RETRACTION: Calling In Call-Out Culture: Social Workers Having Difficult...
Retraction of article originally published in the Winter 2020 issue.
View ArticleSocial Work Tech Notes: Self-Care Apps for Social Workers - Better Living...
Stephen asked social workers on Twitter what self-care apps they use. Most common were meditation and fitness apps.
View ArticleYour Social Work Career Coach: Prepare for the Questions They’ll Ask at Your...
Be ready for various interview formats and behavioral interviewing. Your Social Work Career Coach Jennifer Luna provides sample interview questions to help you prepare for your social work job interview.
View ArticleThe Self-Reflective Rover: A Brief Glimpse at Travel Social Work
Travel social workers work at short-term assignments in a variety of locations. Travel allows much time for self-reflection and growth.
View ArticleIn the Field - To Self-Disclose or Not To Self-Disclose: That Question Is Too...
The social work literature typically frames self-disclosure as a complex and controversial use-of-self practice. Inquiring minds still want to know: "Should I do it or not?" That question is too simple.
View ArticleEthics Alive! Responding to NASW’s Professional Review Process
You receive a notice that someone has issued a request for professional review, claiming you have breached the NASW Code of Ethics. What are your next steps? This is Part 2 of a 2-part series.
View ArticleNoah Baumbach’s “Marriage Story” - An Engaging, Brilliantly Acted Film, with...
SaraKay Smullens reviews the film "Marriage Story" from a social work perspective.
View ArticleSelf-Care A-Z: Making Self-Care a Habit
Self-care needs to be individualized, integrated, and intentional. It needs to be structured, SMART, and sustainable. Habits engage all these components. Forming positive habits is crucial to self-care...
View ArticleThe Art of Adaptability – The Social Worker’s Superpower
Adaptability is a muscle that requires exercise like any other muscle we want to flex. In the field of social work, the art of adaptability is what can set us apart from the pack, allowing us to become...
View ArticleSelf-Care A-Z: A Whole-Hearted Story - Practice Doesn’t Make Perfect, But It...
With self-awareness, the writer moved from self-care that was "for work" only to self-compassion, self-love, and wholehearted self-care for her own happiness.
View ArticleBook Review: Like Falling Through a Cloud: A Lyrical Memoir
The New Social Worker's book review of Like Falling Through a Cloud: A Lyrical Memoir of Coping With Forgetfulness, Confusion, and a Dreaded Diagnosis.
View ArticleRiesgo de suicidio en las escuelas: lo que los trabajadores sociales deben saber
Spanish translation of Suicide Risk in Schools: What Social Workers Need To Know, by Jonathan Singer, translated by Vali Maduro de Gateño. Traducción al español del riesgo de suicidio en las escuelas:...
View ArticleSelf-Care A-Z - The Politics of Self-Care: Toward Radical Decolonization
For those who are members of marginalized groups, self-care is wrapped up in our liberation. Knowing that our liberation isn’t found in adjusting to an unjust society, we recognize self-care can’t be...
View Article“What Are You?” Navigating Mixed-ish Challenges and Opportunities in Social Work
The question, “What are you?” is frequently directed at multiracial people and implies they are "not normal." The new comedy Mixed-ish addresses issues of a biracial family. A model of multiracial...
View ArticleSocial Work Month 2020 - "Thank You" and Join Us for a Spectacular Month of...
It's THAT time of year again. March is Social Work Month, and The New Social Worker invites you to spend it with us. THANK you for all you do. Follow us all month (March 2020) for our essay series and...
View ArticleSocial Work Month 2020: Knowledge and Participation Are Powerful Tools for...
Kathryn Conley Wehrmann, PhD, LCSW, NASW national president, encourages social workers to participate in and learn from professional conferences and recent reports during Social Work Month 2020 and...
View ArticleSchool Social Workers Are a Beacon of Hope
School Social Work Week is March 1-7, 2020, and the theme is "Beacon of Hope: School Social Workers – Lighting the Way.” SSWAA executive director Rebecca Oliver outlines the many ways school social...
View ArticleAs an MSW, My Social Work Impact Practice Will Be - A Declaration of Excellence
Social work impact is pushing the human potential to actualization through raising awareness, empowering individuals, strengthening communities, and delivering results. Winthrop University MSW Class of...
View ArticleSocial Work Over the Generations: The Lessons We Carry
"Mrs. Paschal let me continue just long enough for the lesson but not long enough for my client or her children to suffer." A story of how one supervisor helped a new social worker distinguish between...
View ArticleSelf-Care A-Z: Now is the Time To Make Practitioner Well-Being Explicit in...
Erlene Grise-Owens and Justin "Jay" Miller, experts on social worker self-care, write about the need to make self-care and organizational wellness explicit in the NASW Code of Ethics.
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