SW 2.0: How to Communicate Effectively With Your Professor
By: Karen Zgoda, MSW, LCSW, ABD
View ArticleMaintaining Ethics in the Face of Temptation: A Probation Client's Offer
By: Thomas Horn, MSW, RSW
View ArticleLet It Be Me: The Self-Appointed Supervisor
It feels as if this new-found friend has assumed the role of being your self-appointed supervisor (aka: SAS). You are not quite sure when, why, how, or what happened, but suddenly it seems that SAS...
View ArticleAn MSW Student's Life: Spring 2010
The end of graduate school is so near, and for the first time, I am contemplating what it will be like when it’s all over. I’ve ordered my cap and gown for the big day: May 8, 2010, at 10 a.m. I am...
View ArticleTheater Processes Therapeutic in Drama Therapy
Aside from clinical training and experience, the one skill a clinician must develop is that of communication. That sounds simple enough—talking and hearing. These abilities are not enough. Let’s look...
View ArticlePresenting a Patient or Client to the Medical Team
Aside from clinical training and experience, the one skill a clinician must develop is that of communication. That sounds simple enough—talking and hearing. These abilities are not enough. Let’s look...
View ArticleAging in Place and Urban Social Work: A Case Study of a NORC
Although Americans move about and resettle more than people from any other country, the trend for current elders and baby boomers is to reside in their original communities as they age. In fact, the...
View ArticleBuilding a Practice While Raising a Family
I have five kids and I did it. It was not always easy, but whenever social workers or therapists who are moms, or who want to be moms, ask me how I built a full-time private practice with small...
View ArticleFrom Professional to Cancer Patient: A Social Worker's View
By: Sharon McLaughlin,MSW, RSW
View ArticleBook Reviews: Spring 2010
In the Face of Death: Professionals Who Care for the Dying and the Bereaved, by Danai Papadatou, Springer Publishing Company, New York, 2009, 330 pages, $55.00.
View ArticleSW 2.0: Profiles in Social Work Technology: John McNutt, Ph.D.
John McNutt has done much work in social work and technology. He has helped agencies with their technology, used it in his courses, and done research on how it works in the field. He has also written...
View ArticleSocial Workers as Whistle Blowers
As advocates for social justice and the welfare of clients, social workers should be among the forefront of whistle blowers (Greene & Latting, 2004; Mansbach & Bachner, 2008). So, what types of...
View ArticleExploring the Uncharted: Creating a New Social Work Field Placement
You find a social work agency that you believe would be the perfect place for your field practicum, only to discover that it is not on the list of agencies sanctioned by your school of social work. You...
View ArticleTreating New Social Worker Anxiety Syndrome (NSWAS)
After years of school, you’ve finally graduated with your master’s degree in social work. You are relieved, ecstatic, and...petrified! You are plagued by the thought that you didn’t learn enough and...
View ArticleNew Social Worker Anxiety Syndrome
New social worker anxiety syndrome (NSWAS) is not an official DSM diagnosis. But if it were, the symptoms might include: Cluster A (must include one of the following): Anxiety related to: working in...
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