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Member Voices: My Journey to Clinical Social Work

Social Work Blog

Donawa, LMSW. Violeta Donawa, LMSW. One might wonder, why and how I shifted from community care-based healing work to becoming a Clinical Social Worker and Psychotherapist. I had not imagined myself studying SUD, and hadn’t considered addiction a social justice issue. Clinical Social Worker Violeta A.

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NASW Member Voices: Considering a career in addiction social work? Here is what you should know

Social Work Blog

By Marisa Markowitz, LMSW, CASAC-T. When students leave the halls of academia and decide to venture on their first social work job, there is trepidation. Students must decide what type of social worker they want to become, and where they would like to work. Well, for one, addiction is serious societal issue.

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Scholarship Recipients 2022

University of Connecticut

As my concentration is in individuals, groups, and families, I plan to go on to get my LCSW when I graduate so I can work with adults as a psychotherapist. It also provides motivating recognition that the hard work and long hours I have committed to myself, this program, and my future clients, have not gone unnoticed.