Social Work Archive
Trauma, simply put, is an abstract concept referring to the enduring adverse impact of extremely stressful events. It is multiple and chronic exposure to developmentally adverse interpersonal events such as chronic maltreatment, neglect, abandonment/loss, physical/sexual assault, emotional abuse, and witnessing …
How did the War in Afghanistan help to fuel the heroin epidemic in America? Before the war, the Taliban subsidized Afghan farmers to grow food crops rather than opium. Opium poppy is the plant from which heroin is made. When …
Every so often we need to pause, take a deep breath, and ask ourselves: what am I trying to do? Sometimes we get so obsessed with our efforts to bring about change we lose sight on the big picture. The …
Here’s the scenario: You are moving across country. Driving from Los Angeles, CA to Sarasota, FL. Everything you own is in your car. EVERYTHING. You need to make it to Sarasota FAST. You start a new job in less than a week. …
I’ve done a few articles at this point about things I wish I knew in Social Work school(See Part I, Part II, Part III), but I realized after a particularly crazy few weeks(read: months) that I missed a few important …
; ; ; ; ; ; There’s plenty of blame to go around for the heroin epidemic that is currently infiltrating into our communities across America. We started off by blaming the doctors, who do need to share some …
In the debate about children and psychotropic medications, everyone is looking for better outcomes. Foster youth are seeking to assert more control over their lives and their health care, and they want people to understand that medications alone cannot fix …
Projective identification is a process whereby unwanted split-off parts of the self are forced into the object so as to control the object from inside. Psychoanalytic Terms and Concepts, Auchincloss & Samberg, ed. 2012Here’s an example: A supervisee, we’ll call …
It’s no secret a high-quality public education can develop a knowledge base and nurture skill sets within children further maximizing their potential while stabilizing communities and strengthening economies. On January 8, 2002, the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 …
The community has had enough. The Southern Coalition for Social Justice and Durham FADE (Fostering Alternative Drug Enforcement) partnered with community organizations to present five recommendations from the Human Relations Commission for the Durham Police Department to decrease discriminatory practices. Representatives …