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Wanted: Resilience and Fortitude

Wanted: Resilience and Fortitude

By Scott M. Banford, LCSW I remember hearing back in 2017 Steve Bannon, a first term Trump advisor, saying the administration’s strategy was to keep citizens and the media off balance so they couldn’t focus on everything going on. And now DOGE is seemingly running...

Wanted: Resilience and Fortitude

Every department and every institution of democracy is getting hit. It really is too much to keep track of and that’s part of the plan. Here’s how to cope.

CY 2022 Medicare Quality Payment Program for Clinical Social Workers FAQ

December 2021 Beginning January 1, 2022, clinical social workers (CSWs) will become eligible to participate in Medicare’s Quality Payment Program (QPP). NASW advocated for the inclusion of CSWs in the QPP and are pleased that they are now eligible. CSWs participate in...

Self-Care Insights from COVID-19

Self-Care Insights from COVID-19

[Note: Below is an excerpt from an article in the most recent issue of the journal Health & Social Work, co-published by NASW and Oxford University Press. The article was written by Christine M. Rine, PhD, associate professor, Department of Social Work, Edinboro...

From the Journals: Community Organization and Empowerment of Women

Access to Social Work, a quarterly journal co-published by NASW Press and Oxford University Press, is one of the benefits of membership with NASW. For a small additional fee, members can also access articles from NASW’s other journals, Children & Schools, Health...