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The Department of Nursing at the USC Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work has earned a prestigious national accreditation from the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education (CCNE), an accrediting agency of the U.S. Department of Education.
The five-year accreditation, the maximum duration for a first-time applicant, comes just weeks after the school graduated its first three Master of Science in Nursing (MSN) students in May.
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May is Employee Health and Fitness Month. With employees across the globe spending nearly one-third of their lives at work, how can organizations heed the call of wellness in the workplace?
Workplace wellness initiatives have become a hot topic in recent years — but if you ask John Gaspari, LCSW, director of the USC Center for Work & Family Life (CWFL) and an alumnus of the USC Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work, this movement has been many years in the making.
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For nearly 100 days, Patrisse Khan-Cullors could not find her older brother. She and her family called the sheriff’s department every day, and were told he had been arrested, but no one could locate him.
Khan-Cullors explained that her brother had been “disappeared”: a practice in law enforcement, some allege, of taking someone into custody and having them vanish within the system.
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Mobilizing broad social change requires a community-focused, systemic approach—and a healthy dose of tenacity.
The skills gained by Master of Social Work (MSW) candidates in the classroom can translate to a wide range of career opportunities: from micro-level, client-focused care to broader policy work. Those interested in putting a diverse skill set into practice and working directly with communities to affect large-scale change may consider the possibilities of community organizing.
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The Telehealth online clinic at USC offers mental health services to youth struggling with trauma and substance abuse throughout California. During Children’s Mental Health Awareness Week, May 7 - 13, it is important to discuss why access to mental health services for children and adolescents matters and how it can play a critical role in their overall development.
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Even with the implementation of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), many Americans remain uninsured or underinsured. The ACA's goals were to make health care insurance more affordable and accessible, to expand the Medicaid program and to support models designed to lower the costs of health care.
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Two USC professors argue that tackling health care issues from the crossroads of social work and nursing can help us better understand their sociocultural causes—and deploy new, more effective solutions for addressing them.
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Due to the emotional nature of their jobs, social workers and nurses can be especially susceptible to the negative mental and physical effects of stress. During National Stress Awareness Month, tackle stress head-on with a number of practical self-care methods.
To a certain degree, everyone experiences stress: we feel nervous meeting with a job interviewer, have anxiety about making it to an appointment on time or feel ourselves holding our breath while watching a tense basketball game. These are all normal, everyday stressors.
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Dawn Joosten-Hagye, clinical associate professor at the USC Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work, and Elizabeth Semanova, director of operations at Integrated MD Care, specialize in end of life care, and share why it is so critical to provide comfort for terminally ill individuals and their loved ones.
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March is Problem Gambling Awareness Month. If someone you know is struggling with a gambling addiction, these intervention methods can be the first step toward recovery.