Social Work Archive
During the month of March, we are invited to honor social workers, many of whom are caseworkers, the lynchpins of the foster care system. These are the people who have the day-to-day responsibility for ensuring the safety and well-being of children who …
Clinical psychologists can face ethical dilemmas on a daily basis as a result of the nature of their work: clients revealing confidential and sensitive information during each session. Questions such as how to ethically terminate therapy and avoid “abandoning” …
By Darian Woods New research suggests that supporting foster youths’ transition to adulthood is important to protect against mental illness. Help navigating the administration of life, such as how to buy health insurance, balance a checkbook or prepare for a …
We have work to do. President Barack Obama, in what may be his most eloquent and thoughtful speech, helped us to understand the profound place in history held by those who crossed the Edmund Pettus Bridge on Bloody Sunday, March …
By Sawsan Morrar When Layla Yunus thinks back to her teenage years raising her son Micah, she Photo Credit: California Youth Connection (CYC) reminisces about his first smiles, his first words. But she also thinks back to the despair and …
By Reuben Thomas Finighan, University of Melbourne On rare occasions, a book frames an issue so powerfully that it sets the terms of all future debate. Robert Putnam’s Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis may do just this for …
This past week, ABC’s one-hour drama The Fosters featured the youngest gay kiss in television history. Since the airing, a lot of mainstream media outlets have covered or commented on the episode. Twitter, our digital equivalent to a modern-day Roman Coliseum, had …
What brings me back to psychoanalysis? What do I want to teach in the semester to follow? I’ll start with and come back to Freud. Freud had two commitments that remain mine. The first is to a vision of our …
By Joseph Palamar, New York University Langone Medical Center In recent years, hundreds of new synthetic recreational drugs have emerged – drugs that neither the general public nor the scientific community know very much about. Many of these new synthetic …
Crises and self-doubt plague all of us at different times in our lives. A natural response is to want to escape the turmoil and angst, and return to solid ground as quick as possible. Yet when we can remain open to suffering, …