1. Integration Seminar Week 1 In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I’ve been turning over in my mind ever since. “Whenever you feel like criticizing any one,” he told me, “just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had.”

2. Counseling lessons in here? He didn’t say any more, but we’ve always been unusually communicative in a reserved way, and I understood that he meant a great deal more than that. In consequence, I’m inclined to reserve all judgments, a habit that has opened up many curious natures to me and also made me the victim of not a few veteran bores. The abnormal mind is quick to detect and attach itself to this quality when it appears in a normal person, and so it came about that in college I was unjustly accused of being a politician, because I was privy to the secret griefs of wild, unknown men. Most of the confidences were unsought — frequently I have feigned sleep, preoccupation, or a hostile levity when I realized by some unmistakable sign that an intimate revelation was quivering on the horizon; for the intimate revelations of young men, or at least the terms in which they express them, are usually plagiaristic and marred by obvious suppressions. Reserving judgments is a matter of infinite hope. I am still a little afraid of missing something if I forget that, as my father snobbishly suggested, and I snobbishly repeat, a sense of the fundamental decencies is parcelled out unequally at birth.

3. Tell ‘Em What You’re Going to Tell’Em Professor Background Syllabus Best Advice to Social Workers DSM-IV-TR/ DSM-V George Orwell Reading and Journal Assignments

4. Frank L. Greenagel Jr. MPAP, MSW, LCSW, LCADC ACSW, CJC, ICADC, CCS NJ Governor’s Council on Drug Abuse & Alcoholism Adjunct Professor – Rutgers School of Social Work Instructor – Rutgers Center of Alcohol Studies 1 st LT – PA Army National Guard greenage@rci www.greenagel.com Greenagel Counseling Services on Facebook @FrankGreenagel on TwitterFrankGreenagel on Twitter

5. Syllabus

6. Best Advice for Social Workers Get some therapy Do NOT take an easy internship Join NASW Documentation & Consultation The field placements & the supervisors are extraordinarily important to your development Take LSW test before graduation 1 st supervisor should be super competent, have LCSW and have LCSW supervisor’s certificate

7. 2 rules for diagnosing out of the DSM-IV-TR/ DSM-V (1)when substance use or a medical condition can account for the symptoms, it preempts the diagnosis of any other disorder that could produce the same symptoms (2) the more pervasive disorder that has the symptoms gets diagnosed (do not put down a lesser disorder with the same symptoms)

8. George Orwell 1903 – 1950 b. Bengal, Indiad. London (TB) Eton (HS)  was in Aldous Huxley’s class worked as a policeman in Burma, ‘22 hated imperialism  quit in 1927 Paris, 1928 – menial jobs 1929 – ill & broke – lived with parents Worked as a teacher 1936 – 39 Spanish Civil War – Revolutionary Socialist 1941 – BBC Reporter did propaganda Animal Farm 1945 Politics and the English Language 1946 1984 1949

9. Readings Gambrill, Prologue and Chapter 1, “Social Work: an introduction,” pp. 3-16 Orwell “On Politics and Prose” Greenagel “So You Want To Be A Therapist” Gopnik “Caging of America”

10. Journals 1)Write a reaction to the Orwell article* * Journal guidelines can be found on greenagel.com under the services/social work class tab