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Yesterday, I read with interest another article from someone working in the field of Social Services who was addressing the issues of both not receiving enough financial consideration and the sacrifice of reduced family time due to the position she …
Tuesday, November 12, 2013 2:00 PM ET / 11:00 AM PT Register Now! Deceitful predatory lenders and businesses consistently perpetrate financial abuses on clients and consumers; until 2011 there wasn’t much to be done about it. Now this country finally …
SJS was asked to review a book put out by social worker Melinda McCloud who wrote Fifty Shades of Crazy: Born to be a Social Worker. The story is fiction and about a character named Belinda. In the beginning of …
SJS considers it quite an honor to review a new social work book and this book is certainly worth reading. The book discusses a, ‘basket of stories’ from Ogden W. Rogers life from the perspective of a seasoned social worker. …
SJS shared in May, that a not-for-profit mental health network has been created by Open Path Psychotherapy Collective, an organization that aims to keep mental health care affordable, especially for those that fall into the middle income range. Below is an …
Social Justice Solutions Inc. wanted to know what Social Workers had to say about the use of the DSM in practice, and how they felt about the changes taking place in the DSM-V. Several individuals agreed to participate in a …
Dear Mayor Bloomberg: This is a letter of concern to everyone who cares about the educational system in New York City. It addresses an issue in the school that I work in that surely extends far beyond my school, New …
Social work and mental health professionals have always relied on the fact that we need humans for our human interaction as a measure of job security. After all, how can technology be expected to know when to react or provide …
Simple words can’t define the devastation I’m feeling with the announcement that the STX209 study for fragile X syndrome will end; words cannot define the fear that has now replaced my hopes for a better tomorrow. We’ve been involved in …
From April 29th to May 3rd, those living in Canada had the opportunity to sign up for the challenge to ‘Live Below the Line’ with the intention to raise awareness, educate, and challenge themselves to take action and focus on …
