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NCCPR news and commentary round-up, week ending December 14, 2021

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

? 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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NCCPR news and commentary round-up, week ending August 28, 2023

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

● Law schools at the University of Pennsylvania and Temple University released a joint report on the state’s “central registry” of those whom a caseworker decided were slightly more likely than not to be child abusers. Or adopted to another family because critical information was never uploaded to their files?

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How to Support LGBTQIA+ Youth: Gender-Affirming Care and Resources

KVC

One report revealed that this support and acceptance is associated with greater self-esteem, social support, general health status, less depression, less substance abuse and less suicidal ideation and behaviors among LGBTQIA+ youth. The USC School of Social Work suggests basic guidelines to show youth acceptance and openness.

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NCCPR news and commentary round-up, week ending January 25, 2022

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

The first issue is devoted to the enormous harm done by the so-called Adoption and Safe Families Act. ? Remember when children could walk home from school by themselves or even play in a playground without parents hovering over them? One way to reduce the harm of ASFA is, of course, to provide real help to families.

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All You Need To Know About Social Work Articles

Social Work Haven

In social work, various articles cover topics such as social work articles on mental health, social work articles on domestic violence, social work articles on learning disabilities, medical social work articles, school social work articles and clinical social work articles. Addressing substance abuse and addiction issues.

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The Next Generation of Parenting Interventions: The role of Mindfulness and Compassion

Society of Clinical Psychology

If the parent adopts mindfulness as part of his or her parenting repertoire, this can provide the space and opportunity to engage in parenting strategies that align with his or her values of parenting (Duncan, Coatsworth, & Greenberg, 2009; Siegel & Hartzell, 2003). 2011; Stack, Serbin, Enns, Ruttle, & Barrieau, 2010).

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What can science tell us about suicide? (Answer: Not nearly enough… yet.)

Society of Clinical Psychology

Some clinicians might add to this picture related characteristics such as emotion dysregulation, substance abuse, or impulsivity. In terms of understanding suicide, we recommend adopting an approach founded on INUS conditions (Mackie, 1965) rather than reductionism. Ribeiro, PhD. earned her B.A.