As we close in on the end of 2021, let’s get a snapshot of the current issues in social work and how leading social work organizations are calling on national leaders to participate in creating lasting change.
Yeshiva University Professor Daniel Pollack, MSW, JD, and attorney Elisa Reiter recently published an article in Texas Lawyer entitled, “Can ‘Cruel Treatment’ Impact Property Division in Divorce?”
Yeshiva University online Master of Social Work alumni JP Prettybull puts social justice into social work to help the communities they work with. Prettybull recently shared their experience with the online MSW program.
Yeshiva University Professor Daniel Pollack, MSW, JD, and associate attorney Helene M. Weiss were featured in the New York Law Journal for with their commentary article, “Interviewing and Deposing Survivors of Sexual Crimes Who Have Intellectual Disabilities.”
Yeshiva University Wurzweiler School of Social Work alumni recently had an article published in Police Chief Magazine. “Interacting with Individuals Who Have Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities,” breaks down the challenges justice-involved individuals with disabilities face when interacting with law enforcement.
Yeshiva University Wurzweiler School of Social Work alumni and adjunct professor Carlos E. Gerena, PhD, LMSW, published an article, “Navigating Culture and Sexuality: What Social Workers Need to Know,” in the Journal of Ethnic & Cultural Diversity in Social Work.
Antipsychotic medication can positively affect people with mental illnesses. Learn more about psychopharmacotherapy and its value in the field of social work.
The Culturagram is a family assessment tool developed by Dr. Elaine Congress to help social workers better understand families with different cultural backgrounds. It is a particularly relevant tool for counseling immigrant families in today.
Explore the history and principles of reality therapy, when and how to use it and what is the therapist's role in this "here and now" approach to counseling.
The Wurzweiler School of Social Work’s Care Café is a community-based program providing psychoeducational support ‘cafés’ throughout the New York City metro area, and most recently, on Zoom, as adaptations were made in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic.