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.

Loving someone with suicidal thoughts: Interview with Stacey Freedenthal, PhD, LCSW

Helping the Suicidal Person: Interview with Stacey Freedenthal, Ph.D., LCSW

The Arc of Therapy: Beginnings (Part 1)

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

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

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

Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE) Adapted for Social Work: Interview with Marion Bogo and Mary Rawlings

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

Proposed Changes in DSM-5: Interview with Micki Washburn, LPC-S and Danielle Parrish, Ph.D.

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

Non-Suicidal Self-Injury (NSSI): Interview with Jennifer Muehlenkamp, Ph.D.

Adoption Policy and Practice in the U.S.A.: Interview with Ruth McRoy, Ph.D.

Social Skills Training with Children and Adolescents: Interview with Craig LeCroy, Ph.D.

Incorporating Religion and Spirituality into Social Work Practice with African Americans: Interview with Nancy Boyd-Franklin, Ph.D.

Communities that Care: Interview with Richard F. Catalano, Ph.D.

Psychoanalytic Treatment in Contemporary Social Work Practice: An Interview with Dr. Carol Tosone

Prochaska and DiClemente's Stages of Change Model for Social Workers

Theories for Clinical Social Work Practice: Interview with Joseph Walsh, Ph.D.

Social Work with Immigrants and Refugees: Interview with Dr. Elaine Congress and Fernando Chang-Muy, J.D.