Summer/Fall 2014 Social Work Book Club Selection: Beginnings, Middles, & Ends
The New Social Worker Social Work Book Club has chosen Beginnings, Middles, & Ends: Sideways Stories on the Art & Soul of Social Work as its official book club selection for Summer/Fall 2014.
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Do you have a tip for social work grad school applicants or for current social work grad students? Do you have grad school questions? Please consider contributing to our social work grad school tips...
View ArticleAlive Inside Film Review: Social Work, Music, and Alzheimers
A review of the film, Alive Inside, which follows social worker Dan Cohen in his work to provide personalized music to nursing home residents with Alzheimer's disease. Systemic issues in the healthcare...
View ArticleRobin Williams and the Reality of Suicide
As I was drawing to the end a dynamic and thought provoking Survivor of Suicide Support Group meeting, my cell phone was buzzing. Another suicide loss survivor’s phone also started to ring. She...
View ArticleChallenging Myself: Out of My Comfort Zone
I am a francophone student. I was born and raised in Montreal, and my parents are both from Haiti. I have never ever studied in an institution where the entire teaching was done in English.
View ArticleBuilding Bridges Internationally: Rosita Mazzi Visits The New Social Worker...
Rosita Mazzi, a social worker from Italy, visited The New Social Worker office in Pennsylvania and shared ideas and research with students and social workers at Temple university and PA NASW.
View ArticleSocial Work and Distance Education Call for Papers & Proposals
CSWE and the Indiana University School of Social Work are convening a conference on Social Work and Distance Education April 15-17, 2015, in Indianapolis at the Crowne Plaza Downtown. The organizers...
View ArticleSome History, Facts, and Resources for Labor Day
History, facts and resources for Labor Day.
View ArticleRutgers University Social Work Student Cierra Kaler-Jones Competes for Miss...
Bubbly, energetic, driven. These words describe Cierra Kaler-Jones, a bachelor of social work (BSW) student who not only is competing for the Miss America title, but aims to someday become the U.S....
View ArticleChicago teenagers seasoned by rejection and life on the streets defy the odds
Three homeless Chicago youth fight for an education and eventual independence. The film, The Homestretch, powerfully explores surrounding issues of race, juvenile justice, immigration, foster care, and...
View ArticleSuch Bright Blue Skies: Reflections on 9/11
Social worker Ellen Fink-Samnick reflects on being a hospital social worker at Virginia Hospital Center, the hospital in the closest proximity to the Pentagon and that received a majority of the...
View ArticleGoonj launches NJPC – A Million Voices - A global campaign to shun the shame...
Goonj, an India-based nonprofit, has launched the NJPC - A Million Voices campaign, bringing together a million voices shunning the taboo on menses.
View ArticleDomesticshelters.org Provides Searchable Domestic Violence Shelter Database
The new website at domesticshelters.org has launched to provide consumers the first online searchable domestic violence provider database.
View ArticleRocks in My Pockets Film Review
Rocks in My Pockets is an animated retelling of the story of depression, suicidal thoughts, and schizophrenia over several generations of the family of Latvian artist Signe Baumane. Baumane herself...
View ArticleTrans Bodies Trans Selves Book Review
Book review of Trans Bodies, Trans Selves by Laura Erickson-Schroth, Editor.
View ArticlePractical Supervision Book Review
Book review of Practical Supervision by Penny Henderson, Jim Holloway, and Anthea Millar.
View ArticleGender Inclusive Treatment of Intimate Partner Abuse Book Review
Book review of Gender Inclusive Treatment of Intimate Partner Abuse, by John Hamel.
View ArticleSocial Work Students Wear T-Shirts!
Social work students are shown in a slide show wearing t-shirts representing their social work student clubs and the social work profession.
View ArticleBurnout and Self Care: A Process in Helping
Is burnout an endpoint or a process? If it is an endpoint, are professional helpers at risk for that outcome while having limited ability to do anything about it? If it is a process, doesn’t that...
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