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Treating Anxiety

Gary Direnfeld

About that anxiety. Given an anxiety disorder, the saying, “trust your gut,” just doesn’t hold. As for medication, typically those referred to as SSRIs are helpful for an anxiety disorder. I am Gary Direnfeld and I am a social worker. They are taken daily and usually long term.

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Moving from compliance to professional curiosity for social workers key to improvement – study

Community Care

Moving from expecting compliance from social workers to enabling them to exercise professional curiosity is a key factor in improving children’s services. This included initiatives such as the use of social work academies to develop staff, with training days backfilled and caseloads capped.

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Psychiatrist, Psychologist, Social Worker: Difference?

Gary Direnfeld

What’s the difference between a psychologist, psychiatrist and a social worker? The social worker looks at the problem of the individual in a broader context, such as one’s relationship, family, community, society. The teen has anxiety: The psychiatrist prescribed medication. Case example.

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When Someone You Love has Anxiety…

Gary Direnfeld

For many, there is a relational aspect to anxiety. Those that get drawn in become part of a dynamic where as they try to comfort, cajole, support, facilitate, the one with the anxiety experiences and expresses greater fear. In turn, the anxiety escalates. I am Gary Direnfeld and I am a social worker.

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Moving from compliance to professional curiosity for social workers key to improvemen – report

Community Care

Moving from expecting compliance from social workers to enabling them to exercise professional curiosity is a key factor in improving children’s services.

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Caseloads bigger, more complex and harder to manage, say children’s social workers

Community Care

Children’s social workers’ caseloads are bigger, more complex and harder to manage, taking a toll on their mental health and family life and leaving some contemplating quitting. A third of social workers said their caseloads had increased “a lot” over the past year, while a further 36% said they had risen “slightly”.

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Managing Your Child’s Anxiety.

Gary Direnfeld

That childhood anxiety. As you ask the many questions seeking an answer as to why from the child, you may inadvertently be ramping up anxiety for you both. Anxiety, as a disorder, is about feelings betraying the mind as the feelings are either disproportionate to the triggering event or an independent experience.

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