What Every New Social Worker Needs To Know
What Every New Social Worker Needs To Know...Trauma Informed Care in Social Work
Social workers work with people with long histories of abuse and violence. Even when not serving the most vulnerable, we may be working with people who have experienced a traumatic event. Read more
Top 10 Things Social Workers Need To Know About Human Sexuality
Social work programs throughout the country help prepare you for many of the challenging content areas that you will face throughout your career. The topic of human sexuality, however, is typically glossed over. Read more
What Every Social Worker Needs To Know About Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT)
The U.S. federal government has put forth the SBIRT model to identify and provide treatment services to individuals with substance disorders. SBIRT is an acronym for Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment. Read more
What Every Social Worker Needs To Know About the Universal Accreditation Act of 2012
The Universal Accreditation Act extends the safeguards provided by Hague accreditation to orphans born in countries that are not signatories to the Hague Adoption Convention, their adoptive parents, and birth parents. Read more
What Every New Social Worker Needs To Know About DSM-5
There are a lot of changes in the Fifth Edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5) that have social workers talking. Some of the revisions are seen as positive. Several are raising concern Read more
5 Things Every New Social Worker Needs To Know About Money
Regardless of the type of social work being practiced, or the setting it is practiced in, every problem and issue social work clients bring into a session has a financial component: homelessness, hunger, domestic violence, job and/or healthcare loss, Read more
Infusing Social Work and Reproductive Justice To Advocate for Women's Sexual Health
I’m new to social work, but have been involved in various aspects of the sexual and reproductive justice movement for nearly 10 years. What drew me to social work were the limitless possibilities to help others, from working one-on-one in a Read more
10 Things Every Social Worker Needs to Know About Domestic Violence
Twenty years ago, little empirical knowledge about intimate partner violence existed, conceptual explanations for relationship violence were not well thought out, and social workers were ill trained for dealing with the problem. Domestic violence, at Read more
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