Tag: child welfare
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Implicit Bias in Social Work: Follow Your Gut?
Read more: Implicit Bias in Social Work: Follow Your Gut?Your brain builds associations from what it’s exposed to, repeatedly, over years. Faces with contexts. Names with outcomes. Presentations with categories. This happens without your consent and largely without your awareness, and it’s the same machinery that lets you read a room in three seconds or know a client is in trouble before he says…
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Know the Signs: Types and Indicators of Child Abuse
Read more: Know the Signs: Types and Indicators of Child AbuseWhen you walk into the community center that Thursday morning, you immediately notice Keisha sitting alone in the corner. She’s twelve—usually lively and full of conversation—but today she seems smaller somehow. As you get closer, you see what looks like a healing cut on her lip and faint scratches on her forearms. “What happened, Keisha?”…