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Technology Standards - NASW & ASWB

Reaching out to two social work groups for which I am a member on Facebook turned out to be very worthwhile. Even though it has only been 16 hours since posting, there has only been one comment made and not expecting to get much more! That's ok. Just the one person made a short comment that opened up a treasure trove of findings.

For one, the National Association of Social Workers (NASW) in collaboration with other leading organizations in the field released an update to the Standards for Technology in Social Work Practice on June 21, 2017. It has been 12 years since the last edition was released, see the 2005 version here if you're interested in comparing. In between this time, the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) did have an international task force that released Model Regulatory Standards for Technology and Social Work Practice in 2015, I found this through Social Work Today: Eye on Ethics.

Second, the commenter made me aware of this^ and directed me to the Social Work Podcast facebook page for more information. Here's the link to the Social Work Podcast blogspot, you can subscribe to the podcast via iTunes and they also have a variety of social media profiles.

I am going to write a separate post on one of their episodes regarding Death, Grief, and the Digital Age.

I love how the producer provides all the references and even an APA citation of the podcasts, I'm interested to look into this one as well:

Singer, J. B. (Producer). (2016, September 4). #106 - A #ZeroSuicide World: Interview with David W. Covington, LPC, MBA [Audio Podcast]. Social Work Podcast. Retrieved from http://www.socialworkpodcast.com/2016/09/zerosuicide.html

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