The #1 Reason for Anger (and What You Can Do About It) Could you, or some of your clients benefit from a method of anger management? If yes, you may be interested in the powerful HEArt Program developed by Howard Lipke, Ph.D. It is a unique anger prevention system that he developed based upon his work with Veterans. This post […]
Best in Mental Health (4/30/16 – 5/15/16)
Mental Health Roundup This contains some of the latest news in social work, healthcare, private practice and more! This week’s wrap-up has 6 main themes: Self-Care Healthcare Relationships Therapy Advocacy Career/Non-Profit/Private Practice Self-Care 8 Keys to Mental Health Through Exercise – Sharon Martin – “full of reflection questions, writing prompts, and action items… Dr. Hibbert explains, with research to […]
Dementia Care: Use Mind Mapping to Improve Quality of Life
21 Dementia Tips for Caregivers and Social Workers Do you have a relative or clients who are wrestling with dementia, and would like to find a way to either help or better connect with them? Thanks to the generosity of Dr. George Huba, this post will provide you with 21 invaluable tips: 7 Ways to better cope with cognitive […]
Living Forward: 3 Questions to Create the Life You Want
Learn how to create a life plan in one day using “Living Forward” by Michael Hyatt and Daniel Harkavy. Answer 3 questions: How you want to be remembered (legacy), what matters most (priorities), and your action plan (SMART goals). Stop drifting and get the life you want. Essential self-care tool for helping professionals—practice before you preach.
Prison Social Work: Does Sex Offender Treatment Work?
Does Sex Offender Treatment Work? In a nutshell, sex offender treatment does help, but studies show varying results due to underreporting of actual reoffending, difficulties in measurement of recidivism and the variation in the ways recidivism rates are calculated. Recidivism is defined as the reversion to criminal behavior by an individual who was previously convicted of a criminal offense. Observed […]
Online Job Fairs: How to Succeed (Even If It’s Your 1st Time)
Online Job Fairs: 7 Tips to Your Success Do you have an upcoming online job fair to participate in? Are you wondering what to do in preparation for an online job fair? SocialWork.Career reached out to several experts to guide you on how to best prepare for your upcoming online career fair. Dawn Bugni, Hannah Morgan, Jacob Share, Jacqui Barrett-Poindexter, Marianna Paulson, Miriam Salpeter, Phyllis Mufson, Ronnie […]
My Three Words for 2016: Nourish, Simplify and Charge!
Self-Care for the Soul: Nourish, Simplify and Charge! Happy New Year! What are some of your personal or professional goals for this coming new year? One idea that you may find helpful in achieving your plans is to select three words that capture the essence of those objectives. It was Chris Brogan who started this idea several years ago. […]
15 Favorite Reader Comments from 2015
Every year, I like to go through all the wonderful comments you have made on SocialWork.Career and highlight the ones that I thought you would enjoy the most because of how much they contributed to the overall post and blog for the year. Thank you so much for reading, sharing and adding so much valuable content to this site with […]
Thank You Letters: How and Why to Write Them
How to Write a Professional Thank You Letter Would you like to write a professional thank you letter, but have no idea where to begin? This post will provide with some helpful tips and templates on how to express your appreciation to someone who has just helped you out, be it for networking, a letter […]
Website Trustworthiness: How Can You Tell?
Website Trustworthiness: What Everyone Needs to Know Have you (or your) clients been assuming that the majority of the information that you find on the internet is of good quality? Regretfully, we cannot… Aside from the fact that what we see is influenced by the filter bubble, there are many urban legends, sites with misinformation, inaccuracies, biases, hoaxes […]
