Gary Direnfeld

MAY 27, 2022

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. gary@yoursocialworker.com www.yoursocialworker.com for counseling and support. Support matters. With that, I am blessed. Transparency matters.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2022

That’s what they’ve done with the concept of “primary prevention” – turning it into another excuse to load families down with meaningless “counseling” and “parenting education.” Family policing systems have a way of co-opting and perverting good ideas.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

The Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act and the Adoption and Safe Families Act have destroyed the lives of millions of children and families. And they commissioned a poll from Gallup , which appears to have been geared toward encouraging more Black families to foster and adopt. But there is. None of it was true.

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Gary Direnfeld

MAY 15, 2022

Initially it was difficult to adopt the new mindset, fending off constant bullying. gary@yoursocialworker.com www.yoursocialworker.com for counseling and support. She played to the long game and learned there would be skirmishes along the way. The coaching and support throughout paid off. It sure wasn’t a fairytale ending.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 14, 2021

? Who says the so-called Adoption and Safe Families Act hasn’t accomplished anything good? ASFA has helped create a generation of legal orphans, with no ties to birth parents and no adoptive home either. ASFA has helped create a generation of legal orphans, with no ties to birth parents and no adoptive home either.

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Relias

AUGUST 23, 2022

In order to take care of your staff, it’s important to adopt a trauma-informed care approach within your own organization. By coming to a better understanding of what trauma is, your organization can adopt better practices to recognize trauma, burnout, and compassion fatigue among your staff. Trauma is always defined by the individual.

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Social Workers Speak

JULY 1, 2022

Stephanie Sterling is a member: Baton Rouge adoption agencies preparing for increase in demand after Supreme Court ruling. Baton Rouge area adoption agencies are already preparing for possibly busier days in the future, following the overturning of Roe V. We have been providing adoption services since 1964.

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Beyond Advocacy

JUNE 13, 2023

If enacted, the bill would expand state foster care and adoption assistance programs to provide driving preparation assistance to foster youth and related training for foster parents. The bill was referred to the House Ways and Means Committee and the Finance Committee in the Senate.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 4, 2022

That was encouraged by an odious federal law, the so-called Adoption and Safe Families Act. But the biggest failure of family policing is the heart of its mission: putting families under onerous needless surveillance and taking away the children. The PBS Newshour has an in-depth, finely-nuanced look at ASFA and the harm it has done.

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KVC

JUNE 16, 2022

Counseling can be a tremendous tool for an LGBTQIA+ young person. Did you know that if you’re an LGBTQIA+ adult, you can foster or adopt? Returning to outgrown behaviors (for example, thumb-sucking or bedwetting). Self-harming or harming others. Use of alcohol, tobacco or other drugs. Poor school performance or avoiding schoolwork.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 25, 2022

The first issue is devoted to the enormous harm done by the so-called Adoption and Safe Families Act. ? Family Integrity and Justice Works , the group started by two former top federal child welfare officials, is publishing a quarterly magazine. One way to reduce the harm of ASFA is, of course, to provide real help to families.

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Society of Clinical Psychology

APRIL 7, 2023

In 2015, Division 12 revised and updated its criteria for evaluating the efficacy of psychological treatments by adopting what has since been referred to as the “Tolin Criteria.” treatment as usual, drug counseling), and for its overall efficacy concerning substance use outcomes, such as frequency and quantity of use.

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Psychological Health Care

MARCH 7, 2022

Adopt a Healthy Lifestyle. Psychological counselling can also provide proven techniques and teach skills to help manage your issue or improve your mental situation. Tips to practice mindfulness: Practice periods of mindfulness throughout your day. Search for apps that can guide you through mindfulness practice.

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Social Work Bubble

MARCH 14, 2022

Micro Social Work is direct-practice work in which a social worker meets with individuals, families, and small groups to support their treatment needs and improve their quality of life.

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Social Work Haven

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Examples of intervention strategies include counselling, crisis intervention, community organisation, case management, advocacy, and active listening. Some examples of social work intervention strategies include counselling, crisis intervention, case management, community organisation, advocacy, and active listening. Counselling.

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Social Workers Speak

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Michigan’s child welfare workers have served on the frontlines of the COVID-19 pandemic, doing what they can to build families’ resiliency, keep children in their homes, guide juvenile offenders on the right path, and connect children in greatest need to foster families and adoptive parents.

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Social Work Bubble

MARCH 14, 2022

Micro Social Work Micro Social Work is direct-practice work in which a social worker meets with individuals, families, and small groups to support their treatment needs and improve their quality of life.

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Social Workers Speak

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Brayn Mares is government relations director for NASW-TX: Texas fights federal rule that would outlaw LGBTQ discrimination in state adoptions and foster care. The Texas Tribune. “The client will hopefully be able to identify and cope with the triggers during the therapeutic process and learn coping skills to decrease the anxiety.

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Social Work Haven

DECEMBER 4, 2022

“Rethinking Social Work’s Role in a Rapidly Changing World : by Antoinette Lombard and Andre Viviers offer an overview of the need for social work in teh 21st century to adopt a more transformative social-policy approach, including policy advocacy. Counselling clients to make informed decisions that affect their lives.

