Community Care

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll. Councils are losing ground to the NHS in the competition for social workers because of their different pay setting arrangements, the Local Government Association has warned. NHS social workers in England have received a 5.5% rise in 2024-25 , compared with an offer of roughly 3-4% for counterparts in the majority of local authorities , a proposal that has prompted ballots for strike action

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MQ Mental Health

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

September is Southeast Asian Heritage Month, a time to celebrate the rich and diverse cultures of the southeast Asian community. This blog, written by MQ ambassador Amazin LeThi, explores the mental health challenges experienced by the Southeast Asian community. During Southeast Asian Heritage Month, we must celebrate our rich culture while confronting the often-ignored mental health challenges in our community.

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Gary Direnfeld

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

This post discusses severe parental alienation, when one parent seeks to poison the children’s relationship to the other parent by causing the children to believe horrible yet unfounded allegations about that parent. —– I get it. When a parent is manipulating their child to hate the other parent, it’s a nightmare. No matter what you do, it’s twisted to use against you.

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Community Care

AUGUST 26, 2024

A “worrying” number of looked-after children and care leavers have been wrongly placed in supported accommodation, Ofsted’s social care chief has warned. Yvette Stanley said that inspectors had encountered young people who were “clearly in need of a higher level of care than supported accommodation is equipped to provide” in visits to the settings.

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Speaker: Joe Sharpe and James Carlson

In the world of small business management, the challenge of managing payroll & HR efficiently while scaling operations can be overwhelming. Yet, with the right strategies in place, these challenges can become opportunities for growth and innovation. In this session, Joe Sharpe, Senior Director of Managed Payroll Services at IRIS, will reveal practical methods and expert insights for outsourcing and streamlining payroll processes, resulting in substantial time and resource savings.

CAPC

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

A chaplain explains the powerful role of miracle language, including how it helps patients and families, and invites clinicians to welcome it into their practice.

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Social Work Blog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2024

Social workers across practice settings provide services to individuals, including pregnant people, who are consuming alcohol at risky levels. Reducing problematic alcohol use is crucial to preventing fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASDs)—neurodevelopmental disabilities and birth defects that can occur in a baby exposed to alcohol before birth. FASDs represent a range of behavioral, intellectual, and physical disabilities across the lifespan, and might affect up to 5% of school children natio

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Gary Direnfeld

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

Ontario high school students are required to provide 40 hours of community service. I remember a friend of mine who worked for a community agency telling me that parents would ask him to sign a form indicating their kid had done so… when they hadn’t done so. Other parents would do their kids work of finding them a placement to do their time… as if it was a jail sentence.

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Community Care

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll. Ofsted is to scrap single-word judgments for its inspections of local authority children’s services and regulated social care providers. The regulator announced the change, a day after the government ended the use of overall effectiveness ratings for state schools with immediate effect.

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The International Association Of Schools Of Social

SEPTEMBER 1, 2024

Nominations are called for the Prestigious Katherine A. Kendall Memorial Award for distinguished contribution to the development of social work education internationally. The nominee can come from any region of the world and may or may not be a member of IASSW. The biography of the nominee must match the required criteria. For details about the nomination process and guidelines on the criteria, please go to : [link] Nominations should be submitted to the chair of the Committee Halaevalu Vakala

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International Federation of Social Workers

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

On 12 April 2024, the National Association of Social Workers in Burundi (NASWA-BURUNDI), in collaboration with the Ministry of National Solidarity, Social Affairs, Human Rights and Gender, and with the […]

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Gary Direnfeld

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

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MQ Mental Health

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

Why do I feel so overwhelmed? Why did I say that embarrassing thing? Is everyone else achieving more than me? What can I actually do to make a difference? Am I the only one feeling this way? Drawing on her own experience with mental health issues and neurodivergence, in her debut book, MQ Ambassador Gemma Styles gets curious about how we tick in order to better understand and navigate the unique pressures of life today.

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The New Social Worker

AUGUST 27, 2024

Celebrate our anniversary and deepen awareness and activation of self-care. This calendar provides a daily dose of self-care for September 2024.

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Social Work.Career

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

This post is part of the monthly series, Free Webinars for Social Workers and Mental Health Professionals, featuring over 40 free webcasts that we could find for you this month in the field of social work and mental health. To make it easier for you to find a webinar that is of interest to you, […] The post Free Mental Health Webinars, September 2024 appeared first on SocialWork.Career.

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Gary Direnfeld

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

Be cautious about rushing to soothe every frustration your kid experiences. That thing called frustration tolerance cannot develop if each instance is compensated for or soothed by another. Indeed, all that soothing can rob the child of the capacity to develop resilience, the ability to overcome adversity. As they are left to manage their own feelings, then and only then can they come to self-soothe.

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Community Care

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

The government has selected two groups of councils to test the commissioning and delivery of looked-after children’s placements at a regional level. Greater Manchester and the South East have been chosen as pathfinders for so-called regional care co-operatives (RCCs), under which individual councils pool their resources and plan placements centrally.

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MQ Mental Health

AUGUST 29, 2024

New research from the University of Nottingham reveals that the fear of missing out (FoMO) and information overload in digital workplaces are significant risk factors for employee mental health, potentially leading to increased stress and burnout. The study, published in SAGE Open, analyzed survey data from 142 employees to explore the negative impacts of digital working.

