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 ...
Find out more about the average child and family social worker salary and learn where the best-paying metropolitan areas are for a child and family social workers across the country.
I hear you are a good man and exceptional social worker, this from a reader of mine who claims to know you for many years. I don’t doubt it. And I’ll admit right up front, I don’t know the history of the NASW’s efforts to advocate for better salaries for social workers, nor...
Top-down tone. Perched at the top of the food chain, bosses are often out of the loop when it comes to getting employee feedback or hearing a fantastic idea from a lower-level worker. Intranets allow conversation to flow from the bottom up, so even the most novice employees feel comfort...
Fulmore’s first two years were filled with underachieving students—students lacking structure and support at home, who were often limited only by their lack of direction. “We would talk about transitioning out of high school, some of their goals and plans,” she said. “A lot of times it...
The bill identifies the need for every gig worker and platform worker to be part of a registry system through which social security benefits—life and disability coverage, accidental insurance, health and maternity benefits, gratuity, and creche facilities—can be conferred. However, there is no ...
When social welfare or public health regimes become the reference system for such action, it leads to predicaments for a social worker. One predicament is when a social worker is asked to effectively turn onto themselves by breaching the system limits of social welfare and public health regimes ...
Giving the initiative away, by supporting the youngsters to create their own objectives, goals and dreams to reach within the laboratory, theproject will become self-sustaining. Input is being generated on a steady basis by the participants themselves, ensuring that there will always be renewing id...
This paper makes a contribution to the social work literature which focuses on the need for resistance both at the client and worker level, and ‘ethical resistance’ in practice (Strier & Bershtling, Citation2016; Weinberg & Banks, Citation2019). It mirrors the research done in urban/...
“Or, if one is still working and the worker benefit after deferral credits will exceed the survivor benefit, one can claim the survivor benefit at full retirement age and switch to the worker benefit at 70.” However, Prunier also warns you should remember that for all “unusual” approach...