num_pages: 223
description: Social work graduate school is only the beginning of your preparation for professional life in the real world as a clinical social worker. Dr. Danna Bodenheimer serves as a mentor or a supportive supervisor as she shares practice wisdom on topics such as thinking clinically, developing a theoretical orientation, considering practice settings, and coping with money issues. She addresses the importance of supervision and how to use it wisely. A frank discussion on the important and rarely-talked-about issue of loving one’s client is followed by a practical look at next steps—post-graduate options and finding your life’s work in clinical social work. Altogether, Real World Clinical Social Work will serve to empower you as you find your own voice, your own way, and your own professional identity.ContentsAcknowledgments 7Foreword by Lina Hartocollis 9Preface—What Do We Have Here? 13PART 1—THINKING CLINICALLYChapter 1—Introduction: The Story of Rita 23Chapter 2—The Lens of Clinical Social Work 27PART 2—GETTING YOUR THEORETICAL GROOVE ONChapter 3—Thinking About Theory 45Chapter 4—Object Relations 49Chapter 5—Ego Psychology 57Chapter 6—Self Psychology 67Chapter 7—Cognitive Behavioral Therapy 71Chapter 8—Burning Questions and Case Conceptualization 79PART 3—PRACTICAL CONSIDERATIONSChapter 9—The Settings 103Chapter 10—Money, Money, Money 117PART 4—PRACTICE MATTERSChapter 11—Making Use of Supervision 135Chapter 12—If I Had Known Then: Adventures From the First Years 151Chapter 13—What If I Love My Clients? 173PART 5—THINKING AHEADChapter 14—What’s Next? Post-Graduate Options 197Chapter 15—Your Life’s Work: What Is Enough? 209References 217Index 219About the Author 223
language: English
title: Real World Clinical Social Work: Find Your Voice and Find Your Way
publisher: The New Social Worker Press