In today's episode of the Social Work Podcast, I speak with award-winning journalist, Maiken Scott from WHYY inwards Philadelphia. Maiken starts past times describing what she does – a twenty-four hours inwards the life of a reporter. She talks nearly how she finds experts to interview. We talked nearly how social workers tin privy fight this misperception that social workers are the same every bit kid welfare workers. She encouraged social workers to learn advocates for their ain professions. She points out that psychology, medicine, as well as nursing gets all sorts of data to reporters. Social locomote does not. She talked nearly what she looks for inwards a "good interview." We ended with Maiken's ideas for how social workers could influence the stories that are heard inwards the media.
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Bio (from WHYY)
Maiken Scottmscott@whyy.org
Twitter: @MaikenScott
Maiken Scott is WHYY’s Behavioral Health Reporter as well as covers a broad diversity of topics, ranging from novel treatments for depression to the impact of foster tending on children to the portrayal of mental affliction inwards popular culture. Maiken started working at WHYY inwards 1997. Her start undertaking with WHYY was every bit producer for the weekly mental wellness programme Voices inwards the Family with Dr. Dan Gottlieb. She even hence serves every bit the executive producer for the show. Some of the most memorable shows Dan as well as Maiken produced together featured interviews with histrion Christopher Reeve, mathematician Dr. John Nash, as well as Mindfulness proficient Jon Kabat-Zinn. Maiken has also produced as well as hosted several award-winning radio documentaries for WHYY: Growing upwards Big, In The Shadow of 9/11, Healing Healthcare, as well as Childhood Lost as well as Found for which she was honored with the prestigious Gracie Allen Award.
Maiken grew upwards inwards Karlsruhe, Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany where she started her career every bit a reporter as well as producer. She moved to the USA inwards 1992, as well as holds a BA from Temple University inwards Journalism, as well as an MA from Temple University inwards Women’s History. She is a fellow member of the adjunct faculty inwards the portion of Journalism at Temple University.
Transcript
Introduction
Jonathan Singer: Let me only say, at the outset of the episode, that I dear existence a social worker. I'm proud of my profession, with all its imperfections. I'm likely preaching to the choir here, but inwards instance you're non a social worker as well as yous stumbled across this episode on Stitcher (http://stitcher.com/s?fid=31925&refid=stpr), iTunes (http://www.itunes.com/podcast?id=216662405), or fifty-fifty the web, allow me only state that social workers are everywhere. Social workers are inwards government, politics, hospice, early on childhood intervention, schools, master copy care, criminal justice, as well as yes, kid welfare. And if you're inwards the USA as well as yous locomote to view a psychotherapist, you're most probable to view a clinical social worker – nosotros furnish to a greater extent than mental wellness services than all other helping professionals combined. And yet, despite the fact that we're on the front end lines as well as behind the scenes, we're by as well as large invisible inwards the amusement as well as tidings media.And when nosotros practise demo upwards inwards the news, it is rarely good. I personalized my Google News feed to trace upwards stories with the phrases "social work" as well as "social worker." Turned out to hold upwards a trivial masochistic. Headlines were every bit yous would expect: misidentification of kid welfare workers every bit social workers, reports of actual social worker misconduct, the occasional decease of a social worker, as well as and then the really rare fourth dimension when a social worker won an award. Now, I know: bad tidings sells. If I desire my tidings to facial expression on the brilliant side I receive got to caput over to http://www.happynews.com. But it wasn't the absence of positive stories nearly social workers that was distressing. It was the absence of stories where social workers were "the expert." Looking at social workers every bit the rootage of bad news, rather than a grouping of professionals who tin privy furnish insight into why bad things locomote on as well as what lodge tin privy practise nearly it, has implications beyond my self-esteem every bit a social worker.
