2025 Article Archive

Winter 2025 Issue

features

Improving Foster Care Adoptions
Adoption is more than a once-and-done happening. Adoptees are speaking up and requesting support for the lifelong experience that is adoption.

The Value of Certification Programs
Certifications offer long term care employees additional knowledge, skills, and opportunities.

Supporting Siblings
Children with siblings suffering health issues often face unique struggles learning to process their brother or sister’s ailment. These struggles deserve to be heard and eased.

Starting a Group Practice
Starting a group practice requires commitment and a full understanding of all it entails.

departments

Editor’s Note
When Winter Comes Around

Elder Abuse Training
Proper training enables social workers to identify and treat elder abuse wherever they may see it.

Letter to the Editor

Youth Homelessness
The solution to youth homelessness may lie in social workers’ ability to reach people across walks of life and lived experiences.

Leadership
Social workers can address gun violence in the most impacted communities.

Advanced Degree Programs
The rising relevance of gerontology has prompted colleges and universities to bolster their advanced degree programs in the field.

Discrete Choice Experiments
Aligning social work efforts with patients’ values is a long-standing objective—discrete choice experiments give social workers insight into patient goals.

News Briefs

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