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How Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Can Influence Healthcare

Relias

Healthcare organizations have a growing responsibility to improve diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) efforts not only for their employees, but also to better serve patients and their families. The Current State of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Healthcare. Strategies to Promote DEI in Your Healthcare Organization.

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You Asked, Case manager vs Social Worker – Surprising Difference?

Social Work Haven

– Social workers and case managers are both integral parts of the healthcare industry. They work with various populations, including children, adolescents, adults, older adults, individuals with disabilities, those experiencing mental health issues, and those facing social and economic hardships.

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What are the 10 Roles of Social Workers

Social Work Haven

This includes linking clients with essential services such as food banks, healthcare, unemployment support, and benefit programs like food stamps. This may include personal interviews, family histories, and the review of relevant documents. As a social worker, one of your most important roles is to be an advocate for those in need.

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5 Workplace Mental Health Strategies To Promote Workplace Wellness for DSPs

Relias

Studies have shown that healthcare workers are more prone to burnout than other professions, especially since the onset of COVID-19 in 2020. Caring for those with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) is emotionally challenging work. And direct support professionals (DSPs) are no different.

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Is “Abnormal Psychology” Really all that Abnormal?

Society of Clinical Psychology

The Dunedin Study has followed a population-representative cohort of about 1000 New Zealanders since the early 1970s, conducting in-person interviews assessing them for a variety of common mental disorders every few years. They also had fewer first- and second-degree relatives with mental health issues.

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Positive dementia care: a win for staff and residents

Social Care

I’m the home manager at Vida Grange, one of Vida Healthcare ’s care homes based in Harrogate. There are a wide variety of adult social care roles – you could choose to do anything from supporting someone in a care home with their day-to-day activities, to helping someone with a disability make a home their own. Care in the round.

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News Items – April 1, 2022

Social Workers Speak

There is an intersect between race and disability, and that’s what we walk with everyday,” Sturdivant said. Rebellious columnist Jera Brown interviewed Dawn Cooperstein, LCSW about common issues folks with cPTSD face when it comes to intimate relationships and sexual desires. Gabriela Sehinkman is a member: Are Americans Unhappy?

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