Have you found the term hookup confusing? Would you like to better understand hookup culture and more easily connect with your younger clients? Alexandra Solomon, Ph.D. gives a great introduction in her talk “Inside Hookup Culture” at the 2016 Psychotherapy Networker Symposium. In part one of this post, you will be given a brief overview of […]
Website Trustworthiness: How Can You Tell?
Website Trustworthiness: What Everyone Needs to Know Have you (or your) clients been assuming that the majority of the information that you find on the internet is of good quality? Regretfully, we cannot… Aside from the fact that what we see is influenced by the filter bubble, there are many urban legends, sites with misinformation, inaccuracies, biases, hoaxes […]
Personal Learning Network Twitter Cheat Sheet
Personal Learning Networks: Why (& How) to Use Twitter Have you heard about twitter but are concerned that it is too hard to figure out, or may have no relevance to you? Would you like to know how you may use twitter to help you learn about different topics and/or advance in your career? This post will provide you with the […]
Online Toolkit for New Social Workers
Are you a social work educator interested in incorporating social media into your social work curriculum? Or are you a social work student or new social worker wondering how you may enhance your social work practice via the use of social media? Laurel Hitchcock, PhD, MPH, LCSW, an Assistant Professor in the Department of Social Work at the University of […]
How Social Media Sparks Social Work Career Growth
How Social Media Sparks Social Work Innovation Have you wondered how social workers may benefit from using social media or how social media may spur innovation within social work? As per the interview that Pat Shelly, the Director of Community Engagement and Expansion at the University of Buffalo’s School of Social Work, conducted with me on inSocialWork’s […]