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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
A traumatic past can make you a better social worker, but it might block you studying it in the first placeMany people who choose to study social work do so because of certain lived experiences.from shutterstock.com

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...

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