Clinical Social Work Journal

Individual differences in how mothers structure reminiscing about shared past experiences with their preschool children are related to children's developing autobiographical memory skills and understanding of self and emotion. More specifically, mothers who engage in highly elaborative reminiscing have children who come to tell more coherent and emotionally expressive autobiographical narratives, and these children also show better understanding of self and are better able to regulate...

In response to a growing diversity of opinion regarding educational models and essential content in clinical social work education, this paper offers a perspective concerning graduate clinical curricula. Part I, the foundational piece of the paper, discusses the definition of clinical social work, social work's core orientation and values, and influential contextual issues. The interrelated core orientations guiding knowledge and skill development are identified as the...

The article on Social Work Education and Clinical Learning by Simpson, Williams and Segall (2007) is a courageous and useful effort to describe the definitional features of clinical social work and of what should constitute core pedagogical elements in such graduate training programs. While well articulated in many ways, this is a traditionally crafted position statement, one that differs little from similar views expressed in various venues over the past 30 years. I find the statement to...