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How Improv theater is like therapy | NASW Member Voices

Social Work Blog

The crowd fell into laughter, noting a deeper truth that fear can be a more debilitating force than actual loss of life. I’m a mere therapist, but if I could share one piece of life advice with anyone, it would be this: Take an improv class. I also owe Rick and Louis a huge debt of gratitude for helping to make this story robust.

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5 Social work assessment tools to try in Singapore

Save the Social Worker

One of the common pain-points in assessment is not going deep enough into a client’s story to get what you need, in order to put in quick wins. Ecomap As a young student social worker, one of my mandatory observations involved my supervisor watching me use this assessment tool together with an adult with learning needs.

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Five Steps to Planning your Social Work Program’s Self-Study: CSWE Accreditation

Teaching & Learning in Social Work

Moving beyond the core curriculum and program standards, who will write responses for faculty standards, including principal assignments to the program(s), faculty credentials, faculty-to-student ratios, and the recruiting and hiring of faculty? Life happens. Are team members new to social work education?

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Back on the Hill for Dinner with Karen Bass

Beyond Advocacy

We cancelled Student Advocacy Day scheduled for the next day as the House and Senate would go into hiatus until the Covid-19 pandemic abated. He would host student interns from the School of Social Work, and I would serve on the planning committee for Congressman Davis’s State of the African Male conference.

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23 interventions to supercharge your social work

Save the Social Worker

Please note that all client stories have had identifying details changed. Having such a letter of love to yourself helps you to better overcome the rejection in your life. When I was 17, I wondered if this was all there was to life. I found a group of friends for life. Like a list of hacks to help people. Loneliness.

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Can Eating Disorders Change?

MQ Mental Health

Some people might think a mental illness gets diagnosed and then remains one condition for a person’s life. However mental illnesses can shift and change throughout life. But a person diagnosed with anorexia might develop binge eating disorder, or other types of eating disorders, as this personal story backed by research can attest.

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Can Eating Disorders Change?

MQ Mental Health

Some people might think a mental illness gets diagnosed and then remains one condition for a person’s life. However mental illnesses can shift and change throughout life. But a person diagnosed with anorexia might develop binge eating disorder, or other types of eating disorders, as this personal story backed by research can attest.