Category Archives: Images in the News
Guardian | B Harris/Alamy Even refuse collection could be unaffordable if funding of adult social care is not reformed.
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M Minard/Baylor University Bailey completed her undergraduate education in psychology at Ouachita Baptist University in Arkansas in 1987. In 1993, she went on to earn her Master of Social Work degree at the Carver School of Church Social Work, which was then in The Southern Baptist Seminary in Louisville.
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Center for American Progress | AP/C Neibergall Rep. Steve King (R-IA) was a prominent supporter of the GOP-led House of Representatives short-sighted vote to eliminate the American Community Survey.
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Guardian | United Artists McMurphy, played by Jack Nicholson, receiving ECT in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
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Maine Sunday Telegram Logan Marr’s mother, Christy Reposa, holds a photo of her daughter, who was asphyxiated when she was duct-taped to a highchair while in foster care. Logan’s death launched reforms that began to trend toward removing fewer children from their families.
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R Bhatt | The Hindu Bigboss fame transgender, Lakshmi during a Regional Public Hearing for Transgender/ Hijra Communities, themed, "Access to Justice and Social Inclusion", in New Delhi
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S Hebert | NY Times The revision to the manual, known as the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, or D.S.M., would expand the list of recognized symptoms for drug and alcohol addiction, while also reducing the number of symptoms required for a diagnosis.
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Topeka Capital Journal | P Anderson Professor Carl Myers, fourth from right, Washburn University assistant professor of social work, poses for a photo with former students, from left, Shaun Moore, Mindy Mihalchik, Shannon Solander and Kristy Rasnic
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LJ World | N Krug Kansas University graduating senior Hannah Vick, Lawrence, is pictured May 4 on campus. Vick plans to get her master’s in social work from Columbia University in New York. Her hopes, she explained, are to work for a nonprofit that helps resettle refugees in the United States.
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Scotland on Sunday | P Wilkinson We must always remember that the poorest people in our society are the most dependent on public expenditure. Even the smallest difference to their income or costs can play havoc with their ability to feed and clothe their families or do the everyday things many of us take for granted.
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MB CENETA/AP | Boston Globe The cuts approved by the Republican-controlled Budget Committee total more than $300 billion over the coming decade. The panel approved them on a party-line 21-9 vote; the full House is scheduled to vote on the measure on Thursday.
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NY Times | T Parker A recent study found that 10 percent of people who work on Wall Street are “clinical psychopaths,” exhibiting a lack of interest in and empathy for others and an “unparalleled capacity for lying, fabrication, and manipulation.” (The proportion at large is 1 percent.)
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Guardian | F De Paola/Observer Amanda Freemantle and her daughter Shannon: the family has been waiting to get a diagnosis of autism for Shannon for four years.
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Macomb Patch | S Kahari Macomb Township mother and daughter, Sherry Kahari and Darcia Miller, both graduated from Wayne State on May 7, Miller with her bachelor's in social work and Kahari with her master's in the same field.
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Wall Street Journal | D Zalcman
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Grand Forks Herald | J Stennes Joe Rodriguez-Chapman (top) watches as his daughter Alica plays with John Fuher (center) in the family's new Grand Forks apartment. Fuher, a social worker and Day Treatman Program coordinator at Grand Forks Valley Middle School, set up Rodrigues-Chapman and his children in a furnished apartment after they had spent a year living in several Grand Forks motels. On the couch with Fuher are Angel (left), Aaron and Desirae Rodriguez Vondal.
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The State | CA Berry Social worker Jeremy McCleery shares a laugh with Tony Nguyen after being beaten in a game of pool at the MIRCI.
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NY Times | E Carucci/Redux Michael, a 9-year-old whose periodic rages alternate with moments of chilly detachment, with his mother, Anne. Psychologists now believe fledgling psychopaths can be identified as early as kindergarten. The hope is to teach these children empathy before it’s too late.
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Bibek Bhandari for The National Meena married Ramesh Chaudhary when she was just 15 years old
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G Jeffries | Bradenton Herald Katrina McCorkle and her daughter, Frehley Dee, 4, look at vegetable plants at the Bradenton Farmers Market.
