Hospital social work is an essential component in contemporary healthcare, tasked with addressing the psychosocial determinants of health. Social workers in hospital settings provide a broad spectrum ...

Veronica Beagle is the managing editor for Education at Forbes Advisor. She completed her master’s in English at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. Before coming to Forbes Advisor she worked on ...

It has been a year since the Putting People First programme to personalise care and support for adults in England came into effect. Councils were told they had three years to engineer a "system-wide ...

A single career structure for social work would help to restore the link between leadership and practice, argues Brendan Clifford Local areas will have to appoint a single person who is accountable ...

Every year on the third Tuesday in March, the International Federation of Social Workers (IFSW) leads the celebration of World Social Work Day, when social workers worldwide stand together to advance ...

After a day at the United Nations, Emma McCarthy says she felt more empowered than ever to pursue a career in social work. “Being at the UN offered a rare chance for me to see how social justice ...

This handbook lays out policies specific to the undergraduate social work degree. This is in conjunction with university policy, WMU current catalog, and the School of Social Work Common Handbook.

In my last post, I discussed the irony of encountering social work’s identity crisis after experiencing my own professional identity crisis. When I say ironic, I really do mean it. I also feel it’s ...