The School of Social Work is preparing to launch a pioneering virtual reality (VR) app it has developed that will allow students, social work practitioners and other health care professionals ...

Though trauma is a familiar concept to social workers, shame is rarely discussed, despite its centrality in understanding the ...

Professionals in trauma-heavy fields often describe an intense emotional connection to their work, a dynamic that almost feels addictive. The emotional highs of crisis intervention, paired with a ...

BUFFALO, N Y. -- Like many powerful ideas, the essence is simple. Those dealing with people who have a mental illness or addiction problem have to start asking what has happened to the person that may ...

In her work with families that struggle to create and maintain a healthy home environment, April Oschmann, a solutions-based case manager at The Extra Mile in Lafayette, has noticed a trend. Often, ...

Nicole Fava, an associate professor at the Robert Stempel College of Public Health & Social Work, was recently named Miami-Dade County’s 2025 National Association of Social Work’s Educator of the Year ...

Intergenerational trauma is the theory that trauma can be inherited because there are genetic changes in a person’s DNA. The changes from trauma do not damage the gene (genetic change). Instead, they ...