Self-Care, A-Z: More Lessons of Resilience for Self-Care Inspiration
Amidst toxic racism and stark poverty, George Dawson demonstrated incredible personal resilience. This entry elucidates four more of Dawson’s compelling lessons of resilience for self-care inspiration,...
View ArticleASWB Launches Path to Licensure Institute
ASWB Path to Licensure Institute scholars will develop a model for introducing information about social work licensing and regulation to their students and design a regulation-specific research project...
View ArticleMerckManuals.com Focusing on Elder Abuse in Advance of World Elder Abuse...
Expert information on how to prevent elder abuse and recognize and respond to the problem when it does occur will be highlighted on MerckManuals.com, an online medical reference, during the first half...
View ArticleSelf-Care A-to-Z: Fired Up to Spark Self-Care
As we “do our jobs,” we traverse toxicity and encounter ethical choices, which may lead to firing. May we have clear, consistent values and courageous, caring personal Boards of Trustees! And, let’s be...
View ArticleSocial Worker Success & Self-Care Toolbox
With the right tools in your toolbox, you can achieve success and self-care in your social work career.
View ArticleSelf-Care Summer 2017 - Be a Part of It!
You can participate in The New Social Worker's Self-Care Summer 2017 project. Here's how.
View ArticleSelf-Care, A-Z: Re-Fired - Grade “A” Living Into Possibilities of Self-Care
None of us do self-care perfectly; yet, we often try to live up to an expectation of perfection. Instead, let’s commit to live into the possibilities of self-care!
View ArticleJust Send Love to IT - An Original Song About Today's Society
What do we do when we are blue about the events of the day? Dr. Jules Gilliam performs her original song (with music by Robert Hitz) that says when a tragedy happens in the world, you can just send...
View ArticleASWB Completes Practice Analysis, Will Launch New Social Work Licensing Exams...
The Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) has released its 2017 Analysis of the Practice of Social Work. Changes to licensing exams will take effect January 2, 2018.
View ArticleHigh-Mileage Questions for Social Worker Self-Care
Our bodies and minds know what they need through the help of being asked high mileage questions.
View ArticleBook Review: Strategies for Deconstructing Racism in the Health and Human...
Book review of Strategies for Deconstructing Racism in the Health and Human Services
View ArticleBook Review: Health Care as a Right of Citizenship: The Continuing Evolution...
Book review of Health Care as a Right of Citizenship: The Continuing Evolution of Reform
View ArticleBook Review: Mind: A Journey to the Heart of Being Human
Book review of Mind: A Journey to the Heart of Being Human
View ArticleToxic Masculinity Is a Macro Social Work Issue
The term “toxic masculinity” can describe a set of very narrow standards, behaviors, and expectations for manhood and masculinity that values dominance, power, and control and devalues empathy, the...
View ArticleNew Social Workers and Practice Data: Publishing Your Program Evaluation...
“Don’t I need a Ph.D. to publish?” and “Don’t journal articles only come from authors associated with a university?” The answers are a resounding “no” and “no.”
View ArticleTake Caution, Social Workers: Not All Poverty Trainings Are Created Equal
Workshops and other forms of training on poverty offer options for agencies to bridge the gap with their multi-disciplinary staff. However, not all poverty trainings are equal in quality or ideological...
View ArticleHelping Keep Older Parents Safe When Not Everyone Agrees
Many aging families struggle with the uncertain future of keeping aging parents safe and comfortable. Social workers can assist them in sorting out the realities of their unique family circumstances.
View ArticleTech Topics - 7 Ways Technology Can Enhance Your Social Work Conference...
Spending face-to-face time with colleagues at conferences is invigorating. Technology can enrich the experience. Social workers relate their favorite ways to use tech at conferences.
View ArticleThe Impact of Sexual Trauma: Working With Men and Boys in a Psychiatric...
So often, when we think of victims or survivors of interpersonal violence, specifically sexual assault, we think of girls and women. In reality and throughout history, boys and men have also...
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