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The New Social Worker

AUGUST 29, 2024

It Ends With Us is a film adaptation of the best-selling Colleen Hoover novel of the same name. Intimate partner violence is a primary theme, and the movie has been surrounded by controversy. Did they get it right? A social worker's view.

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Speaker: Gary Direnfeld, MSW, RSW.

You may have the clinical skills to manage a private practice, but your success could actually hinge on marketing skills. For a thriving practice, you need to differentiate yourself from others and present yourself in a way that attracts referrals. These days, much of that happens online, including on social media. In this webinar, Gary Direnfeld will discuss how social media marketing can help you build your private practice and grow your client base.

Private Practice

International Federation of Social Workers

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

IFSW is pleased to announce that the Global Standards for Education and Training in Social Work have now been officially translated and made available in Indonesian.

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Social Work Blog

AUGUST 30, 2024

Labor Day, celebrating workers and their contributions, began during a period of swift U.S. industrial growth with limited worker rights. In the late 19 th century, many Americans, especially those experiencing profound poverty and those who had recently immigrated were working 12 hours per day, six or seven days per week with little or no access to ventilation, hygiene and rest breaks.

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Community Care

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll. The government has no plans to scrap single-word judgments of local authority adults’ services, despite the decision to ditch the approach for children’s social care. The Local Government Association today urged ministers to end overall ratings of council adult social care performance by the Care Quality Commission (CQC).

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MQ Mental Health

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Recently it was Southeast Asian Heritage Month, a time to celebrate the rich and diverse cultures of the southeast Asian community. This blog, written by MQ ambassador Amazin LeThi, explores the mental health challenges experienced by the Southeast Asian community. During Southeast Asian Heritage Month, we must celebrate our rich culture while confronting the often-ignored mental health challenges in our community.

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The International Association Of Schools Of Social

SEPTEMBER 1, 2024

The Cadernos GEPE journal invites researchers, academics and practitioners in Social Work areas to submit articles for its next edition. Published annually, the journal is a scholarly organ of the Ethics Study and Research Group (GEPE) of UFPE, whose central focus is ethics in Social Work, with a close look at the theoretical and practical implications of this area in national and international contexts.

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International Federation of Social Workers

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

The International Federation of Social Workers (IFSW) Africa is seeking a dedicated and passionate individual to serve as a volunteer Representative to ANESW (Africa Network for Environmental Social Work and […]

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The New Social Worker

SEPTEMBER 8, 2024

Supporting students with sickle cell disease (SCD) requires a comprehensive approach that addresses their academic, emotional, and social needs. School social workers can implement strategies to build a nurturing environment for students.

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Community Care

AUGUST 27, 2024

Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll. Researchers have proposed a definition of safer and effective staffing levels within social work to inform legislation on the issue in Northern Ireland. The definition, based on practitioner feedback, is believed to be the first of its kind, and covers both staff sufficiency and practitioners having access to “regular supportive, reflective supervision”, “compassionate line management” and

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MQ Mental Health

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

A new study from the Universities of Bath and Southampton, published in the British Journal of Health Psychology, found that just 10 minutes of daily mindfulness practice can significantly improve wellbeing, reduce depression and anxiety, and motivate people to adopt healthier lifestyles, including better exercise, eating, and sleeping habits. The study involved 1,247 adults from 91 countries who were new to mindfulness.

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Psychological Health Care

AUGUST 27, 2024

Food addiction and eating disorders are complex mental health issues impacting more than 1 million Australians each year. While eating disorders and food addiction differ considerably, both are related to a worrying increase in body image concerns, depression and anxiety, especially among young people. Ahead of a national campaign to raise awareness of body image and eating disorders, let’s look at food addiction, the difference between food addiction and eating disorders and how to get help.

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International Federation of Social Workers

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

The National Association of Social Workers Uganda (NASWU) has recently released its 2024 report, highlighting the significant strides made in advancing social work in Uganda over the past three years.

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The New Social Worker

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

I am a school social worker, a canary in the coal mine of public education. I see the collective strain on school staff, but I also envision the way forward.

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Community Care

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll. Sixty per cent of community social care services in England have no or an ‘outdated’ performance rating, an analysis of Care Quality Commission (CQC) data has found. Almost a quarter of home care, extra care, shared lives or supported living services (23%) had never been rated by the CQC as of June 2024, despite more than half of these having been registered with the regulator f

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MQ Mental Health

AUGUST 28, 2024

This article has been jointly produced by MQ Mental Health Research and Autistica. In a recent opinion piece, published in The Times, writer Matthew Parris asked “Is psychiatry (the study of diagnosis and treatment) a science at all? Does psychology (the study of the mind, and behaviour) deserve the name of science?” The answer of course, is yes. And here’s why.

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Social Work Blog

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Rep. Marc Molinaro (R-NY) Reps. Andrea Salinas (D-OR) and Marc Molinaro (R-NY) on September 12 introduced legislation to help grow the nation’s mental health and behavioral workforce to address a mental health and substance use disorder crisis. The Substance Use Disorder Treatment and Recovery (STAR) Plus Scholarship Act would create a scholarship for students who wish to enter the mental health and behavioral health workforce, including social workers.

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