News Items – June 21, 2016
Ana Bonilla-Galdamez is a member:
10 Things Social Workers Want You to Know About What They Really Do
Cosmopolitan
I have a master’s degree in social work and an additional certification as a licensed clinical social worker. Graduate school gave me great training, but you only really learn what you need to know when you start working with people. For example, every master’s program teaches cultural competency — the skills to work with people from a particular ethnic or cultural group — but you have to start working with those groups before you can fully understand their perspective. I also draw on my background as a Latina and an immigrant to empathize with some of my clients, which is something you just can’t learn from a book.
Abigail Garner is a member:
[Audio] CoastLine: Is Gender Identity Cultural, Biological, or a Personal Decision?
WHQR
So today, while we acknowledge that HB2 served as the catalyst for the conversation, we’re side-stepping the politics to learn more about the transgender community. This is not a discussion parsing the nuances, potential impacts, or even constitutionality of HB2. It’s an opportunity for the majority to step into someone else’s world for a moment. Abigail Garner is a clinical social worker with Delta Behavioral Health. She works in private practice as a therapist where she sees predominantly transgender adolescents.
Shane’a Thomas is a member:
The Reason ‘Sanctuaries’ Have Never Been Safe
ATTN
“Historically, ‘safe spaces’ is a term where you would think about churches and you would think about temples,” said Shane’a Thomas, a senior lecturer at the University of Southern California and a clinical social worker who works with people in the LGBT community. In the wake of the Orlando shooting, she said that some people struggled to see the significance of gay bars as a safe space. “I think some people are confused as to why we deemed those safe spaces, but some people don’t understand the dynamic of homophobia.”
Beth Davalos is a member:
How to talk with children about shooting
Orlando Sentinel
But kids often know more than we think. That’s one of the things I heard when I reached out to mental health experts this week. “Pretending it didn’t happen is just magical thinking,” said Beth Davalos, a licensed clinical social worker with Seminole County schools and who runs a counseling center in Maitland. “Give them information they can handle.”
Stefan Perkowski is a member:
Judge denies dismissal of sex abuse trial
Olean Times Herald
Prosecution witness Stefan Perkowski, a licensed clinical social worker who since 1975 has investigated over 3,100 sex abuse cases with Child & Adolescent Treatment Services in Erie County, explained how children tend to react in such scenarios. The psychological effects of child sex abuse, he said, generally run “counterintuitive” to “how most adults would think.” Perkowski detailed a condition known as child sexual abuse accommodation syndrome, which is often characterized by feelings of secrecy, helplessness, entrapment, delayed disclosure and retraction.
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