Newsletter Archive:
A digital collection of many past Newsletter issues are reproduced here as they were originally printed, as a testament to all that the Illinois Society for Clinical Social Work has accomplished and as a reference resource for our professional community. The archive is made available free to all, regardless of ISCSW Member status.
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2024:
Featuring: A FAREWELL MESSAGE from ISCSW President Ruth Sterlin.
ORIGINAL CLINICAL ARTICLE: Health at Every Size in Eating Disorder Treatment and Clinical Social Work: Embracing Body Acceptance and Social Justice by Bree Sorensen.
THROUGH A CLEAR LENS column on Cultural Humility by Kevin Miller.
BOOK REVIEWS from Bill Kinnaird and Rich Horowitz: Honest Aging: An Insider’s Guide to the Second Half of Life by Rosanne M. Leipzig; Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing: A Memoir by Matthew Perry; Fires in the Dark: Healing the Unquiet Mind by Kay Redfield Jamison.
2023:
Featuring: ORIGINAL CLINICAL ARTICLE: Neurodiversity after COVID-19: Reconsidering How We Structure Education Through a Strengths-Based Approach by Samantha Dunne, LCSW
THROUGH A CLEAR LENS column by Kevin Miller: What Are Human Rights and Why Should Social Workers Care About Them?
BOOK REVIEW from Rich Horowitz: Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories that Make Us by Rachel Aviv
Featuring: ORIGINAL CLINICAL ARTICLE: Presence and Pleasure: A Biopsychosocial Treatment of Recovery from Purity Culture by Krista Wilson
THROUGH A CLEAR LENS column by Kevin Miller: You Cannot Be 'Competent' in Your Clients' Culture
BOOK REVIEW from Bill Kinnaird: The Resilience Recipe: Parent's Guide to Raising Fearless Kids in the Age of Anxiety by Muniya S. Khanna & Philip Kendall
2022:
Featuring: ORIGINAL CLINICAL ARTICLE: Dear Therapist, Please Help Me with My Children. Sincerely, A Parent by Diane Selinger, PhD
REFLECTIONS column by Ruth Sterlin: On Doing Therapy With Our Elders
BOOK REVIEW from Bill Kinnaird: The Relational Revolution in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy by Steven Kuchuck
Featuring: ORIGINAL CLINICAL ARTICLE: Working Psychodynamically with Couples Who Have a Neurodiverse Child by Christina Peters, PhD
REFLECTIONS on Caring for Our Clients and Ourselves During the Pandemic - SIXTH INSTALLMENT
BOOK REVIEW from Bill Kinnaird: Core Competencies of Relational Psychoanalysis edited by Roy E. Barsness
Featuring: ORIGINAL CLINICAL ARTICLE: Public School Closures, Structural Violence, and Genocide: How Social Workers Can Partner with Communities to Resist Oppression and Preserve Human Rights by Kevin Miller
REFLECTIONS on Caring for Our Clients and Ourselves During the Pandemic - FIFTH INSTALLMENT
BOOK REVIEWS from Bill Kinnaird: Sacred Ground: The Chicago Streets of Timuel Black by Timule D. Black, Jr., and Susan Klonsky; Caste, The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson
2021:
Featuring: ORIGINAL CLINICAL ARTICLE: Sexual Feelings in Therapy by Anna Lieblich, PhD
REFLECTIONS on Caring for Our Clients and Ourselves During the Pandemic - FOURTH INSTALLMENT
BOOK REVIEW from Bill Kinnaird: Together: The Healing Power of Human Connection in a Sometimes Lonely World by Dr. Vivek H. Murthy, MD
Featuring: ORIGINAL CLINICAL ARTICLE: Why Psychoanalysis in a CBT World? by Barbara Berger, PhD
REFLECTIONS on Caring for Our Clients and Ourselves During the Pandemic - THIRD INSTALLMENT
BOOK REVIEW from Bill Kinnaird: Why We're Polarized by Ezra Klein
Winter Issue - SPECIAL EDITION -
Featuring: ORIGINAL CLINICAL ARTICLE: The Vulnerability of Caring by Nora Ishibashi
REFLECTIONS on Caring for Our Clients and Ourselves During the Pandemic - SECOND INSTALLMENT
BOOK REVIEW from Bill Kinnaird: Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup by John Carreyou
2020:
Summer Issue - SPECIAL EDITION -
Featuring: ISCSW Statement on Murder of George Floyd and Racial Solidarity
ORIGINAL CLINICAL ARTICLE: Metapsychology in the Age of Pluralism: Enhancing the Relevance and Vibrance of Psychoanalysis for Our Time by Harold Bendicsen
REFLECTIONS on Caring for Our Clients and Ourselves During the Pandemic - FIRST INSTALLMENT
BOOK REVIEW from Bill Kinnaird: Maybe You Should Talk To Someone by Lori Gottlieb
Featuring: ORIGINAL CLINICAL ARTICLE: Body Psychotherapy: An Embodied Path to Transformation by Francine Kelley
BOOK REVIEW from Bill Kinnaird: Understanding Countertransference by Michael J. Tansey and Walter F. Burke
2019:
Featuring: Messages from outgoing President Eric Ornstein and future President Kristy Arditti
ORIGINAL CLINICAL ARTICLE: Acute Care and Long-Term Relationships by Bill Kinnaird
BOOK REVIEW from Bill Kinnaird: The Body Keeps Score by Bessel Van Der Kolk, MD
Featuring: ORIGINAL CLINICAL ARTICLE: Takes Two to Tango: A Conceptual Framework for a Relational Approach to Supervision by Eric Ornstein
BOOK REVIEW from Bill Kinnaird: Attachment in Psychotherapy by David J. Wallin
2017:
Featuring: ORIGINAL CLINICAL ARTICLE: Understanding How Parents Feed Babies and the Impact on Eating Later in Childhood by Denaye Barahona
LITERATURE REVIEW from Bill Kinnaird: Analyzing Evidence Based Practice: Myths and Realities, a paper by Allan Scholom
2016:
Featuring: ORIGINAL CLINICAL ARTICLE: A Relational Approach to Employee Management by Christina James
LITERATURE REVIEW from Bill Kinnaird: Beyond psychotherapy: Therapeutic relationships in community care, a paper by Joel Kanter
Featuring: ORIGINAL CLINICAL ARTICLE: The Potency of Narratives: Observations from Work in Intensive Psychiatric Services by David Javier Thompson
LITERATURE REVIEW from Eric Ornstein: The psychotherapy research project of the Menninger foundation: An overview, a paper by Robert Wallerstein
2015:
Featuring: PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE: Eric Ornstein's thoughts on Projective Identification.
