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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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Rethinking Permanency for Teenagers and Young Adults
Reunification with biological families is ideal, but in cases in which that is not possible, adoption and guardianship both provide teenagers and young adults with options for stability, provision, and mentorship.
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Reimagining Self-Care
Self-preservation serves as a bolder approach in my efforts at honoring my human self in a profession that calls for compassionate giving of ourselves. Finding this balance is crucial and not always easy.
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Self-Care A-Z: Resisting and Reframing Toxic Messages
When we hear toxic messages about social work, speak up (including self-talk!), take action, and actively counter them. Let’s commit ourselves—individually and collectively—to resist and reframe.
Book Review—Solidarity: The Past, Present, and Future of a World-Changing Idea
Solidarity is the key to “fighting for someone you don't know as much as fighting for yourself.” This is an important work that all social workers should read, considering current events.
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Social Work Tech Talk: Misogyny Online
Misogyny hurts everyone. And it is often up to social workers to wade into these areas and to help the community work its way back to healthy emotional regulation.
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Vocational Rehab Is Social Work: Change Agents Empowering Individuals With Disabilities To Work
Vocational rehabilitation is not a detour from social work. It is a powerful, specialized lane within it. Social workers, are trained to meet people where they are and walk with them toward where they want to go. In VR, we get to do that every day.
Film Review: The Roses—The Life or Death of a Marriage
I must say how grateful I am that the marriage counselor in The Roses is not portrayed as a social worker. But her ineptness is integral to the satire of the film. Read our review.
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