This view of social workers every bit incompetent as well as social services every bit flawed or unsafe has serious consequences. It affects the public's beliefs as well as attitudes nearly social welfare issues. Does this sound familiar – you're talking with someone as well as they say, "Oh yeah, I read that story nearly how homeless drug addicts learn costless housing. I should receive got thought of that." It gives potential consumers a negative view of service providers. How nearly this - Does this sound familiar? "So you're a social worker huh? You gonna select my kids?" It tin privy also comport upon how our professional person colleagues view us. "It doesn't facial expression similar this patient has ever had therapy, she's only been seeing a social worker for the past times year." This isn't anything new. In 1997 the quondam executive managing director of the National Association of social workers, Josephine Nieves (1997) said, "Little troubles professional person social workers to a greater extent than than the less-than-accurate icon Earth seems to receive got of our profession, acquired unfairly as well as based on misinformation" (p. 2).
Social workers inwards the USA, the UK, Australia, as well as other countries, receive got been responding to this "image problems" for years. In the USA the National Association of Social Workers regularly pursues media awareness campaigns. NASW latterly laid upwards the website SocialWorkersSpeaks.org explicitly to give social workers as well as the full general world a identify to "critique as well as improve the way social workers as well as social issues are covered inwards the tidings media, as well as portrayed inwards the amusement industries." And to pose a spotlight on tidings as well as amusement media that did a goodness undertaking of portraying social workers, inwards 2012 NASW gave out Media Awards to websites, films, columns, movies. (Full disclosure: the Social Work Podcast won the 2012 Media Award for Best Website).
All this is great. At an organizational level.
But what nosotros do, what tin privy yous as well as I practise every bit private social workers to modify the way social locomote is portrayed inwards the tidings as well as amusement media? NASW has some recommendations, which I'll read inwards a minute. But I wanted to locomote to the source, to beak with a existent alive journalist nearly this number from a journalists' perspective, because, afterward all, they are reporting the news. So today I'm talking with laurels winning journalist Maiken Scott from Philadelphia's world radio, WHYY 90.9 FM. I met Maiken a number of years agone because she interviewed me next the suicide deaths of some kids inwards the region. Since then, when in that location receive got been youth suicides or when issues of cyberbullying as well as youth suicide come upwards up, Maiken tin privy give me a call, as well as I've been on the radio a duo of times. So, I know that she does a genuinely goodness undertaking at talking nearly issues inwards a way that social workers tin privy respect, as well as inwards a way that I yell upwards does a goodness undertaking for Earth inwards damage of pedagogy as well as information. Here, only select a quick heed to some of her work.
"With 3 suicides at Interboro High School – along with a moving ridge of suicides at Cornell University, parents as well as teachers are concerned nearly suicide clusters, every bit suicide inwards a person's community... but should avoid large memorials, which could glorify suicide. I'm Maiken Scott, WHYY News. (https://whyy.org/articles/another-student-suicide-at-interboro-high-school-raises-concerns/)
"The study surveyed 400 schoolhouse social workers as well as flora that one-half of them felt that they were non prepared to bargain with the number of cyber-bullying... kids demand to hold upwards trained to warning adults when cyber-bullying occurs. I'm Maiken Scott, WHYY News." (http://www.newsworks.org/index.php/local//healthscience/12843-study-finds-schools-are-not-well-prepared-to-deal-with-cyberbullies)
As a way of setting the phase for how the tidings works, Maiken starts past times describing what she does – a twenty-four hours inwards the life of a reporter. She talks nearly how she finds experts to interview. We talked nearly how social workers tin privy fight this misperception that social workers are the same every bit kid welfare workers. (Again, know I'm non dissing my friends as well as colleagues inwards kid welfare). She encouraged social workers to learn advocates for their ain professions. She points out that psychology, medicine, as well as nursing gets all sorts of data to reporters. Social locomote does not. She talked nearly what she looks for inwards a "good interview." We ended with Maiken's ideas for how social workers could influence the stories that are heard inwards the media.
So, I promise, we're going to learn to the interview inwards only a minute. But, every bit you're listening to the interview, I desire yous to yell upwards nearly what tin privy yous practise at the destination of this interview, what tin privy yous over the side past times side week, to engage with a reporter, journalist, somebody that writes a paper article, somebody that is inwards the concern of news. What tin privy yous practise to achieve out to them as well as to assist them to practise a meliorate undertaking of both representing what social workers practise as well as also becoming a resources for them when they demand proficient interviews?
