“I really appreciated so much doing this work in a cross-racial pairing, it changed my life in a lot of ways and by that I mean it was really important for our relationship, in our growth and transformation as people, as social workers, as...
“This is an ethical matter... if we are questioning our language skills in sessions for example, it is our ethical responsibility to be able to embrace that and find ways for growth. Our supervisors must be aware that being bilingual falls on a...
“The literature on telemental health services is really over 50 years old. We think about it as a new phenomenon and actually back in the late 1950s in Nebraska at a mental health institute they were using closed circuit television to provide group...
“In regards to LGB veterans... in our education we really need to emphasize how societal stigma impacts the individual and impacts their health, mental health, and also impacts service delivery... it is very important not to assume heterosexuality...
"We’re a community based think and do tank. So we provide research, advocacy, and communications to a wide variety of community partners [which] unite under this umbrella and this mission really of creating a just, sustainable and culturally vibrant...
Dr. David Gerber In this episode, Dr. David Gerber applies a lens of immigration history in the United States and helps us understand the reticence to reform our immigration policy and laws. He highlights how the popular narrative we have about...
“Building on your natural curiosity... towards new skills, towards new answers, and a new way of doing that. We need a model for social work leadership, a model that fits the strengths and unique skill sets that are inherent in social work... it is...
“...so I have one really simple exercise that I have people do... on a daily basis, think about what’s going to happen that day that might lead you to have more anger than you want. And then simply, try to figure out what the hidden emotion would be...
“It is deeply seeded... I got back to the poor house ledger and not that much had changed... We just keep recreating this same system and it’s not because it is more or less efficient... There are new ways of creating a very similar system which is...
“A lot of what we participate in in the everyday doesn’t always meet with what it claims or purports to do and so we need to be critical and by critical, I don’t mean we have to criticize but we need to be conscious and honest about the effects our...