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Social Work Challenge Series: Food Deserts
A major challenge social workers are currently facing is the phenomenon called 'food deserts'. Click here to see what you need to know.
Typical Roles for Social Workers in Mental Health
A wide variety of career opportunities are available to social workers who are interested in working in the field of mental health. Click here details.
What Does a Mental Health Social Worker Do?
A Mental Health Social worker focuses on advocating and helping individuals. Click here to learn about their settings, role, who they benefit and more.
The Clinical Significance of Pets
Case Study: Working Clinically With Clients & Their Pets *In efforts to protect client anonymity, names in the case examples included in this article have been redacted and the shared content is purposely not credited to the contributing clinical social worker. Client: "Losing my cat was like losing a family [...]
10 More Documentaries on Netflix for Social Workers
For social workers looking to educate themselves, gain perspective, or see a different side of a particular topic or issue, documentary films are a great place to start! Thousands of social, cultural, historical, and political documentaries are streaming on Netflix, and many provide in-depth looks at subjects relevant to social [...]
Social Work Values: What We Do as Social Workers Matters
Social Work Values: What We Do Counts So much of what we do in social work, from micro to macro level practice to social work values, is essentially arriving at new ways of trusting the process and committing to the journey while advocating for ourselves. Not so different from what we [...]
How to Help Someone Having a Panic Attack. What Social Workers Need to Know
Panic Attack Help Social Workers Panic attacks can be a truly harrowing experience for both the client and clinician. Working in clinical social work, your likelihood of encountering someone who experiences panic attacks is significant. As a Social Worker, knowing effective panic attack help strategies is important. A recent US [...]
A Social Worker’s Personal Reflection on Social Work Research: My Thoughts on Social Work Research as a Social Worker
Social Workers and Social Work Research Social work as a profession is widely recognized as having a commitment to social justice and social change, to go beyond merely conducting research about individuals, groups, communities, to designing studies with and for the individuals, groups, and communities being observed through social work [...]
Working With People With Paranoia: What Social Workers Need to Know
Tips for Helping People with Paranoia Social workers are highly likely to encounter people exhibiting some paranoid features at some time in their careers. From features of psychotic disorders like schizophrenia to degenerative brain diseases such as Alzheimer's to effects from some prolonged substance dependence disorders and even some personality disorders, [...]
Working with Clients Who Exhibit Paranoia Symptoms: A Social Worker’s Experience with Paranoia
Working with Clients Who Exhibit Paranoia Symptoms I have worked in Community Mental Health for a number of years, addressing the needs of some of the most vulnerable populations in our society, and paranoia symptoms are something with which with I've become rather familiar. I’ve worked with folks who have refused [...]
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