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Back to the (not so) Basics of Anti-Racist Education and Practice: The Need for White Social Work Students to Learn How to Create Trust and Relationships
Get PDFThis study sought to explore the skills white social work students need to develop in order to cultivate an embodied anti-racist practice. Forty-one social work students (approximately half white and half students of color) at a public university participated in semi-structured focus groups to discuss their experiences with anti-racist education and practice in their social work education. A predominant theme observed from these focus groups was the difficulty that white social work students have developing trust and relationships. Findings revealed that these students need guidance on how to build trust and develop relationships before they can engage in learning other anti-racist practice skills. The authors propose offering a future course that will help white social work students to develop these skills through pilot-testing a few embodied anti-racist competencies related to trust and relationship-building. These skills can contribute to the broader Social Work Grand Challenge to eliminate racism as well as the NASW Code of Ethics ethical principle of strengthening relationships as a vehicle for change
Conceptualizing Anti-Racist Social Work Pedagogy: Practical Ideas for Increasing Faculty Capacity, Reflexivity, and Ability
Get PDFStudies have suggested that faculty in higher education lack the preparation, training, tools, and collaboration to be effective anti-racist educators. This conceptual paper presents a new framework for social work faculty to consider as they evolve their anti-racist pedagogy. The history of the priorities and professionalization of social work is explored along with the origins and theoretical influences of social work education and accreditation, the inequitable system and structure of higher education, and the racial identity, lived experience, and education of individual educators. The proposed conceptual framework centers on practical strategies for increasing faculty capacity, building faculty reflexivity, and scaffolding faculty ability for social work anti-racist pedagogy. Strategies for increasing faculty capacity include professional development and training, places to process, and policy and support. Strategies for building faculty reflexivity focus on applying racial consciousness, assessing values, and adopting humility. Strategies for anti-racist pedagogy skills include building intentional class culture, braving collaborative learning, and banking on resistance. This paper concludes with discussions about anti-racist capacity-building for social work educators and broader implications for social work education in the United States
Post-Master’s Career Progression of Social Workers: A Developmental Perspective
Get PDFSocial work is one of the fastest growing professions in the nation with an expected job growth of 9% by the end of the decade and more than 62,888 Masters of Social Work (MSW) students in the United States in 2021 (BLS, 2022; CSWE, 2023). The receipt of a graduate social work degree represents an important milestone, often accompanied by entry into professional practice. While much is written about formal social work education, scholarly literature has far fewer articles about the work life of social workers after graduation. This article presents social work career progression from a developmental perspective, an approach that has historically been used to examine the life course of clients. Typical tasks or “milestones” in early, middle, and later stages of clinical or direct practice careers are discussed. Adapting life course theory to examine the professional evolution of social workers is beneficial as it helps illuminate the typical stressors facing practitioners after completing their formal education. Understanding potential career opportunities and issues may help those entering social work to better socialize into the profession and transition from one stage to the next by anticipating what lies ahead. Using a developmental perspective to professionalization is also appropriate as, like in the life course, opportunities for growth should be ongoing and lifelong. Early, middle, and later career opportunities and challenges are identified within the three pillars of social work – regulation, education, and practice. Policy reforms to enhance social work licensure portability, life-long learning in the form of continuing education, and self-care practices will assist social workers to thrive in all career stages
Michigan’s Missing Link: School Social Workers and Firearm-Access Screening
Get PDFSchool Social Workers (SSWs) support nonacademic barriers to student learning by providing assessment, intervention and prevention services related to social and material needs. This case study examines 3,725 Michigan SSWs’ methods for identifying, screening, and supporting students\u27 needs. It analyzes referral types, frequencies and SSWs’ perceptions regarding the importance, feasibility, and readiness to screen and support students\u27 social and material needs. Responses exhibited variability, highlighting the need for an established screening protocol. The most surprising finding was that firearm access was the least discussed topic with students; 21.4% of SSWs almost never inquired and only 25.5% sometimes asked. The majority of referrals (73.9%) addressed students\u27 material needs, while a mere 10.5% targeted social needs, including mental health services, revealing a significant gap in this area. Notably, 15.6% of students received no referrals at all. The findings on referrals for social needs, including biopsychosocial factors like mental health, coupled with the perceived lack of preparedness among SSWs to screen for challenges like firearm access, underscore the pivotal role SSWs can play in violence prevention. This emphasizes an urgent call to action for training, further research, dedicated policies, and resources to maximize the impact of SSW practice in schools, homes, and communities
Firearm Access and Safe Storage: What are Social Workers’ Training and Assessment Practices with Clients?
