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This Is How Narcissistic Parents Treat Their Children

New research shows how the narcissistic parenting style affects children.

All The 'Psych' Christmas Episodes You Can Watch On Peacock

Shawn Spencer might not have had the most conventional childhood — what with his ex-cop father teaching him the ins and outs of scary-specific observational skills from a young age — but that doesn't mean "Psych" never dove into a kid-favorite holiday several times over: Christmas. In fact, it could be argued that grown Shawn (James Roday) is better suited to the fun-filled holiday than his…

Why do so many veterinarians commit suicide?

Column explores why so many vets take their own lives.

7 Tips for Working with Clients with Borderline Personality Disorder By Bill Eddy, LCSW, ESQ

Clients with borderline personality disorder (BPD) suffer from constant “emotion dysregulation” (wide mood swings, sudden anger, unnecessary suspiciousness, inappropriately intense excitement, misplaced loving feelings, etc.), as the accompanying article by Shehrina Rooney describes. This is not som

Did Your Knee Surgery Create New Pain?

Researchers are finding treatments for knee surgery patients with scar tissue buildup, called arthrofibrosis, that causes stiffness and difficulty bending the joint.

6 Tips to Reduce Your Daily Stress and Anxiety

Things to NEVER Lie to Your Doctor About

How much you smoke, drink, eat, exercise and whether you use protection during sex or while out in the sun matters. Doctors weigh in on what matters most.

Building resilient social workers is everybody’s business

Educators, employers, managers, colleagues and social workers themselves all have a role to play in creating resilient teams and workplaces

When caring hurts: Attrition among social workers, medicine’s unsung heroes

Medical social workers perform many tasks for patients, but the work is taking a high toll on them

What is an Adoption Social Worker?

An Adoption Social Worker can go by many names: adoption specialist or adoption agent. Names aside, these social workers all provide an easier path in the adoption process between the triad. The tr…

Why are patients readmitted after general surgery?

The occurrence of postop complications was found to be the single most significant risk factor for hospital readmission within 30 days, according to this study of over 1400 general surgery patients…

What Does It Take to Be a Social Worker?

Social work is a psychology-related field that offers both challenges and rewards. Learn about what it takes to become a social worker.

4 ways to become a better person, according to a social psychologist

"There’s a lot of good people who are doing things that aren’t so good."

Doing Family Therapy as a New Social Worker: The Do's and Don'ts

For many new social workers, working with families has become an uphill struggle. Still, families need help and social workers are trained to help. So how do we mix the two?

Sister Professions: Tips for Social Workers To Build a Thriving Partnership With Your Community...

As library social work grows, it is vital to dispel the myth that social workers or librarians must be embedded in the same organization to accomplish desired outcomes. Although a viable choice, much can be done through project-based collaboration.

Are Social Workers Missing from Your Complex Care Teams?

Many studies have highlighted the importance of effective interprofessional care teams to improve health outcomes for people with complex needs. But many programs do not take advantage of the special training of social workers to meet these needs on their primary health care teams.

A Social Worker's Guide to Evaluating Practice Outcomes

Bruce A. Thyer and Laura L. Myers<br>Publication Date: 05/15/2017<br>Thyer and Myers have written an easy-to-read primer on empirically evaluating the outcomes of social work practice. Perfect for social work students—graduate and undergraduate—and for social work practitioners, the authors use real-life examples of evaluating social work practice. The book begins with a refresher on evaluation research, provides a balanced approach to both single-system and group-evaluation…

What About Us? The Mental Health of Social Workers

The more we talk about being in the same sea as our clients, the more we can demystify the stigma around mental illness that keeps all of us from building the robust teams we need to continue our work in this powerful field of social work.

What Is Cultural Humility? 3 Principles for Social Workers

One aspect of cultural humility is the notion of being teachable, that in order to practice with the greatest amount of respect, I need to be open to the possibility that what I thought was true or right might not be the whole story.