101239: SWT Sept/Oct 2007

About the Course:

The Highly Prized Child: Challenging Parents and Therapists Children need to be loved and praised, but without some discipline, it can have negative effects on their behavioral health.

Wounded Warriors: Lost in a Labyrinth of Care Struggling to deal with emotional and physical pain, veterans are often caught in the military’s healthcare maze.

Reaching Out to Children of Parents With Mental Illness Get tips on how to help these children in great need of support.

Today’s Most Influential Social Workers We honor those social workers recognized by colleagues as extraordinary in their field.

HIV/AIDS Medication Compliance: How Social Support Works Social workers are critical in bridging the gap between the medical and human sides of HIV/AIDS.

Complementary and Alternative Medicine for Older Adults It’s not all hocus pocus. Help your clients understand what to look for in complementary and alternative treatments.

Publication Date:

September/October 2007

Authors

Dan Orzech; Sally Watkins, LCSW; David Surface; Michelle D. Sherman, PhD; Richard Currey, PA-C

About the Authors:

is a Philadelphia-based freelance writer.

has been in private practice for 18 years. She has extensive experience in teaching, training, motivational groups, social work in hospitals and agencies, grant writing, program development, and agency management. Her Web site is www. healingwords.net.

is a freelance writer and editor based in Brooklyn, NY. He is a frequent contributor to Social Work Today.

is a licensed clinical psychologist, the director of the Family Mental Health Program at the Oklahoma City Veterans Affairs Medical Center, and a clinical associate professor in the department of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center. She cowrote two books for teens, Finding My Way: A Teen’s Guide to Living with a Parent Who Has Experienced Trauma and I’m Not Alone: A Teen’s Guide to Living with a Parent Who Has a Mental Illness.

is based in the Washington, D.C., area where he currently works with several agencies within the National Institutes of Health as a writer and consultant.

Recommended For:

This course is recommended for health care professionals, especially psychologists, counselors, and social workers who seek knowledge about social and psychological issues. It is appropriate for all levels of participants’ knowledge.

Course Objectives:

1. • Discuss the characteristics of what the author describes as the highly prized child and strategies therapists and parents can use to work with them.

2. • Explain the deficits of the healthcare system in which today’s active military, veterans, and their families receive care and identify the major causes.

3. • Recognize the value of social support in fostering medication compliance in patients with HIV/AIDS.

4. • Discuss how social workers and other helping professionals can meet the needs of children of parents with mental illness.

5. • Describe complementary and alternative medicine and how it is being used by older adults.

6. • Recognize the accomplishments of some of today’s most influential social workers and what they see as some of the biggest challenges facing social workers today.