“I think it is important for every practitioner in a long term care setting to examine their own practice and strive to make every encounter with a resident a little bit more trauma informed than it was before incorporating the principles in...
“[T]here’s two big buckets of climate change related work. We talked about adaptation, helping people cope with and adapt to what is already here. . . [T]hen there's mitigation which is reducing the problem, preventing the problem, [and] lowering...
“[T]he Portuguese system is comprehensive and integrated, and so all of the agencies. . . and the principles [are] one big integrated system. Where in the United States, we really do not have a unified message. . . [T]he Portuguese system really...
“What we need to do better. . . and what geospatial technologies can help us to understand better are the interactions between individuals and their context and some of the nuances to those relationships. . . that could help to not only drive what...
“Certainly, there is a lot of work that looks at each of these issues on their own, so the studies about child welfare or about homelessness or about educational difficulties. There is even a fair amount of work that looks at issues from the...
“[S]chools of social work don't emphasize perinatal mood disorder as much anymore, and social workers are the leading group providing therapeutic care in the United States. So I would ask [that] schools of social work begin to focus on that again.”
“I think it's so important to see that, [regarding] our childhood environment, we have a mechanism within our genetics to adapt to our environment within our lifetime. If you have an environment that says this is the way to thrive in this...
“I believe, as a researcher, as a practitioner, and as a professor, . . . now it is more important than ever to really understand that we have a responsibility to our clients and to our field to be engaged in these policy levels–in policy...
How the Use of Apps Helps People with Mental Illness Forge Relationships and Develop Social Networks
“We often are underestimating our clients’ ability to use technology and their access to technology.”
“So psychological [self-sufficiency] is less about just somebody's mindset or their internal motivation alone, but is largely this process of how one would become empowered over time and throughout the whole life course to reach goals as a piece of...