inSocialWork
inSocialWork
University at Buffalo School of Social Work
inSocialWork is the podcast series of the University at Buffalo School of Social Work. The purpose of this series is to engage practitioners and researchers in lifelong learning and to promote research to practice, practice to research. inSocialWork features conversations with prominent social work professionals, interviews with cutting-edge researchers, and information on emerging trends and best practices in the field of social work.
Generative AI & Social Work: It’s NOT the End of the World as We Know It
“It’s critically important for us as a profession to understand how computer science and folks who are doing AI in health and mental health are thinking about the problems that we’re thinking of. Those engineers are 100% coming for you.”
Mar 26, 2024
57 min
Green Social Work and Environmental Justice
"I can live in the world with an environmental consciousness of how to behave. I can bring that into my clinical practice. I can have a consciousness about how to be in the world, and I can bring that to my sessions with my clients, because all of my clients will be impacted by environmental issues.”
Feb 20, 2024
48 min
Effective Psychotherapists: Learning & Practicing Skills to Improve Client Outcomes
“When you practice that external skill, it actually creates a different experience inside of you. So one of the ways I think you can become more empathic as a therapist is to practice reflective listening, because doing that will actually expand that inner curiosity that you have."
Jan 23, 2024
1 hr 1 min
Centering Transgender and Gender Expansive People in Social Work and Social Work Education
“One thing we haven’t even talked about is how we’re preparing all students to go out there and work and practice. All of our students, regardless of where they work or whether they ever know it or not, will work with trans people, right? And so, what we’re doing in the classroom or modeling is how to do that.” – Meg Paceley
Dec 19, 2023
54 min
In Too Deep: Harm Reduction and Nightlife
“It's not waiting around for them to change. It's on us to come together and push for the changes that we know we need. That's the foundation of the overarching safer spaces umbrella that I work under. It's what inspires me.”
Nov 21, 2023
59 min
Afrocentrism and Help-Seeking for Emotional Distress Among Black Men
“Young Black men who reported higher scores of having ubuntu were more likely to see the benefit and value of seeking professional mental health services, whether that be a counselor or a social worker.”
Oct 17, 2023
48 min
Long COVID and the Implications for Social Work
“We're missing the ball. People with long COVID aren't even being assessed for long COVID. We're not finding out that we have it until major events have occurred that may have been avoided altogether.” - Jazmin Graham, LCSW
Sep 19, 2023
49 min
School Social Work: Perception and Reality
"Don't be afraid to have a voice. Advocate for yourself. If you have ideas, get involved. Be as careful as you can be, but just make sure you're offering that piece of education and really just showing people and guiding them through our social work ways. Eventually, people will hear you and understand.” – Stephanie Stodolka, LMSW
Aug 22, 2023
1 hr 1 min
It’s a family affair: Impacts of incarceration on children and families
“One out of two adults have somebody related to them who has been incarcerated, So to be able to be effectively responsive to that is such a need.”
Jun 20, 2023
54 min
Invisible visits: Black middle-class women in the U.S. health care system
“Health inequity is baked into the cake. It is not incidental. If we acknowledge that that is true, that health care providers are trained in a way that reinforces racial biases and gender biases and ableist biases … we could start to do something differently in the way we think about medical practice and medical training in medical school.”
May 16, 2023
52 min