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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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New Social Worker: You Have the Degree. So Why Do You Still Feel Like a Fraudster?
School prepared you to think like a social worker. Your first job asks you to be one, in real time, with real consequences, often with a caseload that would humble a veteran. That gap between classroom and practice is where impostor syndrome lives.
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Returning the Color to Our Eyes
Secondary trauma and compassion fatigue rarely arrive all at once. Instead, they accumulate quietly until we no longer recognize ourselves. Then we realize the work that once made us feel purposeful has begun draining parts of ourselves.
Book Review: Beyond the Darkness
Beyond the Darkness succeeds as a thoughtful exploration of one person’s journey toward healing through unconventional means. Read The New Social Worker’s review.
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Autism Self-Diagnosis Versus Medical Diagnosis
For some people, a formal autism diagnosis is affirming and useful. For others, it is confusing, unavailable, inconclusive, or actively harmful.
Book Review—Ozempic for Smarties
With growing media attention on GLP-1s for weight loss, the book Ozempic for Smarties is particularly relevant for social workers supporting clients in medical and behavioral health care settings. Read our review.
Book Review: The AARP Caregiver Answer Book
The AARP Caregiver Answer Book is a practical guide for individuals who choose to become caregivers or unexpectedly find themselves caring for an aging, chronically ill, or disabled loved one.
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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?
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