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Brattleboro Reformer | P Morenus/UConn Lynn Healy, left, professor of social work, and Kent Holsinger, vice provost and dean of the graduate school were both awarded distinguished status by the Board of Trustees
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digtriad.com Eldred Hopkins is almost 60-years-old, a cancer survivor, and is graduating from North Carolina A&T University with a degree in Social Work.
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Times Live | J KOLESIDIS / REUTERS The Centre for Social Development in Africa, located in the University of Johannesburg's social work department, said attaching conditions to social benefits created an interesting debate.
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WA Today "This bonus could still be better targeted" ... Cassandra Goldie, Australian Council of Social Service.
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Melissa Bruninga-Matteau, a medieval-history Ph.D. and adjunct professor who gets food stamps: "I've been able to make enough to live on. Until now."
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Speigel | DPA Berlin's traditionally multicultural Neukölln district provides a good example of the deep divide between newly arrived immigrants and well-established foreigners. Here, a teacher in one of the district's schools teaches German to newly arrived Roma children in 2011.
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KEPR-TV Max Hirsh filed an ethics complaint in an effort to get a technique banned that tries to convince homosexuals they are really straight.
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Spiegel | Getty Images In 2002, lawmakers in Germany passed a law providing for those who worked in Nazi-era ghettos to receive pensions. But officials have opted for a strict interpretation of the law, resulting in a series of lawsuits. This week, one such complaint was submitted to Germany's highest court, the Federal Constitutional Court.
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Guardian | A Yates/AFP/Getty Images Demonstrators march with trade union placards last November.
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Sydney Morning Herald | AFP Guilty ... eight of the nine men who were convicted on a variety of child sexual exploitation offences. Top row: Adil Khan, Mohammed Ammin, Abdul Rauf and Mohammed Sajid. Bottom row: Abdul Aziz, Abdul Qayyum, Hamid Safi and Kabeer Hassan. The ninth man convicted could not be identified for legal reasons.
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In These Times | Shutterstock In late April, the Police Executive Research Forum released a new survey finding that police officers are encountering more cases of domestic violence as the economy continues to struggle. In 2010, 40 percent of the agencies in the survey reported an increase in domestic violence calls; this year, that number has risen to 56 percent.
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NZ Herald Journalist Bryan Bruce in a scene from the documentary 'Inside Child Poverty
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Daily Republic | Huber Mike Lynch poses for a photo outside Smith Hall on Dakota Wesleyan University’s campus Wednesday. Lynch graduated in December but celebrated Saturday.
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NPR Trimming the rise in obesity in the U.S. by just 1 percent over the next two decades would reduce health care costs by by $85 billion. The fight isn't likely to be cheap. But new researchers shows that even a small dent in obesity rates could pay off.
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AP/MB Ceneta | Boston Globe From left are, Rep. Diane Black, R-Tenn., Rep. Tom Price, R-Ga., Ryan, and Rep. Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah. The Republicans who control the House are using cuts to food aid, health care and social services like Meals on Wheels to protect the Pentagon from a wave of budget cuts come January.
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AP/S Senne | The Nation We can easily afford the estimated $30 billion annual cost of free college education; a financial-transactions tax would raise many times that sum, and it would inhibit destabilizing speculation on Wall Street. We would reap the benefits of a better-educated citizenry, and young people could be more entrepreneurial and more public-spirited. But Washington is too paralyzed by the elite fixation on austerity and too polarized by partisan divides to consider anything this bold.
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UMSL Daily | A Jennewein UMSL alumna Amy Bopp (left) and Lois Pierce, director of the School of Social Work at UMSL, are completing a four-year study looking at the Jefferson County Family Drug Treatment Court.
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L Cole | Guardian Six years ago a near-fatal car accident altered him beyond belief.
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Dallas Morning News Longtime social worker Sandra Palmer, says her bosses told her last fall "to start transcribing medication vouchers," "discussing medication options with doctors," "identifying low-price generics" and discussing drug interactions with patients.
