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Fears about climate change and global warming seem to have led to a rise in eco-anxiety, which is defined as “a chronic fear of environmental doom."

This article explores the conceptualization of cultural responsivity in Australian child protection through the critical Whiteness theory lens. Critical discourse analysis was deployed to examine the cultural responsivity concept in two statutory child protection documents from New South Wales (NSW), Australia. Interrogating the underlying assumptions present in the texts, the study demonstrated a narrow categorization of who is deemed ‘culturally diverse’ and a problematic conceptualization...

Healy & Darlington in “Service user participation in diverse child protection contexts: principles for practice” on Child & Family Social Work (2009) discuss the importance of service user participation in child protection contexts. They conducted...

Abstract In Israel, approximately 100,000 Israeli-Arab women are the victims of abuse and violence each year, constituting 50% of the national total, even though the Israeli-Arab community forms only 21% of Israel's population. Only 25% of the victims of abuse and violence turn to the authorities for help. This article examines the case of Dalal Daoud, an Israeli-Arab woman

Faculty member advocates for sleep health training for social workers to better serve clients

Rhode Island College’s School of Social Work has been awarded a four-year U.S. Health Resources & Services Administration grant bringing in $650,000 in the first year with a possibility of renewal for another three years, totaling $2.6 million. 

From this year’s World Social Work Day celebrations and a new podcast on the ‘ghost children’ missing from school each year to Love Island’s latest winner.

During annual Marjorie Pay Hinckley lecture at BYU, Ronald B. Mincy from Columbia University shared how more can be done to improve the quality of interactions between fathers and their children.

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/PRNewswire/ -- "SWESD 2022," The Joint World Conference on Social Work, Education and Social Development will be held for four days starting from October 26....