Community Care

DECEMBER 14, 2021

The Liberty Protection Safeguards (LPS) is certain to be delayed again, with the government yet to consult on how to put the scheme into practice. “We were given a realistic expectation of consultation. Spring to summer consultation – it’s now winter. Regulations can then take up to 40 days to become law.

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Consultation Government Advocacy Hospitals 324

Gary Direnfeld

OCTOBER 31, 2022

In more recent years I consulted with a person whose adult sibling was languishing in hospital. As I thought about the problem I had to think that the cost of maintaining this person in hospital, not needing such a level of care, was enormous. I am Gary Direnfeld and I am a social worker. Gary Direnfeld, MSW, RSW.

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Schizophrenia Hospitals Private Practice Mental Health 147

Social Work Haven

MAY 9, 2023

Curious to know the differences between a Psychologist vs Social Worker? Well, it is vital to note the difference between psychology and social work because they both seek to help individuals in different ways. Do social workers use psychology? Is psychology degree equivalent to social work?

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Social Worker Psychology Mental Health Interventional 52

Community Care

APRIL 28, 2023

Three in ten of the social workers whom Tarka and her colleagues lead are black, Asian or from an ethnic minority, but this diversity is not reflected in adults’ services’ leadership cadre. “I was fortunate to qualify as a social worker and then did a masters in strategic leadership.

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Hospital Discharges Diversity Government Disability 215

Community Care

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

The ombudsman also criticised the level of communication provided by Miss X’s then social worker, who went a month without contacting her, including a week in which she went without overnight care between two of a succession of hospital admissions.

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Hospitals Communication Social Worker Disability 249

Gary Direnfeld

MARCH 23, 2022

Over the course of 7 years as a Certified Therapy Dog, Kugle has made some 350 visits to senior’s residences, colleges and universities and a few hospitals. I am Gary Direnfeld and I am a social worker. Gary Direnfeld is a social worker. Today Kugle has passed peacefully at home. Gary Direnfeld, MSW, RSW.

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Private Practice Counseling Mental Health Social Worker 208

Gary Direnfeld

APRIL 25, 2022

That can be work, mental illness, hospitalizations, the distraction of life events. I am Gary Direnfeld and I am a social worker. Gary Direnfeld is a social worker. That sense of abandonment doesn’t mean someone left you intentionally. It can also arise from a parent’s lack of availability.

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Private Practice Mental Health Counseling Social Worker 147

Gary Direnfeld

MAY 27, 2022

It came on the heels of a day that began with a call to go to hospital at 7:00 am. I again can get the call to go to hospital at anytime. I am Gary Direnfeld and I am a social worker. Gary Direnfeld is a social worker. The other evening I gathered my family for a ZOOM call to share the news of my angiogram.

Recovery 147

Recovery Private Practice Hospitals Mental Health 147

Community Care

OCTOBER 20, 2022

The implementation of the Care Quality Commission’s new performance assessment scheme for local authority adult social services next April, which council leaders want to see delayed. How the sector will manage the coming winter, including how £500m allocated to bolster the workforce and help clear hospital beds should be used.

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Government Mental Health Interviewing Disability 243

Social Work Blog

MARCH 19, 2024

By Maren Dale Jennifer Pelham, MSW, is a self-defined corporate social worker from Albany, N.Y., and currently serves as a senior IT consultant and change management specialist for a major health care provider. Other social workers often ask her about her work and wonder if social workers are needed in the corporate sector.

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Advocacy Social Worker Empathy Administration 52

Gary Direnfeld

APRIL 21, 2022

There may have been hospitalizations. That means using police and possible involuntary hospitalization for management. I am Gary Direnfeld and I am a social worker. Gary Direnfeld is a social worker. Not spoken about until seriously probed are the bouts of depression and/or anxiety. Maybe suicidal behavior.

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Self-harm Disability Private Practice Hospitals 147

Social Work With Adults

MARCH 19, 2024

Jason Brandon, Office of the Chief Social Worker for Adults: It’s National Social Work Week , one of the most important events in the social work calendar. This year's theme focuses on social workers' capacity to adopt innovative and community-led approaches.

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Hospital Discharges Social Worker Adoption Disability 69

Community Care

MARCH 18, 2022

The draft updated Mental Capacity Act Code of Practice, was published for public consultation on 17 March. Consultation ends on 4 July. For example, the person’s social worker could undertake the capacity and necessary and proportionate assessments, and a doctor could provide the medical assessment.

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Government Therapist Mental Health Hospitals 297

Community Care

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

NHS leaders have repeatedly warned that tackling healthcare pressures requires investment in social care – particularly by raising wages for the workforce. This is because the mounting vacancy rate in adult social care is a key driver of delayed discharges from hospital, reducing capacity to admit new patients.

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Social Worker Government Interviewing Healthcare 229

Gary Direnfeld

MAY 20, 2023

There may be suicidal thoughts, actions, hospitalization, medications, even electroconvulsive therapy (ECT). I am Gary Direnfeld and I am a social worker. Courts in Ontario, Canada, consider him an expert in social work, marital and family therapy, child development, parent-child relations and custody and access matters.

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Depression Private Practice Counseling Mental Health 100

Gary Direnfeld

JANUARY 5, 2022

I took a job as a childcare worker in a group home and from there applied to a Masters program in social work. After graduating and four years later, I applied to a PhD program in social work and was rejected. Married and moved to Hamilton, I took a job at a hospital based brain injury rehabilitation program.

