Community Care

JUNE 16, 2022

It lists all children in contact with the local authority through early help, child in need, child protection, the care, care leavers and being placed for adoption; and details of all events such as referrals, assessments, strategy discussions, last conference, review or visit etc. Tips if you are due to be interviewed by Ofsted.

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Interviewing Social Worker Adoption Schools 224

Community Care

APRIL 11, 2024

Our interview with Lord Herbert Laming is part of a new series of profiles of key figures who have shaped social work over the past five decades, to celebrate Community Care’s 50th anniversary. It has also been adopted by the Department for Education in its 2023 strategy for the sector, Stable Homes, Built on Love.

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Social Worker Government Interviewing Social Services 335

Community Care

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Non-social work staff handling ‘complex safeguarding’ However, Ofsted found that for children who went missing from home or care, return home interviews were not held consistently or in a timely fashion, and often lacked sufficient analysis of the child’s circumstances, meaning they did not contribute to safety planning.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

John Pearce told Community Care that these should include a calculated fair cost for care and rules on provider behaviour, in an interview at this year’s National Children and Adult Services Conference (NCASC).

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Government Mental Health Interviewing Adoption 220

My Brains Not Broken

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Our proactive approach uses experiential learning, journal writing, open discussion, and other activities to guide teens in effectively coping with crisis, adopting healthy habits, and reaching their full potential. The program is available as a high school course via virtual or in-person, an after-school program, or a series of workshops.

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Mental Health Adoption Communication Schools 246

Community Care

MARCH 31, 2022

They were based on interviews with 44 parents of 59 children from 13 local authorities in England and Wales. Focus groups put forward parents’ joint recommendations on the reform of supervision orders based on the key recommendations arising from the individual interviews.

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Interviewing Social Worker University Government 266

Community Care

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Baby P effect It said this trend had taken root following the Peter Connolly (Baby P) case – which came to prominence in 2008 – and other subsequent high-profile child deaths.

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Diversity Government Interviewing Empathy 206

Community Care

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Citing the wider body of research into the practice, it said local authorities had generally adopted agile working to make efficiency savings, not in response to social workers’ needs. The final year’s survey included questions on the impact of Covid-19.

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Social Worker Criminal Justice Government Adoption 265

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2022

There’s still more about the harm of the so-called Adoption and Safe Families Act. ● Shanta Trivedi, director of the Sayra and Neil Meyerhoff Center for Families, Children and the Courts at the University of Baltimore explains why "The Adoption and Safe Families Act is Not Worth Saving: The Case for Repeal."

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Foster Care Adoption Advocacy Interviewing 98

Community Care

OCTOBER 9, 2023

The Foundations study, based on survey responses from 80 councils (52% of the total), interviews with staff from 35 of these and round table discussions with 31 kinship carers, examined how far authorities provided support to the different types of kinship carer.

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Foster Care Government Interventional Interviewing 252

Community Care

DECEMBER 2, 2022

An increasing number of children were placed with adopters, special guardians and long-term foster carers, with the latter being described as “appropriately assessed, trained and supported”. However, as records of return home interviews were not always stored electronically, professionals could not access them to safeguard children.

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Social Worker Interventional Government Interviewing 255

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

The money goes to two adoption advocacy groups (reinforcing the bias that permanency equals adoption, not reunification, and prioritizing paper permanence over what has aptly been called “ relational permanence ”) not one, but two schools of social work, and – I kid you not - a consortium of child welfare system administrators.

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Child Welfare Welfare Foster Care Administration 105

Community Care

AUGUST 4, 2023

Prime minister Rishi Sunak saying social workers ignored victims of child sexual exploitation in areas such as Rotherham, Rochdale and Telford, and fellow Tory MP Flick Drummond saying that practitioners “stayed at home” during the pandemic, in media interviews in April 2023.

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Social Worker Interviewing Adoption Government 224

Relias

DECEMBER 4, 2023

By acknowledging and respecting the client’s current stage, behavioral health professionals can adopt appropriate communication strategies. Motivational interviewing , a technique aligned with the Stages of Change, can be particularly beneficial in eliciting clients’ motivations and enhancing their commitment to change.

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Interventional Communication Psychology Empathy 93

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

The agencies call it “child support” but listen closely at 36:23 in, and you’ll hear Imprint editor John Kelly use the R-word :-)) The interview starts at 16:40 in. Department of Justice concerning possible bias against the disabled.

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Foster Care Child Welfare Welfare Interviewing 76

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JULY 23, 2023

In her interview with NEPM Mossaides made clear she prefers “another new program, based at the nonprofit agency Plummer Youth Promise, that provides mediators to work with parents and the child welfare agency.” The remainder, 14,345 cases, are labeled simply as “neglect.” Then it was back to the fearmongering.

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Child Welfare Welfare Domestic Violence Foster Care 98

Jaeran Kim

AUGUST 11, 2017

I was fortunate to be asked to present at the Pact adoption family camp. I presented a keynote about school issues based on the article I published with Pact’s Executive Director Beth Hall for the book Transracial and Intercountry Adoption.

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Adoption Disability Interviewing Home Care 40

Community Care

OCTOBER 27, 2021

The inspectorate’s latest report found improvements in the quality and frequency of children’s review meetings, said life-story workwas taking place with more children, that children were helped to achieve permanence through adoption and that it had introduced permanence tracking.

