Social Work Archive
It was just an ordinary day at the office until Sokhom Mao noticed an email in his inbox from the White House. Three weeks later, he was on a plane traveling from his home in Oakland, Calif., to Washington, D.C., …
Is embracing change one of your strong suits? Don’t worry if you answered “no” to that question. Many of us are not comfortable embracing change – even when that change will lead us to a more positive, healthy place in …
As human beings, we are, of course, emotional creatures just as much as we are rational, if not more so. This means that any attempt to understand human actions without taking account of the emotional dimension is likely to be, …
Millions of Americans breathed sighs of relief upon hearing the Supreme Court’s decision to leave in place subsidies in the Affordable Care Act (ACA) for the insured in states where the federal government created the marketplace exchanges. Six of the …
The Florida Department of Juvenile Justice is set to become the first state agency to conduct risk assessments using predictive analytics, a process that uses huge collections of data to predict outcomes and patterns. It’s the sort of news that, …
Heroin Epidemic: Reason #3 - Blame the Internet There are many reasons why we have a heroin/opiate epidemic and plenty of blame to go around. In the last couple of weeks, we have blamed the doctors and blamed the patients …
Some are taking issue with the characterization of white supremacist Dylann Roof as being mentally ill instead of referring to him as a home-grown terrorist and a thug as a person of color may have been designated. Yet, the young …
Are you aware how financial stress affects your clients’ wellbeing? Are you even aware how stress – both daily stress and financial stress – affects your own wellbeing? If you are not handling your own stressors, then you can’t …
Saturday’s rally in Freedom Park on New York City’s Roosevelt Island provided Hillary Clinton with an opportunity to present ideas about what she will do to boost opportunity for prosperity for the poor and middle class. She spoke of four …
By Sara Oon In Michigan, 46 percent of child abuse victims in 2013 suffered from emotional abuse, according to the 2013 report on child abuse and neglect data collected by the National Child Abuse and Neglect Data System. In neighboring …