“Elderhood is a specific phase of life, and we think of that as a developmental stage that is distinct from adulthood .. . I think in our western culture we have a tendency to think of old people as just older adults, and that really .. . cheats us...
“I want to talk about choice, because that’s one of the features in gamification that the three of us were. . . drawn to. . . Students did appreciate having many choices. They liked being able to choose which topic they learned about. They liked...
“For every injury a young person suffers the likelihood of surviving the next injury decreases. Our primary goal was [for] our data to inform the development of our emerging hospital violence intervention program. . . to provide psycho-social...
“At this point, there is so much research available that links mindfulness training to really key skills, such as the ability to direct and sustain attention, to tolerate and regulate affect, to be flexible in your thinking, to be open and...
“[Social workers] have to do it all. We have to understand what the human experiences are, and we have to bring those human experiences, either through ourselves but preferably through the people, to the halls of policy making. We bring that...
"Global wealth inequality is increasing more and more; people are being pushed to the margins, for various social, economic, and political reasons. They are unable to break out of the cycle of poverty simply by working hard or working smart even...
“[In] the code of the ethics one of the principles reads ‘social workers promote clients socially responsible self-determination, social workers seek to enhance clients’ capacity and opportunity to change and to address their own needs,’ and that, I...
“Social workers are academically trained to lead important dialogue between diverse groups. We are the only professionals mandated to practice from the person and environment perspective. . . Social workers are skilled in helping folks put...
"It’s not necessarily a matter of if we use technology, but it is a matter of how we use technology. . . Social worker voices tend to be missing from conversations and decisions around technology, because there tends to be so much confusion and fear...
"Science is a creative enterprise, and sometimes it’s not viewed that way when it is thought about in the lens of quantitative research. It . . . ask[s]us to entertain more fluidity of knowledge. . . That is also a part of practice: you know, being...
