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Talking About Religion and Spirituality w/African Americans

By Dorlee

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 […]

Filed Under: Clinical Skills Tagged With: African Americans, cultural competency, culture, religion, resilience, social work practice, spirituality

Religion and Spirituality as a Source of Strength for African Americans

By Dorlee

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 […]

Filed Under: Clinical Skills Tagged With: cultural competency, culture, religion, social work practice, spirituality, strength perspective

Music as a Means of Establishing Rapport

By Dorlee

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 […]

Filed Under: Clinical Skills Tagged With: culture, empowerment, Hip Hop, Living Proof, rapport, social work practice, UBSSW

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