Are you interested in applying some technology tools in your clinical work with clients? To learn more about the application of tech tools within the mental health field, I reached out to Ignacio Pacheco, MSW (also known as Iggy). Iggy is the editor and creator of the Social Work Tech Blog, a blog dedicated to […]
Musings About MSW Journey
This week I have officially completed my graduate studies in social work. This means that I may now add the MSW letters next to my name 🙂 It is both an exciting time and a sad time…I am thrilled because I have succeeded in learning and fulfilling all the requirements to become a social worker. […]
Unlearning with Jack Uldrich
Have you heard about the concept of unlearning? According to Jack Uldrich, unlearning is a crucial skill to develop as part of the process of acquiring knowledge because some types of learning cannot occur until some unlearning has first taken place. In Jack’s latest book, Higher Unlearning: 39 Post-Requisite Lessons for Achieving a Successful Future […]
10 LMSW Exam Practice Questions
Would you like to have a look at some practice questions to help you prepare for your LMSW (ASWB) exam? Below are 10 questions that we went over during a review class at my school: 1. A fifteen year old girl has been sent home from school on three occasions for drinking alcohol at school. […]
Social Work Abroad
You may think that social work in the United States and the United Kingdom is identical but actually that’s not true…To get a glimpse of what are some of the similarities and differences about social work, I had the pleasure of interviewing cb who is a social worker in the U.K. cb is also an […]
4 Nuggets from Yalom’s “The Gift of Therapy”
Have you read the book The Gift of Therapy: An Open Letter to a New Generation of Therapists and Their Patients (P.S.) (link affiliate) by Irvin Yalom? I loved this book because it has so many wonderful gems of therapeutic wisdom. Four nuggets of advice you may appreciate: Be Authentic and Admit to Mistakes When you […]
20 Motivational Quotes for Job Seekers
Could you use a little encouragement as you are looking for a job or contemplating a career change? I think that we could all use that from time to time… To that end, I put together a list of twenty quotations that you may find helpful. My hope is that reading them will remind you […]
Gestalt Therapy and Dream Analysis
Have you ever wondered what your dreams mean? Today, I will share with you what I learned in my class on Gestalt therapy and the interpretation of dreams. I found this topic to be particularly fascinating. Below is a brief video clip in which Fritz Perls, the father of Gestalt therapy, is explaining the process […]
Don’t Put All Your Eggs Into One Basket
If there is one key lesson that I learned since my last job search post, it is that one should not put all of one’s eggs into one basket… Why am I saying this? Because I made this faux pas. To backtrack, a contact had kindly let me know that a clinical position had opened […]
Social Work Vs. Psychology and a Taste of Hypnotherapy
Ari Hahn, LCSW, is an experienced mental health professional who has been trained as both a social worker and a psychologist. In addition to having a private practice, Ari teaches psychology at TCI College of Technology in New York. I had the pleasure of interviewing Ari this week. In this interview, Ari clarifies the main differences […]
