Adoption, Consultation and Interventional

No evidence scheme placing social workers in schools reduces need for social care, says What Works

Community Care

MARCH 30, 2023

Researchers found no statistically significant difference in outcomes for children between schools with a social worker and those without, What Works for Early Intervention and Children’s Social Care (WWEICSC) said today , following the trial which covered the 2020-21 and 2021-22 academic years.

Social Worker

Social Worker Schools School Social Work Interventional

‘The power of social work has shaped who I am’ – ADCS’s new care experienced president

Community Care

APRIL 17, 2024

Smith was taken into care as a baby, spending the first 11 years of his life in a foster home before those same carers adopted him. From the age of seven, up until his adoption, he had the same social worker, with whom he remained in contact into his 20s. He was one of those children whose lives were transformed by a social worker.

Social Worker

Social Worker Diversity Government Adoption

Social worker changes undermined engagement with children later convicted of violent crimes – review

Community Care

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

The review, led by safeguarding consultant Bridget Griffin, was based on conversations with one of the seven young people and three of their families and the involvement of over 100 practitioners, through a survey, workshops, case discussions and a webinar.

Engagement

Engagement Social Worker Interventional Schools

Councils selected to test specialist child protection social workers

Community Care

JULY 25, 2023

Meanwhile, councils would be encouraged to refer families to FGCs from early help onwards, under proposed changes to Working Together, which are currently out to consultation.

Social Worker

Social Worker Adoption Consultation Interventional

Councils face insolvency without rules curbing children’s care costs, warns ADCS head

Community Care

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

While the number of registered places in homes rose by 11% from 2016-22 ( source: Ofsted ), council spending on private providers – who run the vast majority – grew by 105% over this period ( source: Revolution Consulting ).

Government

Government Mental Health Interviewing Adoption

Significant disparities in council support for kinship carers revealed by survey

Community Care

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Under section 22C of the Children Act 1989, councils should prioritise these placements over all others for children in care, where adoption is not being considered. Relatives may apply for an SGO if the child has been living with them for a year. It was not able to identify what types of support for kinship carers were most effective.

Foster Care

Foster Care Government Interventional Interviewing

We All Need Support at Some Time

Gary Direnfeld

MAY 27, 2022

Although the prognosis is good, it remains the most dangerous of interventions to get there. Beyond my family, there is you, extended kin, closest of friends – my adopted family members, friends, colleagues, and those whom I haven’t met but who share space with me virtually. In the meantime, no activity. Support matters.

Recovery

Recovery Private Practice Hospitals Mental Health

Supervision orders face overhaul to improve effectiveness in supporting family reunification

Community Care

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

A one-month consultation on its proposals closes tomorrow (30 November), with the group then intending to draw up revised best practice guidance for immediate implementation, potentially ahead of longer-term reforms to the order.

Government

Government Social Worker Consultation Adoption

How can we protect peoples mental health during the cost-of-living-crisis?

MQ Mental Health

JUNE 29, 2023

This review also discusses the impact of economic crises on mental health, underlying factors, and promising intervention targets at individual, community, and societal levels. The consultations were carried out through group interviews to discuss, refine, and enrich the recommendations developed from the literature review.

Mental Health

Mental Health Healthcare Interventional Consultation

Government needs ‘compelling reasons’ not to remove children’s services from council

Community Care

JANUARY 26, 2022

It hasappointed consultant Peter Dwyer, a former director, as a commissioner to oversee improvements. Meanwhile, the department has issued an improvement notice – a less intensive form of intervention than a direction – to Bury council after Ofsted rated it inadequate last month.

Government

Government Social Worker Adoption Consultation

Mental wellbeing can, and should, be assessed in clinical samples

Society of Clinical Psychology

MAY 5, 2022

While the integration of wellbeing into clinical psychology has come a long way, more work is needed before this approach will be widely adopted and even including into clinical training programs. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, CBT) and novel wellbeing-specific interventions (e.g.,

Clinic

Clinic Psychology Mental Health Recovery

Opportunities and Obstacles with Lived Experiences at the MQ Science Summit

MQ Mental Health

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

Ask this question to yourself - are people with lived experience in the room (consulted) when you are forming policies and programs for them? To combat this, it is important that an open and flexible approach is adopted when working with each other. You can view a video of the keynote here alongside other segments of the summit.

