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Articles Published by SaraKay Smullens
 

ORIGINAL PUBLICATION DATE ARTICLE AVAILABLE AS A WEB PAGE AVAILABLE AS A PDF
September 2008 A Century of Social Work and Social Welfare at Penn
(Editors: Ram A. Cnaan, Melissa E. Dichter, Jeffrey Draine)
SaraKay authored the chapter called
"The University of Pennsylvania School of Social Work: Reflections of a Graduate"

University of Pennsylvania Press
web  
September 19, 2008 Politics and Culture: Letter to the Wall Street Journal web  
September 16, 2008 A Therapist Evaluates John McCain
Philadelphia Broad Street Review
web  
August 8, 2008 Up Against the Human Services Bureaucracy:  A social worker's Story
(from the Philadelphia Broad Street Review)

This article references:
 An Emotional Sense of Direction.
web  
August 7, 2008 Commentary from SaraKay in the Danieal Kelly case
Philadelphia Daily News
web  
August 6, 2008 Twisting Reality
Philadelphia Daily News
web  
June 16, 2008 Now What for Hill and Bill?
Philadelphia Daily News
web  
May 7, 2008 There's No Place Like Home to Give Children a Good Foundation
Philadelphia Inquirer
web  
March 2008 Stop the Silda Bashing
Philadelphia Daily News
web  
March 2008 Commentary on Eliot Spitzer's Fall from Grace web  
January 2008 Benazir Bhutto - What She Left Behind
A Letter to the Editor ~ published in Time Magazine
web  
January 2008 Reflections on Art, Loss and Love
The Clinical Voice, issued by The Pennsylvania Society of Clinical Social Work, Winter 2008 Issue
web  
  Kindness is the Extremity of Justice
(originally printed in the Philadelphia Inquirer.  Reprinted with permission in the Clinical Voice, the magazine of the Pennsylvania Society for Clinical Social Work)
web pdf
January 2008 I shoulda trusted my instincts
Philadelphia Daily News
web  
November 2007 Letter to the Editor in response to:
Out of the Attic: Family Memoirs with a Nazi Past
Wall Street Journal
web  
October  2007 Run, Al, Run!
Philadelphia Daily News
web
May  2007 Elections: The Search for Daddy
Philadelphia Daily News
web  
April 2007 (book) Envy, Competition and Gender
Written by Maria Van Noort (psychotherapist located in Amsterdam) Edited by Leyla Navaro and Sharon Schwartzberg, published by Routledge.  SaraKay's work on the effect of humiliation on clarity of thought is cited in the chapter called "Revenge and Retaliation."
web  
April 2007 TVs Model Families
Philadelphia Inquirer
web  
March 2007 When the Personal is The Political
Philadelphia Daily News
web  
February 2007 Five Cycles of Emotional Abuse, Codification and Treatment of an Invisible Malignancy
(Printed in the National Association of Social Workers, MA Chapter February 2007 issue of FOCUS)
web  
December 14, 2006 Empathy Goals for Parenting web  
October 18, 2006 Making Sense of the World
Philadelphia Daily News
web  
September 28, 2006 Grandfather's Hard Lesson
Philadelphia Daily News
web  
June 21, 2006 Hillary, Please say no!
Philadelphia Daily News
web  
May 23, 2006 HBO's 'Big Love' is about more than sex
Philadelphia Inquirer
web  
March 21, 2006 Bush Family Values
Philadelphia Daily News
web  
January 23, 2006 Alito Hearings and the Power of Choice
Philadelphia Daily News
web  
October 25, 2005 Clergy can help end domestic violence
Philadelphia Inquirer
web  
August 5, 2005 When Journalists Drop the Ball
Philadelphia Daily News
web  
Fall 2003 Issue Developing an Emotional Sense of Direction
Annals of the American Psychotherapy Association
  pdf
November / December 2001 Counseling the Clergy on How to Help Victims of Domestic Violence
Annals of the American Psychotherapy Association
  pdf
March 31, 2005 The Pathology of Evil
Philadelphia Daily News
web  
February 9, 2005 Analyze this:  Bush's mere words
Philadelphia Daily News
web  
January 19, 2005 A nightmare in Paris
Philadelphia Daily News
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December 10, 2004 Try granny's Rx for too much stress
Philadelphia Daily News
web  
November 23, 2004 He Honed His Skills Years Ago as a D.A.
Philadelphia Inquirer
web  
October 27, 2004 Uncivil War
Philadelphia Daily News
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September 4, 2004 Give 'Em Hell, Johnny!
Philadelphia Daily News
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August 18, 2004 What Dina McGreevey Might Say
Philadelphia Daily News
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July 27, 2004 The Lord's Prayer: A Reflective Perspective
Philadelphia Daily News
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April 23, 2004 Tony Soprano and His Therapist
Philadelphia Inquirer
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January 20, 2004 He's My Martin Luther King, Too.
Philadelphia Daily News
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November 10, 2003 Di's Paranoia: It's not a fairy tale
Philadelphia Daily News
web  
October 26, 2003 Developing an Emotional Sense of Direction
American Psychotherapy Association
Online Magazine
web  
  Follow up article (Winter 2003) web  
September 2003 Divorce and Its Effect on Children; a Common Sense Perspective
HerRising (online)
web
(scroll to middle of page)
 
May 15, 2003 When Winning is Losing
The Philadelphia Daily News
web  
April 3, 2003 The Sopranos
Philadelphia Inquirer
web  
March 15, 2003 A Haunting Familiarity
The Philadelphia Inquirer
web pdf
January 3, 2003 Ballad of Trent Lott
The Philadelphia Tribune
web pdf
December 26, 2002 Kindness is the Extremity of Justice web pdf
December 30, 1979 (!) The Old Truths are the Best Truths web pdf
December 5, 2002 The Truth About Grannies Isn't in the Studies web
November 2002 Against the rage in our hearts, let patience, good teaching rule web
October 2001 Facing Fears:  Halloween's Best Lessons web pdf
October 9, 2002 Hatred -- You've Got to be Taught web pdf
September 8, 2002 Seeing Mother in my Granddaughter web pdf
May 15, 2002 Isaac, Ishmael and the Mideast pdf
The Descendants of Ishmael and Isaac:  Peace at Last pdf
September 28, 2001 The Monsters Among Us pdf
March 28, 2001 'Sopranos' Hitting the Target on Therapy pdf
October 1999 Domestic abuse not just physical;  psychological battery takes its toll web  


Selected Peer Reviewed Articles

ORIGINAL PUBLICATION DATE ARTICLE
Fall 2003 Developing an Emotional Sense of Direction:  A Therapeutic Model for the Treatment of Emotional Abuse
    The 5 Cycles of Emotional Abuse:  Investigating a Malignant Victimization
 
  November 2001 Counseling the Clergy on How to Help Victims of Deomestic Violence


Articles Quoting  SaraKay Smullens

ORIGINAL PUBLICATION DATE ARTICLE
February 2003 Cosmopolitan Magazine
Is An Old Insult Haunting You?

by Colleen Rush
page 188
September 30, 2002 Excerpts from Setting YourSelf Free
The Knoxville News Sentinel
September 22, 2002 Fight, Flight and the Dragon Boss
by Amy Joyce
The Washington Post
September 9, 2002 September 11 Therapy
WPVI TV
(see article dated September 9)

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