Definition and Unique Characteristics of Social Work
Dr Christopher Appiah-Thompson
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About the Show
Social work: it's more than just helping people. It's a profession with a unique dual mandate. We're not just focused on individual well-being, but also on creating systemic change.
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Recent Episodes
Neurons, Clay, and Canvas: How Art Therapy Heals
This episode aims to explain how art therapy can support people living with depression, normalise the experience, and offer simple creative experiments listeners can safely try between sessions.
Trauma on the Page: Making Sense of What Happened
This episode aims to offer a gentle, trauma‑informed introduction to using art therapy with trauma survivors, explaining “bottom‑up” and “top‑down” approaches and giving a contained, non‑triggering…
Coloring the Dark: Art Therapy for Depression
This episode aims to explain how art therapy can support people living with depression, normalise the experience, and offer simple creative experiments listeners can safely try between sessions.
AI-Driven Dementia Marketing & Podcasting: From Idea to Leadership-Ready Initiative
This episode aims to spark interest in the graduate-level course, “AI-Driven Dementia Marketing & Podcasting (Graduate-Level Certificate).”Show how the course helps listeners design an AI-enabled…
Beyond the File: Transforming Care Through Connection
This episode aims to amplify the voices and lived experiences of young people who have been in care, centering their perspectives on what constitutes effective social work practice.To highlight…
Behind the File: The Emotional Reality of Child Protection Work
This episode aims to explore how emotions shape social workers’ decisions and relationships in safeguarding practice.To highlight common emotional challenges such as fear, frustration, disguised…
From Novice to Expert: Building Professional Wisdom in Child and Family Social Work
This episode aims to help social workers understand their professional development journey and learn to articulate and evidence their growing expertise in practice with children and families
Faith Fading Down Under: Australia's Religious Revolution
This episode aims to examine Australia's shift from Christian dominance to a secular, multicultural society using census data and sociological insights.Highlight trends like declining Christianity,…
S1E4 Equity Erosion: How Australia’s Housing Game Is Rigged Against the Young
This episode aims to explain how self‑interest in housing policy widens the wealth gap between older and younger Australians.• Explore what this means for home ownership, taxation, and…
S1E3 New Year, No Home: The Hidden Life of Kids in Care
This episode aims to explain how the intensive therapeutic care, motels and emergency placements actually work on the ground, and why they often fail to provide safety or stability.• Humanise the…
From Paper Rights to Real Lives: Human Rights in Everyday Social Work
This episode aims to explore how social workers turn formal human rights laws and ethics into concrete actions with clients and communities.• Highlight compelling real‑world scenarios where…
S1E2 Changing Lives: The Social Work Compass
Social work's core definition: a profession dedicated to enhancing human well-being and addressing social justice issues. Its unique dual mandate involves both individual support and systemic change.…
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