The Social Workers Radio Talk Show

The A-to-Z Self-Care Handbook with Dr. Erlene Grise-Owens and Dr. Justin "Jay” Miller Dr. Erlene Grise-Owens and Dr. Justin "Jay" Miller spoke with co-hosts Alyssa Lotmore, LMSW and Dr. Eric Hardiman on The Social Workers Radio Talk Show about their book, 'The A-to-Z Self-Care Handbook for Social Workers and Other Helping Professionals'. Dr. Grise-Owens, Dr. Miller, and Mindy Eaves...

Editors of ‘The A-to-Z Self-Care Handbook for Social Workers and Other Helping Professionals’ “Self-care is an imperative for the ethical practice of social work and other helping professions. From A (awareness) to Z (ZZZZ--Sleep), the editors and contributors use a simple A-to-Z framework to outline strategies to help you build a self-care plan with specific goals and ways to reach them realistic...

Dr. Danna Bodenheimer spoke with co-hosts Alyssa Lotmore, LMSW and Dr. Eric Hardiman on The Social Workers Radio Talk Show about her new book, 'On Clinical Social Work: Meditations and Truths From the Field’.

Dr. Danna Bodenheimer, author of Real World Clinical Social Work: Find Your Voice and Find Your Way, discusses her book. More information: https://www.socialworker.com/products-services/social-work-books/introducing-real-world-clinical-social-work-find-your-voice-/

Sherry Saturno is a national award social worker and dually licensed as a Nursing Home Administrator and Clinical Social Worker. She holds Master's degrees from Columbia and Long Island Universities. Sherry is a Stanford Certified Project Manager and completed a national post graduate fellowship at New York University Silver School of Social Work. She previously wrote and produced a national award...

Amanda Aykanian is a doctoral candidate at the University at Albany School of Social Welfare. She is also a Research Associate at Advocates for Human Potential in Albany, NY and serves as the Research and Project Lead for the National Center for Excellence in Homeless Services. She has more than 10 years of experience in community-based process and outcome evaluations, with expertise in quantitati...

Elizabeth Cronin, Director of the NYS Office of Victim Services (OVS), sat down with co-host Alyssa Lotmore to discuss why the agency is an important resource in the communities around the State. January is also Human Trafficking Awareness Month and OVS is hosting a film screening on the topic on the UAlbany campus.

Dr. Loretta Pyles and Dr. Juliana Svistova, authors of 'Production of Disaster and Recovery in Post-Earthquake Haiti: Disaster Industrial Complex', discuss how media, policy, and NGO discourses created fertile conditions for the disaster industrial complex to flourish, including profiteering, non-profiteering, and militarized humanitarianism, all of which further disenfranchised Haitian citizen-su...

Loretta Pyles, PhD, is Professor at the School of Social Welfare at the University at Albany and also a yoga and meditation teacher, workshop leader, and organizational consultant. Her new book is 'Healing Justice: Holistic Self-Care for Change Makers'. She is also the author of 'Progressive Community Organizing: Reflective Practice in a Globalizing World' and co-editor of 'Holistic Engagement: Tr...

Dr. Mary McCarthy, of UAlbany School of Social Welfare, discusses the importance of college students registering to vote and participating in elections. She speaks about the importance of voting to political action, community power and social justice. Joe Bonilla, managing partner and co-founder of Relentless Awareness, joined us for an engaging and informative discussion about voting, election po...

Ogden Rogers, Ph. D. being interviewed on the SOCIAL WORKERS radio talk show. Originally broadcast on December 11, 2014 on WCDB 90.9 FM at the University at Albany, State University of New York. Dr. Ogden Rogers, author of Beginnings, Middles, and Ends: Sideways Stories on the Art & Soul of Social Work

Cessie Alfonso, a licensed social worker, speaks about her career as a forensic social worker who focused on death penalty cases. In this segment, Cessie talks about how she got into the forensic social work career, how new social workers can explore this specialization, and what this career is really like.

Our yearning to connect and belong is primal. The force that pushes and pulls one towards another is love. Unhealthy patterns from the past whether due to loss, war, abuse, deprivation or other traumas, can spread across generations and cause the heart to shut down. If left unattended, this disruption in the flow moves into the shadows and echoes through the family landscape often emerging in the...

Social issues faced by communities are increasingly complex, transcending the boundaries of any one agency, organization or profession. Across the country and the world, communities are looking for new and innovative ways to leverage existing resources in ways that better meet the needs of marginalized and disadvantaged populations. Though working across boundaries – whether professional or organi...

Dr. Sarah Mountz, of UAlbany SSW, discussed her work with, and the experiences of, LGBTQ youth in fostercare. She spoke about her current research at UAlbany, where she is doing participatory research with students on campus who are in foster care.