Now, the National Association of Social Workers has 10 recommendations for engaging media professionals. So I'm going to read these as well as I desire yous to yell upwards nearly which 1 of these yous could do. And as well as then at the destination of this podcast, I desire yous to practise something. I desire yous to pass the side past times side week, doing your job, living your life but also thinking nearly "what tin privy I do?" as well as reaching out:
- Add 3 social issues reporters to your contact list.
- Send a give thank yous you notation to a journalist for a goodness story.
- Introduce a social locomote proficient to a reporter or editor.
- Participate inwards a print, radio, TV or online media interview.
- Post a comment to a media website or write a alphabetic character to the editor.
- Invite a local media soul to emcee an event.
- Alert a columnist nearly a novel social locomote enquiry report.
- Produce as well as identify a PSA on a local TV or radio station.
- Invite a journalism educatee or professor to a social locomote class.
- Ask a working journalist to bring together a nonprofit board or advisory group.
This is my challenge for you: practise 1 of those things inwards the side past times side duo of weeks. And when yous do, locomote to the Social Work Podcast Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/swpodcast) page as well as leave of absence a message nearly what yous did as well as how it worked. You tin privy locomote to http://www.socialworkpodcast.com as well as leave of absence me a vocalisation postal service as well as I'll pose yous on the air.
Ok, hence without farther ado, on to episode 77 of the Social Work Podcast: Social Workers as well as the Media: Interview with Maiken Scott.
Interview
Jonathan Singer: Maiken, thank yous hence much for existence hither as well as talking with us today on the Social Work Podcast nearly social workers as well as the media. What practise yous do?Maiken Scott: I'm a radio reporter hence I locomote at WHYY (https://whyy.org/radio-podcasts/)in Philadelphia. I also practise occasional tv set stories, but by as well as large my undertaking is inwards radio. I'm inwards the newsroom as well as I receive got the luxury of genuinely having a "beat" which is something a lot of journalists don’t receive got anymore. So, I'm business office of the Health as well as Science desk as well as my specific trounce is Mental Health as well as Behavioral Health. It is genuinely great because it allows me to focus inwards on stories to learn to know my dependent area matter, to learn to know the major players as well as the research.
Many journalists are what's called a "general assignment" reporter. So they come upwards in, every morning, typically an arrangement has a tidings coming together hence the reporter says "hey, I yell upwards this makes a goodness story" as well as this as well as and then the tidings managing director says "Well, that’s great, but yous know what? I receive got to ship yous to urban amount hall…" or "There is a kid that has been flora as well as was mistreated hence yous receive got to comprehend that…" or "You receive got to comprehend violence inwards school…" Whatever is on the calendar that day, yous receive got to locomote practise it as well as that agency yous receive got to learn to know that topic inwards a hurry.
Jonathan Singer: So when yous state inwards a hurry, what's the timeframe?
Maiken Scott: Well, commonly yous come upwards into locomote inwards the morn as well as and then yous receive got your tidings coming together as well as yous are expected to plough that story around past times the destination of the day. If there's a 6:00 o’clock newscast, that’s when your story is supposed to hold upwards ready. If the paper is coming out the side past times side day, you're supposed to write that story. So, you're getting on the phone. You're calling people. You're searching online as well as you're proverb "can yous tell me anything nearly this?" So, it's nearly getting a lot of data quickly. And as well as then the other thing is it's nearly who is available to beak to yous inwards a quick turnaround time. There powerfulness hold upwards a great expert, but if yous can't achieve him past times 3:00 o’clock, as well as then also bad.
Jonathan Singer: So, how practise yous know who the great experts are? How practise yous know who to beak to nearly a story?
