inSocialWork

University at Buffalo School of Social Work · insocialwork.org

inSocialWork is the podcast series of the University at Buffalo School of Social Work. The purpose of this series is to engage practitioners and researchers in lifelong learning and to promote research to practice, practice to research. inSocialWork features conversations with prominent social work professionals, interviews with cutting-edge researchers, and information on emerging trends and best practices in the field of social work.

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Why Childhood Trauma Matters for Justice-Involved Individuals
12d ago · 1:10:55
“The past is carried with us in many different ways. ... Childhood trauma impacts the development of the self, and we carry ourselves with us.”
Passing the Mic: Farewell Peter, Hello To Our New Hosts
1mo ago · 20:42
"The podcast has been in great hands over the last years and we’ve been able to provide… topics that are varied and that go more than just surface deep. I know for me that’s one of the things that keeps me listening.” – Todd Sage
Social Work, Democracy and the Future of Voting Rights
2mo ago · 1:01:17
“If you are stripped of representation ... your worth is not being recognized. It’s another form of erasure.”
Leadership Through Values
3mo ago · 1:13:36
"What I think is at stake is the future of social work. The future of the profession and what it is and who we are as social workers and who we say we're going to be."
Why Transgender Rights Matter for Social Work
4mo ago · 1:07:59
“Having just one supportive adult for a young LGBTQ person can decrease their suicide risk by as much as 40%.”
Social Work Under Rising Authoritarianism
5mo ago · 1:04:19
“We cannot close our eyes to the fact that we inhabit this incredibly precarious moment… there is urgent work to do.”
Psychedelics: Harm Reduction for Inexperienced Users
6mo ago · 57:30
“If your patients aren’t telling you about this stuff that they’re doing because they don’t think you know enough about it, you wouldn’t be able to handle it or you couldn’t relate to it, that’s a problem.”
Public Interest Technology & Social Work
7mo ago · 48:05
By working together, social work and public interest technology fields ensure that advanced technology is not just powerful or profitable, but also equitable and ethically sound.” – Soobin Kim, PhD
Student-Initiated Confrontations in Social Work Education
8mo ago · 58:43
"I think a lot of instructors are just trying to survive. They are just trying to survive the semester without any sort of conflict with students."
Post-DSM: Reconciling the DSM’s Medical Model with Social Work Values
9mo ago · 54:03
“[The DSM] misses so much when we think about folks from the BIPOC community, when we’re looking at anyone that is not white and predominantly male. It’s really not speaking to that group.” — Lisa Borneman
A Journey to Joy for Social Work, Social Policy and Leadership
10mo ago · 48:58
“What I want people to understand is that you don’t have to earn joy, you don’t have to have money to have joy. You don’t have to do anything in order to know that it exists within you.”
Supporting Neurodivergent Students
11mo ago · 59:45
“He said, ‘I don’t have a learning disability. I learn really well. I have a school disability.’”
Building Bridges, Not Walls: Resisting Anti-Immigrant Policy
1y ago · 1:00:21
"Migration is not a crime; it’s actually a natural, fundamental part of human existence.” — Laurie Cook Heffron, PhD
Our Current Moment: The Future of Social Work and DEI
1y ago · 57:10
“Our task is to resist authoritarianism and to cultivate liberatory alternatives to set agendas as social workers. We need to be agenda setters.”
Mobilizing Social Workers to Action: Frameworks for Social Change
1y ago · 58:34
“I was taught social justice meant more services. Now I understand that social justice means we don’t need so many services.”
White Social Workers’ Path to Showing Up for People of Color
1y ago · 58:22
"Any place that you would show up and advocate for your own child, now you show up and you advocate for people and families and children of color, too."
The Inclusion of Religion and Spirituality in Social Work Supervision
1y ago · 55:14
“Keeping the ‘why’ central — the ‘why’ we talk about religion and spirituality is because we care about the clients. Oftentimes, when we get caught up in our own discomfort, we avoid these conversations.”
Integrating Social Work in Dental Care
1y ago · 1:01:40
"When we think about oral health, we really silo it rather than thinking of it as we have one body; we have one health. But oral health is really the gateway into someone's whole health.” –Candace Ziglor, DSW
Social Work in the Post-Dobbs Era
1y ago · 1:00:19
“Abortion is so stigmatized, controversial and a hot button issue that even social work has been hesitant to make it a primary component of the things we talk about and advocate for, even though reproductive health care affects everything.”
Supporting the Mental Health Needs of Cis and Transgender Queer Men
1y ago · 57:28
“Having conversations about important issues that affect our lives is how we address the social determinants of our health because it nurtures and cultivates community and a sense of belonging.”
Social Work in Conservative Spaces: Futures Thinking and Lessons from Alabama
1y ago · 1:02:05
“It’s easy to get overwhelmed and paralyzed and not do anything, but if you can, connect and start to take action. You will feel better if you feel like you are part of the solution.”
Therapy – Actually, it Might be Fun and Games
1y ago · 56:04
“Gamification has this purpose of increasing motivation and engagement to influence or change behavior with an aim of achieving a particular outcome you have in mind.”
Elected Office as a Social Work Career Path
1y ago · 1:08:28
"Elected office is just like any other social work job. I think sometimes there’s this fear you have to have a law degree or be a businessperson — completely not the case."
Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy and Social Work
2y ago · 1:04:42
“Mind-altering, psychoactive compounds and plants have been used by humans for thousands and thousands of years. There are Indigenous traditions that have kept that alive over the centuries and still to this day.”
A Conversation About the Place of Spirituality in Social Work
2y ago · 1:02:04
“There are social workers … that declare that spirituality is a vital part of human development. My question there is, I cannot think of, off the top of my head, any other component of human behavior and human development that we accept simply by declaration.”

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A Journey to Joy for Social Work, Social Policy and Leadership

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Building Bridges, Not Walls: Resisting Anti-Immigrant Policy

Our Current Moment: The Future of Social Work and DEI

Mobilizing Social Workers to Action: Frameworks for Social Change

White Social Workers’ Path to Showing Up for People of Color

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Episodes 100

Why Childhood Trauma Matters for Justice-Involved Individuals

Passing the Mic: Farewell Peter, Hello To Our New Hosts

Social Work, Democracy and the Future of Voting Rights

Leadership Through Values

Why Transgender Rights Matter for Social Work

Social Work Under Rising Authoritarianism

Psychedelics: Harm Reduction for Inexperienced Users

Public Interest Technology & Social Work

Student-Initiated Confrontations in Social Work Education

Post-DSM: Reconciling the DSM’s Medical Model with Social Work Values

A Journey to Joy for Social Work, Social Policy and Leadership

Supporting Neurodivergent Students

Building Bridges, Not Walls: Resisting Anti-Immigrant Policy

Our Current Moment: The Future of Social Work and DEI

Mobilizing Social Workers to Action: Frameworks for Social Change

White Social Workers’ Path to Showing Up for People of Color

The Inclusion of Religion and Spirituality in Social Work Supervision

Integrating Social Work in Dental Care

Social Work in the Post-Dobbs Era

Supporting the Mental Health Needs of Cis and Transgender Queer Men

Social Work in Conservative Spaces: Futures Thinking and Lessons from Alabama

Therapy – Actually, it Might be Fun and Games

Elected Office as a Social Work Career Path

Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy and Social Work

A Conversation About the Place of Spirituality in Social Work