{"id":1686,"date":"2018-01-15T17:41:37","date_gmt":"2018-01-15T17:41:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1686"},"modified":"2018-01-15T17:41:37","modified_gmt":"2018-01-15T17:41:37","slug":"social-work-part-ii-martin-luther-king-jr-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1686","title":{"rendered":"Social Work Part II; Martin Luther King Jr. Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

As a follow up to my last entry on the social work field, I picked up the book: Social Work with Groups (Social Justice Through Personal, Community and Social Change)<\/strong>. \u00a0In a section about lab group work through activity-centered therapy, it talked about “socio-recreation activities.” The book used the example of a group of youth using hip-hop music as the center piece for such group activities as discussing song lyrics and how they relate, say, to someone’s struggles. \u00a0The youth might also write their own hip-hop music; listen together to the music; decorate the therapy room with posters of hip-hop artists… \u00a0Our kids in this country are in trouble. Many seem ostracized. \u00a0Many others feel not understood. \u00a0And yet others simply feel lost in a fast paced, distracted world swirling all around them. \u00a0The social work field has a lot of extremely creative, extremely effective, models to help these marginalized youth. \u00a0As the “…adults in the room,” its our responsibility to mobilize as many of these strategies as possible to help these kids not fall through the emotional cracks, so to speak. \u00a0Note: \u00a0This is Martin Luther King Jr. Day. \u00a0Our administration would mobilize a comprehensive, tangible amends program for African Americans to, finally, make right what we should have been making right in this country for quite some time now. \u00a0For more on this, see<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As a follow up to my last entry on the social work field, I picked up the book: Social Work with Groups (Social Justice Through Personal, Community and Social Change). \u00a0In a section about lab group work through activity-centered therapy, …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1686"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1686\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1687,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1686\/revisions\/1687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}