Maiken Scott: Well, the work is a lot of times nosotros don’t know. So nosotros locomote in, nosotros research, nosotros read what other people receive got already written nearly this. We yell upwards "okay, who powerfulness know something?" I mean, the way I flora yous was I was looking into the number of youth as well as suicide, hence yous had written nearly it as well as that’s how I flora yous - online - as well as I thought "okay, good here’s somebody who has researched this. Let me beak to him." So, nosotros attempt to practise the best undertaking of finding the people who receive got spoken as well as talked nearly it, but a lot of times if nosotros don’t know a for sure aspect of the story, nosotros don’t fifty-fifty know what to facial expression for.
Jonathan Singer: So, I yell upwards 1 of the things that’s most contentious for social workers is this misrepresentation social workers every bit kid welfare workers past times the media. What would yous recommend social locomote every bit a profession practise to cope this misperception that social workers only exit in that location as well as select kids from their parents?
Maiken Scott: Well, I yell upwards start it's of import to empathize that when things locomote incorrect inwards media coverage, it's commonly non malicious. It's non "the media" sitting downward at "the media desk" as well as writing stories to pose downward a profession. I'm for sure a lot of journalists are non alone for sure of all the things that social workers do. When nosotros practise interact with social workers, when nosotros hear nearly them it typically is inwards the context of yous know, kid abuse, kid maltreatment as well as all of those things, social services. So, when practise nosotros hear nearly this? When things locomote wrong.
When things locomote right? We don’t hear nearly stories when things locomote correct because in that location is cipher to study on. So my advice is this: A) If there's a story that yous dislike, that yous experience misrepresents what yous practise as well as your profession? Write to that person. You receive got to allow them know. And I'm commonly really grateful when I'm hearing from people as well as if they're telling me "hey, yous got this wrong." Fine, give thank yous you. Then I'll practise meliorate the side past times side time. And people on the other side are commonly incredibly astounded when I electronic mail them dorsum as well as I state to them, "hey give thank yous you. Okay, here’s what happened or here’s what I didn’t know about."
So, as well as then nosotros receive got a human relationship as well as oftentimes they develop into somebody I tin privy as well as then telephone telephone on. So, I didn’t laid out to practise a bad story. It was only that I didn’t know. So my number 1 advice would be: when yous read something, when yous hear something as well as yous don’t similar it: write to people, electronic mail them. You tin privy discovery them on Twitter. You tin privy discovery them on Facebook. Everybody is everywhere. Let them know. You know just, yous don’t receive got to berate them. Just state look, I'm sort of upset because I experience similar this is ever wrong.
Jonathan Singer: And it seems like, yous know, every bit you're talking I'm thinking that it would hold upwards of import for social workers inwards whatever community to know who is writing nearly topics that social workers would tending about. Child welfare is 1 of them, but also things similar social service treatment, Medicaid billing, all these sorts of topics. And that could hold upwards a diversity of folks, right?
Maiken Scott: Mm-hmm. I hateful most of yous read the newspaper, watched the news, hence yous know who is sort of reporting on these stories. Sometimes journalists if they don’t receive got a beat, they receive got a for sure story that they follow for a while, hence yous know who is doing the reporting. And fifty-fifty if yous only come upwards across a study on the internet, yous tin privy facial expression upwards who wrote it. It's correct there. It says it correct in that location as well as yous tin privy locomote far touching with those people. So, that would hold upwards the 1 thing to do. The other thing is I experience every bit a profession social workers could hold upwards to a greater extent than proactive inwards damage of getting the give-and-take out nearly what it is that yous practise do. So tell me, yous know, allow me inquire yous similar advert 1 expanse of life where social workers are non involved really. You tending for the–
Jonathan Singer: Yeah. I don’t know. I hateful we're inwards every facet of life. Absolutely.
