About the Authors |
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Acknowledgments |
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Introduction |
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Part I Bachelor of Social Work Graduates |
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Bonnie struggles to maintain clear boundaries in a residential treatment hospital after her supervisor encourages her to leverage her Native American heritage in working with a high-needs adolescent client. |
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Roxie finds a new foster placement for a little girl who was abused in her previous foster family. |
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The new foster parent seems wonderful, the child seems happy, and all concerns are addressed. |
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But accusations begin to emerge. |
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Diane, a pastor of an open and affirming church, struggles with how to help a congregant with cancer. |
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She is then surprised to encounter homophobia in a community-organizing meeting, where the congregant had hoped to find help. |
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Part II Master of Social Work Practicum Students |
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Sean's employment-based practicum protecting vulnerable adults leads him to a sweet couple with developmental disabilities living in substandard conditions. |
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He realizes taking guardianship will have numerous consequences. |
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5 Involuntary Mindfulness |
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Sharon is tasked with launching a mindfulness treatment group in an elementary school. |
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Her efforts reveal the challenges of clinical work in public schools. |
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6 Crossing the Borderline |
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Liv knows that her own history of depression and suicidal ideation leads her to react strongly to clients. |
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But today in the women's group, Rhonda really did seem different in a way that was concerning. |
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Liv's supervisor isn't worried, but Liv wonders if Rhonda is higher risk than she seems. |
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Monica struggles to advocate for a Spanish speaking client during the final months of her practicum in a hospital setting. |
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How can she promote the wellbeing of her client without the support of her supervisor and practicum instructor? |
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Part III New MSW Graduates |
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Laura, a child welfare worker who is a new MSW, has a client, Steven, who is a single father going to jail for sexually abusing his daughters. |
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Jimmy (who has been rumored to sexually abuse his own daughters) wants to adopt Steven's girls. |
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To complicate matters, Jimmy has befriended two of Laura's other clients who have just been reunited with their children. |
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Charlotte convinces a weary caregiver to attend to his own medical care as he cares for his elderly wife who suffers from dementia and his son with intellectual disabilities. |
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But Mr. Madison's appointment goes terribly wrong. |
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Goldie is a foster care worker in rural, conservative Oklahoma. |
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She is assigned the case of baby Olivia, whose mother, Cindy, gave guardianship to her own mother because Cindy was frequently in and out of jail on drug charges. |
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Through her investigation, Goldie feels that Olivia should be placed with her biological father. |
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But the judge disagrees and threatens to report the father to ICE because he is an undocumented worker. |
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Sheyda is a community organizer who is trying to determine ways to help her community members access a very tangled web of recovery funds after Hurricane Harvey. |
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It has been months, and very few funds have reached her neighborhoods. |
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Part IV Experienced MSW Practitioners |
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Angela, an MSW with 15 years experience, decides to leave her position as an Executive Director in one agency to become an Executive Director at another. |
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In her new position, she encounters organizational and policy challenges involving personnel and the board, and feels the agency isn't fulfilling at least part of its mission. |
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13 I Want to Hold My Babies! |
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Elena wants Veronica to maintain a relationship with all ten of her children while in the substance abuse treatment center. |
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But differences in clinical approaches lead to difficulty connecting the youngest children to their mother for visits. |
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Cam and his mother ask Kathryn to write a letter of support for Cam to begin hormone treatment with testosterone. |
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But when Cam and his mom share different views of the level of family support in the home for Cam's gender identity, Kathryn is not sure how to proceed making this important decision with the family. |
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Dani has tried many treatment approaches with Evie and her mother to help this girl with intellectual disabilities learn to gain emotional regulation and control of her behaviors. |
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But as Evie continues to display behaviors that are increasingly troublesome in her environments, her mother is not sure she can care for Evie, despite Dani's efforts. |
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16 You're Doing This Wrong |
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Ashley is hired to manage a partial hospitalization program for children and adolescents. |
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The admission of a transgender client presents a challenge as the social worker struggles to find her footing as an administrator. |
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