Who Inspires Me as a Social Worker? Everyone!
Who inspires me as a social worker? Everyone inspires me.
View ArticleVigilance
when my phone rings in the middle of the night, there's a power surge that happens in my brain. i want to hear that the person is headed to the hospital, and that all is not lost. i want to know that...
View ArticleTaking Care of Business and a Few Other Things Along the Way
Far too often, self care is referred to and referenced as a way to prevent burnout. Although that is a good reason to take care of yourself, I do find another less talked about and more appealing...
View ArticleWhy I Want To Be a Social Worker
From the time I was seven and I lost my mother, I felt different. I felt like my being on this earth was for a reason and that I was destined to do something great with my life. I did not fit in with...
View ArticleBecause I Wanted To Help People
Social work is a broad field. You can do lots of different things while being a social worker. Social work is a helping field. Everything you do as a social worker can be meaningful.
View ArticleMy Social Work Inspiration
Social work is something I have always had a passion for. As I grew up in a home with a mother who works as a social worker, becoming a social worker myself was a given.
View ArticleThe Magnificence of the Social Work Profession
This poem by Claudia Marcela Hernandez Palacio celebrates the magnificence of the social work profession.
View ArticleMultiple Minority Identities: Applications for Practice, Research, & Training...
Book review of Multiple Minority Identities: Applications for Practice, Research, and Training, Nettles and Balter
View ArticleThe Children's Bureau: Shaping a Century of Child Welfare Practices,...
Book review of The Children's Bureau: Shaping a Century of Child Welfare Practices, Programs, and Policies, Lawson, McCarthy, and Dickinson.
View ArticleResearch Methods for Social Workers, 2nd Edition - Book Review
Book review of Research Methods for Social Workers, 2nd Edition, Faulkner and Faulkner
View ArticleTranscending Dementia Through the TTAP Method: A New Psychology of Art,...
Book review of Transcending Dementia Through the TTAP Method: A New Psychology of Art, Brain, & Cognition, Madori.
View ArticleMicroaggressions and the Internet
The online environment is rampant with prejudicial statements against many different populations not in the majority. Microaggressions are about power imbalance and privilege afforded the dominant...
View ArticleCompassionate Competence: A New Model for Social Work Practice
I posit that we, as social workers, embrace a new philosophy about our profession. I no longer want to be merely culturally competent. The vision of compassion plus competent action can indeed change...
View ArticleSocial Workers as Mandated Reporters: I Made the Report - Now What? Part VII
Congratulations! You used your education, experience, expertise, and critical thinking skills to make a tough call to Child Protective Services. Now you’re wondering what’s next…
View ArticleUnderstanding the Involuntary Commitment Process: Helping Patients Maintain...
Through my work as a social worker on a voluntary inpatient psychiatric unit, I have seen how complicated the mental health system can become when a state entity must get involved with psychiatric...
View ArticleGroups: Rescuing the Creative Self: An Art Expression Group
Not all that long ago in our culture, creative pursuits were more commonplace. People kept personal journals, painted watercolor studies of their gardens, sketched while on vacation, and repurposed...
View ArticleWhat Every Social Worker Needs To Know About the Universal Accreditation Act...
The Universal Accreditation Act extends the safeguards provided by Hague accreditation to orphans born in countries that are not signatories to the Hague Adoption Convention, their adoptive parents,...
View ArticleFinding Families for Children - Not Children for Families: Social Workers and...
Through the use of strengths and empowerment perspectives, social workers are in a unique position to support all members of the adoption triad, including birth parents, child, and adoptive parents.
View ArticleThe Oscars and Thanking Those Who Helped Along the Way
Surprisingly, the highlight of the 86th Academy Awards night for me wasn’t finding out who won what; it was Lupita Nyong’o’s enthusiastically grateful acceptance speech for Best Supporting Actress.
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