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Giving Non-Advice: Fostering Independence and Resilience in Social Work Clients
Excessive advice-giving doesn’t belong in the therapy room. As a new social worker, you will need to resist the temptation a dozen times a day to pack clients full of your fresh therapy knowledge.
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How Childhood Trauma Shapes the Work and Lives of Social Workers
The legacy of childhood trauma is complex, but it is not immutable. As social workers, we have the opportunity to confront and heal our own wounds, breaking the cycles of trauma that have shaped us.
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Self-Care A-Z: Wise Up—Self-Care Wisdom From Seasoned Social Workers
Late-career social workers often wish they’d “wised up” sooner about taking care of themselves. From our interchanges, I’ve distilled six practice-wisdom pointers. What might you add?
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Social Work Tech Talk-Plus: Dear Social Work Graduates—You Are Already Wise
You have made it all this way, toiled through your social work graduate program, and I’m supposed to say something wise to you. But you’re already wise.
Book Review: The Blind Man Game
The Blind Man Game is a memoir about the challenges faced by a psychologist who was diagnosed with Stargardt Disease at the age of 21. Read our review.
Book Review: Help Wanted—A Novel
Help Wanted, a work of fiction, is a social commentary on the gig economy and the plight of part-time workers. Set in upstate New York, Town Square is a big box store, likely recognizable to most readers.
Putting POETRY Into Practice
April is National Poetry Month. What, you might ask, does that have to do with me and my social work practice? Social worker/poet Jane Seskin illustrates how three poems can reveal thoughts and feelings that might have gone unseen and untouched.
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Ethics Alive! Ethical Responses to Conflict With Our Social Work Colleagues
How should aggrieved social workers respond when they believe that a colleague has behaved unprofessionally, rudely, or incompetently? The NASW Code of Ethics suggests that we should treat our colleagues with respect.
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