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This column shares news about members’ professional accomplishments - publications, speaking engagements, seminars, workshops, graduations – as well as volunteer projects and special interests or hobbies. Here is what some of our members have been up to….
March 2006
Former GWSCSW president Marilyn Austin, MSW, PhD, BCD is a poet as well as a social worker. Two of her recent poems "Recipe" and "Getting Older" have been selected for inclusion in The International Library of Poetry where her first poem was published in a prior volume. Marilyn has expanded her literary forms to include drama. She has just completed a play that is as yet untitled.
Recognition has come again for Audrey Thayer Walker MSS, BCD, this time from The National Academies of Practice. (see page --) Audrey was elected to membership as a "distinguished practitioner" and installed on Nov. 5, 2005. Her selection reflect her years of leadership in clinical social work, as well as the close collaborative work she fostered with psychiatrists and psychologists while Chief Social Worker in Psychiatry at George Washington and in her subsequent private practice. Abigail Grant, LICSW was also elected to the National Academies recently. Abbie is President of the Clinical Social Work Federation; her practice is in Cleveland, Ohio.
Carol Hendler, LCSW-C, CSAT, was elected Vice-Chair of the Montgomery County Board of Social Services for the Sept. '05 thru June '06 term. This is a voluntary advocacy interdisciplinary group with members from social work, medicine, law, government administrators and liaisons from the Department of Social Services. The Board explores the problems and condition of various County Social Services, forms advocacy positions when indicated, and lobbies in Annapolis for specific needs as necessary .They keep the County Executive informed about current Social Service issues. Carol chairs the focus group on Foster Care and is responsible for briefing County Executive Douglas Duncan about foster care this month. Carol reminds us that the Board welcomes visitors at meetings. Further information can be found on the Montgomery County website.Ruth Neubauer, LCSW will be teaching a course, Psychoanalytic Ideas, at the Institute for Learning in Retirement at American University, as well as a course on Attachment, also for the general public, at Politics and Prose Book Store. An interview with Ruth and Karen Van Allen MSW about their work with Women Over Fifty was aired in February on Pacifica Radio.
Pat Driscoll, LICSW, is editor of this column. Please send information about your accomplishments to Pat at Out & About at gwscsw@gmail.com.