“People have to be ready for this type of practice. When the client is ready, then you start cultivating that mindfulness practice and helping them to integrate it. We don’t use mindfulness to circumvent grief. We don’t use mindfulness as a bypass...
“Stop working as a single, isolated institution and work more like a network. Embrace the abundance. It is a better way of working, and is more powerful, and I think gets better results.”
“There is no evidence that African American kids are likely to misbehave than children from other cultural groups, and there is some evidence that suggests that when children from other cultural groups do display behavior similar to the behavior...
"The title sort of sums it up, “In Response to Need”. It means that’s the way social workers shape the work. They didn’t think about, “Well, what will really further the profession? What will make sure that it’s a very exclusive group that no one...
“What we often talk about in the anti-trafficking field is ‘trafficking in plain sight’. So, while it’s very hard to determine the extent of trafficking, many of us are involved in trafficking in ways that we wouldn’t normally know.”
“We study major policies – welfare reform, affordable healthcare. We study trends like gentrification. We study our clients - what are they doing, how are they responding to our services? But we rarely study ourselves.”
“Whatever the situation may be, the influx of people with a variety of traditions, values, and skills and expectations is also associated with implications for services, from individuals’ psycho-social adjustment to public policies and regulations.”
“Since 2007, when we had that big economic crash –it was really a crisis –things have gotten much harder. And I’ve been hearing my students, I’ve been hearing practitioners who I know in the field, talk about changes in the workplace. And they say...
"My objection, my concern, is with some rigid protocols, where people feel like they have to practice in a very specific way, and almost a time-organized practice, which I don’t think really takes into account what is going on with the client at the...
"People with mental illness are not at higher risk for being assaultive in general. The situations that I am talking about right now are people who are in psychiatric inpatient settings, and so it can seem that people with mental illness are just a...
