A traumatic past can make you a better social worker, but it might block you studying it in the first place
- Written by Peter Young, Lecturer in Social Work, Griffith University
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Last year, I received a phone call from a prospective student. She wanted to know if our university would accept her into a Master of Social Work program. Another local university had just knocked her back.
The caller had a drug-related...