Year in Review: The New Social Worker’s Top 6 Articles for 2024...PLUS

by Linda May Grobman, MSW, ACSW, LSW

     We are completing the 31st year of The New Social Worker! I started the magazine in 1994 as “the magazine for social work students and recent graduates.” It evolved into “the social work careers magazine.”  

Top 6 Articles Published in 2024 by The New Social Worker Magazine

     In 2024, The New Social Worker published 50 articles (including this one). These included our ongoing columns and blogs on self-care, social work ethics, social work careers, technology, social justice, movies, and book reviews, as well as articles on a variety of topics related to social work career development and practice. Here are the six most popular articles (based on number of online page views) of those we published in 2024. Read them for yourself, if you missed them or need a reminder! They are:

#1:

Social Work Month 2024: Thank You and a Social Work Month Empowerment Calendar

Empowering Social Workers. Thank you for all you do and for spending Social Work Month with us at The New Social Worker. Follow us all month (March 2024 or ANY month) to celebrate the social work profession and the ways we empower and are empowered.

#2:

Film Review: It Ends With Us

It Ends With Us is a film adaptation of the best-selling Colleen Hoover novel of the same name. Intimate partner violence is a primary theme, and the movie has been surrounded by controversy. Did they get it right? A social worker'’s view. Review by SaraKay Smullens.

#3:

Self-Care A-Z—How To Have a Super-Self-Care-Summer: A Weekly Guide

The New Social Worker took a summer break in June through August. During this time, we had a Super-Self-Care-Summer with this weekly guide from Erlene Grise-Owens.

#4:

Self-Care A-Z: Here’s Your Self-Care Awareness Month Calendar for September 2024!

Deepen awareness and activation of self-care. Our September 2024 calendar provides a daily dose of self-care. (Again, the calendar can be used ANYtime, not just in September.)

#5:

Ethics Alive! Social Workers and the Ethics of Follow-Up and Termination With Clients Who Disappear

What are a social worker’s ethical obligations when clients do not show up for services? Consider a client who misses a scheduled meeting with you. You follow up, but the client does not respond. What now? Ethics column by Allan Barsky.

#6:

Film Review—Wicked Part One: The Personal Is the Political

At a time when desperately needed, the blended genius that created Wicked: Part One offers the magnificent beauty of hope. Review and commentary by SaraKay Smullens.

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2024: The Whole Year

     Our top articles show a quick view of what social workers read this year, but there is much more. Want to see what else you may have missed? Click these links for each monthly issue for 2024:

Looking Forward to 2025

     In 2025, we will continue to evaluate the best ways The New Social Worker can be useful in your social work career. I wish you a happy, healthy, meaningful holiday season and new year. I look forward to seeing you in 2025.

Warmly and with much appreciation,

Linda