Social Work

Students Against Violence Everywhere In March 2013, President Barack Obama issued a proclamation declaring the month of April as National Child Abuse...

Baby boomers, born between 1946 and 1964, are changing the definition of what it means to grow old. Baby boomers...

There are seven social workers in the U.S. House of Representatives. Kristie Holmes wants to be the eighth. An adjunct...

As I finish up my first year in graduate school, I am reflecting on the reasons I chose to enroll...

In my first week of social work classes, my foundations professor asked the class what is social work?  Classmates tossed...

Termination is a highly important part of every therapeutic relationship that should be addressed throughout each stage of the process....

Practising social work teaches good bladder control. Social workers run from one bushfire to another, juggle complex, urgent demands and...

When trying to build a coalition or community organize around a specific event or cause, it is necessary to have...

Whilst working in local authority (Child Welfare Agency) as an auditor and conference chair, I have been involved in several...

Every two hours, someone in England takes their own life. Suicide is a leading cause of death amongst young men...

Motivational Interviewing (MI) is a form of strengths-based counseling originally developed by Miller and Rollnick with the aim of helping...

This week, Connecticut Governor Dannel Malloy signed a law that will bring about the highest minimum wage of any U.S....

In reflecting on how my career has formulated, particularly in the fields of criminal justice, human services and social work,...

Twitter can be very noisy due to an enormous amount of tweets and random people who can make their way...

When I first created Social Work Helper, I was surprise at the number of emails that I started receiving. Maybe,...

Harm reduction seeks to maintain people’s safety and minimize death, disease and injury from high-risk behaviour. The reduction of harmful...

Possibly one of the few things more challenging than being a teenage parent is being a teenage parent in foster...

If you’re like me -ambitious yet, admittedly, occasionally lost- you likely remember the song lyrics from the play Annie Get...

WASHINGTON, DC- On March 24, 2014, President Obama announced the appointment of Douglas Brooks, MSW, as the Director of the...

In the field of social work and particularly with the protection of vulnerable people , we are presented almost daily...