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Society of Clinical Psychology

DECEMBER 16, 2016

academic skill curriculum-based measurement scores) to increase the likelihood of universal screener adoption. What are barriers schools might face in adoption of universal screening measures to identify students at risk of behavioral and emotional concerns? office discipline referrals), but also academic functioning (e.g., Author Bio.

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Society of Clinical Psychology

MAY 7, 2021

Consistent with previous work highlighting the importance of adopting a strengths-based framework for minority mental health (e.g., Journal of counseling psychology , 61 (1), 154–161. Journal of counseling psychology , 60 (1), 15–30. Gaylord-Harden et al., Quesenberry, C. P., & Ferrara, A. Burnett-Zeigler, I., Bohnert, K.

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The Vintage Social Worker

JANUARY 23, 2021

It then returns at the end of the book to some practice models which look very like something I learned on both my social work and counselling courses as process recording. It quotes many academics and eminent thinkers in the profession in their recognition of the issue but they offer little solution.

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Social Work Haven

JUNE 15, 2023

As I embark on this transformative journey, I am committed to adopting a strength-based approach—one that recognises and nurtures the inherent potential within each individual. Strength-Based Approach One of the key aspects of being a social worker is adopting a strength-based approach.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

This post is adapted from a virtual presentation I gave last month to the Racial Justice Task Force of the Massachusetts Committee for Public Counsel Services, Child and Family Law Division. My group’s Vice President was co-counsel for the plaintiffs. It still happens, of course, but it happens less.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Reporters can identify with foster parents – they probably know some, or at least have friends who do – or if not that, then they may have friends who adopted a foster child. So birth parents become, at best, nonentities, at worst those awful people their foster or adoptive parent friends told them about. A small number are sick.

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Social Work Haven

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

This is why many agencies and local authorities have adopted standardised social worker home visit checklists. Discussing the possibility of counseling or therapy can be a supportive step to provide them with an outlet to address their feelings and receive professional assistance if needed.

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Irish Socail Worker

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Do we strive to adopt that cornerstone of trauma-informed care, of meeting the person where they are at, in the midst of their reality, with their lived-expertise guiding the way. In Ireland, we have taken a narrow approach to adoption of the Directive. Doing what we’ve always done? So what’s my point here?

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Blurt It Out

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Psychotherapy Embracing counseling services, particularly Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT) [1] , as the preferred method, can be a powerful ally for individuals grappling with panic disorder or experiencing panic attacks. How To Stop Panic Attacks? In addition, this method can aid in shifting focus to your breathing and calming the mind.

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Blurt It Out

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Psychotherapy Embracing counseling services, particularly Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT) [1] , as the preferred method, can be a powerful ally for individuals grappling with panic disorder or experiencing panic attacks. How To Stop Panic Attacks? In addition, this method can aid in shifting focus to your breathing and calming the mind.

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CBT Anxiety Disorder Psychiatric 52

Blurt It Out

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Psychotherapy Embracing counseling services, particularly Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT) [1] , as the preferred method, can be a powerful ally for individuals grappling with panic disorder or experiencing panic attacks. How To Stop Panic Attacks? In addition, this method can aid in shifting focus to your breathing and calming the mind.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 6, 2022

NCCPR’s Vice President was co-counsel for plaintiffs.) But Alberi seems to want OCFS to adopt a policy that boils down to: Please pass the salt. When children are taken for that reason the trauma for the child is actually worse than other forms of removal. But removing children for that reason can be even worse.

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The Critical Blog

MAY 10, 2021

He died eight years ago and I still have intermittent bereavement counselling, which is something I highly recommend. It would be helpful to develop some information leaflets aimed at young people and don’t adopt a heteronormative perspective. Counselling is necessary for the patient and the family. We are coping as a family.

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Society of Clinical Psychology

AUGUST 15, 2019

LGB individuals are “disproportionately exposed to victimization, discrimination, and peer and parental rejection against a societal backdrop of unequal access to the same opportunities afforded to heterosexual individuals, such as marriage, adoption, and employment nondiscrimination” (Panchankis, 2011). A., & Schultz, J. Carlson, T.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JUNE 22, 2022

High-quality defense counsel for all families at risk of being caught in the family police net. ? Repeal of the so-called Adoption and Safe Families Act – or at least strong backing for legislation proposed by Rep. Real child welfare finance reform – not the tokenism of Family First. ?

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JUNE 23, 2022

High-quality defense counsel for all families at risk of being caught in the family police net. ? Repeal of the so-called Adoption and Safe Families Act – or at least strong backing for legislation proposed by Rep. Real child welfare finance reform – not the tokenism of Family First. ?

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JUNE 24, 2022

Perhaps that’s because the only people who do benefit from CAPTA are agencies that investigate families, and agencies that provide often useless “preventive services” like “counseling” and “parent education” and/or warehouse children in foster care: In other words, members in good standing of “Social Current.”

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 25, 2022

The program, first adopted in Nassau County on Long Island in New York, redacts all race and race-related factors from the dossiers used by social workers and supervisors in determining child welfare cases. But then, as now, the numbers weren’t down. Los Angeles was, and remains, an outlier in child removal.

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