A Psychotherapy Private Practice Social Work Practicum: Expanding Our Boundaries of Field Education Placement.

Many social workers go into private practice, providing crucial mental health services; however, there is a dearth in the scholarship outlining the social work student training for these career options. It may be argued that social work students receive little or no clinical training on how to run a private practice providing psychotherapy services. To mend this pedagogical shortcoming, a private practice field education placement is a legitimate teaching opportunity to prepare social work students to meet the mental health needs of individuals, families, and the public. Authors drew on borderlands theory described by Gloria Anzaldua as a contested space that focuses on "both and" thinking, which resonated with a sense of navigating a border filled with cultural tension between private practice and social work. Five social workers explore their unique experiences of a private practice field education placement using borderlands theory as a lens. Qualitative analysis of autoethnography narratives resulted in six themes: (1) benefits to private practice site, (2) preparation for social work, (3) private practice is social work, (4) balanced picture, (5) practicum landscape, and (6) learning opportunities. The article concludes with recommendations for social work education and research.

An automated micro-separation system for the chromatographic removal of uranium matrix for trace element analysis by ICP-OES.

An automated, miniaturized, off-line separation technique is presented here using an Elemental Scientific Inc. microFAST MC system with UTEVA resin to extract the uranium matrix from its trace element impurities in aqueous media. The collected fractions were analyzed for ~ 30 trace elements using inductively coupled plasma - optical emission spectroscopy. Ten replicate samples were processed with a single column resulting in precision ranging from 3.3% to 6.2% relative standard deviation with regards to the trace element recoveries. Accuracy, with respect to trace element concentrations in the U3O8 Certified Reference Material 124-1, resulted in an average of 13.9% relative deviation while accuracy to the Canadian U3O8 reference material, CUP-2, resulted in an average relative deviation of 8.6%. The total separation time of this automated process was reduced to ~ 30 min per sample while employing a 0.5 mL UTEVA chromatographic resin bed and 2.5 mg of uranium.