Therapy’s Digital Future Are you a social worker or other mental health professional who is curious about online therapy? DeeAnna Nagel, LPC, DCC, gave an informative presentation about Therapy’s Digital Future at the 2013 Psychotherapy Networker Symposium. While I was not able to personally attend DeeAnna’s talk, I was fortunate to be able to listen to the audio […]
18 of My Favorite Reader Comments from 2012
Hi 🙂 I wanted to take this opportunity to highlight 18 thoughtful comments you made in 2012! This is because your thoughts add so much interesting content and value to the blog posts that I wanted to take the time to acknowledge them. And if you are new to the Social Work Career Development site, […]
50 Shades of Pain
50 Shades of Pain Child abuse comes in many forms, Neglect, emotional, physical, sexual, And for some, a combo, You may think this is an anomaly, Something that only happens to other people, To folks different from you in some way… But the perpetrators come from… All socioeconomic backgrounds, All racial groups, all types of […]
50 Shades of Secrets
50 Shades of Secrets To tell or not to tell, And if to tell, how to tell? Secrets can be such a burden… For example, one father shares his prognosis with his son, Forging a closer bond between the two of them, But keeps his wife and daughter out of the loop. Son is left […]
Terminal Illness and the Race Against Time
As some of you may remember from What Do You Do When a Loved One Has Cancer?, someone very near and dear to me is engaged in a difficult battle with cancer. I have the opportunity to see him now and am full of mixed emotions. On the one hand, I am so excited to see […]





