We All Have a Story: A Social Worker’s “Thank You”
I wish she could see that she inspired both my younger sister and me to become social workers. I wish she could see that the way she worked with us has molded my practice. I wish I could say “thank you.”
View ArticleAchieving Racial Equity Through Social Work: Gatekeeping and Manifestations...
Previously, we explored the Undoing Racism® principle of analyzing power (see http://www.pisab.org/our-principles). Now, we examine our roles as gatekeepers and our responsibility to identify and...
View ArticleWhat Every New Social Worker Needs To Know...Trauma Informed Care in Social Work
Social workers work with people with long histories of abuse and violence. Even when not serving the most vulnerable, we may be working with people who have experienced a traumatic event.
View ArticleHow Do You Know if You Will Be Happy in a Social Work Job?
How do we really know what the future holds or if we will be happy in a particular job? You can go to school and learn all about the theory of helping people, but until you actually do the work, you...
View ArticleA New Social Work Professional’s Guide to Work Relationships
We spend more time at work with our co-workers than we do with our own families or personal support networks during the week. So, if you don’t have strong, healthy relationships at your place of...
View ArticleEthics Alive! Social Work With Client Friends and Family: Avoiding Collateral...
The first standard in the NASW Code of Ethics advises social workers that their primary ethical obligation is to clients. The Code is silent on what obligations, if any, social workers owe to clients’...
View ArticlePublisher's Thoughts - Summer 2016
Publisher/editor Linda May Grobman sums up the Summer 2016 issue of The New Social Worker magazine.
View ArticleEmotional Acres of Land/Black Lives Matter
Clinically, our work comes down to the provision of an emotional acre of land for each client. For clients of color, this requires a more generous invitation into the room. It requires an intentional...
View ArticleReal World Clinical Blog: Rethinking Addiction Treatment
Addiction work is truly trauma work. Trauma work requires deep attunement; recognition of developmental capacity and limitations; and steady, vigorous attention to the relationship.
View ArticleWe Need To Prepare Social Work Students for Secondary Stress in the Workplace
Social work students need to learn appropriate strategies for handling the daily stressors associated with our profession, preemptively. We need to learn more in-depth, resilience-promoting strategies.
View ArticleProfessional Scholarship in Social Work Practice - Video
Scholarship, or contributing to the social work professional literature, can seem daunting and overwhelming. Here are some simple ideas to get started on your way to scholarship!
View Article10 Things I Learned From Taking a Social Work Job I Didn’t Think I Wanted
Many people are truly called to work with patients who are dying. As someone who didn’t feel called to this work and didn’t have a lot of experience being in the dying space with someone, this was...
View ArticleReal World Clinical Blog: On Childhood Sexual Abuse
To successfully treat children who have been sexually abused, several paradigm shifts are required. This means, primarily, that we need to reconceptualize the possible scope of sexual abuse.
View ArticleSelf-Care Summer: Coloring for Social Workers
The recent trend toward coloring books for adults inspired the creation of these coloring pages for social workers, from Nate Crowell, blogger at SocialWorkerSuccess.com.
View ArticleJob-Seeking Strategies for the Nontraditional Social Work Student
So here you are, an older/nontraditional student who has majored in social work and who isn’t quite sure which path to follow with your degree. Unlike a lot of other careers, social work offers many...
View ArticleSelf-Care as a Vital Tool in Maintaining an Objective Perspective and a...
The next time you find yourself struggling to indulge in emotional well-being sustaining self-care, remember to give yourself permission to reach for that oxygen mask. It really is okay and necessary.
View ArticleReal World Clinical Blog: An Enactment With Rice - Reflections on Lunch and...
I met the therapist of my life in 1995. I was a sophomore in college. The vernacular around having a love of our life is well established. But we don’t talk as much about the therapist of our life.
View ArticleSocial Work Self-Care: The Art of Outside Meditation
Most people are not awake at 5 a.m. But this is the chosen time and this is when I awaken to take care of myself. For a very long time, I have had a meditation practice.
View ArticleBook Review: Two Peas In A Separated Pod: A True Story of Adoption
Book review of Two Peas in a Separated Pod: A True Story of Adoption.
View ArticleSelf-Care Summer: Flowers on a Walk
During mostly daily mile-long walks on my street this spring, I took photographs. Here are two flowers I saw on my walks.
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