Maiken Scott: Right. So, I experience that yous should hold upwards to a greater extent than proactive inwards damage of getting the give-and-take out nearly "this is what nosotros practise as well as hither is what nosotros stand upwards for." That agency mayhap you're a national arrangement becoming to a greater extent than engaged inwards taking a opinion on political things on large issues of our day. I don’t hear from social workers. I hear from psychologists. I hear from the APA. I hear from doctors as well as from nurses. They all receive got professional person organizations who are getting me materials as well as they state "hey, yous should comprehend this" as well as nosotros every bit journalists, nosotros typically dear to hear from the people on the ground. So, nosotros dear it. If a social worker or anybody or a nurse who is out in that location doing the locomote as well as yous select the fourth dimension to electronic mail us as well as yous say, "Look I yell upwards this would hold upwards great to cover." And a lot of times nosotros genuinely practise it because yous know what's going on, nosotros don’t as well as nosotros don’t oftentimes receive got the fourth dimension to genuinely delve into the issues that yous view every twenty-four hours as well as yous could only pause it downward to us.
Jonathan Singer: Okay. So, I'm imagining a social worker who industrial plant at a infirmary or mayhap inwards outpatient community mental wellness hospital as well as they receive got what they yell upwards is a great story but because of agency policy, because of confidentiality, because of all of these sort of constrictions, boundaries, they can't genuinely either beak on tape or beak inwards specifics. So, what would yous recommend for a social worker that wanted to learn a story out in that location but was constrained?
Maiken Scott: Okay. There are many ways around that. So first, if yous receive got a goodness story, yous tin privy electronic mail or telephone telephone a person, a journalist, mayhap somebody whose locomote you’ve seen as well as yous trust. So, yous tin privy telephone telephone him upwards as well as yous tin privy state "look, hither is my thought as well as I yell upwards this would brand a goodness story for this, this as well as this reason. I would similar to beak to you, but this would receive got to hold upwards what nosotros telephone telephone off the record" (if it's something where you're genuinely concerned nearly your undertaking safety as well as all that.) So, yous receive got a so-called off-the-record conversation with a journalist as well as nosotros all observe that, hence we're non going to locomote dorsum as well as state hey, Jonathan Singer told me. So, nosotros won't practise that.
So, nosotros volition discovery a way around it as well as and then come upwards basically dorsum to the arrangement where yous locomote as well as state look, I'm interested inwards this topic, how tin privy I comprehend this? So your advert volition hold upwards out of the equation. However, inwards many cases, the province of affairs is non that delicate. You're non existence a whistleblower or yous only desire to convey attending to an number that’s of import as well as of import to your work. So, yous could either beak to your – yous know, beak to the journalist start as well as and then inquire the journalist to contact your agency as well as inquire if they tin privy interview yous or yous could locomote to your PR soul as well as state "look, I receive got this idea, tin privy yous nosotros practise this?"
So, in that location are ways around it as well as when it comes to customer interviews sometimes, yous know, nosotros would similar to shadow yous every bit yous practise your locomote as well as that’s really difficult, but we're used to working around that. So, sometimes in that location is mayhap a quondam customer who is right away willing to speak or there's somebody who is customer but says "that’s fine past times me." You guys are helping me. You tin privy follow me. So, there's ever ways around that.
Jonathan Singer: Is in that location a code of ethics that journalists receive got – social workers receive got a code of ethics. It's a huge bargain inwards our profession. Is in that location a journalist code of ethics? Is in that location something that guides what yous do?
Maiken Scott: Yes. There is. And nosotros beak nearly that inwards school. And I yell upwards each soul -we don’t beak nearly it hence much mayhap hither inwards the newsroom because it is assumed. So, nosotros don’t ship away our sources, that’s for sure. I mean, that’s I would state pretty much unheard of. So, if I've made a personal hope to somebody, what nosotros state volition remain correct here, I'm non going dorsum on that. And I yell upwards yous would hold upwards hard pressed to discovery a journalist who volition practise that. So, yous tin privy commonly – yous tin privy trust the soul peculiarly if they are respected as well as they write for a bigger publication, yous tin privy trust that they volition observe your wishes as well as what you’ve asked them to do. You tin privy ever inquire those questions earlier yous locomote in. You could state hey, hither are my questions for yous earlier nosotros start talking.
