Michelle Sicignano, LMSW Archive
“Insight cannot be taught or learned, but the consciousness that gives rise to insight can be developed. Trying to teach insight without transforming consciousness is like trying to create apples without growing apple trees.” — Robert Kegan …
In response to a 2012 rape in Somalia, on February 5, 2013 two people were found guilty and sentenced to one year in jail . However, the charges, ensuing from the rape and a journalist’s inquiry regarding the incident, had …
There is much ongoing debate about the push toward evidence-based practice in social work. It seems a fear exists of becoming too text-book, of losing the “art” in the name of the “science,” of instituting cookie-cutter guidelines forcing practitioners into …
In January 27, 2013 Non-Profit Quarterly online journal article, It’s the Inequality, Stupid! “Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz says: “ith inequality at its highest level since before the Depression, a robust recovery will be difficult in the short term, and the American dream — …
“The latest in a series of bloody riots in” Venezuela’s severely overcrowded prisons where inmates often freely obtain weapons and drugs with the help of corrupt guards” has resulted in at least 5 dozen deaths. “Venezuela currently has 33 prisons …
A report from the World Economic Forum, The Future Role of Civil Society, reveals “”Technology and demographics have created more aware, better connected and increasingly educated populations often dominated by younger cohorts. These populations are demanding social justice and accountability …
Lately, I’ve been processing troubling thoughts on the growth of misogyny in this country and many parts of the world. What does it mean for children growing up in such a society and what is the impact on the future …
What is social justice? When I think of a socially just society images of long ago stories come to mind, stories of Utopia, and peaceful coexistence among people, stories of brave historical figures risking life, limb, and personal security to …
An exchange regarding a post on this site the other day brought up the too often reaction of victim-blaming. A person claiming to have been working as a social worker for the past 20 years blamed the poor for “their …
Six men are in police custody and a seventh is being sought after gang raping a 29-year-old woman on a public bus. The driver and bus conductor are among those arrested. “The number of reported rapes in India — a …