Mental Health

Mental Health Consultation Adoption Disability

Myth-making in Maine

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MARCH 27, 2022

Department of Health and Human Services Trends in Foster Care and Adoption, FFY 2011-2020 Using the same limited measures, OPEGA suggests that child abuse deaths in June 2021 didn’t have much effect, since investigations didn’t increase. Source: U.S. There are three problems with this: ? But that has failed repeatedly.

Child Welfare

Child Welfare Foster Care Welfare Interviewing

‘Why child protection policies on bruising to babies need to change’

Community Care

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

They lead to interventions, including child protection investigations and taking children into care, which can themselves harm children and families. For my latest article, we consulted four sets of parents who had been investigated because of bruises in pre-mobile children and found not to have harmed their child.

Self-harm

Self-harm Hospitals Adoption Consultation

From care management to ‘social work as we know it’: Lyn Romeo on her decade as chief social worker

Community Care

MARCH 8, 2024

Promoting improvements to social work, including the adoption of evidence-informed practice. Not only has it been adopted in several areas but it is also referenced in the Care Quality Commission’s new framework for assessing the quality of local authorities’ delivery of their Care Act functions , she says.

Social Worker

Social Worker Government Mental Health Adoption

Seven lessons for practitioners from the review of children’s social care in Northern Ireland

Community Care

AUGUST 29, 2023

Short-term, time-limited, task-focused interventions may have an impact but then leave the family stranded again when they hit the cliff edge of services and contact ending. There needs to be the opportunity for continuing care and support within the local network of statutory and voluntary services.

Disability

Disability Domestic Violence Social Worker Engagement

Experiences and Stressors of Parents of Trans and Gender-Diverse Youth in Clinical Care from Trans Youth CAN!

Social Work Blog

MAY 11, 2022

percent), birth or adoptive parents (96.1 Social workers could address these stressors by developing systems-focused interventions and by further considering intersectional health disparities. Most parent participants were White (85.1 percent), female (85.1 percent), and reported strong support for youth’s gender.

Diversity

Diversity Clinic University Schools

Psychotherapy research in the 21st century

Society of Clinical Psychology

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Cognitive-behavioral therapies (CBTs) are effective treatments for depression and other forms of internalizing distress and are considered the gold standard of psychological interventions (Lorenzo-Luaces, 2018). Symptoms of depression have been widely studied as moderators of outcomes of CBTs vs. other interventions. CBT) than others.

Psychotherapy

Psychotherapy CBT Psychiatry Depression

Roadmap toward a neuromodulatory treatment for PTSD and anxiety

Society of Clinical Psychology

AUGUST 15, 2023

2019) symptoms, there is currently not sufficient clinical trial data to support widespread adoption of these protocols. Therefore, it is the purpose of this perspective to define a roadmap toward the FDA-approval and widespread adoption of a novel TMS treatment for anxiety/PTSD. 2018) and PTSD (Philip et al., 2002; Grillon et al.,

PTSD

PTSD Anxiety Psychiatry Disorder

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No evidence scheme placing social workers in schools reduces need for social care, says What Works

‘The power of social work has shaped who I am’ – ADCS’s new care experienced president

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Social worker changes undermined engagement with children later convicted of violent crimes – review

Councils selected to test specialist child protection social workers

Councils face insolvency without rules curbing children’s care costs, warns ADCS head

Significant disparities in council support for kinship carers revealed by survey

We All Need Support at Some Time

Supervision orders face overhaul to improve effectiveness in supporting family reunification

How can we protect peoples mental health during the cost-of-living-crisis?

Government needs ‘compelling reasons’ not to remove children’s services from council

Mental wellbeing can, and should, be assessed in clinical samples

Opportunities and Obstacles with Lived Experiences at the MQ Science Summit

Myth-making in Maine

‘Why child protection policies on bruising to babies need to change’

From care management to ‘social work as we know it’: Lyn Romeo on her decade as chief social worker

Seven lessons for practitioners from the review of children’s social care in Northern Ireland

Experiences and Stressors of Parents of Trans and Gender-Diverse Youth in Clinical Care from Trans Youth CAN!

Psychotherapy research in the 21st century

Roadmap toward a neuromodulatory treatment for PTSD and anxiety

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