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Creating Trust and Rapport With Foreign-Born Clients Imagine—you just walked into a new client’s home to ascertain needs for food assistance. You notice an elaborate shrine boasting a bronze Buddha. Several plates of fruit and rice are sitti... Read More >>
Welcome, social work students and professionals! Read articles from the Fall 2010 edition of The New Social Worker magazine, now in its 17th year! While you're here--we have job listings, a lively discussion forum, and more for you and your social work career!
'Til Death Do Us Part: Does a Client Ever Stop Being a Client? If you’re in a partnership, you can dissolve it. In a committed relationship, you can break up and go separate ways. You can divorce your spouse and start fresh. However, does your client ever stop being your client, no matter how much time has... Read More >>
Field Placement
Fielding Challenges, Finding Strengths Having mingled over pastries and coffee, 26 field agency supervisors settled into their chairs and looked expectantly at five baccalaureate pre-field social work seniors. The students had chosen to orchestrate the bi-annual workshop offered to all pa... Read More >>
Social Work in a Public Health Tuberculosis Control Program What does a public health TB social worker do? When a social worker hears this question, many thoughts may go through his or her head. These thoughts may include: I just set up a guy with food stamps today. Yesterday, I referred someone to a mental h... Read More >>
International Social Work in Nigeria, Africa According to Delma Jackson, professor in the department of social work at Fayetteville State University, “The pace of global challenges suggests more is needed than classroom theory and internship practice. Future social workers have to be read... Read More >>
SW 2.0
Adventures 'Round the Social Work Web Back-to-school season is here, and it’s time to make sure our Web browsers are ready to handle our information needs for the semester. While we can certainly Google just about anything and find information, sometimes it is helpful to start with... Read More >>
Fall 2010 Links The folliowing is a collection of social work-related links included in the Fall 2010 SW 2.0 column by Karen Zgoda... Read More >>
Reviews
Book Reviews: Fall 2010 Book reviews from the Fall 2010 issue of THE NEW SOCIAL WORKER. Reviews of Grief and Loss Across the Lifespan: A Biopsychosocial Perspective, and Hope in the Age of Anxiety: A Guide to Understanding and Strengthening Our Most Important Virtue... Read More >>
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Advertiser Index Fall 2010 Visit our advertisers for the Fall 2010 issue of THE NEW SOCIAL WORKER. They are: Temple University Harrisburg—http://www.temple.edu/harrisburg Erikson Institute—http://www.erikson.edu/dualdegreeColorado State University—http://www.... Read More >>
