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REFLECTIONS NARRATIVES of PROFESSIONAL HELPING General Submissions and Narratives from the Teaching and Learning Section and the Historical Reflections Section Volume 20, Number 1 Winter 2014 REFLECTIONS NARRATIVES of PROFESSIONAL HELPING www.rnopf.org PUBLISHED BY CLEVELAND STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF SOCIAL WORK REFLECTIONS EDITORS AND STAFF Cathleen A. Lewandowski, Ph.D., Director and Professor (Cleveland State University School of Social Work, Publisher) Michael A. Dover, Ph.D., Editor (Cleveland State University School of Social Work) Robin Richesson, M.F.A., Art Director (Professor of Art, California State University Long Beach) Denice Goodrich-Liley, Ph.D., Associate Editor for Field Education (Boise State University School of Social Work) Johanna Slivinske, M.S.W., Associate Editor for Issue Quality (Youngstown State University Department of Social Work) Jennifer Bellamy, Ph.D., Associate Editor (University of Denver School of Social Work) Priscilla Gibson, Ph.D., Associate Editor (University of Minnesota School of Social Work) Laura Beres, Ph.D., Associate Editor (Kings University College, University of Western Ontario) Julie Cooper Altman, Ph.D., Research Reflections Section Editor (California State University, Monterrey Bay) Carol A. Langer, Ph.D. (Colorado State University Pueblo), Teaching and Learning Section Co-Editor Arlene F. Reilly-Sandoval, D.S.W. (Southeast Missouri State University), Teaching and Learning Section Co-Editor Maureen O'Connor, M.S.W. Candidate, Graduate Assistant Kailie M. Johnson, B.S.W. Candidate, Editorial Associate OPEN CALLS FOR SPECIAL ISSUES OR SECTIONS Librarians as Helping Professionals: Laura Habat, Guest Editor NARRATIVE REVIEW BOARD, VOLUME 20 Barry D. Adams; Margaret Ellen Adamek; Mari Lynn Alschuler; Julie Cooper Altman; Jennifer Bellamy; Laura Béres; Gary M. Bess; Valerie Borum; Kimberly A. Brisebois; Mary Ann Clute; Sandra Edmonds Crewe; Priscilla Day; Jennifer Davis-Berman; Sister Nancy M. Decesare; Vaughn Decoster; Mary Catherine Dennis; Brenda Joy Eastman; Catherine Faver; Charles Garvin; Sheldon Gelman; Katie Johnson-Goodstar; Ruby M. Gourdine; Jane Gorman; Erica Goldblatt Hyatt; Melissa Anne Hensley; Shanna Katz Kattari; John A. Kayser; Martin Kohn; Carol L. Langer; Dana Grossman Leeman; Patricia Levy; Beth M. Lewis; Lloyd L. Lyter; Sharon Lyter; Carl Mazza; Joshua L. Miller; Augustina Naami; Jayashree Nimmagadda; Ashley O’Connor; Lynn Parker; James Petrovich; Phu Phan; Arlene Reilly-Sandoval; Johanna Slivinske; W. Patrick Sullivan; Lara Vanderhoof; N. Eugene Walls; James HerbertWilliams; Dianne RushWoods (With much thanks to sixty other reviewers for their contributions to this double-blind peer-reviewed journal.) Current Issue Cover Art: Robin Richesson ISSN - 1080-0220. Published using the Public Knowledge Project's open source Open Journal Systems software. Hosted at Gossamer Threads. Indexed in Social Work Abstracts and Social Services Abstracts. Full text available in EBSCOhost SocIndex and Proquest Research Library. Please see website at www.rnoph.org for information on supporting the journal as an individual or institutional Friend of Reflections. This issue was published in November 2015. The backdated volume and issue numbers are as noted on the cover and in the table of contents. This standard journal practice will continue until the journal is up to date with its publishing schedule, which will be achieved in 2016. REFLECTIONS NARRATIVES of PROFESSIONAL HELPING Volume 20 Winter 2014 Number 1 1 LETTER FROM THE EDITORS Michael A. Dover GENERAL SUBMISSIONS 5 Cold: A Meditation on Loss Sarah Morton 10 Disability Finds a Voice Carol Gilson 15 Self-Reflections of a Gay Immigrant Social Worker Jonghyun Lee and Kate Willow Robinson 29 Understanding Student Evaluations: A Black Faculty Perspective Armon R. Perry, Sherri L. Wallace, Sharon E. Moore and Gwendolyn D. Perry-Burney 36 25 years Post ADA: A Social Worker's Experience and Reflections about Environmental Barriers Augustina Naami 42 Reclamation: How I Am Surviving Depression and Using the Illness to Elevate Others Andrew Calderaro 51 Getting Back to Basics: Developing a Therapeutic Relationship with a Formerly Homeless Veteran Client James C. Petrovich 58 TEACHING AND LEARNING SECTION 58 The Art of Happiness: Reflections on the Power of Creative Projects Natalie Grant 63 Eleven Days in Israel: A Unique and Innovative Experience in Teaching Trauma Practice Marilyn S. Paul and Roni Berger 72 When Mentors Pass W. Patrick Sullivan 80 HISTORICAL REFLECTIONS SECTION 80 The Road Not Taken: Discovering a World I Never Knew James G. McCullagh Letter From the Editors Michael A. Dover and Maureen O’Connor Abstract: This letter serves to introduce Volume 20, Number 1. This issue