Social Work

A recent decision sanctioning a social worker for a comment on Facebook by the Health Care Professionals Council (HCPC), a United...

“Everybody in the Mississippi Delta was a racist, white or black. Racism was built into our bones. It is a...

I have often expressed my intellectual, personal and ethical discomfort with the extensive 'subjectification', more trendily termed "participation', of poor...

As the new school year is underway, I just wanted to take a moment to urge teachers to think about...

In the wake of #Ferguson, we can all agree that something needs to be done. I think we can all...

The climate of social work is changing. Over the last several years while businesses have moved towards embracing greater social missions, more...

In the UK, 89,528 social workers are getting ready to re-register with the regulator for the protected title of social...

It is hard to read the report on the sexual abuse of children in Rotherham England. It details years of...

Legislators finally adjourned for the 2014 short session on Wednesday, August 20th which is almost seven weeks after originally anticipated....

How often do you stop to check the words you’re using with client groups, whether verbally or in writing? Are...

Airing live on CSPAN, Dr. Steve Perry gave a searing speech on the "The Role of A Social Worker" at the...

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

Via Unhelpful Teacher Memes On Aug 25th the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) released a highly publicized position statement recommending...

This is a Letter to the Editor that I received from a member of the social work community. Although I...

As Editor-in-Chief of Social Work Helper, I recently published an article entitled A Grand Response from Social Work is Needed...

A violent threat, a criminal, a gangster, a drug-dealer, a menace, it seems these are all the things the police...

The month of August 2014 has proved to be one that will undoubtedly put a dent in American history. The ALS...

Whenever tragedy strikes, social workers are among the first responders helping people cope with their grief and loss and empowering...

Neuroscience has yielded new understandings of how the brain can affect mental illness, addiction, reaction to trauma, and other psychosocial...

Last time, I introduced Rupert Sheldrake and his theory of morphic resonance. To recap, Sheldrake believes that all living things...