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

Neurobiology for Social Work: Interview with James Marley, Ph.D.

Social Roots of Youth Suicide: Interview with Anna Mueller, PhD

Self-care and Cultural Humility in the 2021 NASW Code of Ethics: Interview with Allan Barsky, MSW Ph.D.

From Suicidal to Inspired: Interview with Kevin Hines, Greg Van Borssum, and Matt Runnalls

Social media and gang violence: Interview with Desmond Patton, Ph.D.

Death and Grief in the Digital Age: Interview with Carla Sofka, Ph.D.

Guardian of the Golden Gate: Interview with Kevin Briggs

Parenting Teenage Girls: Interview with Lisa Damour, Ph.D.

Critiques of the DSM-5: Interview with Jeffrey Lacasse, Ph.D.

Personal and Professional Perspectives on Religious Child Maltreatment: Interview with Bethany Brittain and Ann Haralambie, JD, CWLS

Music, positive youth development, and homelessness: Interview with Brian Kelly, Ph.D.

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

Adolescence, the Age of Opportunity: Interview with Laurence Steinberg, Ph.D.

Healthy Sick - OutRunning Cystic Fibrosis: Interview with Elizabeth Shuman, LCSW

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

Identifying and Responding to Sex-Trafficking Victims in Social Service Settings: Interview with Rebecca J. Macy, Ph.D.

An Overview of Trauma-Informed Care: Interview with Nancy J. Smyth, Ph.D.

Perinatal Loss: Interview with Sarah Kye Price, Ph.D.

Social Work Ethics: Interview with Allan Barsky, JD, MSW, PhD

Psychodynamic therapy with vulnerable and oppressed populations: Interview with Joan Berzoff, M.S.W., Ed.D.