January 29, 2010

Registration Deadline Set for BCU “Managing Boundaries”

SIOUX CITY, Iowa – The registration deadline for “Managing Boundaries,” a workshop at Briar Cliff University, is Feb. 5, 2010. Pre-registration is required for the workshop, which will take place from 8 a.m. to Noon on Thursday, Feb. 25, 2010, in the Stark Student Center on campus.

“Managing Boundaries” will focus on managing boundaries and dual relationships in rural social work practice and end-of-life care. Keynote speaker Susan Murty, MSW/ACSW, Ph.D., will discuss the relevance of the National Association of Social Workers Code of Ethics to social workers who are involved in practice with communities and organizations.

Dr.Murty is a professor in the School of Social Work at the University of Iowa and is chairperson of the Integrated Practice Concentration in the University of Iowa’s master of social work program. She currently directs End-of-Life specialization in the School of Social Work and has been involved with an intergenerational learning project with the elderly and students of social work and aging studies.

Widely published in the field of gerontology and rural social work, Dr. Murty is the past president of the National Rural Social Work Caucus. She has completed an oral history project with elders in rural Mexico and continues this research with Latino elders in Iowa.

The workshop is co-sponsored by Briar Cliff University’s Department of Social Work and the University of Iowa School of Social Work,

For more information about the workshop, please contact Sylvia Kuennen at 712-279-5478 or email sylvia.kuennen@briarcliff.edu.

Briar Cliff University is a Catholic institution with an enrollment of more than 1,100 students from 28 states.  Students are educated in the Franciscan tradition of excellence in the liberal arts and career preparation in an environment of care and compassion. For more information, please visit www.briarcliff.edu.

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