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.
Social Workers Play A Key Role In Making Alcohol Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral Treatment Part Of Routine Practice For Clients, Including Women
Mental Health Awareness Month Is Important for Social Workers, Too
Women Face Unique Risks From Alcohol, Including During Pregnancy
A Social Workers’ Surf Yoga Beer Adventure
The platform takes viewers on episodic adventures in the field of social work
Check out these spots during the 2025 NASW National Conference
NASW Press invites you to decide before you buy! Faculty affiliated with a US university or college can place an order for books that they are considering adopting for the classroom. You will have 90 days to make a decision. Visit the NASW Press website to learn more...
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...
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...
Most Travel Social Work Assignments Take Place In Medical Settings
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...
For Social Work Students, There Is Uncertainty Over Loan Borrowing
Ruling is a Critical Victory For Child Welfare, Social Justice And Human Rights
The Ruling Is A Major Humanitarian Setback And Reflects Racial Inequities in Immigration Policy
Rule Will Give Anti-Democracy Groups Ammunition to Falsely Challenge Registrations
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 Will Continue To Advocate Vigorously For The Rights of Social Workers
Ruling Raises Dignificant Implications For How Social Workers Navigate Ethical Practice, Client Care, and Mental Health Services
Exclusionary Policies Reinforce Stigma and Harm Mental Well-Being of Youth