Tech Topics: Sites Ease Stress of End-of-Life Planning
It’s not an event that anyone “likes” to plan for. However, in our roles as social workers, we know that it can be extremely beneficial to make one’s wishes known toward the end of life.
View ArticleThinking Outside the Box: Social Work Field Placements in Legal Settings
Getting social work students and field directors to think outside the box is a necessary and vital part of enhancing the social work curriculum. Students, do not be afraid to ask for new and innovative...
View ArticleEducational and Credit Card Debt: What's a Social Worker To Do?
Social work students and practitioners are at risk for carrying large amounts of educational and credit card debt. To make sound financial decisions before, during, and after college, social work...
View ArticleIn the Ogre's Lair: Seeing Light in Shadow
I should have seen it coming when I slipped on the bullet casings strewn across the front steps. Or when I rang the doorbell and heard an angry-sounding voice bellow, “Who are you and what do you...
View ArticleEthics Alive! A Text in the Night
As the use of cell phones, e-mail, texting, social networking, and other technology grows, social workers are facing many challenges about the appropriate use and limits on use of such technologies....
View ArticleMaking the Tough Call: Social Workers as Mandated Reporters, Part I
By: Kathryn Krase, Ph.D., J.D., MSW
View ArticleWhat I Have Learned About Learning
I am currently in my first year of a master’s program in social work that is tailored to working professionals. While reflecting on what I have gained from the program thus far, I came to one main...
View ArticleNavigating Cancer Survivorship: Responding to Contexts That Shape Practice
By: Andrea Tanguay, BSSW
View ArticleDon't Overlook the Basics: Managing Many Groups at Once
By: Loretta Hartley-Bangs, LCSW
View ArticleDo You Need a Required Continuing Education Attitude Adjustment?
Continuing education adds to ongoing professional growth. Many states' social work licensing boards require a minimum number of hours. What is your continuing education attitude, and does it need to be...
View Article5 Things Every New Social Worker Needs To Know About Money
Regardless of the type of social work being practiced, or the setting it is practiced in, every problem and issue social work clients bring into a session has a financial component: homelessness,...
View ArticleEthics Alive! The NASW Code of Ethics and Other Social Work Obligations
People often quote the National Association of Social Workers (NASW) Code of Ethics when identifying the ethical obligations of social workers. Did you know, however, that not all social workers are...
View ArticleGetting My Feet Wet in Group Work
In leading my first group, I learned many things. I learned the leader is most active in structuring the first and last sessions.
View ArticleMaking the Tough Call: Social Workers as Mandated Reporters, Part II
By: Kathryn S. Krase, Ph.D., J.D., MSW
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