Home From the War: Reflections on Memorial Day
This year, as in other Memorial Days past, I went to nearby Fort Campbell, KY, and paid my respects to friends and buddies no longer with us. Inevitably, as the day goes on, I'll think of my own...
View ArticleFrom Pariahs to Partners Book Review
Review of From Pariahs to Partners: How Parents and Their Allies Changed New York City's Child Welfare System
View ArticleChildren of Substance Abusing Parents Book Review
Book review of Children of Substance Abusing Parents
View ArticleImpersonating a Social Worker
If I met you at a party or the grocery store, and you asked me what I did for a living, I would repeat my well-rehearsed lie. “I’m a social worker.” I told myself that it was not really a lie, because...
View ArticleBelle Challenges Viewers To Think
Set in 1769 England, the film Belle looks in on Lord Mansfield, the Lord Chief Justice and highest judge in all of England, who must rule on a case that threatens to disrupt the nation’s vast...
View ArticleA Hostility Reduction Group
One violent person without treatment can create a significant number of victims in his or her lifetime. Hostility reduction groups focus on helping participants share the struggle and move in the...
View ArticleWhat Every Social Worker Needs To Know About Screening, Brief Intervention,...
The U.S. federal government has put forth the SBIRT model to identify and provide treatment services to individuals with substance disorders. SBIRT is an acronym for Screening, Brief Intervention, and...
View ArticleSocial (Work) Connections Through Social Media
Twenty years ago, I relied on my supervisor, co-workers, trainings, community meetings, and organizational newsletters to develop my networking with colleagues. Advances in technology offer global...
View ArticleCross-Disciplinary Theater Production Focuses on Abusive Relationships
Abusive relationships and their origins were examined in a play staged in Apl 2014 by the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee’s Helen Bader School of Social Welfare (HBSSW). The Milwaukee premiere of...
View ArticleCover Letters for Social Workers: Get Yourself the Interview
Should you submit a cover letter when one is not required? The answer is yes. Cover letters are essential to getting an interview. They are a concise way to communicate your value to an organization,...
View Article10 Essential Tips for Your Amazing Social Work Résumé
Whether you are a clinical or macro social worker, student, new professional, or have been in the field for 30 years, these essential tips will keep your résumé ready to send out to your future employer.
View ArticleFinding the Wisdom: 5 Tips for Young Supervisors
I am now the manager of my department, supervising a group of passionate, committed staff, some of whom are more than a decade older than I. Although I was fully aware of this fact when I accepted the...
View Article8 Tips for New Social Work Interns
Drawing from my experiences as a student, social worker, field instructor, field liaison, and now coordinator, I have been able to see all sides of the field education experience. I learned many...
View ArticleTeaching Cultural Competence
New social workers are on a path of self-discovery and has embraced acceptance, where he or she is from, and all that it entails. The new social worker speaks with confidence about race and ethnicity...
View ArticlePublisher's Thoughts - Summer 2014
Thoughts from publisher/editor Linda May Grobman on the Summer 2014 issue of THE NEW SOCIAL WORKER magazine.
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