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Disability Social Worker Interviewing Adoption 246

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MARCH 2, 2022

The researchers who wrote the article for JAMA Pediatrics debunking the whole “pandemic of child abuse” myth discuss their findings in this interview. Those words came in a decision reversing a lower court which allowed a Black child to be taken from his loving extended family and placed with white strangers who tried to adopt him.

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Child Welfare Welfare Adoption Foster Care 76

Relias

MARCH 5, 2024

Some temporary regulatory measures that made telehealth adoption easier during the pandemic have now faded away. In an interview with Social Work Today , John Jay said, “As organizations adapt to and become more accustomed to delivering telehealth, telehealth is going to be more prevalent in behavioral health moving forward.

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Human Services Telehealth Communication Disability 52

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JUNE 28, 2023

One of her recommendations: Repeal the so-called Adoption and Safe Families Act. “It And, in a commentary about the ICWA decision in Slate, Prof.

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Child Welfare Foster Care Disability Confidentiality 75

Relias

APRIL 28, 2023

A trauma-informed approach to birth trauma To help your clients cope with and overcome the effects of birth trauma, it’s important that your organization adopt a trauma-informed approach to care. The goal of trauma-informed care (TIC) is to prevent traumatization, or re-traumatization.

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PTSD Adoption Treatment Planning Psychology 52

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

In this BBC interview , Taliah Drayak of the Parents, Families and Allies Network describes what it’s done to children and families – including her own. Speaking of really awful laws and policies, The Imprint has an overview of efforts to repeal, or at least amend, one of the worst: the so-called Adoption and Safe Families Act.

Child Welfare 98

Child Welfare Foster Care Welfare Interviewing 98

My Brains Not Broken

MARCH 16, 2023

” In this interview, we talked about the book, Noah’s approach to mental health, and his attitudes surrounding mental health in the current day and age. At the end of my book, I identify nine overarching lessons that offer rules, attitudes, and guidelines you can adopt in your life to improve your mental health.

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Mental Health Interviewing Anxiety Depression 189

Doin' The Work

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

I am incredibly grateful for their participation in this interview. We discuss NABSW’s work developing Black researchers and practitioners, their own code of ethics, and positions on issues such as transracial adoption and licensing. I am incredibly grateful for their participation in this interview.

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Code of Ethics Social Worker LCSW Interviewing 45

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 10, 2023

Publisher’s Weekly interviewed Roxanna Asgarian about her forthcoming book, We Were Once a Family , the story of “how flaws in the child welfare system contributed to the 2018 murder-suicide of six children by their adoptive parents.”

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Child Welfare Welfare Foster Care Interviewing 40

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. The report claims that parents have the right to refuse to let their children be interviewed.

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Child Welfare Foster Care Welfare Interviewing 98

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.” Motivational Interviewing, Contingency Management) and non-specific-treatments (e.g., Motivational Interviewing, Contingency Management).

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CBT Disorder Psychosocial Psychology 52

MQ Mental Health

JUNE 29, 2023

The consultations were carried out through group interviews to discuss, refine, and enrich the recommendations developed from the literature review. Adopt evidence-based measures to address the practical, physical and psychological barriers for delivering and accessing healthcare.

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Mental Health Healthcare Interventional Consultation 52

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

At the federal level the law that makes everything worse is the so-called Adoption and Safe Families Act. Rise interviews Rutgers Prof. The Imprint reports on a bill that would make ASFA less awful. ? But guess who took away the kids in the first place. I have the answer in this blog post. ?

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Child Welfare Welfare Foster Care Interviewing 52

MQ Mental Health

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

So, with Juliette Burton's personal story backed up by research, let’s strip away the layers of misconceptions and adorn ourselves in the facts behind the various facades we can all adopt. Ever since I was a little girl, I've always loved dressing up. Clothing and Psychology The power of costume is apparent in all of our lives.

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Mental Health Psychology Recovery Hospitals 52

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., 2014) and/or interviews (e.g., Cultural Formulation Interview, APA, 2013; University of Connecticut Racial/Ethnic Stress and Trauma Survey, Williams et al., Gaylord-Harden et al.,

Mental Health 52

Mental Health Clinic Psychology Psychiatric 52

Social Work Haven

APRIL 3, 2023

Ecomap interview questions should always be in the form of open – ended questions. Genograms lay out the mechanics of people’s relationship (niece by adoption, third cousin once removed, etc.) How do you create a family ecomap? When creating a family ecomap, you look at the sources of support. Who do you spend most time with?

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Social Worker Interventional Adoption Schools 97

Clinical Philosophy

DECEMBER 23, 2020

When the interviewers go to Maya's home. First off, he tells us that he's not offering an account of schizophrenia, doesn't 'accept it as a fact' or 'adopt it as a hypothesis', does not 'assume its existence' and 'propose[s] no model for it'. (I I quote here from the Preface to the 2nd edition.) a confused one'.

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Schizophrenia Psychiatry Interviewing Psychology 52

The Vintage Social Worker

AUGUST 10, 2020

The prevailing political dogma was that fostering and possibly adoption were the best option and significantly easier on the purse strings. Our standardised interviewing techniques certainly do not allow exploration of many of these issues. And yet we closed and cut and closed again.

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Welfare Self-harm Interviewing Administration 52

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. Writing a social work article requires research and an understanding of the field.

Code of Ethics 52

Code of Ethics Substance Abuse Justice and Corrections Social Worker 52

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

While researching my book, I interviewed a group of stewards for the caseworkers’ union in Massachusetts. But if the Massachusetts family police were honest they’d simply adopt the name used by poor people more than a century ago to describe the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children.

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Foster Care Child Welfare Domestic Violence Welfare 98