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Review: Careers in Human Services (2015)

Michigan Girl's Café

Careers in Human Services (2015) by Michael Shally-Jensen, PhD is a comprehensive occupational guidebook that contains 25 chapters describing specific fields of interest in the human services. Macro social workers are labeled as "administrative social workers" who engage in research, policy, and administration.

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Notes from the Future – March 14, 2023

Social Work Futures

” The future of human rights in the face of rapid technological change is emerging as an important space right now. Here’s one piece: The need to protect the data in our brains – and – an interview with Dr. Nita Farahany about her new book The Fight for Your Brain. This is an important read.

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Myth-making in Maine

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

Maine’s equivalent of the GAO falls for the Big Lie of American child welfare – and the Disney version of how the system works There are many reasons five-year-old Logan Marr died in 2001. But there was another reason: Maine’s embrace of the Big Lie of American child welfare. Source: U.S. isn’t reassuring.

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Co-Parenting Building Blocks: Interview With an Expert

Relias

It was wonderful to have such great participation and audience engagement from those in attendance. When in doubt, remind the parents that these arrangements are in place for the healthy development of the child — the one thing that both co-parenting parties continue to have in common.

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Maine’s child welfare ombudsman is dangerously wrong

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

Maine's first child welfare ombudsman, Dean Crocker, understood the lessons from the tragic death of Logan Marr, who was taken when her family poverty was confused with "neglect" and killed in foster care. For starters, Maine should join the many states in which child welfare court hearings are open.

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Cutting through the spin about predictive analytics in child welfare

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

Department of Human Services, went to great lengths to spin the results and direct readers toward the spin instead of the reviews themselves. Identifying and proactively targeting services to families with no [child welfare services] involvement is a violation of families’ privacy and their rights to parent as they see fit.

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Increasing access to high-fidelity Cognitive Therapy for underserved populations

Society of Clinical Psychology

In contrast, shifting CBH systems to deliver EBPs as their standard of care will require engaging broad groups of clinicians across levels of care to shift their approach to treating diverse presenting problems. A randomized trial of methods to help clinicians learn motivational interviewing. Mor Barak, M. Nissley, J.

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