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Association of
Social Work Boards
Volume 21, no. 3
May/June 2011

Association business

 

Board of Directors summary

The ASWB Board of Directors met in May and addressed issues including exam use and ASWB finances. Read more. 

 

Regular features

 

Prepare to dual. Counsel's column. 

 

In some states, licensing is getting easier for spouses of military personnel.  But what's the tradeoff?  From the staff. 

 

"Gilligan's Island" jokes now a generational marker? Uh oh. Asides. 

Regulation, testing, and ASWB personalities in the news


Colorado: well-known psychotherapist should never have been licensed

Georgia: sex offender poses as psychologist

Illinois: "Dr. Millionpills" is stripped of his license

Manitoba: previously unregulated professions may now apply for regulated status

Maine: social worker lets her license expire, escapes revocation

Ontario: optometrists granted prescription authority

Wisconsin: licensing boards after Docs who wrote excuses for protesters

Wisconsin: social worker, license revoked, now being sued by client who claims he impregnated her
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Highlights from the 2011 ASWB Spring Education Meeting

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Gary Schoener

Evaluating boundary violations--no easy path

Featured speaker Gary Schoener made one thing very clear: there is very little that's clear when it comes to evaluating professionals who have violated boundaries. Read more. 

 

The social worker, the board member, the boundaries...the headaches

Maintaining perspective-and sanity-can be a real challenge for regulatory board members dealing with licensee boundary issues. Multiple perspectives, ideas, and survival strategies were shared at the Spring Meeting.  Read more.

 

The information superhighway with no speed limits, no guardrails, and lots of ditches

Think untangling boundary violations was tough 20 years ago?  The world of the Internet, Facebook, Twitter, and blogs has opened up new challenges.  Have regulators been caught in the spam filter?  Read more.

 

A teaching moment

The first Foundation-sponsored research presentation focused on knowledge of licensure and the examination program among social work faculty and their students, including information on the faculty licensure debate.  Insights into who knows what, and who knows who doesn't know.Read more.

 

It's  all good-just not enough of it

The ASWB Spring Meeting gets high marks once again. But as usual, people came away wanting more. Read more.

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Slideshow from Vancouver

See what you missed. Or miss what you saw. Click here.

ASWB Opportunities

Call for research proposals

The Association's research foundation has issued a new call for research proposals. Awards  in this cycle of grant funding total $50,000, including a $5,000 award set aside for student work.   Read more.

 

Call for award nominations

The program that recognizes outstanding board members and administrators is now ready to receive nominations for these awards.  Deadline is July 31. Read more.

Exam program news 
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From left, Haidy Shenouda (AB) and Tracy Mims (MS) are among ASWB's 2011 class of item writers.

Test prep-the good kind

The one time when teaching to the test is a good idea?  When you're helping 21 ASWB question writers learn how to create good examination items.  Read more. 

                                         

Free Advanced Generalist exam window now closed

The pilot program that offered free exams is ending. Next step, creating the new exams, and helping members use it appropriately.  Read more.  

Photo of attendees of the June 2011 training for social work regulators The second ASWB New Board Member Training Program of 2011, held in June,  brought in 20 regulators from Canada and United States for a two and a half day training on regulatory issues and the ways ASWB can be of help.  Seated, from left:  Tom Maxon (NE), Michelle Cheeseman (MA), Florienda Scott-Cobb (DE), Joyce Bell (MD), and Tommy Wright (AL).  Standing, from left:  New Board Member Training co-chair Robin Jenkins (DC), Bob Thompson (ON), Esophia Clayborn (AL), Will MacDonald (PEI), Jim Ridley (ND), Lucie Grainger (QC), Curtis Magnuson (BC), Mary Beth Hutchens (NL), Beverley McCurry (MT), Geoff Hood (in back;  NS), Lisa Lipsey (LA), Jack Donegani (in back;  ON), Judy Levy (MD), Morel Caissie (NB), Terri Hamm (OH), program faculty member Amy Richardson (from Atkinson and Atkinson, ASWB legal counsel), and Richard Silver (QC), training program co-chair.  Not pictured:  Martha Lopez (OR)

Minnesota board part of state-wide shutdown 

The Minnesota Board of Social Work will be closed down if lawmakers in the state continue the current budget stalemate. Read more.

CSWE exec announces retirement

Julia Watkins has announced that she will be retiring from her position at CSWE in 2012. Read more.
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