Learn how social workers are responding to AI in therapy, including chatbot risks, ethical concerns, client protections, and NASW’s call for safeguards.
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Three Things to Know About Alcohol SBIRT During FASD Awareness Month
Learn three key facts about Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASDs), prenatal alcohol exposure, and alcohol SBIRT during FASD Awareness Month, including how social workers can help prevent alcohol-exposed pregnancies and support individuals and families affected by FASDs.
Risky Alcohol Use Affects Women’s Health Across the Lifespan
Social Workers Play A Key Role In Making Alcohol Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral Treatment Part Of Routine Practice For Clients, Including Women
Self-Care Is a Start, But It Is Not Enough | NASW Member Voices
Mental Health Awareness Month Is Important for Social Workers, Too
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As AI Moves Into Therapy, Social Workers are Racing to Set Limits
Learn how social workers are responding to AI in therapy, including chatbot risks, ethical concerns, client protections, and NASW’s call for safeguards.
Belize Trip Provides Chance to Connect Body, Mind & Spirit | NASW Member Voices
A Social Workers’ Surf Yoga Beer Adventure
Social Workers of TikTok
The platform takes viewers on episodic adventures in the field of social work
Social Workers’ Travel Guide to Chicago!
Check out these spots during the 2025 NASW National Conference
Social Work Advocates Magazine
Resilience and Community in Rural Social Work
By Jesse Berney “I was frustrated,” says Jan Dunn, LCSW. Working with members of the Osage nation and others in her rural Oklahoma community, Dunn saw “people who were motivated to change, to break their generational trauma.” They wanted to improve their lives but had...
Artificial intelligence offers new and expanding tools, but also risks
By Sue Coyle, MSW Clinical social workers have access to many types of artificial intelligence, with programs and systems that run the gamut from virtual assistants to documentation tools and more. It is up to the social worker to determine what tool best suits them...
Exploring the Emerging Field of Travel Social Work
Most Travel Social Work Assignments Take Place In Medical Settings
Moving Ecosocial Work Forward: Trump Administration’s Actions Make Uphill Battle Even Steeper
By Sue Coyle, MSW As the understanding of human impact on the environment has grown, so too has the understanding of the environment’s impact on humans. Everything about the climate—from the day-to-day conditions of the air, water and soil to the frequency of extreme...
Advocacy
As AI Moves Into Therapy, Social Workers are Racing to Set Limits
Learn how social workers are responding to AI in therapy, including chatbot risks, ethical concerns, client protections, and NASW’s call for safeguards.
NASW Continues To Advocate To Have Social Work Considered A Professional Degree
For Social Work Students, There Is Uncertainty Over Loan Borrowing
NASW Applauds Supreme Court Ruling on Birthright Citizenship
Ruling is a Critical Victory For Child Welfare, Social Justice And Human Rights
Supreme Court Temporary Protected Status Ruling For Haitians and Syrians
The Ruling Is A Major Humanitarian Setback And Reflects Racial Inequities in Immigration Policy
Ethics & Law
NASW Joins Brief to Support Juvenile Rights in Legal Settings
While adolescents are capable of sound decision-making in more calm and deliberative settings, the brief argues that the stress and time pressure of plea bargaining specifically undermine their ability to knowingly, intelligently, and voluntarily waive important legal rights.
NASW Applauds Federal Court Decision Striking Down Administration’s Attempt to Restrict Public Service Loan Forgiveness
NASW Will Continue To Advocate Vigorously For The Rights of Social Workers
What Social Workers Need to Know About the Supreme Court’s Decision in Chiles v. Salazar
Ruling Raises Dignificant Implications For How Social Workers Navigate Ethical Practice, Client Care, and Mental Health Services
NASW Joins Amicus Brief That Opposes Laws That Bar Transgender Girls and Women From Sports Teams
Exclusionary Policies Reinforce Stigma and Harm Mental Well-Being of Youth