Tag: ethics
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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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CEs That Actually Make You Better at Your Job
Read more: CEs That Actually Make You Better at Your JobYou’re sitting at your kitchen table at 11 PM, clicking through yet another PowerPoint about “boundaries in social work.” The narrator’s monotone voice explains that “boundaries are important” and “dual relationships can be problematic.” You already know this. You learned it in grad school, you’ve lived it in practice, and you still have 45 minutes…