Social Work Blog

JANUARY 19, 2023

It is one thing to share your own experience living with mental illness, but to suggest that mental illness is not real or should be dealt with without the guidance of a trained professional can be harmful. A good place to start is the US Department of Health and Human Services administration, which operates a suicide and crisis Lifeline.

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Relias

AUGUST 23, 2022

For those working in human services, compassion fatigue and the associated symptoms of burnout occur all too often. Trauma often leads the person to find a way of coping that works in the short term but causes serious harm in the long run. Offer other training regarding self-care. Offer discounts for health clubs.

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Relias

MARCH 12, 2024

Individual healing from collective trauma is a deeply personal journey that requires self-awareness, self-compassion, and resilience. Behavioral health organizations can work with communities to organize support groups, peer counseling, and other psychological first-aid options to provide community members with the help they need.

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Social Workers Speak

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Victor Armstrong is the first chief health equity officer at the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services. Four University of North Texas professors hope to use federal dollars to provide counseling for bilingual Americans who have experienced trauma. The Charlotte Observer. Denton Record-Chronicle (TX).

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Social Workers Speak

MARCH 3, 2022

Bridgit Dengel Gaspard is a member: 6 Times ‘Self-Love’ Is Really Toxic Behavior In Disguise. The National Association Workers of Guam Chapter is also gearing up for their annual conference that will unite those on island that are dedicating their lives to human services. This is known as toxic positivity.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 6, 2022

Most of all she is wrong to ignore the enormous harm of needless removal. ? The errors go in all directions, and all of these errors harm children. ? Another criterion: “The degree of harm alleged to the child.” Landry runs the Office of Child and Family Services within Maine’s Department of Health and Human Services.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Fong writes in The Imprint about why the so-called Adoption and Safe Families Act is “A Dangerous Tool in An Arbitrary System.” --And in this essay, she takes on the harm of mandatory reporting laws. The law requires a judge to ask if a parent can afford court-ordered services during dependency court proceedings.

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