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Category: Reflections on Practice
Oxygen Masks First: Introducing Our New SSWN Super Vision Column
Welcome to Super Vision, a new column dedicated to school social work supervisors and interns pursuing a school social work endorsement. The content provided herein is designed to help supervisors and interns with helpful questions, challenges and topics for their supervision hour.
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A New Year’s Resolution: SSW Practicing Self-Care
There can be a cost for caring. As rewarding as our career may be, it can definitely have an impact on our emotional, mental, and physical well-being. It may feel that some days you are putting your own well-being on the back burner…Self-care is intentional. Self-care should just be/not be about eating right, exercising, and getting enough sleep. It is essential that self-care skills are integrated into daily practice. Here’s how some SSW do it.
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SSWNetwork Forum: “Oh, You Work With THOSE Kids?” SSW Working in Alternative Ed Schools
Loyola SMHAPP student Lisa Baker writes: This week we will discuss perceptions of alternative education schools and its students. I want to explore the idea of implicit/explicit biases and the stigma toward alternative education students. Throughout the week, I will post questions, ideas, and links to resources about various aspects of alternative education designed to make people think about their own biases or attitudes toward alternative education as well as those of others within the educational setting and the community. I am also interested in raising awareness of how biases and the stigma alternative education students face affects their emotional well-being.
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SSWNetwork Forum: Restorative Justice in Schools
I’m thrilled to move into Week #2 of our SMHAPP SSWNetwork Takeover with Kenya Butts and Patrick Wolf, 2 Illinois SSW and members of the 4th SMHAPP cohort, talking about the EBP and the on-the-ground realities of Restorative Justice (RJ) in K-12 schools . Just as in Week #1, we will end the week over at SSWNetwork with a LiveChat from 9 a.m.-10 a.m. central time where we come together to discuss what we learned over the past week. Here in their own words is what they’re going to be doing this week in this “SMHAPP SSWNetwork Takeover,” along with some further biographical information about these two mighty school clinicians.
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Announcing Our 1st SSWNetwork Forum: Loyola SMHAPP Students Sharing Their Expertise All Week With You
Hello SSWN friends: This project has been in the works here at SSWN and our SSWNetwork for a while now, and I’m so excited to share it with you today. Starting in December, all of our current Loyola School Mental Health Advanced Practice Program (SMHAPP) students will be “hosting” a week on our site, sharing information about their SMHAPP project work and responding to crucial issues impacting K-12 schools and school mental health practice.
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[Podcast] The School Social Work Network with Dr. Michael Kelly
Dr. Michael Kelly, Professor of School Social Work at Loyola University, is the co-founder of the School Social Work Network (SSWNetwork). School social workers often work in silos and report a need for more support. The SSWN was created to bring SSWers together and provide vital content through the Network and sister site SchoolSocialWork.net . Over 2000 members and growing! Dr. Kelly describes the benefits to this FREE resource!
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SSWN Top 5: Understanding and Supporting the Needs of Transgender and Gender Nonbinary Students
Adolescence is a profoundly important time in human life that can set trajectories of health and wellness throughout the lifetime (Sawyer et al., 2012), and creating safe and affirming schools is an important starting point to make a positive change for transgender and gender nonbinary people in society at large. My dissertation examines the schooling experiences of transgender and gender nonbinary students and offers evidence-based recommendations on how to create affirming schools for this youth demographic. Here are my top 5 recommendations on how to do this.
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Trauma-Informed Care in Schools: What We Know (And Still Don’t Know), And Why That Matters for Marginalized Youth In K-12
This year on SSWN (and our sister social media platform SSWNetwork) we’re going to delve into a complicated and we believe necessary conversation about trauma-informed care (TIC), racial inequity, and evidence-based practice (EBP). These three concepts, themselves worthy of extensive study and exploration, are coming together in dynamic and powerful ways as school clinicians, researchers, and K-12 schools reckon with how to do trauma-informed care in school contexts.
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