Social Work Archive
What’s draining your energy levels before the day is done? Quite possibly, there are many culprits that drain your energy – mental, physical and emotional – and cause you to feel worn out before your head hits the pillow each …
Working with foster children in her private psychotherapy practice in the 1980s, Dr. Toni Heineman realized that the profound effects of trauma and loss experienced by foster children were often exacerbated by another loss: that of their therapists. Seeing too …
Another year has passed since the two jets crashed into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. As a longtime New York City resident, I was devastated by what I saw on television from my …
Brooke Cone, FCNI foster/adoptive parentFoster Parenting“To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no …
In the early 1990s, the U.S. Advisory Board on Child Abuse & Neglect cited the failure of a reporting- investigation approach to prevent child maltreatment and called for the development of a neighborhood- based child protection system. The Board maintained that …
Last week Maryland Senator Barbara Mikulski pledged to be the 34th and deciding vote for approval of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action agreement that will provide a check on the nuclear capabilities of Iran over the next fifteen years. …
Out-of-county placements and distant placements have a profound effect on children, their parents and the prospects for family reunification. As a Los Angeles Superior Court Judge sitting in dependency for more than 13 years, and Supervising Judge for the last …
Developing appropriate professional boundaries with clients/patients can be one of the most challenging therapeutic tasks to negotiate, irrespective of one’s level of training or experience. But what about practitioners who are embedded in communities in ways that transcend geographic …
I could not let this day pass without commenting on International Overdose Awareness Day. We repeatedly read in the media and listen to politicians about the cost of this and the cost of that. When was the last time you heard …
Trauma Informed Care, Ethics, and Social Work Education Elisa Kawam, MSW, PhD Candidate Arizona State University School of Social Work Contact: ekawam@gmail.com Teaching Trauma Informed Care to Social Work Students: Educational Considerations This paper provides a brief description …