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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….
September 2006
In June, Peg Cahill, LICSW, presented a paper entitled "Performing Retirement: Different Pathways to Retirement for Clinical Social Workers" at the 45th Annual International Conference for the Advanced Professional Practice of Clinical Social Work (ICAPP) in Colorado Springs. The oldest clinical social work organization in the world, ICAPP brings together clinical social workers with varied theoretical orientations, diverse clinical experiences, and from many different practice settings; conference proceedings are lively, collegial, and challenging.
Livia Bardin, MSW, has had an article published in the Cultic Studies Review (2005) Vol. 4, No. 3, entitled "Child Protection in an Authoritarian Community; Culture Clash and Systemic Weakness". She has also presented on "Child Abuse and Child Protective Work in Two Isolated Authoritarian Communities" at the June 2006 conference of the International Cultic Studies Association in Denver.
Wendy Zack, LICSW has joined the Department of Psychiatry of the Georgetown University School of Medicine as a Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry on the Clinician Track. Wendy will continue her specializations in women's mental health and eating disorders. She will be teaching psychodynamic psychotherapy to the residents. Wendy is also completing her PhD at the Clinical Social Work Institute. Her dissertation topic is "The Collaborative Relationship between the Clinical Social Worker and the Medicating Psychiatrist".Alice Kassabian, Connie Hendrickson, Pat Baker, and Dolores Paulson were honored in June at a wine and cheese reception by Catholic University’s school of social work. Dean James Zabora presented all four with floral bouquets and specially designed gilded PhD diplomas to highlight their role in the retroactive conversion from DSW to PhD degree to all 239 DSW graduates.
Please send information about your accomplishments to Out & About editor Pat Driscoll, at GWSCSW@gmail.com.