Peer Perspectives Archive

• Venture-Backed Telemental Health Care Companies Are Creating a New Opioid Epidemic
  By Tamir Aldad, MD, MBA

• Beyond K-pop and Kimchi: Unraveling the Mental Health Tapestry of Korean Americans
  By Dae Sun Hwang; Thomas Pak, MD; and Joo-Young Lee, MD

• Our Youth Are in Crisis, But It Is Not Too Late to Help Them
  By Jermine Alberty, MDiv

• Declaring Racism a Public Health Crisis: A Symbol That’s More Than Symbolic
  By Mary Lihong Peng
• In Good Faith?
  By Raffi Bilek, LCSW-C
• Texting as a Means to De-escalate Crises Holds Promise to Advance Equity and Access in the Mental Health Space Through the New 988 Shortcode
  By Shairi Turner, MD, MPH
• Emerging Words for the Future – Fall 2021 Edition
  By Laura Burney Nissen, PhD, MSW
• Teletherapy Counseling
  A Discussion With Patricia Carl-Stannard, LCSW, MSW
• The Ocean Is Full of Tiny Plastic Particles — We Found a Way to Track Them With Satellites
  By Christopher Ruf, PhD

• Biden Could Have Taken the War on Drugs Down a Notch. He Didn’t.
  By Beth Schwartzapfel

• Opinion: Additional Mental Health Training Would Benefit Both Police Officers and the People They Serve and Protect
  By Jim Vargas
  

• Chauvin Trial Verdict: All Roads Lead to 38th & Chicago
  By Alyssa Oursler and Anna DalCortivo

• The Chauvin Verdict Has to Be Just the Beginning
  By Joan Walsh

• The Chauvin Verdict Represents an Absolute Minimum of Justice
  By Elie Mystal

• Protesting While White Nationalist: What if They’d Been Black?
  By Sarah A. Soule, PhD, and Christian Davenport, PhD
• Commentary: Maryland Is Failing at COVID Vaccine Racial Equity
  By Andrea K. McDaniels
• WashU Expert: This Is Not the Time to Raise Federal Minimum Wage
• Calling on White Americans: Reparations for Slavery Are Due
  

  By David Gardinier and Karen Hilfman

• The Variety of Human Experience
  By William Haning, MD, DFAPA, DFASAM
• Masks and the 12th Step
  By William Haning, MD, DFAPA, DFASAM
• Confederate Flags Fly Worldwide, Igniting Social Tensions and Inflaming Historic Traumas
  By Jordan Brasher 
• Why Discrimination Stopped Me From Providing OCD Peer Support
  By David Hiltabidle
• The Balancing Act — Being a Social Worker and Caregiver
  By Shannon Cousineau, DSW, LICSW
• U.S. Needs a Behavioral Health ‘CARES’ Act Now — Here’s What It Must Include
  By Sean Joe, PhD, MSW
• Trauma-Informed Approach Gains Traction in Care of Youth and Adults With Developmental Disabilities
  By Lorraine McLarney, LMHC, and Mary Quinn, LICSW
• Taking a Family History in Mental Health and SUD Intake Evaluations — It Can Make a Difference
  By Jerrold Pollak, PhD, ABPP, ABN
• Perspectives on Disability Insurance
  By Diane Winiarski, MEd
• Digital Literacy for Vocational Rehabilitation — Meeting Modern Technological Employment Demands
  By Nicky Tettamanti
• Combining the Fields of Social Work and Applied Behavior Analysis
  By Liliana Uribe, DSW, LCSW
• The Future of Health Care — Expansion of Social Workers for Equitable Practice
  By Elizabeth A. Roberts, MSW
• In One Sentence, What Makes You Special? — Marketing Social Work
  By Robert Reiser and Daniel Pollack, MSSA, MSW, JD

• ‘Did You Get My Text?’ — Searching for Relational Connections in Electronic Communication
  By Lisa Eible, DSW, MSW, LCSW

• Cultural Humility and Empathy — Steps on the Journey of Cultural Competence
  By Lisa M. Eible, DSW, MSW, LCSW, and Jack B. Lewis, DSW, MSW, LCSW
• The Risks of Isolation in Homeschooling — Issues for Social Workers
  By Suzanne McDevitt, PhD

• Be Present — A Reminder
  By Natalie J. Brunone-Stewart, MSW, LSW

• Without Sanctuary — Homelessness and Family Structure
  By D. E. Harris, MSW, LSW
• Finding the Best Fit in Health Care — The Empowered Patient
  By Casey Hersch, MSW, LCSW

• Family Separation Ethics — Continuing the Conversation
  By Kerri Evans, MSW, LCSW, and Kimberly Hokanson, MSW

• The Impact of Financial Toxicity on Patients With Cancer and Families
  By Richard Dickens, MS, LCSW-R

• Peer Support: Building Up From the Inside Out
  By Randy Kratz, LCSW
• Support Groups for Alzheimer's Widows and Widowers
  By Allan S. Vann, EdD, MS
• Options Counseling and the Collaborative Helping Model in Substance Use Disorder Treatment
  By Ron Stankevich, MSW, MSA, AAP
• When a Child Is Diagnosed With Cancer
  By Ellen M. Craine, JD, LMSW, ACSW, INHC
• Employee Assistance Programs — Social Work's Influence
  By Mike Laird, LCSW, CEAP
• The Increasing Population of the Spiritual but Not Religious — What Social Workers Need to Know
  By Beth A. Christopherson, LCSW
• Background Checks — Getting the Past Right
  By Brian Carnahan
• The Benefits of Working With Compassion Flight Organizations
  By Ellen Williams
• Social Work and New Technologies in Italy
  By Simona Guzzi
• Education Meets Social Work on the College Campus
  By Christiane Petrin Lambert, MA, MSW, LCSW
• The Hearing Voices Movement — A Different Perspective
  By W.J. Casstevens, LCSW, MSW, PhD
• A Grief Trajectory
  By Lisa S. Zoll, LCSW