News Items – July 22, 2014
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7/22/14
Actress Annette Bening takes on social worker role in “The Search”
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Bening plays Red Cross social worker in war-torn Chechnya
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Rosie O’Donnell to reprise social worker role on The Fosters
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Episodes with social worker Rita Hendricks to air in August
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Meet the Author: Patricia Acker
4/23/14 •
Social worker’s book shows the dying offer many lessons to the living
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NASW Film Festival Returns July 24 at National Conference
4/11/14 •
Movies cover sex abuse in the military, a social work program for troubled students and the Recession’s impact on families
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Social Worker Hopes Film will Cast Light on Mental Illness Among African Americans
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Frankie and Alice stars Halle Berry as woman with multiple personalities
And the 2014 NASW Media Award Winners are…
4/07/14 •
Winners include New York Times writer Alan Schwarz, PBS film on social work hero Whitney Young
Social Worker Creates Popular Relationship App
3/31/14 •
70 percent of Marigrace Randazzo-Ratliff’s app users are men
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News Items – July 18, 2014
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News Items – July 15, 2014
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7/15/14
Expert Interviews
How to be alone on the holidays
Social work expert LeslieBeth Wish talks to U.S. News and World Report
Spate of killings are a reminder home is not safe
Social worker Tricia Bent-Goodley says domestic violence more common than you think
Hope for people suffering from complicated grief
Researchers have begun to develop treatment for this mental disorder
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