As social work students prepare for advocacy-based careers, faculty members from the School of Social Work develop course assignments to help train their students for real life experiences in the field. Last fall, one professor challenged her students to create legislation that could be file during the 84th session of… read more
Issues
On being witness
A man with the words “Pimpin’ Ken” tattooed on his forehead was on the witness stand as Laurie Cook Heffron entered the Bexar County courtroom last October. The man was the defendant in the human trafficking case for which Cook Heffron was about to testify as an expert witness. He was… read more
The DSM-5: What social workers need to know
Countless workshops and presentations on the Fifth Edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5) have garnered professors Beth Pomeroy and Cynthia Franklin a nickname: the DSM-5 Ninjas. We asked Pomeroy what social workers should know about the new manual, and this is what she shared: There… read more
