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23 interventions to supercharge your social work

Save the Social Worker

As a social worker who was just starting out, I longed for a long list of social work interventions which I could look through whenever I had a client problem I couldn’t solve. Okay okay, maybe no intervention is that easy, but you get the idea. Easy applicable interventions. He’s also someone with a learning disability.

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Disability Justice and Other Concerns: The January Issue of Social Work Is Online

Social Work Blog

Here are some of the articles in this issue: Beyond Ramps, Curb Cuts, and Captions: A Call for Disability Justice in Social Work. Despite decades of advocacy, Disabled people continue to experience ableism—such as inaccessibility, stigma, and exclusion—in all realms of social work.

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55,000 on waiting lists for child sexual abuse support services, estimates research

Community Care

The Centre of expertise on child sexual abuse (CSA Centre) found that just half of services were able to meet demand for services including one-to-one therapy or counselling, group-based interventions, helplines or advocacy for child or adult victims/survivors and family members.

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Long COVID and the Implications for Social Work

inSocialWork

These disparities demand the attention of social work change agents, along with the inability or unwillingness of our government leaders to pass long COVID legislation, the lack of long COVID clinics, and the need for advocacy and education related to workplace accommodations, paid sick and family leave and expanded disability benefits.

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How does a speech pathologist work with autism?

Prosper Health Collective

Advocacy and education – Speech Pathologists advocate for autistic individuals to be their authentic selves and so don’t aim to eliminate autistic traits like echolalia (repeating things they’ve heard) or stimming (this is a method of regulating the body). When should I start speech therapy?

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How does an Occupational Therapist work with autism?

Prosper Health Collective

OT’s work with people of all ages and through all stages of life, with varying physical, cognitive or psychological disabilities and conditions. OTs complete a variety of assessments to work out where and why there is a functional impairment so they are able to provide the most appropriate intervention or treatment to support the person.

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What are the 10 Roles of Social Workers

Social Work Haven

The assessment process enables you to appreciate your client’s perspective on their situation, identify their priority areas for intervention, and recognize the strengths they bring to the therapeutic process. Advocacy takes various forms, including individual, organisational, and systemic levels.