Social Work Archive

Of course, the internet can be your friend but so can contacts you make on a local level.

The past few years have been very different from the life I used to live.  This may come as no surprise based on the amount of inner work I have done.  It has a tendency to change the external in …

15-year-old Arizona boy Gerald Francis Gault was taken into custody for allegedly making an obscene prank phone call to a neighbor in June 1964. His parents were not notified of his arrest. In a subsequent hearing, the complaining witness did …

I have been discovering and learning about my inner landscape for a while now.  And I have learned some key aspects to this process of recovery that must be understood.  If they are not understood, we will not be able to …

Stress is becoming an increasingly dangerous health risk, especially in today’s society. Studies have linked stress to the increasing risk of severe health conditions, including the risk of heart disease, obesity, diabetes and gastrointestinal problems. Fortunately, there are some ways …

Who Carries it in Foster Care? Daniel Carlisle, FCNI Social WorkerVoice of an FCNI Staff Over the course of the past month, I have given extra thought to the concepts and reality of “foster care”, primarily because May is National …

Trained counselors can offer a lot of help to people in all kinds of situations, whether it is helping someone get over a personal problem or past event, helping them recover from an addiction or mental health issue, or helping …