includes a number of general submissions, our inaugural Historical Reflections article, and two articles continuing our Teaching and Learning Reflections article. Keywords: special issues, special themed sections, disabilities, microaggressions, impact factors This is the first issue in the third volume of expedite publication of these issues when the content Reflections to be published at Cleveland State is ready. We also anticipate publishing a general issue University School of Social Work. Our website that includes Special Themed Section on Southern fully documents the publication date of each issue, African Reflections on Social Work and Social Justice. despite the fact that each issue will be backdated, as Together, these issues would complete Volume 21, is standard journal practice, until our publication 2015. We are confident all will be published as soon schedule is up to date in 2016. as possible during the present academic year. We have not wanted to rush issues into print until Our current Special Issue Call, on Librarians as we felt they were quality issues. It has been a great Helping Professionals, will serve as Volume 22#1, deal of work for us to learn how to take care of the 2016. We are hoping very much that social work publishing side as well as the editorial side of librarians and other university librarians will publishing a quality, double-blind peer reviewed appreciate Reflections will complete Volume 22 by the journal. But from a publishing standpoint, we are end of the calendar year. However, as always, the now up and running. We anticipate publishing journal depends on the submission of quality Volume 20, Number 2 in November 2015 as well. It narratives. will contain additional general submissions and additional articles from the permanent special A Call for Special Themed Sections sections (field education; learning and teaching; historical reflections; research reflections). The Special Issue Call, Librarians as Helping Professionals, will be the final special issue published As the inside cover shows, we now have editors for by the journal. As announced in May 2012, the each of these special sections, except Historical journal plans to replace special issues with special Reflections. The section editors assign the reviewers themed sections. This helps ensure we can publish and make the editorial decisions. The editors general submissions in every issue, while still reserve the right to assign an article to the section providing an opportunity for special editors to edit most closely resembling the content. special themed sections. Such sections can be as long as the special issues of the past. They would also have Volume 20#2 will clear up our backlog of general editorial introductions by the guest editors, and could submissions that were accepted for publication and have themed art work on the cover. Recently, we were in copy editing status. We very much posted on our website an updated version of the Call appreciate the patience of our authors with delays in for Proposals for Special Themed Sections. We would publishing these articles. We also anticipate like to encourage proposals for such special sections. publishing the several Special Issues whose submission deadlines have expired, including For instance, this issue suggestions a number of such Family of Origin: Reflections on Practice; Relative possible topics. The narrative of Jonghyun Lee Caregiving; Honoring Our Indigenous Elders; suggests the value of a special themed section on Dismantling Social and Racial Injustice, and Social working with immigrants, as well as one on the Work with Children and Youth. The articles for experience of microaggressions. The narrative of these issues are in the process of peer review and/or Carol Gilson suggests a special themed section on copy editing. Given our new capacity for issue working with people with disabilities. The narrative assembly, we look forward very much to of Marilyn Paul and Roni Berger suggests the value of collaborating with the special issue editors to a special themed section that gives voice to the cries REFLECTIONS VOLUME 20, NUMBER 1 1 Letter from the Editors for peace and justice of those on both sides of the forth, but on producing compelling narratives that Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Our journal’s search contribute empirically by producing a record of engine permits searching the titles and abstracts of practice. Our narratives also reflect thoughtfully on all of our back issues; this is a great way to see if that practice, and can often produce valuable there is a topic that is dear to you, and to identify theoretical insights. authors who have an interest in that topic. Please contact us with any initial ideas by writing the Our Narrative Review Board is updated annually to editors at