The Social Work Podcast
Join your host, Jonathan Singer, Ph.D., LCSW in an exploration of all things social work, including direct practice, human behavior in the social environment, research, policy, field work, social work education, and everything in between. Big names talking about bigger ideas. The purpose of the podcast is to present information in a user-friendly format. Although the intended audience is social workers, the information will be useful to anyone in a helping profession (including psychology, nursing, psychiatry, counseling, and education). The general public will find these episodes useful as a way of getting insight into some of the issues that social workers need to know about in order to provide professional and ethical services.
Latest episodes
Feb 18, 2008 • 16min
33: Phone Supervision (Part III): Interview with Jody Bechtold
Episode 33: Today's podcast is the third in a three part series on Phone Supervision. In today's podcast, I talk with Jody Bechtold about receiving clinical supervision over the phone as she worked towards becoming a Nationally Certified Gambling Counselor. https://socialworkpodcast.com
Feb 11, 2008 • 18min
32: Phone Supervision (Part II): Interview with Simon Feuerman and Melissa Groman
Episode 32: Today's podcast is the second of a three part series on phone supervision. In parts one and two I speak with Simon Feuerman and Melissa Groman, licensed clinical social workers, clinical supervisors and consultants. https://socialworkpodcast.com
Jan 28, 2008 • 27min
31: Phone Supervision (Part 1): Interview with Simon Feuerman and Melissa Groman
Episode 31: Today's podcast is the first of a three part series on phone supervision. In parts one and two I speak with Simon Feuerman and Melissa Groman, licensed clinical social workers, clinical supervisors and consultants. https://socialworkpodcast.com
Jan 14, 2008 • 20min
30: Supervision for Social Workers
Episode 30: In today's podcast, I will talk about some basic concepts in supervision. I define administrative, clinical and supportive supervision, talk about differential uses of supervision, including improvement of clinical services and issues of liability. I also address the ethical standards for social workers providing supervision. For more information about supervision, the transcript of this podcast, and other social work topics, please visit the Social Work Podcast website at socialworkpodcast.com.
Nov 28, 2007 • 19min
29: Clinical Hypnosis (Part II): An Interview with Dr. Elizabeth Winter
Episode 29: Today's podcast is the second in a two-part series on Clinical Hypnosis. Today I speak with Dr. Elizabeth Winter about how and when to use clinical hypnosis. In the first episode, I spoke with Dr. Winter about the history of clinical hypnosis, key assumptions, goals, the client's role and types of problems that might be addressed with clinical hypnosis. For more information about clinical hypnosis and other social work topics, please visit the Social Work Podcast website at socialworkpodcast.com.
Nov 19, 2007 • 23min
28: Clinical Hypnosis (Part I): An Interview with Dr. Elizabeth Winter
Episode 28: Today's podcast is the first in a two-part series on Clinical Hypnosis. Today I speak with Dr. Elizabeth Winter about the history of clinical hypnosis, key assumptions, goals, the client's role and types of problems that might be addressed with clinical hypnosis. In the second episode, I talk with Dr. Winter about how and when to use clinical hypnosis. For more information about clinical hypnosis and other social work topics, please visit the Social Work Podcast website at socialworkpodcast.com.
Oct 24, 2007 • 42min
27: Family Psychoeducation: Interview with Carol Anderson, Ph.D.
Episode 27: In today's podcast, I speak with Carol Anderson, one of the developers of Family Psychoeducation. Family Psychoeducation is an empirically empirically validated treatment for people with serious mental illness. Carol describes the 5 stages of psychoeducation, distinguishes between psychoeducation and other forms of family therapy, and provides some anecdotes about family psychoeducation treatment. For more information on Family Psychoeducation, please visit https://socialworkpodcast.com.
Oct 17, 2007 • 52min
26: Dialectical Behavior Therapy: Interview with Sabrina Heller, LSW
Episode 26: In today's podcast, I speak with Sabrina Heller, a social worker in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania who has used Dialectical Behavior Therapy, (DBT) in a variety of clinical settings, including an inpatient eating disorders clinic and an outpatient substance abuse treatment program. We spoke about the goal of DBT, clinical techniques, the role of the client and clinician, the skills training workshop, the three mind states: reasonable mind, emotion mind, and wise mind, and how Sabrina incorporates DBT into her work with clients.
Oct 11, 2007 • 5min
25: Results of the first Social Work Podcast Poll
Episode 25: The first poll asked visitors to the Social Work Podcast website, "What is the ideal length for a Social Work Podcast?" Over a 2 week period, 43 visitors took the pollOnly one respondent thought that ideal length for a Social Work Podcast was less than five minutes. In contrast, an equal number of respondents believed that Social Work Podcasts should be less than 10, 20 or 30 minutes (8, 7 and 8 respectively). The runaway favorite for ideal length? "As long as it needs to be" with 19 votes, or 44% of the respondents. Please check our website at https://socialworkpodcast.com for more information and to take the next poll - What do you use to listen to the Social Work Podcast?
Sep 17, 2007 • 34min
24: Sex Addiction: Interview with Chris Wolf
Episode 24: In today's podcast I talked with Chris Wolf about Sex Addiction. Sex addiction has been defined as "engaging in persistent and escalating patterns of sexual behavior despite increasingly negative consequences to self and others" (Ewald, 2003). Chris is a licensed marriage and family therapist and a certified sex addiction counselor. She received her masters in counseling psychology from the University of Pennsylvania, and trained with pioneering sex addictions researcher, Patrick Carnes. Our interview covered a broad range of topics, including how sex addiction is similar to and different from substance use addiction, common characteristics of sexually addicted clients, basic skills and competencies clinicians need when working with sexually addicted clients, and some resources for further study or learning. Please check our website at https://socialworkpodcast.com for more information.