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CUNY: UFS Professor Campbell Dalglish (CCNY) created the documentary from the University Faculty Senate Conference on Higher Education in the Prisons. Professor Dalglish, is a screenwriter, filmmaker, and has developed and facilitated prison education programs. He demonstrates, in his documentary, how these programs, “effectively reverse the pipeline from our broken public school systems into corporate owned prisons, giving inmates an educated plan for life that can promise rehabilitation, not only for criminals, but for society as a whole.”
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ML Carter | Tuscaloosa News Joseph “BJ” Sewell graduates today from the University of Alabama with his second undergraduate degree — this time in social work. Sewell, who was paralyzed in an accident when he was 13, is starting on a master's degree in social work this summer.
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Guardian | M Macleod/Observer More youngsters are being prescribed Ritalin for ADHD despite clinical guidelines to the contrary, say child psychologists
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Baptist Standard Prof. Kim Kotrla, Baylor University School of Social Work
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Reuters | Speigel A member of the right-wing extremist Golden Dawn party in Athens.
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Liberian Journal Dr. Emmanuel Dolo
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Ham & High The independent report identifies failings in the care of 10 children known to Haringey social services
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KOMO The state Department of Social and Health Services has reached a $2.85 million settlement with a young woman who was returned by the agency to live with her sexually abusive father seven years ago when she was 13.
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TLC Nicole Holden, second from left, poses with three of her bridesmaids, Ashley Boswell Dark, left, Jerianne Jackson and Lauren Dempster.
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CBS Philly Professor of Social Work at Temple University Dr. Jay Fagan says the number of men choosing to stay home with their children has been steadily growing.
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C Muschi/Reuters | Globe & Mail Some Quebec students were baring it all – or close to it – in their anti-tuition fight.
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D Gonzalez | NY Times I saw this story in the NY Times running next to a video of someone buying "The Scream' painting for $119 million. Why aren't we arresting this thief and taking back the money they stole that allowed them to make this purchase?
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Baltimore Police Department | Baltimore Sun Mug shot: Kenisha Thomas
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Guardian | R Faris/Corbis Some social work students are disillusioned before they have even started their career, but perseverance is key.
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NorthernLife.ca Social worker Joanne Tramontini, student Gina McAfee, parent Barbara Burke, professor Emily Matheson, and physiotherapist Shelly Tiangco in the Children’s Treatment Centre waiting room at Health Sciences North/Horizon Santé-Nord. All of them were instrumental in the development of an educational video about diagnoses for children.
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Detroit News | Wayne State University Charlie Cavell prevailed over a tough upbringing to earn a college degree, start a successful nonprofit, be a school board member and thrive on helping others less fortunate.
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Cutting Edge Prof. Alean Al-Krenawi was born in the Bedouin Arab city of Rahat near Beersheva 50 years ago, earned his bachelor’s degree in social work at Ben-Gurion, his master’s from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and his doctorate from the University of Toronto.
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M Macleod | Guardian Glasgow city centre
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WCAX Jose Pazos who is accused of killing a Vermont social worker in her Burlington home in 2010 has been ordered to undergo another psychiatric evaluation.
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Ham & High Cllr Lorna Reith announced she was stepping down as deputy leader and lead member for children’s services for personal reasons just days after an independent report into the service was published.
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CTV News A new mom and dad in Mississauga, Ont. who both have cerebral palsy are fighting to keep their newborn son at home, after social workers threatened to take the boy away over concerns about their ability to care for him. [above] Maricyl Palisoc with her newborn son William
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SFGN.com Dr. Caitlin Ryan is a clinical social worker who has worked on LGBT health and mental health for more than 35 years.
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UB: SSSW Living Proof 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.
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E Jacobs | NY Times Dr. Elizabeth Spelke studies infants and toddlers to understand how the brain works by determining what, if anything, humans are born knowing.
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Pudong Association of Social Workers | china.org.cn A social worker and a handicapped person work together to cross a creek.
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CBS | AFP/Getty Images Occupy Wall Street participants gather to stage a May Day march at Bryant Park in New York May 1, 2012.