Jonathan Singer: So, this idea, the interview, I yell upwards this is also interesting. Let's state that nosotros learn something to a reporter as well as they're interested inwards roofing it as well as and then they state okay, hence let's interview you. What's sort of things practise yous facial expression for inwards a goodness interviewee or a goodness guest?
Maiken Scott: I similar people who tell me what it's similar on their job. So give me examples. You don’t receive got to advert people, but yous tin privy beak nearly what it is that yous practise as well as yous tin privy give me examples. So, hold upwards descriptive. Tell me what your twenty-four hours is like. What are some of your biggest challenges? If yous know some statistics, that’s great. But nosotros ever receive got to convey the story to life with examples as well as with existent people as well as existent stories. That’s what makes it good. The other thing I volition recommend is earlier yous sit down downward for an interview, if there's something that is genuinely of import to you, tell the journalist what that is.
So, let's state yous experience that people who smoke – let's state you're a social worker who counsels people on smoking cessation as well as yous experience that it's ever the 1 thing the media ever says is "x" that people who smoke are this, hence tell the soul similar "look, it's genuinely of import to me that nosotros brand this as well as this as well as this clear." And if yous state that correct off the bat as well as then nosotros volition attempt harder to brand that clear.
Jonathan Singer: It's hence interesting hearing yous state that because it makes it sound similar to a greater extent than of a collaboration as well as I yell upwards the way that I commonly yell upwards nearly the media as well as I suspect others listening to this is that similar the media is its ain thing as well as and then nosotros only sort of receive got to passively eat it or receive got it.
Maiken Scott: No. I hateful yell upwards nearly you, yous receive got learn the media inwards your ain way, hence yous started your ain podcast. That’s great. I hateful the traditional media is all going to locomote away because people are non tuning inwards to radio stations. They're non tuning inwards to TV stations. People learn their content from what nosotros telephone telephone "sideways entry points." So, they learn their content via social media. They seek it out themselves. Everybody is their ain media director, hence the traditional media are losing ability each as well as every day.
So, yous tin privy learn to a greater extent than savvy inwards damage of getting your ain story out there. People similar me are to a greater extent than accessible than ever before. You tin privy telephone telephone me out on materials on Twitter if yous desire to. On Facebook, yous tin privy state "hey, yous did this horrible job," hence if I don’t response to yous via email, which I would [laugh] but, yous know, yous receive got to a greater extent than ability than ever earlier to learn your story out as well as yous should select accuse of that.
Jonathan Singer: Okay. So, I yell upwards this is hence of import because this thought of taking accuse of the story – who was it? Marshall McLuhan with the medium is the message or the message is the message? I won't pose yous on the location to, like, fill upwards the gaps on my knowledge. Given that we're all our ain media directors as well as past times extension social locomote agencies as well as organizations are their ain media directors, what should the profession practise to improve the view of social locomote inwards the media as well as also to learn out stories as well as sort of shape the media representation of what social workers are doing out in that location inwards the existent world?
Maiken Scott: Mm-hmm. I yell upwards it would hold upwards genuinely great if to a greater extent than positive stories came out. Which… that is a work for every profession. Because, what practise nosotros hear? We hear nearly the terrible mishaps. That’s non specific to social workers, but I practise yell upwards – for example, I experience psychologists receive got done a genuinely goodness undertaking of inserting themselves every bit the experts. So, they weigh inwards on a lot of news-related topics, on topics that are non sort of pathology driven but only receive got to practise with everybody’s everyday life, hence yous hear psychologists weigh inwards on locomote stress as well as on locomote relationships as well as on managing your career as well as your relationships as well as all that. Social workers tin privy practise all that, but nosotros don’t hear from them. You know, nosotros hear nearly them every bit this downtrodden grouping that doesn’t learn paid plenty coin as well as industrial plant all these terrible hours as well as and then something goes incorrect as well as oh, it was the social worker’s fault, right? [laugh] That’s sort of what nosotros get, but I yell upwards –
Okay, hence my strategy would hold upwards this. A) telephone telephone people out on stories as well as state facial expression I know that something went incorrect here, but there's some other side to this or how nearly nosotros could beak nearly this. B) learn your expertise out there. When yous desire to select a opinion on an issue, select a opinion as well as select it nationally via your organizations as well as learn your sentiment out there. Offer yourselves every bit experts on unlike topics that are seasonal, that are important. People similar yous - yous only pose yourself out there. That was great. And in that location yous are as well as other people tin privy practise that, too. You know, yous could write editorials nearly your work, nearly the people you’ve helped. I'm thinking Story Corps (http://www.storycorps.org) on NPR, yous know, those kinds of relationships. We demand to hear the side of the social locomote profession, the incredible helping yous convey about. That’s I experience the business office of the story nosotros don’t hear.
