The Four Pandemics

ABSTRACT

COVID 19 interacts with white supremacy, economic insecurity and politcal terrorism, adversely affecting many people and populations. This article considers the consequences of these four interacting pandemics and suggests that social work, particularly clinical social work, requires radical revisioning and decolonizing to be able to ethically and adequately serve affected people.

KEYWORDS:

• COVID
• psychosocial capacity building- racism
• clinical practice
• Trump

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Joshua Miller

Joshua Miller is a professor at Smith College School for Social Work.  He writes about racial justice and psychosocial capacity building in response to disasters.