The New Social Worker's Top 3 Articles - First Half of 2019!

by Linda May Grobman, MSW, ACSW, LSW

    Thank you to The New Social Worker's readers (subscribers and social media followers) for being with us in the first half of 2019! I love bringing great social work articles to life in the magazine and on our website. In the first half of 2019, we published two issues (Winter and Spring/Summer), and we have a third one on the way in September. We celebrated Social Work Month, and we are in the middle of Self-Care Summer. We also celebrated International Self-Care Day with a 24-hour self-care challenge.

     Here are the Top 3 NEW articles (those with the most page views) on our website for the first half of 2019. In case you missed them, please check out the links below:

#1: Clinical Intersections: What About Us? The Mental Health of Social Workers

     What About Us? The Mental Health of Social Workers, by Dr. Danna Bodenheimer, is part of our new Clinical Intersections blog, in collaboration with Walnut Psychotherapy Center. In it, Danna says, "... it’s hard to be a social worker. And this fact makes it necessary to discuss our mental health openly with each other, with our loved ones, with our supervisors, and with our families; as a fact of our lives that we need to tend to carefully, diligently, and thoughtfully."

#2: Disenfranchised Grief: When Grief and Grievers Are Unrecognized

     This article by Lisa Zoll, LCSW, from our Winter 2019 issue addresses three primary concepts that serve to disenfranchise someone’s grief: 1) the relationship between the griever and the deceased is not recognized, 2) the death or loss is not recognized, and 3) the griever’s ability to grieve is not recognized (as outlined by Corr). Read Disenfranchised Grief: When Grief and Grievers Are Unrecognized.

#3: Having Difficult But Necessary Conversations With Your Social Work Field Instructor

     From Winter 2019: Some conversations may not feel comfortable, but they are necessary. It is hard to do with our clients what we cannot do for ourselves. Tips are provided for difficult conversations with your social work field supervisor.  Dr. Tawanda Hubbard wrote Having Difficult But Necessary Conversations With Your Social Work Field Instructor to address best ways to engage in these conversations.

     I look forward to the rest of 2019 with you, our readers! Thank you for reading.

Linda May Grobman, MSW, ACSW, LSW, is the founder, publisher, and editor of The New Social Worker magazine and editor of Days in the Lives of Social Workers and other books.