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DfE pledges action on ‘excessive’ workload pressures for children’s social workers

Community Care

The Department for Education said it would set up a national workload action group to identify solutions to “unnecessary” pressures on practitioners, while also promising steps to reduce the burden of case recording and free social workers from some case work with children in need.

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Council takes children’s services back from country’s first trust

Community Care

This was also echoed in the Ofsted report, which said failures in the implementation of the case management system last year meant children’s records and performance records were inaccurate and staff were forced to use time-consuming manual workarounds. Unmet need. No redundancies. DfE: ‘Disappointing decline’.

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What are the 10 Roles of Social Workers

Social Work Haven

Case Manager : Social workers coordinate services and resources for their clients, ensuring they receive comprehensive care and support. This evaluation serves the dual purpose of determining how best to continue supporting the client and assessing the effectiveness of the current intervention methods.

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Psychologist vs Social Worker: The Differences You Need to Know

Social Work Haven

Common tasks that psychologists do include administering tests and assessments, conducting therapy sessions, developing treatment plans, researching and studying behavior, evaluating mental health programs and providing consultation services. What does a social worker do?

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The Role of Lay Health Workers to Address Disparities in Access to Evidence-Based Practices Domestically and Globally

Society of Clinical Psychology

As such, these task-shifting studies indicate that lay health workers can directly improve the supply of complex behavioral interventions. Lay health workers also can serve in auxiliary care roles, in which they support treatment engagement through case management and the promotion of treatment related behaviors (e.g.,

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How you can use the self better in social work (no hacks required)

Save the Social Worker

They are case managers. Rather, you slowly expand the intervention outwards. Similarly, in planning a sustainable intervention for someone, rather than looking at how to do it yourself, or whether it will even work, start with the smallest thing you can do first. You plan interventions based on your proposed answers.

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Promising Advances in the Cultural Adaptation of Mental Health Evidence-based Interventions

Society of Clinical Psychology

Evidence-based mental health interventions, first investigated in the 1960’s, were predominantly developed and tested on White populations, with little knowledge about whether these evidence-based interventions (EBIs) would be acceptable or work for ethnic minorities (Bernal & Scharrón-del-Río, 2001). Discussion Questions.