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Conversations on Social Work Careers: Interview With Becky Morales, LCSW-S

The New Social Worker

In this episode of Conversations on Social Work Careers, Your Social Work Career Coach Jennifer Luna interviews Becky Morales, LCSW-S. Have you thought about changing careers into private practice? Becky is in private practice and MORE.

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Photography Hobby Gives Clinical Social Worker Purpose and Hope

Social Work Blog

He started taking photos and stuck with it because, “I was good at it and it gave me something to do,” said LaPensee, MSW, ACSW, LICSW, LCSW, a clinical social worker in private practice in Tampa, Fla. “I I was a young man working retail and felt I had no goal or purpose.”

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COVID-19 Year 3: Social Workers and Their Clients Continue to Nagivate the Pandemic and its Impact, Even as Society Shifts Back Toward ‘Normal’

Social Work Blog

For social workers and their clients, the pandemic may not be as front of mind as it once was, but it remains a factor and adds another layer to already challenging situations. It’s stressful personally,” says Danielle Wagner, MSSW, LCSW, staff therapist at a Pennsylvania college who also sees patients in private practice. “In

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Breaking Barriers from Within

Social Work Blog

Appleton, LCSW The theme for Social Work month is descriptive and inspiring – Social Work Breaks Barriers. At our best, Social Workers are analogous to Super Heroes. Social workers advocate for justice, leap over mountains of agency red tape, and scale mountains of paperwork. Here’s the question.

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Stop Whitewashing Social Work History: Tell the Truth - Kelechi Wright, LCPC & Kortney Carr, LCSW

Doin' The Work

Episode 49 Guests: Kelechi Wright, LCPC, LPC; Kortney Carr, LCSW, LSCSW Host: Shimon Cohen, LCSW. Kortney is a third-year doctoral student at the University of Kansas and a Professor of Practice in the School of Social Welfare. Her research focuses on how Black men have survived social isolation in the U.S.

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Telehealth is Here to Stay: Now Let’s Do It Well

inSocialWork

Many social workers were reluctantly pushed into the pool of teletherapy as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic while others have been using this service delivery model for a while. While many social workers were reluctantly pushed into online or telehealth practice, our guest Shannon Miller has been at it for a while.

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Members in the News – August 4, 2023

Social Workers Speak

Jennifer Kelman, LCSW, a family therapist working with JustAnswer , tells Best Life that it’s also important to put a limit on phone calls from your in-laws. and Connecticut based social worker. FitzPatrick, a licensed and certified clinical social worker who has 30+ years in caregiving from Kent Island, Maryland.

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