Dancing Past Trauma: One Billion Rising
Pat Shelly Dancing through Trauma: 1 Billion Rising Here is the math: There are 7 billion people on this planet. Half are women and girls – around 3.5 billion people. One out of three females will...
View ArticleA Unique Privilege: Social Work in a Cancer Institute – Part One
An interview with Elizabeth Agnello, MSW student by Pat Shelly Elizabeth (Lizzie) Agnello is now in her last semester and will receive her M.S.W. degree in May 2014. Before coming to UB, she obtained...
View ArticleA Unique Privilege: Social Work in a Cancer Institute- Part Two
An interview with Elizabeth Agnello, MSW student by Pat Shelly This post of the interview, conducted in February 2014, is continued from Part One, published March 27th. Brief introduction Elizabeth...
View ArticleSocial Worker, Heal Thyself
by Judson Mead (The following article is reprinted from Mosaics, News of UB School of Social Work, Fall 2014) Tabatha Lumley (MSW ’14) has known some bad days. She was left to fend for herself and...
View ArticleZen and the Art of Social Worker Maintenance
by Paula Cummings, MSW candidate December 31, 2014 With a new year dawning, we offer this post to encourage balance in our lives — both professional and personal — in 2015. Guest author Paula Cummings...
View ArticleThe big picture: Infographics for social work
by Pat Shelly We’ve all heard the saying: “A picture is worth a thousand words.” image: TerrellCotton.com Aristotle said, “The soul never thinks without a picture.” Pictures can inform and inspire us....
View ArticleHere’s to a socially conscious new year: Six simple resolutions for 2016
by Kathryn Levy, MSW January is often considered a time to start anew; to change things from the previous year and look at those areas where we can improve. Few among us do not make at least one...
View ArticleOn Social Work and Other Underappreciated Professions that Serve the Common Good
by Elizabeth Bowen, PhD, LCSW Social Work Month 2018 logo – NASW The murders of social worker Christine Loeber and her colleagues Jennifer Golick and Jennifer Gonzales by a former client at The...
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