"It’s an enormous social work issue because more than 2.5 million children in the US currently have a parent incarcerated. And it’s almost three times that many children in the US if you look at children who have parents anywhere in the criminal...
"When we think about what we know about climate for LGBT students that we would describe it as being unsafe, hostile, certainly issues of discrimination have been well-documented. And that discrimination ranges from subtle forms... to more blatant...
“We were also looking for a way to describe these relationships that was useful in a clinical sense, that practitioners could apply this. And we really felt that these three A’s works for that... that clinicians can take this and they can help...
“While there may be social workers who work more directly with the environment, we don’t want to give anyone the image that environmental social work is actually a niche or subset of social work... in reality what we want people to understand is...
“... sometimes it is about... really thinking about how to get this information out there in a way that is not blaming anybody but just saying we need to talk about this more and we need to because the more we talk about it, the less anxious we feel...
“...it was really the parent’s use of positive reinforcement relative to discipline at baseline that was most related to who changed the most, which parents reported the largest reductions in child behaviors over time. The parents with the least...
“I really appreciated so much doing this work in a cross-racial pairing, it changed my life in a lot of ways and by that I mean it was really important for our relationship, in our growth and transformation as people, as social workers, as...
“This is an ethical matter... if we are questioning our language skills in sessions for example, it is our ethical responsibility to be able to embrace that and find ways for growth. Our supervisors must be aware that being bilingual falls on a...
“The literature on telemental health services is really over 50 years old. We think about it as a new phenomenon and actually back in the late 1950s in Nebraska at a mental health institute they were using closed circuit television to provide group...
“In regards to LGB veterans... in our education we really need to emphasize how societal stigma impacts the individual and impacts their health, mental health, and also impacts service delivery... it is very important not to assume heterosexuality...