inSocialWork
University at Buffalo School of Social Work
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inSocialWork is the podcast series of the University at Buffalo School of Social Work. The purpose of this series is to engage practitioners and researchers in lifelong learning and to promote research to practice, practice to research. inSocialWork features conversations with prominent social work professionals, interviews with cutting-edge researchers, and information on emerging trends and best practices in the field of social work.
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See me, feel me, touch me, heal me: Virtual reality and social work
“They absolutely loved it. The small group of older adults that we took on that experience, they wanted more. ... They felt tech savvy, because they were using [VR]. It also gave them a choice. Where do you want to go today? What would you like to do today? So just giving them that feeling of empowerment.”
– Louanne Bakk
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Feb 21, 2023
There’s far too many of you dying: Why are more Black kids suicidal?
“This is an incredible opportunity for a social worker to show up. And when we do, because of how we are uniquely trained, things get better. Because we do see the person and environment context, and we're not just thinking about remediation of symptoms if you will. We're looking at the structures that help perpetuate or create that person's struggle to begin with.”
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Jan 17, 2023
Locking the Door? The Social Work Licensing Exam
"We are talking about a field that likes to tout its ethics and what we do, but our regulatory bodies are not adhering to our core values… This test is not doing anything but creating a massive, expensive barrier.”
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Dec 20, 2022
Macro-Practice and a Path to Leadership
“[Y]our story is important, and don't lose your story while you're doing your work. It is important no matter where you come from.”
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Nov 15, 2022
Creating a Voice: The unique needs of LGBTQ+ Survivors of Intimate Partner Violence
“Intimate partner violence effects everyone. Even if people say, well, I've never been abused. I don't know anyone who has been abused. You have. You might just not know, because the person hasn't told you. Maybe you haven't presented yourself as a safe person to go to. […] it’s something that affects our whole society financially, economically, socially, all that. So, it is affecting all of us.”
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Oct 18, 2022
Lessons Learned: Wisdom from a Lifetime of Organizing
“And so power is the ability to act. And most people, middle income, working income, lower income, don't have the ability to act in the public arena. So, question, you know, how do you get power? […] the only two ways to get it is you can organize people, then you can deliver with a focus, consistently and persistently. I said and consistently and persistently because you can't just do it once.”
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Sep 20, 2022
Palliative and Hospice Care: Interdisciplinary- Holistic Care
“It is a scary word, palliative care. But if you ask me, it's just really the best approach to care because it's patient and family focused.”
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Aug 16, 2022
A Social Worker’s Guide to Decolonizing the Field of Social Work
"[I]f we're talking about why do we need to decolonize schools of social work, we are increasingly teaching future social workers to help our clients put Band-Aids on their situations, right, to advocate for them to deal with these oppressive systems and structures that they live in, right? Where is the advocacy for dismantling these harmful systems of oppression beyond voting? You know, how can we get social work to actually focus on dismantling these systems of oppression instead of helping our clients cope with them? That's really the question.”
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Jul 12, 2022
Reproductive Justice: A call-to-action for Social Work in the Post-Roe World
“We have to think about the aspect of social work that includes mobilization, organization, and access. For so long in social work we have been very much in the room, present with our client.... [W]e're helping them individually, I think social work[ers] felt like they were reaching the goal of the field. But the field is a social field. It's about impacting and changing society. And in order to impact and change society, we have to be a collective. We have to organize. We have to work together. Mobilize. [...] Part of that is being politically intelligent. Having political will.”
– Mery Diaz
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May 17, 2022
Yoga and Bodywork: Healing Interventions for the Mind and Body
“Talk therapy is all about the verbal language. But what if you don’t have the verbal language?... That’s why movement is so important, because it let’s you unpack… [and] describe how it feels in your body.”
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