By Mary Elizabeth Van Pelt on March 11th, 2010

Council on Social Work Education
Susan S. Manning, Ph.D. University of Denver and Mary Van Pelt coauthored the chapter The Challenges of Dual Relationships and the Continuum of Care in Rural Mental Health in the graduate level text book Social Work in Rural Communities, 4th Edition. You may view this chapter by clicking HERE.
Thanks to the publisher for permission to post this chapter. To purchase the textbook Social Work in Rural Communities go to www.cswe.org
By Mary Elizabeth Van Pelt on March 10th, 2010

The article "Van Pelt co-authors chapter in social work textbook" appeared on the front page of The Valley Courier in Alamosa, Colorado. Click HERE for original artical.
Photo by Ruth Heide
San Luis Valley Courier
Van Pelt co-authors chapter in social work textbook
By RUTH HEIDE
Mary Van Pelt holds a copy of the recently-published textbook “Social Work in Rural Communities” which contains a chapter she co-authored.
ALAMOSA — Alamosa resident Mary Van Pelt transformed a painful chapter of her life into a written chapter of the recently-released textbook “Social Work in Rural Communities.”
Van Pelt co-authored the 23-page chapter “The Challenges of Dual Relationships and the Continuum of Care in Rural Mental Health” with Dr. Susan S. Manning, associate professor of social work at the University of Denver.
“Social Work in Rural Communities” is a graduate-level textbook edited by Leon H. Ginsberg. In her portion of the book, Van Pelt relates some of her experiences as both a mental health staff and client, or consumer. “It grew out of some really painful experiences when my employment ended at mental health,” Van Pelt said.