Cybercounselling Online, Level 1 September 14th – December 20th, 2018 This course is for experienced counselling practitioners who want to offer professional, ethical online counselling to their clients. We cover video, live text-chat and email-style communications methods. You will engage in hands-on text-based work with both asynchronous (secure email) and synchronous (chat) approaches. Registration Regular...
IASSW statement on the Supreme Court of India’s decision IASSW acknowledges the monumental judgment taken by the Honorary Supreme Court of India’s decision to scrap certain provisions under Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code that criminalised homosexuality. In a landmark verdict, the Supreme Court in India scrapped the controversial Section 377- a 158-year-old colonial...
DGSA Position Paper – Appeal for global solidarity and the right to asylum_July2018 Appeal for global solidarity and the safeguarding of the right to asylum 1 With deep concern, we witness the current developments in Germany’s asylum policy. The proposed changes are triggered by tremendous shifts in political and medial discourses, and we fear that...
Request to participate: IASSW – World Census of Social Work Education Programs – 2020 Directory Dear social worker / social work educator. You are hereby invited to participate in this very brief, but very important survey by clicking on the link below: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/IASSW-Census The average completion time is 9 minutes. Context: Every ten years, the...
IASSW Updates: July 2018 IASSW Archives: Newly Formed Archive Committee Lynne Healy, Chair IASSW’s history is well documented in its archive, held at the Social Welfare History Archive at the University of Minnesota Library in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in the United States. Holdings that date back to the founding of the association in 1928 include official...
A message from IASSW President and Board on Disaster in Kerala, India To Indian Social Work Educators, As IASSW community we are thinking of the population that are struggling with the aftermath of the catastrophic flooding in Kerala, with more than 300 people death and more than 200.000 people displaced . Once again, we are facing...
Dear social work education community, Please forward this to your social work academic colleagues. If you have Wikipedia Editor experience, than this request is directed at you – please read the REQUEST below. I am the chair of the Standing Committee on the World Census of Social Work Programs for the International Association of Schools...
XXII Latin America Seminar of the Schools of Social Work Colleagues will be celebrating the XXII Latin America Seminar of the Schools of Social Work. The event will take place at National University of Colombia (Universidad Nacional de Colombia), September 24 -28, 2018. For those of you that understand Spanish, the following video of the...
The Asia and Pacific Association for Social Work Education (APASWE) -Webinar Series The Asia and Pacific Association for Social Work Education (APASWE) is pleased to invite educators and practitioners globally to the first presentation of the “Indigeneity in Asia and Pacific Social Work” webinar series. DATE: Thursday, 26 July 2018 TIME: 1pm Japan time...
