The Social Work Podcast

Provides information on all things social work, including direct practice (both clinical and community organizing), research, policy, education... and everything in between.

About Your Host

Jonathan B. Singer, Ph.D., LCSW: I'm a Professor of social work at Loyola University Chicago and a licensed clinical social worker who specializes in working with children and families. My Twitter handle is @socworkpodcast. I have always been an advocate of technology. In the 1990s, I created a number of “first” Web sites for social service agencies in Austin, Texas. In 1996 I developed the first electronic medical record for my agency, ATCMHMR, leading to my involvement in the selection and pilot testing of the first agency-wide remote EMR program. From 1996 – 2002 I worked for ATCMHMR as a bilingual social worker providing individual, family and group therapy to children and families. From 1997 - 2000 I was co-owner of a group therapy practice specializing in conjoint family therapy. From 2002 – 2004 I was the lead therapist for Jewish Family Service and an adjunct instructor at the University of Texas at Austin School of Social Work. As an adjunct at UT-Austin, I developed and taught the school's first Crisis Intervention course. Between 2009 and 2015 I was an assistant professor of Social Work at Temple University. I write for academic and popular publications.

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The Social Work Podcast

Pages

An Update of the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline: Interview with Tia Dole, PhD

Shared Trauma in the COVID19 Pandemic: Interview with Carol Tosone, Ph.D.

Engaging People At Risk for Suicide: Interview with Dana Alonzo, Ph.D.

A #ZeroSuicide World: Interview with David W. Covington, LPC, MBA

Guardian of the Golden Gate: Interview with Kevin Briggs

Attachment-Based Family Therapy (ABFT) for Depressed and Suicidal Youth: Interview with Guy Diamond, Ph.D., and Suzanne Levy, Ph.D.

Shared Trauma: Interview with Carol Tosone, Ph.D.

Beginnings, Middles, and Ends: Stories about Social Work from Ogden Rogers, Ph.D.

The Chronological Assessment of Suicide Events (CASE) Approach: Interview and Role Play with Shawn Christopher Shea, M.D.

National Runaway Switchboard: Interview with Maureen Blaha

Treatment of Pathological Gambling

Crisis Intervention and Suicide Assessment: Part 2 - Intervention and Crisis Assessment

Crisis Intervention and Suicide Assessment: Part 1 - History and Assessment