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With the Affordable Care Act and the changes in the DSM-V, social workers have a lot to keep up with in providing the...

A mother finds herself in a domestically violent relationship and she has children. Child Protective Services (CPS) becomes involved and...

Photo Courtesy Panoramio.com Sometimes social workers ask me how they can connect Geographic Information Systems (GIS) or spatial analysis to...

Amanda Bynes via Twitter Recently, 28 year-old Amanda Bynes was hospitalized in an involuntary psychiatric care unit by her family....

When David Freud stated that some disabled people were “not worth” the minimum wage, he was not saying this for...

The National Alliance on Mental Illness reports that one in four adults have a mental illness. Take pause for one second...

"Geek culture" is a broadly defined term: including professional cultures associated with science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields as...

Living in a country so focused on the reproductive behaviors of women, from contraception to abortion, it seems preposterous that...

Much like institutionalization of people with disabilities, sheltered workshops started with someone’s heart being in the right place. Starting around...

The ALS “Ice Bucket Challenge” is undoubtedly one of the most successful and engaging fundraising efforts in recent history. The...

The argument for greater investment in social work has intensified as public sector budgets are squeezed and as health and...

Recently, the United States Department of Justice announced the launch of the Elder Justice website which was created to help...

Forever ago, I wrote an article extolling the virtues of  fun in social work. What I didn’t touch on was what...

For certain subsections of society, it happens so often that its occurrence becomes commonplace such as the realities for those...

Self Awareness is critical to the therapeutic process. By being aware of your self-doubt, you are already heading into the...

I get a lot of people trying to help me. The less they know me the less helpful their help...

A new school year means that disabled college students are adjusting to their new environments, and are making accommodation requests...

Like many women my age, I participated in the feminist consciousness raising movement of the sixties. It was a powerful...

On July 25th, 2014, the Justice Department released a statement announcing that U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder signed a Notice...