Social Work Blog

AUGUST 30, 2022

How Social Workers Can Make a Difference. Any alcohol use during pregnancy can cause a range of physical, behavioral, and learning problems in the baby known as fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASDs). American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders Prevention Program. Ingersoll, K.,

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Social Work Blog

APRIL 26, 2022

It highlights the dangers of unsafe alcohol consumption and promote awareness in reducing alcohol use disorder. million people ages 12 and older had an alcohol use disorder (AUD) in 2019. Underage drinking is common and early use can lead to an alcohol use disorder later in life. April is Alcohol Awareness Month.

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Social Work Blog

MAY 3, 2022

Those who are capable of becoming pregnant also risk prenatal alcohol exposure and fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASDs). This National Women’s Health Week (May 8-15), social workers can make a difference by making alcohol screening and brief intervention (SBI) part of routine practice.

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Social Work Blog

MARCH 20, 2024

One important aspect of the ACA’s impact has been its influence on addressing social determinants of health, a key focus area for social workers. But how has this increase in coverage had a positive impact on addressing the social determinants of health?

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Social Work Blog

MAY 25, 2022

NASW recognizes June as Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) Awareness Month. 1 Although PTSD has commonly been associated with the military and veteran populations, it affects people of all ages, communities, gender, and social economic background. Treating PTSD and Co-Occurring Substance Use Disorders Using Prolonged Exposure.

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Social Work Blog

DECEMBER 2, 2022

The National Association of Social Workers Ohio Chapter (NASW Ohio) is demanding the state legislature not pass legislation that could seriously harm thousands of Ohioans who are experiencing mental health struggles. Social workers account for the largest group of mental health services providers in the United States.

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Social Work Haven

MAY 9, 2023

You Asked, Can Social Workers Prescribe Medication? This is a very common question a lot of people ask in relation to the role of the social worker in health and social care. Social workers play an important role in promoting the health and wellbeing of people in the community.

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The New Social Worker

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Eating disorders may affect gender minority individuals at up to double the rates of their cisgender counterparts. Social workers must recognize this heightened risk and increase screening and prevention efforts in gender-diverse community spaces.

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Social Work Blog

OCTOBER 25, 2021

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) proposed CY 2022 Physician Fee Schedule (PFS) issued on July 16 includes a variety of provisions that are relevant to clinical social workers (CSWs) who are participating providers in Medicare. In addition, NASW members were invited to submit their own comments via an action alert.

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Social Work Blog

AUGUST 8, 2022

There are compelling reasons why social workers should pay close attention. The launch is equally momentous for behavioral health practitioners – especially social workers –who provide direct services to those with serious emotional and substance use disorders. By Mel Wilson, LCSW, MBA.

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Social Work Blog

MAY 11, 2023

It’s National Women’s Health Week (May 14-20), an opportunity for social workers to encourage women to make their health a priority, including avoiding drinking too much alcohol. People with FASDs are at high risk for trouble in school, trouble with the law, alcohol and drug abuse, and mental health disorders.

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Reimagining Social Work

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

Anita Gibbs (Associate Professor, University of Otago) is a longstanding social worker, teacher, researcher and advocate for young people with FASD and their families. In 2020 she received the Universities New Zealand ‘Critic and Conscience of Society’ award for her outstanding work in this area.

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Social Work Blog

MAY 9, 2022

Dissociative identity disorder (DID), previously known as multiple personality disorder, is a misunderstood and often underdiagnosed condition. Nooney, has worked in community mental health centers for most of his 35-plus years as a social worker/therapist. The author, Gregory L.

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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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Famcare

MAY 4, 2022

Autism Spectrum Disorder is a heritable neurodevelopmental disability that is characterized by delayed or inconsistent development in social interaction and communication and a restricted repertoire of activity and interests.

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Gary Direnfeld

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

It referred to as a disorder because those feelings of fear are either unfounded or far greater than what is reasonable to the trigger. Given an anxiety disorder, the saying, “trust your gut,” just doesn’t hold. The nature of the disorder is to be held hostage by feelings that don’t fully fit the situation.

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Social Work Blog

APRIL 26, 2024

The film is directed by acclaimed character actor Steve Buscemi (known for films such as Fargo and The Big Lebowski and the hit HBO series Boardwalk Empire and The Sopranos ) and one of the producers is Oren Moverman, a director an screenwriter who has a longstanding relationship with the National Association of Social Workers.

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Social Work Blog

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Beginning January 1, 2022, clinical social workers (CSWs) will become eligible to participate in Medicare’s Quality Payment Program (QPP). Child and Adolescent Major Depressive Disorder (MDD): Suicide Risk Assessment. December 2021. NASW advocated for the inclusion of CSWs in the QPP and are pleased that they are now eligible.

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Community Care

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Amy*, a newly qualified social worker, has been contemplating switching to agency work or going on benefits to provide for their family in the midst of rising costs. More on how the cost of living crisis is hitting social workers. ‘We Most social workers out of pocket from inadequate mileage allowances, survey finds.

