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Watch the Interstate Licensing Compact Stakeholder July 26 Review Session

Social Work Blog

Department of Defense (DOD), as part of an initiative to promote licensure portability for military spouses, in 2021 awarded a $500,000 grant for the development of an interstate licensure compact for social workers. The compact would give social workers to practice in two or more states, giving the profession much needed license mobility.

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“A Liminal Moment in Social Work”: Access NASW’s Social Work Journal Online

Social Work Blog

Authors review data that demonstrate the evolution of labels and argue that adopting these terms in practice and research will have fruitful and affirming effects on access to care, treatment attrition, and the design and quality of research in and for the LGBTQ+ community.

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How do we know when posttraumatic stress disorder is getting better?

Society of Clinical Psychology

Using the findings from the review, we have proposed a set of definitions we think represents a sound way forward and hope might be adopted in order to standardize what it means for someone to get better: Construct. Treatment of military-related posttraumatic stress disorder: Challenges, innovations, and the way forward. Definition.

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News Items – December 1, 2022

Social Workers Speak

The number of social workers continued to rise at the close of World War II to serve military veterans. The future of social work in Ohio could look different if a substitute bill is adopted by the legislature. Globe Echo. By 1929, there were 10 universities offering education in the field of social work.

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NCCPR news and commentary year in review, 2022

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

Check out the Family Integrity and Justice Quarterly with issues on the harm of the so-called “Adoption and Safe Families Act,” the confusion of poverty with neglect , the need to invest in community and families and, most recently, the most dangerous phrase in the family policing lexicon. ●

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LGBT+ History Month: reflections on progress

Social Work With Adults

Society and social work changed with the Human Rights Act 1998, which protects our rights to be treated as equals, including starting a family, being out at work, serving in the military, accessing healthcare, and even staying in a double room in a hotel with partners. diversity and inclusion in tackling inequality and injustice. "We

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NCCPR news and commentary round-up, week ending June 28, 2022

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

The adoptive parents the family policing system preferred to the grandfather have been charged with their murder. ? My brother, by contrast, was deemed too emotionally troubled to be placed with a family following the sudden death of his adopted mother and was put in a state-run institution. The children are dead.