Audio Feature: Burning Rooms and Trains
Burning Rooms and Trains--a poem by Mozart Guerrier, inspired by his experience as a housing social worker.
View ArticleThe Great Divide: A Growing Disconnect (Response to the DSM-5)
In your work, you may be encountering an unfortunate reality of the social work profession and of the psychological professions in general: researchers and clinicians have not usually walked hand in...
View ArticleEthics Alive! Ethical Concerns in Social Work Field Supervision
When student interns and other new social workers are making decisions about where to work, one of the most important factors to consider is the quality of field supervision. Ideally, you will have a...
View ArticleConsiderations in Group Supervision
Social work supervision groups can be theme-centered, case-centered, or worker-centered.
View ArticleSocial Workers as Mandated Reporters: Conflicted Over Confidentiality? Part IV
Since your first practice class in a social work program, you’ve been told 1,001 times that you must keep client information confidential. And yet you are a mandated reporter, required by law to report...
View ArticleClosure and Other Films Look at Adoptees Searching for Birth Families
Angela was adopted at a very young age from foster care. Her adoption was transracial. It also was considered a “special needs” adoption—Angela had serious medical conditions, and doctors suggested...
View ArticleBook Reviews: Fall 2013
Book reviews from the Fall 2013 issue of The New Social Worker magazine.
View ArticleTechnology Assessments for Families
Assessments are a part of social work intervention. Why do we need technology assessments? Never in our history has information and social connection been so available to teenagers.
View ArticlePublisher's Thoughts: Fall 2013
Publisher's Thoughts for Fall 2013 issue of The New Social Worker magazine. Message from Linda May Grobman, publisher/editor.
View ArticleWelcome to The New Social Worker's New, Upgraded Site!
The New Social Worker has been on the move this year! In addition to moving to a brand new office, we also have moved to an updated website with more features than ever.
View ArticleVIDEO: This I Believe: A Social Work Student's Response
University of Louisville social work student responds to the book, This I Believe.
View ArticleSocial Work Podcast: Interview With Allan Barsky on Social Work Values and...
Jonathan Singer interviews social work ethics expert Allan Barsky on social work values and ethics.
View ArticleSocial Work Podcast: Interview With Allan Barsky on Social Workers in Court
Jonathan Singer interviews social work ethics and legal expert Allan Barsky on social workers in court.
View ArticleAUDIO: Interview With Ogden Rogers on Wisconsin Public Radio
Ogden Rogers, author of Beginnings, Middles, & Ends: Sideways Stories on the Art & Soul of Social Work, was interviewed on WPR on November 7, 2013. Listen to the interview here.
View ArticleWhy not Why: An Audio Excerpt from Beginnings, Middles, & Ends
Ogden Rogers reads a story, "Why not Why," from his book, Beginnings, Middles, & Ends: Sideways Stories on the Art & Soul of Social Work.
View ArticleVideo & Poetry: I'm Only Human and What Is Justice?
"I'm Only Human" is a documentary that highlights the injustices of the penitentiary systems. It shows live interviews of individuals who have experienced time in jail and have witnessed and been...
View ArticleKilling Brendan (I go, Ego, We go) - Audio Excerpt from Beginnings, Middles,...
Ogden Rogers, author of Beginnings, Middles, & Ends: Sideways Stories on the Art & Soul of Social Work, reads an excerpt describing the realization of a dark place that resides within the...
View ArticleEthics Scenario #118: Fund for the Preservation of Historic Rileyville
This ethics scenario deals with an executive director who suggests to her board to approve her idea to ask her uncle, a CPA, to volunteer to audit her organization.
View ArticleReporting Financial Misconduct at Uncommon Agenda--Case Study
This is a fictional nonprofit ethics case that focuses on a staff member who uncovers fraud within the organization and must decide whether to be loyal to a personal friend and colleague or report...
View ArticleThe One (Wo)Man Band Running the Kenmore Midget League--Case Study
This is a fictional case study that focuses on a board chair who runs an organization in an authoritarian manner and who engages in questionable management and governance practices.
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