NASW Social Work Talks

Anxiety, fear, grief, boredom, anger and depression are triggers for emotional eaters. Add a pandemic, and you have a perfect storm for people struggling with eating disorders. People without eating disorders are also struggling. We speak with Mary Anne Cohen, director of the New York Center for Eating Disorders. She's author of "Treating the Eating Disorder Self: A Comprehensive Model for the Social Work Therapist." See the show notes for resources, and please leave us a review!

In July 2020, Mildred "Mit" C. Joyner, DPS, MSW, LCSW, started her three-year term as NASW's President. We talk with her about her vision for the association in the midst of a global pandemic and a reckoning around racism. Visit the show notes to learn more about Dr. Joyner.

In this special episode, NASW’s Senior Policy Consultant Mel Wilson is interviewed by Andy McClenaghan on Let’s Talk Social Work, a podcast from the British Association of Social Workers Northern Ireland. Many of our colleagues around the world have been following the developments in the United States around racism and violence against people who are Black. So Mel shared what’s been happening, and what we’re doing here to push for real change and social justice. Visit the show notes for resources.

Chad Dion Lassiter, MSW, is Executive Director at the Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission (PHRC), and president of the Black Men at Penn School of Social Work, Inc., at the University of Pennsylvania.  We speak with him about America's racism pandemic, and how the social work profession can best move forward through it. See the show notes for related resources.

We speak with Carla Monteiro about how the coronavirus pandemic is changing how social workers approach treatment for substance use disorder. Carla is a member of NASW's Massachusetts chapter, and is president of the Cape Verdean Social Workers Association. Visit the show notes for resources and a transcript.

NASW CEO Angelo McClain, PhD, LICSW, speaks about how NASW national and chapter staff are mobilized and increasing our efforts in the face of the American pandemic of racism. See the show notes for resources.

We speak with Martha Rodriguez, LCSW, service manager of recovery at Broward County Public Schools in Florida. Ms. Rodriguez also works at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., which was the site of a mass school shooting in 2018.

Pat Spencer, LCSW, talks about implementing teletherapy in her social work practice during New Jersey's stay-at-home order. See the show notes for related resources, and if you like this episode, please leave us a review!

In early March, we spoke with NASW-Texas chapter Executive Director Will Francis, LMSW, and Government Relations Director, Alison Mohr Boleware, LMSW, about what the immigration crisis looks like in their state. Then the coronavirus health crisis hit North America, so we spoke with them again in April to see how things changed. See the show notes for related resources and a transcript.

Rosanelly Garcia is a trauma social worker in the emergency room at Mount Sinai Hospital in Chicago. She speaks with us about what it's like right now, working in the ER during the coronavirus pandemic. Read the show notes for related resources.