Community Care
MAY 22, 2024
Rishi Sunak has called a general election for 4 July. The prime minister made the announcement in a statement in Downing Street today, firing the starting gun on a six-week campaign. The news comes with the Labour Party roughly 20 percentage points ahead in the polls (source: BBC), strongly suggesting they will end 14 years of Conservative rule on polling day.
Gary Direnfeld
MAY 22, 2024
When the relationship with your teen is in tatters, it’s up to you to restore it. Lectures won’t do it. Gifts won’t do it. Harsher punishments won’t do it either. Consider guerilla love. In guerilla warfare we sneak up on our enemy combatant and when they least suspect it, we attack, slay and sneak away. With guerilla love, we sneak up on our kid not to slay, but to deliver a small and quick act of affection.
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Community Care
MAY 19, 2024
The approved mental health professional workforce is 35% short of what is required to provide a 24-hour service, AMHP leads have warned. The finding, from Skills for Care’s latest report on the AMHP workforce in England, suggests practitioner shortages are increasing amid a mounting number of people being made subject to the Mental Health Act 1983 (MHA).
Save the Social Worker
MAY 22, 2024
Please note: We do not earn affiliate fees from any of these product recommendations and we simply recommend what we find is best. I rub my eyes. I’m falling asleep. I can’t believe the book I’m reading is that boring. But it’s required reading. I know what to do. I’m going to just gloss over to the final conclusion of the book, and get the TLDR (too long didn’t read) version.
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My Brains Not Broken
MAY 15, 2024
As it is Mental Health Awareness Month , it’s a good time to share resources, tips and techniques about mental health and wellness. After a decade-plus of living with depression and anxiety, I am proud of how I’ve learned to manage my mental health challenges. However, chronic mental health issues can mean I sometimes go through my day on auto-pilot, which isn’t great for my mental health.
International Federation of Social Workers
MAY 16, 2024
IFSW congratulates the Australian Association of Social Workers, the Australian Council of Heads of Social Work Education, and all other involved parties for their successful lobbying of government ministers to […]
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Gary Direnfeld
MAY 22, 2024
It was one of those showers that felt extra good. Plenty of hot water. Nice stream. It flowed over me. It came after this mornings kayak ride. The shower wasn’t necessary from sweating. It was because when I first got into the kayak, I wasn’t centered. I bailed. Our house backs onto a little waterway. It’s actually a man-made lagoon that was dug somewhere around the 1920s.
Stuck on Socialwork
MAY 17, 2024
It has been about two years since I posted something. My disappearance has been due to starting my Doctorate in Social Work about two years ago. What made me reappear? A conference about the future of social work. This is confluence of events for me as I have spent this semester narrowing the scope of.
The Guardian
MAY 18, 2024
Children crying out for stability are paying the highest price for Britain’s chaotic and exploitative residential care I’m a patron of a small local charity that helps struggling children to rebuild trust and connection. It’s called Sirona Therapeutic Horsemanship , and it works by bringing them together with rescued horses. The horses, like many of the children, arrive traumatised, anxious and frightened.
International Federation of Social Workers
MAY 16, 2024
IFSW long-term volunteer and leader Nigel Hall has just been awarded the ‘Chairman’s Lifetime Achievement Award for Services to Social Care’ by the Zimbabwe Achievers Awards on 11 May 2024 […]
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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.
Community Care
MAY 16, 2024
Employers have offered council staff in England, Wales and Northern Ireland a “full and final” pay rise of £1,290 or 2.5%, whichever is higher, in 2024-25. They said that the offer, which will be topped up for those working in London and pro rated for part-time employees, was at the limits of affordability for councils. It is worth about 3-4% for social workers (see box).
Gary Direnfeld
MAY 22, 2024
She thought her husband had changed. She emplored him to go to therapy so as to return to the man she thought she knew. He wouldn’t. He was pleased with himself. He felt it was she who was the problem. She wouldn’t cowtow to his bidding. He pressed harder, more nasty. She would give in. He would be nice again… and on and on it went.
inSocialWork
MAY 21, 2024
Dean Keith A. Alford The United States is a diverse place. It is imperative for us to create spaces where everyone feels like they belong, to be mindful of patterns of injustice and to support the needs of those of us with diverging abilities. All of these aspirations have a long history in our society and especially in the field of social work. The COVID-19 pandemic, the disparate violence and deaths experienced by people of color and the awareness of inequities in health care, opportunity and
The Guardian
MAY 17, 2024
‘Strikingly large’ sum being recouped from people who fell foul of system that did not flag overpayments Ministers are clawing back more than £250m from unpaid carers over benefit infringements that occurred largely as a result of government failures, it can be revealed. More than 134,000 people who care for loved ones are being forced to repay often huge carer’s allowance overpayments.
International Federation of Social Workers
MAY 21, 2024
SAVE THE DATE AFRICA REGION CONFERENCE 2025 French – SAVE THE DATE CONFÉRENCE DE LA RÉGION AFRIQUE 2025 Portuguese – GUARDAR A DATA CONFERÊNCIA DA REGIÃO DE ÁFRICA 2025 The […]
The New Social Worker
MAY 20, 2024
The New Social Worker is going on summer break June-August and won’t be doing new posts. However, we’re not neglecting you! Join us in having a Super-Self-Care-Summer!
Social Work With Adults
MAY 21, 2024
"Most people would agree maintaining social connection is important to living better lives." [Image created by freepik.com ] Losing connection Support for people with mental health problems, their families and carers, is often overlooked, meaning the ‘social’ in social care is sometimes forgotten. People experiencing mental health problems often say things like better housing, employment, enough money, more friends, and close relationships would make a positive difference in their lives.
