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News Items – December 20, 2010

Therapy for DC teachers
Washington Post (blog)
By Bill Turque Linda LaScola, a member of Mayor-elect Vincent C. Gray’s Education Transition Team, is a clinical social worker whose Connecticut Ave. practice includes in-depth interviewing, focus groups and qualitative research involving “sensitive topics and difficult respondents,” according to an on-line description. Among her projects is a study of clergy who don’t believe in God.

Helping area veterans become adjusted to civilian life
Wilkes Barre Times-Leader
Then I took on a few more and stayed to finish those,” said Browne, who is now pursuing a degree in social work for the elderly at Misericordia University.

Fatal fire in Bucyrus: Trauma team helps students, staff cope
Bucyrus Telegraph Forum
Croneis has a masters in social work from The Ohio State University and has been a licensed social worker for 17 years.

Sponsored Post: 5 tips for a happier holiday season
The Eastsider LA
Gabrielle Forman, MSW, LCSW: Going stag to holiday events can be stressful. This stress, like most social anxiety, comes from our beliefs that others see our single status as a negative.

Chance led Ruth Morris to ‘True Grit,’ but her role isn’t a new one
Fort Worth Star Telegram
“Before orientation was even over, I had switched to a social-work major,” she says. And since then, she has focused on helping people with limb loss.

For a Father and Three Sons, Sharing the Role of Caretaker
New York Times
In late September, a social worker at Alberto’s school applied to The New York Times Neediest Cases Fund, seeking help for the Garcia family.

Coping with holiday stress: Experts give opinion
Los Angeles Times
“One thing I do is try to keep it simple,” said Judith Wolfe, licensed clinical social worker in private practice in Carmel and Salinas, Calif.

Results vary in Pa. child-welfare worker survey
Centre Daily Times
The Pennsylvania chapter of the National Association of Social Workers released the report Monday. It says it gathered the information on every child-welfare caseworker in Pennsylvania, a process that took 11 months and required requests under the state Right to Know Law.

New hope to stop violence against women
Asheville Citizen-Times
Maribel Quiala, LCSW is the Southeast Regional Coordinator for the National Latina Health Network and Field Instructor for the Florida International University School of Social Work, Nova Southeastern University and Barry University.

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