Many people are rather confused as to what child welfare social workers do, especially in light of how the media portray their role. @SocialJerkBlog, a social worker employed in the field of social work, describes her typical day as including “some parent training with clients. This can be working on behavioral charts and disciplinary consistency, […]
Beginning of 2nd Year Internship
This week I had the first full week of my second year internship (or placement) at the outpatient mental health clinic at a New York hospital. On the first day, the social work department provided an orientation for all the interns in which they provided some background information about the hospital and the different functions […]
Talking About Religion and Spirituality w/African Americans
Last week, I had a post about Religion and Spirituality as a Source of Strength for African Americans based upon Dr. Jonathan Singer’s podcast Incorporating Religion and Spirituality into Social Work Practice with African Americans in which he interviewed Dr. Nancy Boyd-Franklin. Today, I thought of continuing that discussion by sharing some of the suggestions […]
Religion and Spirituality as a Source of Strength for African Americans
Last week, the idea of using Hip Hop music as a way of establishing rapport with urban youth in Music as a Means of Establishing Rapport was discussed. I thought it would be interesting to extend this discussion by looking at ways social workers can include religion and spirituality into the conversation with a client. To […]
Music as a Means of Establishing Rapport
Yesterday I listened to a Living Proof podcast from the University of Buffalo’s School of Social Work. The interviewees were Drs. Raphael Travis and Anne Deepak and they spoke about Empowerment in Context: Lessons from Hip Hop Culture for Social Work Practice. Drs. Travis and Deepak had an interesting point of view about Hip Hop […]
