Lack of funding threatens social worker’s weekly hit dealing with mental illness
New York Daily News
Berelowitz, a licensed master social worker who holds a masters degree in Social Work from New York University, discusses the causes and treatments of different mental illnesses. Show topics have included depression, schizophrenia, suicide, and treatment services for veterans.

Buffalo Soldiers faced racism at home, fascism abroad during World War II (video)
Plain Dealer (blog)
He did, and graduated with a Masters Degree from the School of Social Work. While Pyles was a social worker for various agencies in Cleveland and Cuyahoga County, he and his wife, Louise (who died in 1997), raised three children.

Healthy Living: Love Life
YNN Hudson Valley
Meghan Lemery, LCSW-R, Psychotherapist said, “Men are immediate fixers, they want to fix things. When you are talking about a problem you are going through or have a bad day, the man in your life is going to immediately give you suggestions to correct the problem and that can be infuriating to women.”

The Health Benefits and Risks of Sports Superfandom
everydayhealt.com
“All sports require planning, strategy, and reaction,” says LeslieBeth Wish, EdD, a psychologist and licensed clinical social worker in Florida. “Watching a game makes you boost your thinking and visualizing abilities. You are challenged.” So even if you’re not active, your brain is.

Social Worker Recounts Minutes Before Powell Fire
ABC News
Josh Powell told his 7-year-old son he had a “surprise” for him moments before attacking and killing him and his 5-year-old brother, according to the state social worker who was supposed to supervise a visit between Powell and his sons.

Sheriff unhappy with dispatcher in Powell case
CBS News
(AP) SEATTLE — A 911 recording reveals a social worker’s urgent attempts over more than six minutes to get a dispatcher to send deputies after Josh Powell locked himself and his two sons in his home.

Safety procedures in place in Indiana for social workers
WISH
That’s after a social worker brought two young boys to see their father, Josh Powell, on a supervised visit. Police said the boys ran ahead of her, and Powell shut the door, then used a hatchet on the boys, then blew up the home.

Dispatcher calls his handling of Powell 911 call ‘clumsy’
Salt Lake Tribune
By lindsay whitehurst The 911 dispatcher who took a social worker’s emergency call just before Josh Powell killed his sons and himself in an explosive house fire Sunday said he didn’t recognize “the lethal quality” of the call.