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UNC/Jennifer Hollar Photography | Indian Country Amy Locklear Hertel with her son, Ahren, 1, at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill 25th Annual Carolina Indian Circle Powwow, in March 2012.
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In These Times Sanitation workers assemble at the Clayborn Temple in Memphis, Tenn., on March 28, 1968.
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phys.org | LB Stauffer While many Chinese studies of Internet addiction treatments claim that the therapies are effective, an analysis by researchers in the School of Social Work found troubling inconsistencies. The researchers, from left, doctoral student Chennan Liu, professor Doug Smith and doctoral student Mini Liao.
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Prometheus Radio via Flickr | In These TimesOrganizers with the Prometheus Radio Project demonstrate in Washington, D.C., in April 2009.
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T Gilbert | Tulsa World Jessica Martin, a DHS child abuse investigator at the Justice Center, said she is not sure how many child deaths she has seen. "There have been so many," she said.
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AFP/File | F Coffrini Residents of France who work across the border in Geneva have become the targets of a virulent anti-migrant campaign calling for their houses and cars to be burned.
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M Dupri | der Speigel Dupri snapped this photo of a friend who balanced in sneakers on a steel beam over 200 meters (660 feet) up. The photo was honored as a winner in the "Best of Russia" photography contest in 2011.
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AP/JL Magana | Center for American Progress Teacher Rodney Brown speak to students during the Project Empowerment workshop at Department of Employment Services in Washington. Washington’s program is one of several transgender-oriented career development classes, workshops, or job fairs that have popped up around the country.
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Farm Futures SNAP AT WORK: The supplemental nutrition program gets more attention as weak economy has a record number of folks using the program.
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Fife Today FIFE Council appears to have snuffed out any hopes of a U-turn over its decision to close the Eden Park children’s centre in Cupar. In a letter to Cupar councillor Bryan Poole, social work chief Stephen Moore said the council had no plans to reconsider the controversial move
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New Vision Some of the Graduates at Uganda Catholic Social Training Centre Rubaga, during their graduation day
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Rex Features | Guardian Mephedrone, which was made illegal in the UK in 2010.
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Getty | Time Simply viewing an image of Rodin's sculpture "The Thinker" promotes religious disbelief.
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M Godwin | Guardian A foodbank in Salisbury, Wiltshire. Trussell Trust says two centres a week are opening in UK to give food parcels to working families struggling to cop
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M Anders | MLive Leo Ratte, 11, testified before a House committee about a 2008 incident when he was taken from his parents.
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AZ Olmos | Guardian Ruby Wax co-founded Black Dog Tribe, a site that encourages people to share their experiences and talk about depression.
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Public Radio of Armenia An integrated social service institute will be introduced in Armenia, Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan said at a conference in Yerevan titled “Social work in the context of current social reforms: reality and perspectives.”
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Guardian Join from noon until 2pm on Friday 27 April, or pose your questions on Twitter at @GdnSocialCare or by posting them below ahead of the debate.
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AP/RF Bukaty | Center for American Progress In this September 15, 2011, photo, Bill Ricker, 74, sits at the kitchen table of his trailer home in Hartford, Maine. Ricker, who has two college degrees, was injured in the late 1980s and hasn't worked since. Now he receives supplemental nutrition assistance and heating fuel assistance and gets donations from a local food pantry.
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philly.com | Nixon family photo Khalil Wimes with his foster mother, Alicia Nixon, with whom he lived until he was 3.
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L Nylind | Guardian The costs of childcare mean many women can't afford to work.
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C LAFORCE/File | Herald Opinions Health Minister Maureen MacDonald, a former social worker who has expressed a keen interest in improving the province’s mental health system, has noted that the province has troubles meeting existing mental health waiting-time standards.
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Irishtimes.com Minister for Social Protection Joan Burton who is planning to restrict welfare support to lone parents once their youngest child reaches seven.
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Cape Times | J Abrahams Three -week old Asenathi Magoda with his mother, Xoliswe, and grandmother, Nomsephi Ndumiso, after being reunited yesterday. He had been kidnapped by a woman who pretended to be a social worker.
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Cape Times Asenathi Magoda disappeared with a woman who posed as a social worker
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