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Rehabilitation Private Practice University Mental Health 147

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JULY 25, 2022

The actual title is “What do Do If You Are Mistakenly Accused of Child Abuse in a Hospital Emergency Room.” Then comes a claim that, for some hospitals, is demonstrably false. The hospital contacts CPS only when staff suspect maltreatment. And these are just the hospitals that will say it out loud. Emphasis added.]

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Hospitals Child Welfare Interviewing Foster Care 98

Social Work Blog

JUNE 1, 2022

The purpose of this blog is to clarify what POS codes clinical social workers should use when providing telehealth services. POS codes are used on health insurance claim forms to indicate where patient services are rendered. CMS revised the description for POS codes 02 and 10 for telehealth.

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Telehealth Medicare Medicaid Clinical Social Work 72

Social Work Blog

MAY 11, 2023

Simpson and Connect to End COVID-19 Communications Consultant, Susan Bodiker. Connect to End COVID-19 Campaign In 2021, NASW and the NASW Foundation partnered with the Health Behavior Research and Training Institute (HBRT) at The University of Texas at Austin Steve Hicks School of Social Work on a national $3.3

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Social Worker Communication Human Services Interviewing 96

Beautiful Voyager

JANUARY 28, 2024

For the past seventy-two hours I had been a guest of Mercy Hospital’s emergency room and both the hospital and I had settled in for the wait. I had my own room, a real hospital bed instead of an ER examination cot, and a menu card for the next day’s meals. I think I need to go to a hospital.” I think…” I started. “I

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Hospitals Mental Health Depression Anxiety 52

Gary Direnfeld

JULY 24, 2022

That did help immensely with those toughest moments that included: the hallucinations from pain meds; the fear of dying the result of drowning in mucous while in hospital; the trip to emerg when coughing was out of control and blood pressure dropped, all the result of drug reactions; the one night of an extreme anxiety reaction.

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Recovery Private Practice Mental Health Empathy 100

Relias

AUGUST 30, 2023

Hospital or post-acute facility : When clients are in a hospital or post-acute facility, it’s typically due to an injury or illness that could induce traumatic stress. Social workers and case managers : Social workers and case managers are more likely to see clients living in their everyday environment.

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Healthcare Psychology Mental Health Case Management 52

Social Work Haven

APRIL 3, 2023

To become a Best Interests Assessor, social workers have to be registered with Social Work England for at least 2 years and enrol on a postgraduate BIA-DOLS qualification. 4 (6) MCA) and consulted with family and carers (s.4 That is why a social work to-do list may help us manage better. 4 (7) MCA). 21A of the MCA.

Self-harm 52

Self-harm Social Worker Mental Health Consultation 52

Community Care

APRIL 28, 2022

A lack of oversight caused by frequent changes of social worker led to a toddler suffering significant harm, a case review has found. After visiting the family, the allocated social worker left the council in early October, meaning the case was passed to a second practitioner. Improve your neglect skills.

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Social Worker Self-harm Consultation Interventional 287

Community Care

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

For my latest article, we consulted four sets of parents who had been investigated because of bruises in pre-mobile children and found not to have harmed their child. One family took their five-month-old to a hospital with what they thought was a rash on his knee, and were told that it was an unexplained bruise.

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Self-harm Hospitals Adoption Consultation 359

Gary Direnfeld

APRIL 9, 2024

This took place at Branson Hospital in North York. I am Gary Direnfeld and I am a social worker. Gary Direnfeld, MSW, RSW gary@yoursocialworker.com www.yoursocialworker.com for counseling and support www.garydirenfeld.com – to build your successful practice Gary Direnfeld is a social worker. It happened!

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Private Practice Mental Health Social Worker Counseling 130

Social Work Blog

JANUARY 5, 2022

We are also advocating on behalf of clinical social workers with key federal regulatory agencies and other stakeholders. If you reviewed our December 21 post, you may also find it helpful to review this one. We are continuing to closely monitor this dynamic policy area so we can continue to provide updates to our members.

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Clinic Social Worker Self-harm Medicare 98

Social Work Blog

MAY 11, 2022

Social workers could address these stressors by developing systems-focused interventions and by further considering intersectional health disparities. Authors: Annie Pullen Sansfa çon, PhD, BSW , professor, School of Social Work, University of Montreal, and Canada Research Chair on Transgender Children and Their Families, Montreal.

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Diversity Clinic University Schools 97

Beautiful Voyager

MAY 22, 2023

At my day job I'm an SVP of a consumer insights consultancy. My partner was very pregnant at the time this consultancy reached out to me, so I took the meeting and glad I did. She told me to put some pants and shoes on, right now, and dragged me out of the house to the nearby mental hospital. Q: What about your job?

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Mental Health Hospitals Self-harm Consultation 52

Stop Abuse Campaign

JULY 26, 2022

A trained professional—often a nurse, social worker, or child development specialist —conducts home visits periodically throughout pregnancy and the first five years of the child’s life, connecting participants with prenatal care, advice, and support throughout their journeys and ensuring that each child has a chance at a healthy future.

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Domestic Violence Substance Abuse Confidentiality Mental Health 98

University of Connecticut

MARCH 28, 2022

Mary Borecki Buck is an UConn School of Social Work alumna committed to supporting the education of future generations of social workers. This scholarship, created by Mary and her late husband, Raymond, will provide financial support to a student enrolled in the Bachelor of Social Work program.

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Criminal Justice Schools Social Worker Mental Health 98

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Instead, a social worker told Janell that the adults had lied about the dentist. Oh honey, that’s not how it works,” the social worker told Janell. But then … Three weeks later, her social worker surprised Lacie when she announced DCFS would be taking her children, after all. But she did not see her mother.

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