Workplace Safety for Social Workers: A Student's Analysis and Opinion
By: Shannon Alther, MSW
View ArticleHomeless Education: Providing Stable Education for Children and Youth in...
Homeless education is a movement mostly known to school-based and child welfare social workers. Guided by the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act, this form of education seeks to provide parameters...
View ArticleWhat I Wish I Had Known: Burnout and Self-Care in Our Social Work Profession
The training to become a social worker is arduous, demanding, and complex. What isn't always stressed enough are the issues of burnout, compassion fatigue, and the need for self care in the profession...
View ArticleClinicians in Court: Thwarting Disclosure
Treating clinicians often wish they could prevent disclosure of records. Some reasons are ethically justifiable, others not. Clinicians treating victims of sexual assault, for example, may be concerned...
View ArticleRed Cross Digital Disaster Volunteers Offer Support Through Social Media
By: John Weaver, LCSW, Valerie Cole, and Gloria Huang
View ArticleSocial Work Students in Action--Advocacy!
Our Fall 2012 slide show of social work students advocating at lobby days, pride days, and rallies!
View ArticleEthics Alive! Whoops! Practice Errors and the Ethics of Follow-Up
Nobody is perfect. And certainly, it would be naïve to assume that social workers are perfect in their professional practice. What happens when we make a mistake—perhaps an error of judgment, an...
View ArticleNew Acronyms=Greater Opportunities for Social Workers in Health Care Settings
Interprofessional education (IPE) and interprofessional collaborative practice (IPCP) are emerging concepts that are important to social workers and others working in healthcare settings.
View ArticleTech 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...
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