REVIEW—The Pitt: A Medical Setting as Reflection of Societal Pitfalls - SocialWorker.com
Does The Pitt accurately portray issues in an ER, including medical social work and child abuse reporting? Read our series review.| SocialWorker.com
Does The Pitt accurately portray issues in an ER, including medical social work and child abuse reporting? Read our series review.| SocialWorker.com
September is Self-Care Awareness Month. Let’s Take Five and give attention to five interlocking areas to Re-Set for effective self-care.| The New Social Worker Online — the professional social work careers magazine
In The Serviceberry, Kimmerer proposes a new paradigm for our participation in the world, one that utilizes a gift economy approach. Read our review.| The New Social Worker Online — the professional social work careers magazine
When students first arrive in a macro placement, many find it difficult to connect concepts ingrained through micro practice and academia and apply them to a macro approach. A macro client is not one person, but rather a cohort, agency, or community.| SocialWorker.com
The journey of self-exploration is unlike anything taught in classes. Emily has appreciated this aspect of her placement experience and wishes the same for others.| The New Social Worker Online — the professional social work careers magazine
Military social work demands more than traditional academic preparation—it requires cultural understanding, clinical competence, and emotional intelligence. While the learning curve is steep, the rewards are deep—both personally and professionally.| SocialWorker.com
The Black Therapist’s Guide to Private Practice and Entrepreneurship is a powerful, step-by-step resource for Black therapists who aspire to launch, build, and sustain a private practice or business ownership in behavioral health. Read our review.| The New Social Worker Online — the professional social work careers magazine
Addressing burnout in the social work community requires a multifaceted approach that bridges individual and systemic change. Only through intentional actions can the profession flourish, ensuring that practitioners are supported and valued.| SocialWorker.com
More or Less Maddy is a novel that describes the journey of a young college student who experiences first depressive symptoms and then mania before a formal bipolar diagnosis. Read our review of best-selling author Lisa Genova's latest book.| The New Social Worker Online — the professional social work careers magazine
Medical social workers walk alongside people during their most vulnerable moments, offering support, clarity, and compassion. It requires heart, healing, and, without question, a healthy dose of hustle.| SocialWorker.com
I’m Not Alone is a valuable resource for psychotherapists working with children and adolescents to help them understand mental illness and trauma from a parent’s perspective. Read our book review.| SocialWorker.com
Michael Deagler’s novel “Early Sobrieties” follows 26-year-old Monk—Dennis Monk—along his sober quest for identity after nine years of blackout drinking. Read our review.| SocialWorker.com
The Social Work Career Guidebook is a modern, realistic take on how to navigate the social work profession for current social work students, entry-level, and seasoned practitioners alike. Read our review.| SocialWorker.com
I went from being left out on a stoop in Brooklyn, and feeling worthless and abandoned, to being rescued and healed. Social work initiated the rescue, and my foster mother, the late Mrs. Ruth Alexandra Cox, was the healer.| SocialWorker.com
Language can play a key role in building alliances, winning favor, and advancing good causes. When considering how to deal with the backlash against DEI, should we reconsider our terminology?| The New Social Worker Online — the professional social work careers magazine
Social work program administrators must respond to TGDI students’ needs and safety concerns with the urgency, care, and concrete action these issues demand.| The New Social Worker Online — the professional social work careers magazine
When have you viewed a superb screening where a social worker is presented in full dimension, front and center, in script formulation? Read our review of Dying for Sex.| The New Social Worker Online — the professional social work careers magazine
The GUIDE Model is structured to address the complexities of dementia by promoting integrated care approaches that foster better communication among healthcare providers, caregivers, and families.| The New Social Worker Online — the professional social work careers magazine
It’s that time again! Time for a Super-Self-Care-Summer! Join in with our 12-week weekly guide!| The New Social Worker Online — the professional social work careers magazine
Self-determination is messy, frustrating, and beautiful. It’s about giving people—including yourself—the freedom to make mistakes, take risks, and ultimately, shine in their own way.| The New Social Worker Online — the professional social work careers magazine
Social workers will find The Grieving Body a valuable resource for the development of bereavement interventions on micro, macro, and mezzo levels. Read The New Social Worker’s book review.| The New Social Worker Online — the professional social work careers magazine
The legacy of childhood trauma is complex, but it is not immutable. As social workers, we have the opportunity to confront and heal our own wounds, breaking the cycles of trauma that have shaped us.| The New Social Worker Online — the professional social work careers magazine
Late-career social workers often wish they’d “wised up” sooner about taking care of themselves. From our interchanges, I’ve distilled six practice-wisdom pointers. What might you add?| The New Social Worker Online — the professional social work careers magazine
You have made it all this way, toiled through your social work graduate program, and I’m supposed to say something wise to you. But you’re already wise.| The New Social Worker Online — the professional social work careers magazine
The Blind Man Game is a memoir about the challenges faced by a psychologist who was diagnosed with Stargardt Disease at the age of 21. Read our review.| The New Social Worker Online — the professional social work careers magazine
Help Wanted, a work of fiction, is a social commentary on the gig economy and the plight of part-time workers. Set in upstate New York, Town Square is a big box store, likely recognizable to most readers.| The New Social Worker Online — the professional social work careers magazine
A "spoken word" poem written and performed during Social Work Month, on the theme of compassion plus action.| The New Social Worker Online — the professional social work careers magazine
April is National Poetry Month. What, you might ask, does that have to do with me and my social work practice? Social worker/poet Jane Seskin illustrates how three poems can reveal thoughts and feelings that might have gone unseen and untouched.| The New Social Worker Online — the professional social work careers magazine
How should aggrieved social workers respond when they believe that a colleague has behaved unprofessionally, rudely, or incompetently? The NASW Code of Ethics suggests that we should treat our colleagues with respect.| The New Social Worker Online — the professional social work careers magazine
Regardless of context and role, social workers are ethically compelled to engage in activism. In this era, we must attend to self-care and activism as complementary in crucial and intentional ways.| The New Social Worker Online — the professional social work careers magazine
Happy National Poetry Month! The National Social Work Poetry Contest is sponsored by the University of Iowa School of Social Work and The New Social Worker magazine. Congratulations to the winners of the 2025 contest! Read the winning poems.| The New Social Worker Online — the professional social work careers magazine
The New Social Worker magazine publishes articles on social work careers, social work education, social work ethics, technology, books, and more. Published quarterly since 1994.| SocialWorker.com
There are no definite answers to how often you should hustle, how much you should rest, how much (or little) work you should do. But I’ve found a useful principle to be having a regular rhythm of rest.| SocialWorker.com
