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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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

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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My Brains Not Broken

AUGUST 21, 2024

Over the years, I’ve learned a lot about the impact that my experience with anxiety has on me. It impacts the way I see the world, the way I interact with it, and the way I interact with others. But after years of learning about myself and my anxiety, I’ve started to notice the patterns that my anxiety creates. One pattern in particular is how my anxiety can lead to making assumptions, and how those assumptions can create problems in my life that didn’t exist before.

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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.

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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International Federation of Social Workers

AUGUST 26, 2024

The International Federation of Social Workers (IFSW) Africa is inviting applications for up to 3 volunteer positions as Regional Representatives to the UN Office.

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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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National Casa Gal

AUGUST 21, 2024

The 2024 Mid-Year Impact Report highlights key recent accomplishments, including continuing education for CASA/GAL volunteers and staff. Read More. The post National CASA/GAL’s 2024 Mid-Year Impact Report appeared first on National CASA/GAL Association for Children.

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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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Gary Direnfeld

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

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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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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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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 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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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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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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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.

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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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Social Worker 75

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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MQ Mental Health

AUGUST 23, 2024

Every March and September, MQ Mental Health Research offers you the chance to make a will for free with no strings attached. While we'd appreciate a legacy gift left to the organisation we can help you create a will for free with no obligation whatsoever. What are you most scared of? For many of us, public speaking is our biggest fear. According to research the top fears people tend to have are: Fear of failure, not being good enough and disappointing others, which might be the reason why resear

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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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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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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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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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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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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

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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International Federation of Social Workers

AUGUST 29, 2024

Social workers along with colleagues from other professions are taking a stand for children’s identity rights through the Identity Rights Working Group based in Geneva, Switzerland.

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Social Worker 71

The Social Care Elf

SEPTEMBER 8, 2024

Ana Veic looks at an updated systematic review which suggests that patients with psychosis display cognitive difficulties very early in the disease process, and concludes this variation in cognitive function should prompt individual clinical assessments to optimise care. The post Cognition and heterogeneity in First-Episode Psychosis before antipsychotic treatment appeared first on National Elf Service.

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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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Community Care

AUGUST 28, 2024

Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll. The AMHP Leads Network has appointed fresh leadership to represent the views of those responsible for approved mental health professional (AMHP) services. Christina Cheney and Robert Lewis have stepped down as co-chairs after just over two years at the helm.

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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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