Opinion
A Silent Crisis
Very few options exist in California for low-income families who care for the elderly with Alzheimer’s who could “wander”....
Special Immigration Juvenile Status
By Maribel Contreras, Eric Garza, Cynthia Lugo, Denise Romero, Stacey Santos, California State University, Long Beach The Special Immigrant...
Human Trafficking Continues to Urge Attention from Both Legal and Political Interventions
By Rikisha Hawthorne Nature of the Problem The report on human trafficking indicated that close to 20.9 million adults...
What’s in a Word? Self-Determination
By Al Murdach, LCSW (Retired) This column examines words which impact social work practice and are thus important for...
What’s in a Word(s)? Difficult Decisions
By Al Murdach, LCSW (Retired) This column explores some of the meanings behind words that today have a...
A Tectonic Shift
One day substandard nursing homes with poor staffing will be forced to compete with small, high quality community-based care providers....
When a Client Threatens the Therapist: Guidelines for Mitigating Risk
It’s not something that most of us would ever imagine having to deal with in our careers —...
What Do We Know About the Psychological Distress of Latino Veterans in California?
By Yessenia Mayorga, MSW Candidate, and Janaki Santhiveeran, PhD, School of Social Work, CSULB. Recent scholarly work has...
Social Workers Creating Changes in Education
By Ashley Battle, Betsy Medina, Esmeralda de la Mora, Leticia Garcia, California State University, Long Beach School suspension and...
A Broken Hammer and Bent Nails: Better Tools are Needed for Nursing Home Transition to Succeed in California
By Jason Bloome Of the approximate 100,000 patients on long-term Medi-Cal in California skilled nursing facilities (SNFs), at least...
