Social Work Practitioners Journal

This resource allows social workers to critique and improve the way news and media cover social issues and the way entertainment portrays them. The site includes articles, expert interviews, NASW policy statements, and more.

Overview

The National Association of Social Workers (NASW) created this database to catalogue the way social workers, their work, and the related issues are portrayed is popular media and reported in the news. This website is open to the public and is encouraged to be used to enlighten students, social workers, writers, and reporters on how to accurately portray and understand social work.

How to Use this Resource

Provide a URL to link the content to your course shell. Be sure to include proper citation.

This resource would make a fun interactive activity to supplement a chapter over a related topic or person. For a student choice assignment, student could be assigned to pick one of the 50 events and critique how the portrayal was done and offer better solutions.

URL: Social Work Practitioners Journal

Resource Type: Multimedia

License: Attribution 4.0 International License