The Guardian
MAY 16, 2024
Suppressed DWP study told of hardship endured by carers forced to repay thousands after minor allowance breaches Ministers were warned three years ago that unpaid carers were being treated unfairly and forced to repay huge sums for minor benefit breaches, a long suppressed government report has revealed. A Department for Work and Pensions document presented to politicians in 2021 detailed how carers – the majority of whom were on low incomes and spending 65 hours a week caring for loved ones – e
International Federation of Social Workers
MAY 16, 2024
At the United Nations Civil Society Conference held in Nairobi on May 9 – 10, IFSW was represented by former African Regional President and Global Vice President Charles Mbugua, of […]
Community Care
MAY 21, 2024
Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll. The Care Quality Commission has awarded good ratings to the first three councils it assessed under its new adults’ services performance regime. Hertfordshire, Hounslow and West Berkshire all gained the second top rating – behind outstanding – in assessments under the CQC’s local authority assurance system, published last week.
CAPC
MAY 17, 2024
The American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) has updated its clinical guidelines, which provide evidence-based guidance on integrating palliative care into standard oncology for all people diagnosed with cancer.
The International Association Of Schools Of Social
MAY 22, 2024
Through the Call, the University of Florence intends to support outstanding young researchers of all nationalities who wish to submit a project proposal in response to the ERC Starting Grant call. Specifically, the university will be funding a maximum of 5 research projects to be carried out within the University’s Departments and thus aimed at supporting the development of innovative and ambitious project proposals going beyond the state of the art in the topic being researched, and which
The Guardian
MAY 18, 2024
I have followed the life of this desperate child as her life has been ruined by a bankrupt system You’re a teenage girl and you’ve been locked in a bare hospital room for more than 15 months. Your bed is a platform attached to the floor. There’s a plastic toilet and a sink moulded into the wall. Your only human contact is through a hatch in the door.
Michigan Social Work
MAY 22, 2024
Professor Lisa Wexler was awarded an NIMH R01 grant for her project “Efficacy-Implementation Study for PC CARES in Rural Alaska” through the NIH Intervention Research to Improve Native American Health. The trial evaluates the impact of Promoting Community Conversations About Research to End Suicide (PC CARES) on adult participants and the adults and youth they are close to, and who could benefit from the intervention.
Community Care
MAY 15, 2024
Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll. Social workers are doing more with less, seeing increased need and weighed down by administrative work, a survey of just over 7,000 practitioners has found. Practitioners also feel less valued and supported by their employers and are more likely to quit their roles over the next 12 months than was the case a year ago, found the latest Local Government Association ‘health check’,
CAPC
MAY 15, 2024
An opinion piece in Scientific American discusses the benefits of palliative care for the author's mother, stating she wishes it was offered earlier in her mom's Alzheimer's disease diagnosis.
Health & Social Care Workforce
MAY 22, 2024
The Dementia Community Research Network (DCRN) turns one this year, and what better way to celebrate than to showcase the incredible work of Network members and start a conversation about better, more inclusive, dementia care?
The Guardian
MAY 16, 2024
Little wonder welfare ministers were so reluctant the publish the study they commissioned five years ago There are plenty of reasons why welfare ministers were reluctant to publish the study they commissioned into unpaid carers’ experiences of carer’s allowance five years ago, and which has finally emerged under duress. In 2019 they had undoubtedly been chastened by criticism from MPs and auditors that the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) did not understand how a relatively little known be
Michigan Social Work
MAY 22, 2024
Professor William Elliot III provided testimony as an expert witness at the United States Senate Committee on Finance hearing on child savings accounts and other tax-advantaged accounts benefiting American children. “Children’s asset investments are more than just financial benefits for higher education: they have demonstrated the potential to transform the opportunity landscape—and in the process, to reset young people’s confidence in U.S. institutions and their ability to deliver equitable ret
Social Care
MAY 22, 2024
Cygnet Health Care colleagues are proud of their new social hub spaces and the pleasure they bring to patients (Expert by Experience Lead, Raf Hamaizia, foreground). Space for everyone Our patients across Cygnet Health Care services now have access to homely environments – ‘social hubs’- away from the wards, after unused spaces in our hospitals were given a makeover in an effort to provide safe spaces where the people we support can relax and socialise together.
The Masked AMHP
MAY 15, 2024
Back in the 1980’s and 90’s, under the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 (PACE), social workers were often called upon by the police to attend interviews of children and vulnerable adults if a parent or other suitable person was not available.
The International Association Of Schools Of Social
MAY 21, 2024
Great news! You are invited to the official announcement of the GSSWET eLearning course. When: May 29, 2024 @15:00 Rome/SA time/ 21:00 HK time. Pre-Register in advance for this meeting: [link] After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. The post IASSW Global Standards for Social Work Education and Training e Learning Official Announcement Webinar first appeared on International Association of Schools of Social Work (IASSW).
Relias
MAY 21, 2024
Trauma-informed care is an approach to health and social services that recognizes the impact of trauma on people’s lives. Its aim is to create a safe, respectful, and empowering environment for healing. Many people who seek help have experienced some form of trauma, such as abuse, violence, neglect, loss, or oppression, and these experiences can affect their physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual well-being.
Living Sober
MAY 20, 2024
Our new site is nearly here! Read this for important information about the switch-over to our new home.
The New Social Worker
MAY 15, 2024
It is important to recognize that approximately half of degreed social workers are earning less than the median yearly income. As a result, many social workers are living below the living wage needed to support a household of two or more persons.
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