Jonathan Singer: I receive got this fantasy that schools of social locomote volition start to include a course of study on getting your story out there, yous know because I yell upwards that’s 1 of the problems similar nosotros receive got such a focus – as well as it's non a work what nosotros do, but because nosotros are hence overworked as well as nether resourced that nosotros pass all of our fourth dimension as well as release energy only trying to learn it correct inwards our jobs as well as and then when we're done at the destination of the day, similar the concluding thing nosotros desire to practise is to yell upwards nearly or beak nearly or practise anything with our jobs. But as well as then it does. It leaves the psychologist. It leaves the nurses. It leaves the doctors who are framing the conversation around what helping professions genuinely do.
Maiken Scott: Right. And I yell upwards in that location are pocket-size things. You don’t receive got to practise large things, but if yous write an editorial for your paper or for your favorite website. If yous are on Twitter, a lot of people are doing, "fact of the day." For example, mental wellness people practise that to trim stigma, So – or fifty-fifty if at your side past times side Pennsylvania Social Worker Association (http://www.nasw-pa.org/) meeting, yous pass an hr talking nearly how tin privy nosotros frame the conversation? How practise nosotros learn our message out there? That would only hold upwards a start, right?
Jonathan Singer: That’d hold upwards a huge start.
Maiken Scott: And also again, yous know, view yourself every bit somebody who tin privy as well as should interact with the media because the media is people only similar me. It's people.
Jonathan Singer: Is in that location a journalist association that, state the National Association of Social Workers, (http://www.socialworkers.org/) should start having conversations with? I'm thinking inwards damage of similar yous as well as I tin privy talk, correct as well as I know yous as well as I tin privy electronic mail yous but as well as then I'm thinking about, sort of, how the, sort of, the large professional person organizations learn involved inwards this. Is that something that would locomote on organization-organization or is it genuinely private relationships?
Maiken Scott: I yell upwards the best way to locomote would hold upwards individual, yous know, private relationships. Talking to people. Finding the people whose locomote yous similar as well as seeing if yous tin privy sort of achieve them on a personal level.
Jonathan Singer: My concluding question. How did yous learn involved inwards doing behavioral wellness stuff?
Maiken Scott: It was that luck of the describe [laughter]. I'm a journalist past times training, hence I went to schoolhouse for journalism as well as and then only happened to discovery a undertaking that was related to mental health. So my start undertaking with WHYY was producing Voices inwards the Family (https://whyy.org/programs/voices-in-the-family/) as well as and then when this reporter undertaking opened up. They thought "oh, that would hold upwards perfect." So the behavioral health, I've ever flora it fascinating. I hateful it's a totally fascinating topic, but it was non something I sought out. I could receive got ended upwards reporting on poodles or something. [laughter]
Jonathan Singer: And as well as then it would hold upwards the Best inwards Show Podcast, right? –
Maiken Scott: That’s right. [laughter]
Jonathan Singer: Okay. That’s good. Maiken, give thank yous you hence much for taking fourth dimension to beak with us today nearly social workers inwards the media. I genuinely appreciate it.
Maiken Scott: My pleasure. Thank you.
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Singer, J. B. (Host). (2013, Feb 18). #77 - Social workers as well as the media: Interview with Maiken Scott. Social Work Podcast. [Audio podcast] Retrieved from /search?q=social-workers-and-media-interview-with
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