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 […]
Bipolar Disorder Brought to Life
As is the norm for most classes in graduate school for social work, we had to write a final paper at the end of the Human Behavior III class that I took this summer. Human Behavior III is essentially the equivalent of Abnormal Psychology in many other programs in which one learns about the different […]
Stories Women Have Shared Illustrating Resilience
In just a few weeks, I will have completed a full year of graduate studies and a minimum of 600 hours at my placement (internship) towards obtaining a Masters’ degree in social work. I am so excited! One of the notable characteristics that I have observed among the low income or poor women who frequent […]
