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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.”
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.
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
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
1st LT – PA Army National Guard
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Syllabus
Best Advice for Social Workers
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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
• 1st supervisor should be super competent, have
LCSW and have LCSW supervisor’s certificate
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)
George Orwell
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1903 – 1950
b. Bengal, India
d. 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
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”
Journals
1) Write a reaction to the Orwell article*
* Journal guidelines can be found on greenagel.com
under the services/social work class tab