inSocialWork

University at Buffalo School of Social Work
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inSocialWork

inSocialWork is the podcast series of the University at Buffalo School of Social Work. The purpose of this series is to engage practitioners and researchers in lifelong learning and to promote research to practice, practice to research. inSocialWork features conversations with prominent social work professionals, interviews with cutting-edge researchers, and information on emerging trends and best practices in the field of social work.

Episodes

  1. 1 DAY AGO

    Therapy – Actually, it Might be Fun and Games

    “Gamification has this purpose of increasing motivation and engagement to influence or change behavior with an aim of achieving a particular outcome you have in mind.”

    56 min

  2. SEP 17

    Elected Office as a Social Work Career Path

    "Elected office is just like any other social work job. I think sometimes there’s this fear you have to have a law degree or be a businessperson — completely not the case."

    1h 8m

  3. AUG 20

    Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy and Social Work

    “Mind-altering, psychoactive compounds and plants have been used by humans for thousands and thousands of years. There are Indigenous traditions that have kept that alive over the centuries and still to this day.”

    1h 5m

  4. JUN 18

    A Conversation About the Place of Spirituality in Social Work

    “There are social workers … that declare that spirituality is a vital part of human development. My question there is, I cannot think of, off the top of my head, any other component of human behavior and human development that we accept simply by declaration.”

    1h 2m

  5. MAY 21

    The DEIA Landscape: Promise, Peril and the Way Forward

    "We can certainly talk about having folks at the table, but once they're at the table, are we making sure that their voices are heard? Are we making sure that we hear where they're coming from?"

    1h 9m

  6. MAR 26

    Generative AI & Social Work: It’s NOT the End of the World as We Know It

    “It’s critically important for us as a profession to understand how computer science and folks who are doing AI in health and mental health are thinking about the problems that we’re thinking of. Those engineers are 100% coming for you.”

    57 min

  7. FEB 20

    Green Social Work and Environmental Justice

    "I can live in the world with an environmental consciousness of how to behave. I can bring that into my clinical practice. I can have a consciousness about how to be in the world, and I can bring that to my sessions with my clients, because all of my clients will be impacted by environmental issues.”

    49 min

  8. JAN 23

    Effective Psychotherapists: Learning & Practicing Skills to Improve Client Outcomes

    “When you practice that external skill, it actually creates a different experience inside of you. So one of the ways I think you can become more empathic as a therapist is to practice reflective listening, because doing that will actually expand that inner curiosity that you have."

    1h 1m

  9. 12/19/2023

    Centering Transgender and Gender Expansive People in Social Work and Social Work Education

    “One thing we haven’t even talked about is how we’re preparing all students to go out there and work and practice. All of our students, regardless of where they work or whether they ever know it or not, will work with trans people, right? And so, what we’re doing in the classroom or modeling is how to do that.” – Meg Paceley

    54 min

  10. 11/21/2023

    In Too Deep: Harm Reduction and Nightlife

    “It's not waiting around for them to change. It's on us to come together and push for the changes that we know we need. That's the foundation of the overarching safer spaces umbrella that I work under. It's what inspires me.”

    1 hr
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inSocialWork is the podcast series of the University at Buffalo School of Social Work. The purpose of this series is to engage practitioners and researchers in lifelong learning and to promote research to practice, practice to research. inSocialWork features conversations with prominent social work professionals, interviews with cutting-edge researchers, and information on emerging trends and best practices in the field of social work.

Information

  • Creator
    University at Buffalo School of Social Work
  • Years Active
    2021 - 2024
  • Episodes
    10
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © 2021 University at Buffalo School of Social Work
  • Show Website
    inSocialWork

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