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- Tara Healy, M.S.W., is in private practice in Danvers, Massachusetts and is a supervisor of mental health services at the Bay Area Visiting Nurse Association in Beverly, Massachusetts. She is also a doctoral student and instructor at the Simmons College School of Social Work.
- I would like to thank Carol Swenson, D.S.W., for her helpful comments on earlier drafts of this manuscript.