“So for me it's not about this technique or that technique, it's about how do we help therapists to be good clients so that clients can get what they need and heal and move on with their lives.”
“I think it can be very helpful to keep in mind that when an individual [has] experienced trauma in the earlier part of their life and their childhood that that complicates not only their overall outlook and can lead to some very difficult symptoms...
“One of the ideas here is that we're also helping to connect researchers with one another [and] that we're able to engage in more of that collaborative work [. It] all ties back to the importance of creating these partnerships with policy makers and...
“Social workers should be focused on female service members and female veterans in particular because their needs may be a little different than their male counterparts. Their experiences might be a little different than their male counterparts.”
“I think it's a real opportunity to bring all of our social work skills to bear in a more integrated way to help the highest risk groups to be able to truly transform bodies of individuals, families, communities, and promotes societal wellbeing...
“I would like to tell my younger friends who are studying social work or social entrepreneurship. . . [they] should not be scared of finance. They should not be scared of numbers, mathematics, [and] statistics. It's very easy, not because I have...
“Our results reinforce previous research that indicates it is common for youth who are LGBTQ to report being kicked out of their homes as their primary reason for experiencing homelessness. So. . . when [social workers] are engaging with families...
“We use the term social justice. . . We talk about social justice. . . What does that mean? [W]hat I describe as social justice may not be what the student sitting next to me describes as social justice.”
“I think that social workers, unfortunately, have to create a good amount of fiction to defend their work and to translate their work to the entities that. . . pay attention to their work and monitor their work.”
“Once you start to do things differently you start to realize there is another way to live life, and in this other way to live life my addiction or this stronghold that food has on me starts to dissipate a little bit more with every better decision...