Homeless Day

Poverty Day is October 15.  I’ve been reviewing comments on various social work sites on line and wanted to make a comment:  The government certainly needs to put more effort into the homelessness issue, but NOT into housing so much as treatment beds.  I know from personal experience as a cop working in the Mental [...]

Let’s Be Safe Out There

With the economy starting to turn towards recession there’s going to be increaing pressure on families and relationships and that’s going to add work to the already heavy case loads of social workers, home care workers and nurses everywhere.  Increased stress is going to make your clients edgy.  Now more than ever workers in the [...]

Martial Arts Training For Social Workers

I was just reading Simeon Brody’s article Self Defense for Social Workers on The Social Work Blog. He wrote this after reading about social workers taking self defence training following the Naomi Hill homicide in Nebraska. He points out that a recent UK poll shows that 2/3 of social workers would like self defence training. This comes [...]

New Podcast on Violence Against Social Workers

There’s a new podcast entitled Client Violence: Interview with Dr. Christina Newhill. This podcast is 42 minutes long, so you probably want to download this one at home.
The podcast is an interview between social worker Jonathan Singer, LCSW and Dr Christina Newhill, author of Client Violence in Social Work Practice: Prevention, Intervention, and Research [...]