By April Ferguson, LCSW-C, NASW Senior Practice Associate for Children and Adolescents NASW continues its collaboration with Sesame Workshop (SW) and recently partnered for a roundtable discussion regarding parental addiction. SW is a nonprofit impact organization...
By April Ferguson, LCSW-C, NASW Senior Practice Associate for Children and Adolescents NASW continues its collaboration with Sesame Workshop (SW) and recently partnered for a roundtable discussion regarding parental addiction. SW is a nonprofit impact organization...
An unprecedented growth in the aging population is expected over the next 40 years, and the minority population of older adults is expected to increase significantly more than that of white older adults. Yet accessing home- and community-based care may be more...
Loss. Yearning. Anger. Bitterness. Shock. Estrangement from friends and family. What constitutes normal, versus complicated, grief? Grief is often a difficult issue for people to deal with, and there is no right or wrong way to grieve, but there are healthy ways to...
Do you know the meaning of the word “anamnesis”? What about “zoonoses”?* Every profession has its own argot and set of peculiarly defined terminology. Social Work is no exception. Nearly thirty years ago, Robert L. Barker participated in a panel to write questions for...
NASW is a member of the Coalition for Whole Health, which advocates for full inclusion and coverage of mental health and substance use disorder prevention, treatment, rehabilitation and recovery services in the implementation of the 2010 Affordable Care Act and the...
The Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA) will protect workers from discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity. ENDA will ensure employees are judged on the quality of their work and not on personal identity, which is irrelevant to job...
For self-identified lesbian and gay Christians, the church is an important source of support and identity formation. Identity integration, the bringing together of religious and sexual identities, becomes complicated at best when lesbian and gay Christians face...