teach Your Children” by Crosby, Stills, and Nash in their popular song of 1970. It was not a one-sided encouragement, as the second verse urged children to teach their parents well. It is the same today. Parents of many ...
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Book Reviews
Book Review: They Created Us
Book review of They Created Us, by Denise Mercado, reviewed by Daniel Werges.
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Book Review: The Body Project: Promoting Body Acceptance and Preventing Eating Disorders
Book review of The Body Project, by E. Stice and K. Presnell, reviewed by Michelle Estile.
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Book Review: Cross-Cultural Practice: Social Work With Diverse Populations
Book review of Cross-Cultural Practice: Social Work With Diverse Populations, by K. Harper-Dorton and J. Lantz, reviewed by Kimberly Kozubovska, MSW>
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Advertiser Index Winter 2008
The following is a list of advertisers for the Winter 2008 edition of THE NEW SOCIAL WORKER. Please visit their Web sites for more information.U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned CorpsSmith College School for Social Work Temple University HarrisburgUniversity of Tennessee College of Social WorkW...
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