Your Social Work Brand: Spring Fever in January
As you recover from your holiday break, you may be thinking spring can’t come soon enough. If you’re in the home stretch of your social work degree program, catch spring fever early by prepping your...
View ArticleReal World Clinical Social Work Blog: Twin Traumas
Most of the time, our clients have some sort of trauma histories. But the hard truth is that so do we. Clinical social work calls for the refusal to separate ourselves from our clients in some...
View ArticleReverse Culture Shock: Did You Have Fun on Your Vacation?
Reverse culture shock is normal. In an attempt to prepare others coming back from study abroad or intense international travel programs, here are some suggestions for how to cope with guilt, loss, and...
View ArticleReal World Clinical Social Work Blog: The Chicken, the Egg, and the DSM
We know that diagnosis is reductive and doesn’t really honor the complex idiosyncrasy of the human mind. We also know, on some level, that it can be used as a form of social control. But we also know...
View ArticleYour Social Work Brand: You’re More Than Your Job - A Holistic Approach to...
You have special skills that you can integrate in your personal brand. Your activities outside of work are a big part of who you are, and showing another side of yourself can create a more holistic and...
View ArticleReal World Clinical Social Work Blog: Assessing Through a Kaleidoscope (Part 1)
We often forget that assessment is actually an intervention on its own, if it is done well. Just think about how it feels when someone really asks you how you are doing, how your family is doing, and...
View ArticleReal World Clinical Blog: Assessing Through a Kaleidoscope (Part 2)
The more assessment and intervention can be integrated, the more likely we are to create a well attuned intervention strategy based on our clients’ unfolding life stories. We need to be flexible in...
View ArticlePost Educational Bliss?
What is the real path to balancing your life and reaching your own happiness? Christine Carter provides us with her own provocative, easy to follow book - The Sweet Spot - to help us understand how...
View ArticleReal World Clinical Blog: The Anxious Social Work Mind (Part 1)
If there is anything that I have come to learn about how clinical social workers feel, it is that we are an anxious bunch. Part 1 of 2.
View ArticleSocial Workers To Gather for Second Annual Social Work Day on the Hill
Social workers from across the United States will gather in the nation’s capital on Tuesday and Wednesday, March 1-2, 2016, for the second annual Social Work Day on the Hill event celebrating the month...
View ArticleReal World Clinical Blog: The Anxious Social Work Mind (Part 2)
The pervasive and insidious nature of anxiety when practicing clinical work can feel both dispiriting and disconcerting. There are many manifest (or superficial) reasons for us to feel anxious as...
View ArticleReal World Clinical Blog: On Social Work Supervision
Supervision ought to be where wisdom is shared, clinical voices are cultivated, and cases are conceptualized. Given this inarguable level of import, let’s talk about what makes supervision good and...
View ArticleInside Out Wins Big in Adoption at the Movies Awards
The online adoption and foster care community has honored several films in the Third Annual Adoption at the Movies Awards.
View ArticleReal World Clinical Blog: Questions That Deepen
Asking questions that shift, deepen, & create openings is a task that requires premeditation & savvy. Thinking carefully and feeling our way into the simple efficacy of the intervention of...
View ArticleThe Grand Challenges for Social Work Initiative and Our Future
The Grand Challenge Initiative by the AASWSW has great promise for social work for (at least) two compelling reasons: to communicate to the world what social workers do and to bring an army of allies...
View ArticleKeeping It Light: Humor in Social Work Education and Practice
Every social worker has a tool bag equipped with gadgets to assist students and clients. Humor is one of many skills that can be applied in a variety of settings, including agencies and classrooms.
View ArticleLet’s Process: The Experience of Terror And Hate
We need space to process terror and hate. Sometimes we don’t know what to do. What happens when the helpers don’t know how to help? For students, and ourselves, the concept of cultural humility may not...
View ArticleEmpowering Clients Means Empowering Ourselves First
Whatever your working definition of empowerment, we generally concur it has a central element of having control (power) over decision-making about one’s life and destiny. We can better empower clients...
View ArticleIntroducing "Future Social Worker Says" Memes - The Lighter Side of Social Work
Social worker and new mom Gina Bowers sent us some cute memes of her adorable baby boy for the Social Work Month Project 2016.
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