What the Wealthy Have to Offer to the Study of Poverty
I have often expressed my intellectual, personal and ethical discomfort with the extensive 'subjectification', more trendily termed "participation', of poor ...
Tag: Social Work
NFL Unintentionally Raises Awareness on Domestic Violence and Child Abuse
In the past weeks, many of you have heard of the reported incidents involving several NFL players all over the ...
For the Love of Money: 5 Observations on Social Workers & Money from the 2014 NASW Conference in Washington, D.C.
The climate of social work is changing. Over the last several years while businesses have moved towards embracing greater social missions, more ...
Helping Immigrant Students Achieve Their Dreams
When Miriam Sanchez, 18 years old, migrated to Zapata, Texas at the tender age of 9 from Tamaulipas, Mexico adjusting ...
The Michael Brown Shooting: Why the Requirement for ‘Perfect’ Victims is About Race
By the time Norma L. McCorvey was 21, she had abused drugs and was on her third child. While carrying ...
Significant Harm and Children in Need
In the UK, 89,528 social workers are getting ready to re-register with the regulator for the protected title of social ...
Social Workers, Watch Your Language
How often do you stop to check the words you’re using with client groups, whether verbally or in writing? Are ...
Top 5 Reasons Social Work is Failing
Airing live on CSPAN, Dr. Steve Perry gave a searing speech on the "The Role of A Social Worker" at the ...
Why Starting School Later Is a Social Work Issue
Via Unhelpful Teacher Memes On Aug 25th the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) released a highly publicized position statement recommending ...
Letter to the Editor: A Social Worker’s Thoughts on the Killing of Michael Brown
This is a Letter to the Editor that I received from a member of the social work community. Although I ...
Social Work Appears Absent in #Ferguson Global Conversation
As Editor-in-Chief of Social Work Helper, I recently published an article entitled A Grand Response from Social Work is Needed ...
Police: Serving and Protecting the White Middle-Class and Mentally Well
A violent threat, a criminal, a gangster, a drug-dealer, a menace, it seems these are all the things the police ...
Tackling Discrimination At Work Comes At A Price
In July of last year, the British Government introduced Employment Tribunal Fees for any employees seeking to challenge discrimination at ...
Foster Care and Online Technology: Are you Keeping your Child Safe?
As a foster and adoptive parent myself, I recognize the importance of technology in the lives of children. Indeed, technology ...
Post Partum Depression Can Be a Child Protection Issue
Post partum depression (PPD) occurs in about 20 - 25% of women after giving birth. Some level of the "baby ...
Answering a Child’s Questions About Out of Home Placement
Recently, a colleague of mine came to me for advice on addressing a very tough question from a child: Why ...
The Social Work Internship Debate
The debate of social work internships is a hot topic right now, and I hear a complaint about field placements ...
Back on Capitol Hill, Different Day, Not Much Has Changed
I’m back on Capitol Hill in the office of Congresswoman Marcia L. Fudge. Rep. Fudge represents Cleveland and Akron, Ohio ...
3 Tips for Talking to Children about Traumatic Events like Malaysian Airlines Flight
Let’s face it, it is almost impossible to shield children from negative world events. In our ever-connected society, breaking news ...
The Rule of Optimism
I have recently been reading the work of Brandon et al., (2012) on learning from Serious Case Reviews in the ...
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