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How Social Workers can Use Words to Heal

Social Work Blog

Scherlong, LCSW-R, CHHC, SEP, PTR/CJT-CM is a licensed clinical social worker and the current president of the IFBPT. Whether social workers use books, poetry, and writing exercises with individual clients in individual therapy, with groups of nursing home residents, or patients in a hospital setting, the possibilities are endless.

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COVID-19 and First Responder Social Workers: An Unexpected Mental Health Storm

Social Work Blog

COVID-19 has disproportionally affected people living in poverty; new immigrants; and those living in healthcare settings (hospitals, clinics, and nursing homes), shelters, detention centers, and prisons. Monit Cheung, PhD, LCSW , is the Mary R. The journal Social Work is a benefit of NASW membership.

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How Social Workers Can Use Words to Heal

Social Work Blog

Scherlong, LCSW-R, CHHC, SEP, PTR/CJT-CM is a licensed clinical social worker and the current president of the IFBPT. Whether social workers use books, poetry, and writing exercises with individual clients in individual therapy, with groups of nursing home residents, or patients in a hospital setting, the possibilities are endless.

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An open letter to those who work with the Texas OOHDNR

Hospice Social Work

My fellow healthcare workers: We can do a better job managing out of hospital do not resuscitate orders. Tonight at 11:00 pm I had to call the daughter of a newly admitted patient so we could redo a DNR that was filled out by hospital staff during the patient’s most recent ER visit. And someone at a hospital thought that was ok.

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Ep. 59 – What’s Waiting Behind The Door: Social Work and Community Aged Care

Social Work Discoveries

Join Mim and Lis as we hear a story from a Community Aged Care setting, about a social worker who’s making an initial home visit for an elder man in the community. Sometimes you have to take a deep breath, prepare yourself for whatever’s behind that door, and knock. Safe to say, things don’t go according to plan!