Days in the lives of social workers: 50 professionals tell "real-life" stories from social work practice

Social work in the ER / by Ogden W. Rogers

Managing a hospital social work department / by Susan Mankita

Social work in the neonatal intensive care unit / by Merle T. Edwards-Orr

Social work in an infertility clinic / by Gretchen Gross

Working with pregnant women in public health / by Alfreda Paschall Gee

Managing in managed care / by David C. Prichard

Private practice with urban gay men / by Michael Shernoff

A very special nursing home in the South Bronx / by Kim Lorber

Pediatric HIV research / by Joann Hansen Haggerty

Elementary school social work / by Cami L. Cooper

An inner-city high school / by Fred Sacklow

Social work in a rural school district / by Carol M. Line

Urban child protective services / by Susan Dodd Gaylor

A neighborhood youth center / by Amber Daniels

Working with gay and lesbian youth / by Andrew J. Peters

Child welfare ombudsman / by Kenneth Cohen

Family advocacy in the military / by Carol Hendler

Employee assistance programs / by Glenda Dewberry Rooney

Developmental disabilities / by Toni Murphy

"Us" becoming "them" / by Roberta (Rusty) VanSickle

Involuntary admission : a new worker's introduction to the "603" / by Beth Boyett

Partial hospitalization / by Kenneth G. Smith

Social work in a clubhouse / by Jack Yatsko

Life as a group home manager / by Angela Marie Brinton

Disaster mental health services / by John D. Weaver

Dual diagnosis : substance abuse and mental health in an inpatient setting / by Catherine Lau Crisp

Social work in the Alaskan Bush / by Taylor Burns

Adventure-based practice / by Christian Itin

Private practice and the eclectic social worker / by Diane Rullo-Cooney

An office to call my own : private practice in the lesbian community / by Amy Blake

Prisoner substance abuse treatment / by Timothy S. Wight

A hard day's night : working with assaultive men in prison / by Michael Crawford

Residential treatment for adolescent sexual offenders / by Ronald M. Arundell

Forensic social work : mitigating death penalty cases in a capital defense unit / by Lisa Orloff

Victim services / by Staci A. Beers

Nursing home social work / by Patricia Gleason-Wynn

Senior adult coordinator / by Madeline B. Cohen

Hospice social work / by Daniel Liechty

Home health social work / by Judith J. Lacerte

Life as an agency CEO / by Judith C. Czarnecki

Association management / by Marjorie Baney and Janice Fristad

Life as a BSW educator / by Carol A. Heintzelman

University counseling center / by Laura Crawford Hofer

Consulting in Armenia / by Jerry L. Johnson

Working with raskal gangs in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea / by Gerhard J. Schwab

Community organizing for social change / by Asherah Cinnamon

It takes a village / by Scott P. Sells

A day in the life of a policy practitioner / by Joan M. Abbey

Homeless community outreach / by Seth Rosenberg

Mucho gusto a conocerle (It has been my pleasure to meet you) : working with migrant farm families / by Pamela J. Wilshere

Appendix A. Organizations of interest to social workers

Appendix B. Additional reading

Appendix C. Internet resources.