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Simple Habits to Adopt for a Mentally Healthy 2023

Psychological Health Care

Forget short-lived New Year’s resolutions and rigid goal setting, instead commit to adopting some simple habits to boost your mental fitness now and well into the future. Making some changes to your routines and adopting some simple habits that you can stick with can have the power to improve your life. Embrace Mindfulness.

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Call for Papers: Adoption Quarterly Special Issue

Jaeran Kim

I’m guest editing a special issue of Adoption Quarterly with Bibiana Koh. Special Issue of Adoption Quarterly: Ethics and Adoption. . Adoption Quarterly invites abstract submissions for consideration in a special issue critically examining the intersection of ethics and adoption. adoption. .

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‘I believe in the value of social work’: launch editor looks back as Community Care turns 50

Community Care

The magazine covered the gamut of social work and social care including child protection, adoption, mental health and services for disabled and older people. ” Writing a book In 2021, Mark published his debut novel, a psychological thriller called Life Term. On 3 April 1974, the first ever issue of Community Care was published.

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How and Why Trauma-Informed Leadership Works

Relias

It affects everyone differently, so that two people who live through the same traumatic event will have different psychological reactions to it. Trauma-informed leadership is, thus, a critical piece of creating an organizational culture of inclusion and psychological safety. While this might sound straightforward, trauma is tricky.

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Workloads and lack of supervision undermining child protection practice, find studies

Community Care

Drawing on previous studies, it highlighted the challenges for social workers and other practitioners in balancing building a respectful and supportive relationship with parents with adopting a critical and investigative stance.

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Teenagers and Mental Health: A Q&A with Tilly’s Life Center

My Brains Not Broken

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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Highlights from a special issue of Family Court Review

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

That false narrative, pushed hardest by those who hate birth parents (and yes, that’s the right word) claims that only adoption guarantees a truly permanent home for a child removed from her or his parents. Partly that’s because adoptions sometimes fail. They also take less time to achieve than adoptions.