Sanctuary for Families Welcomes Laura Fernandez as New Clinical Director
Laura M. Fernandez, LMSW, has been appointed Clinical Director at Sanctuary for Families, a leading service provider and advocate for survivors of domestic violence, sex trafficking, and related forms...
View ArticleThe Loss Without a Name - Pregnancy and Infant Loss
Pregnancy and infant loss often occurs in silence, causing a moratorium on grief that can have tremendous impact upon the health of the mother and the rest of the family. This grief can transform into...
View ArticleYour Social Work Brand Question & Answer with Sean Erreger, LCSW
Kristin Battista-Frazee answers Sean Erreger's question about what to do next, once he has built his social work brand.
View ArticleReal World Clinical Social Work Blog: The Myth of the Perfect Intervention
I want to address the powerful myth of the “perfect” intervention or the search to say the “perfect” thing. I often hear students and supervisees struggling to figure out what to say or what to “do”...
View ArticleFour Steps to Managing Your Brand on Social Media While in Clinical Practice
As you engage on social media, you might finally feel like you’re taking control of your brand, until you receive a Facebook friend request from your client. The ethical dilemmas are immediate, and...
View ArticleReal World Clinical Social Work Blog: Can we ever take our hats off?
We don’t take off our hats when some arbitrary rule says that work is over at 5:00 pm, or a session ends after 45 minutes. It isn’t that we can never take our social work hats off. It is that we do so...
View ArticleSocial Work Podcast: Becoming a Clinical Social Worker with Dr. Danna...
Jonathan Singer of the Social Work Podcast interviews Dr. Danna Bodenheimer on what it means to be a clinical social worker. A phenomenal conversation between two social workers. A must-listen!
View ArticleMeet Your Next Challenge With a Journaling Exercise!
Could you or some of your clients benefit from a bit of encouragement or support prior to facing a difficult challenge? One powerful technique to try is Dima Dupéré’s “Letter of Encouragement”...
View ArticleReal World Clinical Social Work Blog: Joining the Chorus
Our work as clinical social workers is not necessarily to compete with introjects, although we sometimes do. But wrestling matches are often hard fought, losing battles. Instead, our work is to join...
View ArticleYour Social Work Brand: What We Gain and Our Goals for Personal Branding:...
As you watch your colleagues and social work experts share resources and network online, you might emulate what they do in your personal branding. But what might work for them may not work for you. The...
View ArticleReal World Clinical Social Work Blog: Alphabet Soup: EMDR, DBT, CBT, TF-CBT,...
I think that there are some powerful and unifying themes that we ought to be adhering to and, really, refusing to get distracted from. There are three central things that I am working on doing at all...
View ArticleThe Holiday Triangle - Thoughts for Social Workers
We are entering the series of holidays I call the Holiday Triangle. We have embraced this triangle with the intentions of joyfulness, happiness, and fulfillment. Within this process, we have done so...
View ArticleReal World Clinical Social Work Blog: Stinging Stoicism
While I certainly have no affection for wasps, I am so grateful for the one that stung me. It made me realize how deadened I can be in treatment. It made me realize just how easy it is for me to stay...
View ArticleYour Social Work Brand: The Anatomy of an Elevator Pitch
From that first “hello” - not the song by Adele, but when you meet someone at a social work conference - it’s the opening that can take your career or services you provide to a new level.
View ArticleThe Tyranny of Self Help or the Necessity of Existential Depression
What if we embrace dysfunction and depression? What if we refuse the dangling carrot of the self-help section at Barnes and Noble? What if we don’t try to make our clients feel less pain than they...
View ArticleA Monk in Munich
Ogden Rogers on mass shootings, monks, mindfulness, and caring for all beings.
View ArticleReal World Clinical Social Work Blog: Boundaries versus the Super Ego
Boundaries don’t have to equal withholding silence, and truly showing up is not a transgression. And our superegos need not be our guide. Our clinical frames and professional ethics more than suffice.
View ArticleYour Social Work Brand: Out With the Old, In With Your New Social Work Brand...
With a new year almost upon us, it is time to think about the future. It’s exciting (and stressful) to consider a career change, going to school, or relocating. Whatever your resolutions, is your brand...
View ArticleReal World Clinical Social Work Blog: Invisible Bodies
While clinical social work is clearly the meeting of two minds, it is also the meeting of two intricate bodies. And for every single body, there is a mind having a complex experience of that body’s...
View ArticleSocial Worker on the Shelf, and What Barbie Has Taught Me About Feminism
Linda is the Social Worker on the Shelf. According to her Instagram account (s_w_ontheshelf), Social Worker on the Shelf is sent by the state board elves every December to magically show the...
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