ORIGINAL CLINICAL ARTICLE: Organizing as Clinical Work by Carolyn Morales
Featuring: ORIGINAL CLINICAL ARTICLE: Using Mindfulness in a Clinical Context to Promote Flexibility in Self-Representation by Georgia Jones
CULTURAL COMPETENCE PLATFORM: Social Work on the Anniversary of Mike Brown’s Death by Brooke Fisher, MSW
IN MEMORIUM: J. Geoffrey Magnus
Featuring: ORIGINAL CLINICAL ARTICLE: Supporting Caregivers: Initial Reflections from a New Professional by David Javier Thompson
BOOK REVIEW from Geoffrey Magnus: Brainwashed: The Seductive Appeal of Mindless Neuroscience by S. Satel & S. O. Lilienfeld
CULTURAL COMPETENCE PLATFORM: Rethinking Cultural Competence for Social Work by Matt Hiller
Featuring: ORIGINAL CLINICAL ARTICLE: Attunement in Adult Psychotherapy for New Clinicians and Beyond by Christina James
LITERATURE REVIEW from Geoffrey Magnus: Modifying resilience mechanisms in at-risk individuals: A controlled study of mindfulness training in marines preparing for deployment, a paper by Douglas C. Johnson et al
CULTURAL COMPETENCE PLATFORM: Reflections on Sexual Orientation by Anonymous Contributor
2014:
Featuring: ORIGINAL CLINICAL ARTICLE: Argument for a Compatible Set of Interlocking Theories as Applied to a Case Example by Harold K. Bendicsen
LITERATURE REVIEWS from Geoffrey Magnus: Social: Why Our Brains Are Wired to Connect, by Matthew Lieberman; Neural Substrates of Treatment Response to Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in Panic Disorder with Agoraphobia, a paper by Luebin, V, et al.; The Philosophical Baby: What Children's Minds Tell Us about Truth in Love and the Meaning of Life by Alison Gopnik.
SEMINAR SUMMARY: A write-up by Eric Ornstein of the key points from the 2013-14 Jane Roiter Sunday Morning Seminars series.
Featuring:. ORIGINAL CLINICAL ARTICLE: Clinical Issues: Conflicts between Young and Middle Adult Development by Barbara Berger
LITERATURE REVIEWS from Geoffrey Magnus: four papers on Topics in the Neurobiology of Borderline Personality Disorder by various authors
CULTURAL COMPETENCE PLATFORM: Attempted Self-Medication in Dual-Diagnosis Clients: Present Implications in Social Work and Counseling Practice by Trover Gray Wilson; Thoughts on Clients and Sexual Orientation by Janell McNulty
2013:
Featuring: ORIGINAL CLINICAL ARTICLE: Boundaries and Other Complex Issues in Conducting Psychotherapy Groups by Hylene S. Dublin
LITERATURE REVIEWS from Geoffrey Magnus: Restoring Mentalizing and Attachment Relationships: Treating, with Plain Old Therapy by Jon G. Allen
Featuring:. ORIGINAL CLINICAL ARTICLE: Death within Birth: Intrapsychic & Environmental Foci during a 4x/Week Treatment by Nathan Dougal
LITERATURE REVIEWS from Geoffrey Magnus: Neural correlates of moral sensitivity and obsessive-compulsive disorder, a paper by Ben Harrison et al.; Guilt – selective functional disconnection of anterior temporal and cingulate cortices in major depressive disorder, a paper by Sophie Green et al.
CULTURAL COMPETENCE PLATFORM: Three Students Reflect on Issues Important to Their Future as Clinicians: Mindfulness, by Christopher Novak; Legal and Ethical Implications, by Kelsey Exner; Colorblindness, by Deborah Gaughan
SEMINAR SUMMARY: Write-ups by Eric Ornstein and Ruth Sterlin of the key points from the 2012-13 Jane Roiter Sunday Seminar Series
ORIGINAL ESSAY: “I’m So Lucky to Have a Therapist Who Texts!” Reflections on the Marriage of Technology & Psychotherapy by Agnieszka Grabowski
RESOURCES FOR SOCIAL WORKERS: Simple Yoga Techniques to Help Ease and Prevent Pain by Leslie Brefeld
2012:
Featuring: ORIGINAL CLINICAL ARTICLE: The Parenting Field: Helping Families Open Up Parent-Child Communications by Colin Pereira-Webber
LITERATURE REVIEWS from Geoffrey Magnus: Archaeology of the Mind: The Neuroevolutionary Origins of Human Emotions by Jaak Panksepp & Lucy Biven
CULTURAL COMPETENCE PLATFORM: A Look at the Sesame Street Voters in Our Political Election by Jill B. Page
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