Most people don’t realize just how much a degree in Social Work can do career wise. The possibilities are seriously endless as long as you have the interest in helping people. One of our current MSW students, Ashley Curtis, is the Editor in Chief and Founder of Fetchedge. www.fetchedge.com
Mission: To be the power source that [...]
With summer being just around the corner and the number of students who are graduating and out there looking for jobs, I figure it’s about time to do a post. I was originally going to post about trauma specialists, but then I stumbled across an area of social work that I didn’t even know existed. [...]
Forensic social work sounds so serious. So professional. So CSI. What is it exactly? It is a cool way to apply your social work skills if you have interests in issues relating to the law and legal systems. This social work specialty goes beyond clinics and private practices and hospitals. It serves society in the evaluation of [...]
Chicago Adventure Therapy was started by one of our MSW graduates in order for her to mesh her love of the outdoors with her love of helping at-risk youth and adolescents. But really, who wouldn’t benefit from Adventure Therapy. Just another way the clinical license in social work can open up your opportunities to do [...]
Work alongside the best doctors and clinicians out there for eating disorders. This is an area where your work experience will gain you specialized modalities of working with clients suffering from bulimia and anorexia. Check out one such treatment center offering out patient which utilized a number of our graduates in their staff. http://www.insightforeating.com/I_Staff.html
They are currently hiring too!
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Check out how one of our grads has used her individual beliefs and interests and incorporated them into her own practice and therapy with clients in a successful 22 year practice. Remember, this is a field that is open to your interpretations of it. Be creative…this is a quality in some of the most successful [...]
Crisis intervention training is an important area where social workers offer training in schools, law enforement, and to the public. CIT is a 40-hour education program which empowers officers and others to effectively respond to mental health crises. Encountering someone with a mental illness is a daily occurrence for most officers. Through officer education on [...]
Interview with Krystal Cox, LSW, IMPACT Program in Kankakee, IL.
- Describe what an average day would look like for a social worker at an alternative school.
“The average day is varied depending on the day. Some days, I can see students and follow a schedule. Other days, there are numerous crisis situations that occupy my day. [...]
Kate received her MSW from Loyola in May 2008. She is now a LCSW working as a social worker for Passages Hospice, Inc. I decided to interview her on her job search and her current career in Social Work.
Was it hard to find a job after you graduated?
No, I was lucky enough to find a job before I [...]
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I just attended the annual CSWE conference in Atlanta. Went to quite a few amazing workshops and seminars on different topics. The highlight or major theme of the conference that I got this year was on sexual diversity and social work. Usually, when things are big topics at CSWE, they are big topics everywhere. [...]
Upon witnessing clients directly benefit from her work done at the master’s level, Deanna knew she wanted to do more. Soon after graduating from Loyola’s MSW program in 2006, she transitioned into Loyola’s PhD program with the encouragement and guidance of influential faculty members. Now in her second year of doctoral studies, she is focusing [...]
Read about the launch of our new substance abuse counseling certificate – also known as the CADC.
David Franczyk is not your typical social work graduate student. After spending more than 30 years working in the financial industry, he decided it was time for a major career change. A resident of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, David enrolled in Loyola University Chicago’s MSW program through the Carthage College cohort back in 2004—at the age of [...]
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