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How Direct Support Professionals (DSPs) Can Use Crisis Prevention and Intervention

Relias

In fact, the work of direct support professionals (DSPs) is often tied directly to crisis prevention and intervention. The outbreak of COVID-19 underscored how the need for DSPs to understand and practice crisis prevention and intervention techniques has grown. Crisis and Trauma Informed Care. How DSPs Can Navigate Large-Scale Crisis.

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Diversity Spotlight: Sannisha K. Dale, PhD

Society of Clinical Psychology

Dale was the 2016 recipient of the APA division 45 Emerging Professional- Contributions to Research Award, Harvard University Center for AIDS Research’s 2017 recipient of the Inaugural Rhoda Johnson-Tuckett Award for Community Engaged Research, APA’s Division 12 2018 recipient of the Samuel M. This, too, is a form of self-care.

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What are the 10 Roles of Social Workers

Social Work Haven

Mediator : They facilitate communication and resolve conflicts between individuals or within families to promote healthy relationships. Educator : Social workers educate clients about resources, coping strategies, and life skills to enhance their well-being and self-sufficiency.

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How To Apply the RBT Code of Ethics to Your Work

Relias

This updated ethics code applies to all Registered Behavior Technicians, emphasizing the importance of ethical conduct across diverse settings. They are: Standard 2.01: RBTs do no harm and support the best interest of their clients. Standard 2.04: RBTs do not use interventions they do not know how to use.

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Culturally Informed Therapy for Schizophrenia: A Review

Society of Clinical Psychology

Diversity is not an adjunct descriptor of the U.S. Thus, it is equity that holds the power to protect our nation’s people, as diversity without equity often breeds injustice. Such interventions seeking to thwart systemic inequities (e.g., Background.

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Finley Boden: professionals should have protected baby murdered by his parents, review finds

Community Care

Though the inquiry stressed that Stephen Boden and Shannon Marsden were responsible for the 10-month-old’s death on Christmas Day, 2020 – for which they were jailed for life last year – it said practitioners knew that the couple posed a risk of significant harm to him.

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The 9 Social Work Competencies You Need to Know

Social Work Haven

Diversity & Equality. Skills and Intervention. We demonstrate professional commitment by taking responsibility for our conduct, practice, self-care and development. Your self-care is your responsibility at all times. The secret to lasting success is self-care and balance. Diversity & Equality.