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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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What I Wish We Had Known: What Was Overlooked in DEI and Related Advocacy
Social workers have watched our ethically driven DEI goals used as a terrifying assault against democracy. Have we unknowingly contributed to this disaster, when we could have played a leadership role protecting and integrating these values?
Self-Care A-Z: Super Self-Care Summer Is Here: Follow This Weekly Guide
The New Social Worker is celebrating Super Self-Care Summer! Use our weekly guide for a summer of deepening your self-care practice.
Ethics Alive! Dual Relationships and Fuzzy Boundaries on AppleTV’s “Shrinking” Series—Entertaining But Unethical
The Shrinking series is certainly not a how-to documentary for people wanting to be effective, ethical therapists. Still, it raises interesting issues about the complexities of dual relationships, professional boundaries, and ethical practice.
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AI’s Integration Into the Therapeutic Space: A Provider’s Perspective
I’ve been aware that AI is becoming an increasingly popular tool, but some of the ways people are utilizing it were surprising. Hearing that clients were using AI for therapy was something I hadn’t anticipated.
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When the Room Is the Stressor: Rethinking “Symptoms” in Neurodivergent Clients
Therapists often think of the therapy room as a container. A safe space. A quiet space. A place set apart from the demands of ordinary life. But for many neurodivergent clients, the room is not automatically safe just because we intend it to be.
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Self-Care A-Z: A Letter to My Newbie Self-Care Self
I decided to write a letter to myself, when I was just beginning to delve into prioritizing self-care. I hope my letter resonates and perhaps encourages you to write your own—and invite others in your sphere to do so, too.
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Social Work Foresight and Action on Climate and Tech Vulnerabilities
Generations Alpha and Z are sounding the alarm bells on two major issues of our time—climate and technology justice. Foresight practice is a tool that can help us become better equipped in addressing these challenges.
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