Who Is That?

I came across these articles by Sarah Ovaska and Thomasi McDonald about a social worker hurt in an office attack in Raleigh, NC, last February (Social worker hurt in attack: Security a concern at Wake building and Wake County Social Worker Assaulted on the Job).  It reminded me of some office incidents that motivated us to write [...]

Check the History and Take Cover

How many of you have been faced with this task: trying to get a decompensating mental patient to return to treatment?  It is a task that I am very familiar with, having spent many years as a police officer working in the Mental Health Emergency Services unit of the Vancouver PD.  Many of these clients were [...]

Injuries to Social Workers from Client Assault

Robin Ringstad Ph.D, LCSW, has an interesting CSWE APM power point presentation showing statistics on client violence to social workers.