Clinical Social Work Policy & News

Deany Laliotis, LICSW, is an internationally recognized trainer, consultant, and psychotherapist who teaches EMDR therapy using a relational approach to treating complex trauma. She is the founder and director of The Center for Excellence in EMDR Therapy.

"Foundations of Social Work Practice: A Graduate Text,” (5th edition, NASW Press) outlines and integrates ecological and structural theories of social work practice to ground social work students in a more balanced and comprehensive understanding of how social work supports social justice.

We speak with David A. Wilkerson and Liam O’Sullivan, co-editors of "Social Work in an Online World: A Guide to Digital Practice." This NASW Press book charts the changing landscape from analog to digital practice.

Social workers are on the frontlines of America's mental health crisis. But social workers need help in addressing the crush in demand for mental health services.

Christine Gilchrist, LCSW, is a specialist in suicide in prevention and in helping those who are survivors of suicide. She speaks about how she and other social workers help people who are grieving after losing a loved one to suicide.

More kids, teens and young adults are experiencing anxiety, but fewer are getting the appropriate treatment, according to the latest research by the US National Center for Health Statistics. Anxiety in young people is getting worse in the United States, said lead study author Dr. Laura Chavez, a principal investigator in the Center for Child Health Equity and Outcomes Research at Nationwide Children’s Hospital in Columbus, Ohio.