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Social Work Blog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2022

These provisions include allowing clinical social workers to provide Part B services to residents of skilled nursing facilities and allowing clinical social workers to bill for HBAI services. We have taken an array of actions to influence what provisions were included in the SFC bills, including the following letters.

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Gary Direnfeld

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

The person with this disorder is left with holes in their memory that they don’t realize. The person with this disorder just doesn’t recognize it. I am Gary Direnfeld and I am a social worker. Gary Direnfeld is a social worker. That phenomenon is called anosognosia. Gary Direnfeld, MSW, RSW.

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The New Social Worker

OCTOBER 12, 2022

OCD is often misdiagnosed and misunderstood. People with OCD cannot tolerate doubt. A thought just like any other thought comes into our head. The difference between a person with OCD and one without is in the reaction to the thought content.

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Michigan Social Work

MAY 14, 2024

But finding social workers and psychologist to work in these units is a challenge. How do we train behavioral health individuals to be in these settings and make sure they deliver that public service and compensated the way they should when they can sit in an office with people with milder disorders and make more money?”

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Gary Direnfeld

MAY 2, 2022

There’s a reason it’s called anxiety DISORDER. In a world that states, trust your feelings, that is about the worst advice when those feelings are owing to a disorder. As a disorder, your feelings are actually betraying you. I am Gary Direnfeld and I am a social worker. That’s how CBT works.

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Social Work Blog

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder ( ADHD) is a neurodevelopmental disorder that develops in childhood and lasts into adulthood. A common quote is that ADHD is “a disorder of not doing what you know.” By Marisa Markowtiz, LMSW, CASAC-T Multi-ethnic group of kids in fitness class together.

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Social Work Blog

AUGUST 28, 2023

The world’s first “molecular disease,” sickle cell disease (SCD) has captivated the medical community’s attention as a multisystem blood disorder linked to abnormalities in one molecule: hemoglobin. The author writes: Social workers are one of the few healthcare workers with an explicit social justice mandate….

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Community Care

MAY 9, 2023

Social work leaders must integrate anti-racism into all aspects of practice to achieve change, experts told a conference recently. Self-reflection Fellow panelist Kristel Campbell, a trainee social worker with 20 years’ experience within youth justice, called on service leaders to look critically at their own biases.

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Lawson Psychology

MAY 7, 2024

Psychiatrists can evaluate, diagnose, and treat mental health disorders and are regulated and accredited under the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA). Psychologists A psychologist is an individual who specialises in the study of behaviour and the mind, including treatment of mental, emotional, and behavioural disorders.

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Social Work Blog

JUNE 1, 2022

Students must decide what type of social worker they want to become, and where they would like to work. There are clinical, military, hospital, school social work, and other options. Addiction is one route that a social worker can pursue, and it typically requires a Licensed Master Social Work (LMSW) certification.

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Social Work Blog

OCTOBER 4, 2022

In fact, those with other health conditions such as cancer, heart disease, diabetes, and substance use disorder are also at greater risk of developing depression [1]. Screenings are completed by licensed clinical social workers and include questions about symptoms, their severity, and duration.

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Gary Direnfeld

APRIL 24, 2022

” While I am no psychologist, kids have their “tells” that can suggest a disorder. A nonverbal learning disorder is about difficulty reading social/emotional cues. One may see this disorder in kids who play rough or who seem not affected or tuned in emotionally to the feelings or social cues of others.

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The Masked AMHP

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

During the 1980’s and ‘90’s, as well as my day job as a social worker, I also did shifts on the out of hours service. 136 – this is when a police officer who finds someone in a public place who “appears to him to be suffering from mental disorder and to be in immediate need of care or control” can

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Social Work Blog

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Eight minutes is all it takes to help us better train and educate social workers who serve women, families, and others who may be at risk for alcohol-related problems, including alcohol use disorders and alcohol-exposed pregnancies. We want to know what you know— and wish you knew— about client alcohol use.

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Gary Direnfeld

JULY 14, 2022

Your service provider best have expertise and training in several areas of practice including: family law and conflict resolution strategies; personality disorders and ways of addressing/managing people in view of their particular disorder; trauma training; family systems theory; child development; general psychology.

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Community Care

JUNE 1, 2023

However, the company, owned by private equity firm Stirling Spring Capital Partners, said it had complied with commissioners’ contractual terms and that no decisions were made without the agreement of the local authorities and children’s social workers. It said the decision was driven by recruitment pressures.

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Social Work Blog

APRIL 5, 2022

They encourage social workers to share these on their social media networks. A policeman arrests a teen. Getty Images. The court enjoined enforcement of the “disorderly conduct” law against all South Carolina students and granted expungement relief.

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Gary Direnfeld

AUGUST 14, 2023

To support someone, it is more about being present than trying to rationally talk them out of this disorder. 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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