QR Codes: Social Work in the Clouds
Quick response (QR) codes can become a tool for any social worker to serve the public in a positive way.
View ArticleThe Life-Changing Experience of a Social Work Field Placement Away From Home
Completing your social work field placement away from home, in another country or state, takes emotional fortitude. It also provides rich experiences that will change your life.
View ArticleEthics Alive! When You Have Ethical Concerns: Initiating NASW’s Professional...
You have concerns about a social work colleague's conduct. What are your ethical obligations? What is the best way to proceed? Reporting to the National Association of Social Workers is one option. Is...
View ArticleSelf-Care A-Z: Self-Care and Your Work-Space Environment
Most of us work in environments of (what we call) “organized chaos.” As part of our professional self-care, we need to take some time to reflect about how to rearrange our surroundings to promote a...
View ArticleClinical Intersections: America Is Traumatized
As clinicians, it is our responsibility to create spaces in which people can feel safe from a traumatizing world. It is important for us to allow people room to not only have refuge, but to show up as...
View ArticleFilm Review of “The Farewell”: The Gift of a Grandmother’s Love
Billi and her family go to Changchun, under the guise of a family wedding, not letting on to their matriarch that she only has a short time to live. Review of "The Farewell" by SaraKay Smullens.
View ArticleSelf-Care A-Z: Self-Care During an Organizational Crisis
Social service organizations are experiencing critical challenges and even crises. We’ve been through these times—recently and over the course of our careers. Here are our top 3 strategies.
View ArticleThe Kindness of Collective Action
As advocates and social justice agents, we can form "a union for holistic professionals." Collective action arises from our need to contribute to well-being, and that is a beautiful imprint of our...
View ArticleUniversity of Iowa's National Poetry Contest for Social Workers Accepting...
The University of Iowa National Poetry Contest for Social Workers is accepting poem submissions between October 1, 2019, and January 31, 2020. The top 3 poems will receive cash prizes and will be...
View ArticleBut What Should I Say Next? 5 Tips for Social Workers
What should I say next? This question, arising after the paperwork of intakes and goal setting, can feel terrorizing to social work students and new clinicians. It gets at the heart of what we do and...
View ArticleResources for Social Workers for World Mental Health Day 2019 - Suicide...
October 6-12 is Mental Illness Awareness Week, and October 10 is World Mental Health Day. The focus of WMHD for 2019 is suicide prevention. These resources are a starting point for social workers who...
View ArticlePut Voter Rights and Registration on Your Social Work Event Agenda
Elections are important for social workers, clients, and communities. Participate in the Voting Is Social Work campaign by putting voter rights and registration on your social work event agenda.
View ArticleCan We Just Come to Terms with Self-Care, Organizational Wellness, and...
Pitting organizational accountability or community care against individual empowerment and vice versa is largely counterproductive. Let’s just come to complementary and constructive terms: Community...
View ArticleFeel the HAES®? What Every Social Worker Needs To Know About the Health at...
The Health at Every Size® (HAES®) social justice grounded framework aligns well with social work values and ethics. Here’s how social workers can start putting it into practice.
View ArticleClinical Intersections: Disavowal and the Politics of Naming Whiteness
In social work training, we discuss working with structural forces and power differences by naming them and the ways they are showing up in the room. But how does this intervention fit within the...
View ArticleData Science: A Promising Field of Study for Social Workers?
I was one of two social workers in attendance at a meeting on data science. When we introduced ourselves, you could almost feel the confusion in the air. The looks on the faces of the attendees seemed...
View ArticleA Trip to Xiamen: Through the Eyes of a Social Work Student in Taiwan
A Taiwanese social work student went to Xiamen, China, to participate in an international student exchange with an early childhood intervention program. Disabled people in China are largely invisible...
View ArticleSelf-Care A-Z: Think Self-Care Always Feels Good?
Viewing self-care as only “feel good” (unintentionally) equates self-care with a special treat, extra luxury, or rare indulgence. In fact, self-care is sometimes uncomfortable and often difficult.
View ArticleClinical Intersections: What It Really Feels Like To Be a Social Worker
Of course, there is no universal feeling that defines being a social worker. However, I do believe there are some unifying, unsaid themes.
View ArticleJoaquin Phoenix’s "Joker": The Impact of Torment and Trauma—A Call to Insight...
Film review: Adolescent and teen clients convinced me that I was wrong in my pre-judgment of Joker. The film exposes truths about the emotionally victimized and our country’s cruel and inadequate...
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