BU Alumni Relations will host an event with MSW alum Ruth Rathblott (SSW‘94) featuring her new book, “Singlehandedly: Learning to Unhide and Embrace Connection,” where Rathblott shares her experience living with a limb difference and her journey to self acceptance. The event will explore awareness around disability, the impact of hiding and unhiding, and how […]
In art-based therapies, patients have more active roles in their healing and can find productive ways to process their pain, especially for patients suffering from long-term and stigmatized illnesses like HIV. In an issue brief by the Black Women First Initiative, a team of researchers from the BU School of Social Work including alumni Melanie […]
In her new book Simple Therapy Snippets, BU School of Social Work alum Cynthia Wilcox, LICSW (SSW ’67) shares knowledge gained from decades as a clinical social worker. Simple Therapy Snippets gives readers what Wilcox calls “therapeutic tidbits” and “tasty bites” of wisdom on life, relationships, communication, feelings, and authenticity that are light and humorous […]
Nandy Barbosa (SSW’23), a recent MSW graduate from Boston University School of Social Work (BUSSW), is a featured panelist at a virtual event on social work careers in aging hosted by the Older Adult Behavioral Health Network and three partner schools: BUSSW, Simmons University and Salem State University. The event is part of an initiative […]