No doubt, within football, there are many systems of inequalities operating—including but not limited to race, economics, prestige, worker’s rights, and I could go on. However, I grew up under the Friday night lights of Texas and have always lived in big football towns. As such, I als...
Many nations already have reached “below-replacement fertility” and others will reach that level in the near future. There’s nothing wrong with lower levels of fertility, of course. Families should be as big or small as people want them to be. But lower levels of fertility have a ...
Tim taught me more than anyone about the scrupulous respect and heartfelt compassion required to work successfully with the homeless and seriously mentally ill and, by extension, to all clients in need. Tim’s an outstanding social worker and leader—a straight shooter, courteous, respectful, and...
What is a social worker’s main task? [ ] A. To help families. B. To help children and elderly people. C. To help people with personal problems. D. To help people who can’t help themselves. (2) What happened to the social workers fifteen years ago? [ ] A. It was organi...
Working with a child or adolescent requires knowledge of developmental factors and commu- nication skills that are unique to young people, and at the other end of the age spectrum, older people also have unique needs that a social worker should rec- ognize. These and other client conditions ...
You worked hard for that social worker license. Don’t repress it. List it: At the top of your social work resume, near your name At the beginning of your resume summary In a special “License” section Then it won’t matter if the manager skims your resume for social work jobs. She...
It could be a co-worker could innocently ask if you have plans for the “Long Weekend” or you check Facebook and see an inflammatory post reading “Cabo in a week!!! Whoo!!” Before you even realize it, you’re Googling for inclusive vacation deals until the janitor turns off the ...
Find someone who is living in poverty and is being supported by a social worker because they don’t have any other support. Of course, have Mr Campbell as well but he may not be representative of all people who use social work services. Show a bit of respect to those who are reliant ...
Last week, Vice put out a widely-circulated interview with a Tenderloin social worker under the alarming headline "Social Work in the Tenderloin Will Kill Something Inside of You." While the popular reaction was shock and dismay to the conditions as they
As social insect division of labour is characterised by different worker groups carrying out different sets of tasks in different parts of the nest18,20,28, our second validation step was to check whether the spatial module(s) to which an individual belongs correspond to the tasks it performs,...