Get PDFSocial workers often work with clients who are at elevated risk for firearm victimization or perpetration due to their personal risk factors. But are they talking to their clients about firearms? Research on social workers’ firearm assessment or discussions with clients about safe storage is scarce. This study sought to better understand social workers and students’ firearms training, beliefs, general knowledge, and application to practice. An anonymous, online, quantitative survey was completed by 139 social workers and students. Most social work practitioners and students had zero hours of training regarding firearms in their social work programs, their internship, and/or from continuing education units (CEUs). Those that had training asked clients about firearms. Besides asking suicidal and aggressive clients, most social workers were not routinely asking other high- risk clients about their access to firearms or their storage practices. Over half of the participants said they would be interested in future training. Social workers have unique skills and key connections with high-risk clients who are vulnerable to firearm-related risks. They have the potential to prevent gun violence, but only if they receive thorough, effective training on firearms assessment and safe storage practices
The Right to a Public Trial, Conditional Courtroom Entry and Tiers of Constitutional Scrutiny
No full textThe constitutional test the SupremeCourt has prescribed to review courtroom closures for compliance with the Sixth Amendment’s right to a public trial is in the nature of strict scrutiny. The Courtrequires an “overriding interest” to justify the closure, and a narrow, minimally restrictive scope to the closure. Many lower courts have imposed a less demanding test for “partial” closures, which admitto the courtroom some, but not all, of the public. These courts require a less demanding justification before closing the courtroom to certain individuals—the justification need be only “substantial,” rather than “overriding.” This standard is in the nature of intermediate scrutiny, as applied in other constitutional contexts. There is a third type of “closure,” however, beyond the complete closures the Supreme Court has reviewed, and the partial closures encountered by other courts. This third type is the imposition of entry conditions on would-be audience members, such as requiring a form of identification. These generally applicable conditions may not actually exclude anyone but could conceivably dissuade some audience members from attending a trial. For instance, an attendee might prefer not to provide identification to court personnel and might be turned away as a result. In keeping with the doctrinal model already followed by the courts—applying “tiered scrutiny” to courtroom closures—conditional courtroom entry should be reviewed according to the most lenient of the tiers, rational basis scrutiny. A sliding scale should apply to public trial scrutiny, “Waller” scrutiny, the most demanding, when all are excluded. “Substantial reason” scrutiny, less demanding, should apply when some are excluded. Andrational basis scrutiny, much less demanding, should apply when no one need be excluded, but for their non-compliance with a general rule. A lesser standard should apply in the case of entry conditions because they differ from other closures and cause minimal prejudice to the purposes of the right to a public trial
How Our Buildings Shape Us: An Argument Against PL 180’s Preemption of Local Government Control Over Green Building Codes In Indiana
No full textInventions and Patents for Treating Thyroid Disease
No full textThe thyroid is a bi-lobed gland located at the base of the neck that produces essential hormones for metabolic control in the human body. Affecting nearly fifty-million Americans, thyroid disease has become a ubiquitous cause for symptoms including depression, anxiety, psychosis, and heart disease. Yet, while the healthcare law scholarship is visibly scaling, the research relating to law, innovation, and thyroid disease is completely naked. This Article provides an interdisciplinary introduction to the Thyroid Patent Dataset, an evolving mechanism for tracking progress in treatments for thyroid disease and advances the literature in providing the first consolidated review of patents for a specific disease. In short, this Article explores the confluence of thyroid disease, patent law, and innovation policy to promote knowledge in human health relating to the human thyroid