LBSU 302

Week 3

The Journey Continues…..

     Welcome back to my journey! This week was interesting, full of frustrations and triumphs. I

have never known research to be that way, but I have a feeling I have never put this much

into it before. As I stated last week, I changed my focus to Clinical Social Work to narrow it

down. Guess what? I have narrowed it down again. While doing my research this week,

again, I found that there are an endless number of environments for a Clinical Social worker.

You could work with people struggling with poverty issues, or with people fighting addictions,

or even in corrections. However, I have discovered that I am most passionate about trauma

survivors and counseling. With that said, I chose the book, Trauma Counseling: Theories and

Interventions, by Lisa Lopez Levers, for this week’s assignment and research. I chose this book

because it encompasses a wide range of traumatic events along with guidelines for different

treatments. I have also discovered while doing this research that I am particularly interested

in long-term trauma, and so I am looking forward to reading that section in the book.

    I used Leatherby Libraries for the first time this week and it was amazing. The best part for

me, is the fact that I have free access to a book that would otherwise cost me $80.00. All

kidding aside, after I learned the tricks to advanced searches, it was amazing how much

information was there. The most important thing I learned while doing advanced searches, is

to choose your words wisely. The order of your words, the context of your words etc. For

instance, Clinical Social Work mostly entails counseling, but in a number of settings. If you

type in Clinical Social Work as your key words, it reveals no results, but if you type Social

Work it reveals too many results. So I broke it down further, to counseling and then again to

trauma. Additionally, I learned a great way to limit the number of results is to limit my search

to the last five years, which almost narrowed it too much. Another thing I found helpful in my

search was limiting my search to E-Books only. I did this because I wanted instant access to

the entire text and knew I was too short on time to get it any other way.

Thanks for reading my blog, see you next week!

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