Community Care

MARCH 21, 2024

Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll. Social workers are significantly less likely to have high morale or to recommend the profession to friends or family than in 2020, research released this week has found. And though pride in the profession remains high, this has also fallen in tandem with the drop in morale, according to a Social Work England-commissioned survey of 1,260 current and 115 former practitioners by polling compan

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Gary Direnfeld

MARCH 21, 2024

Difficult conversations. They’re necessary. They require transparency and authenticity. Those difficult conversations can allow people into your thinking, your concerns. Those difficult conversations can help others make sense of their experience with you and their questioning of the moods that may surround them. Difficult conversations may require preparation, not necessarily of the other, but of oneself.

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Reimagining Social Work

MARCH 21, 2024

A guest post by Kerstin Hagena, Alina Hagena and Luis Arevalo “The era of procrastination, of half measures, of soothing and baffling expedients, of delays, is coming to its close. In its place, we are entering a period of consequences” (Winston Churchill, 1936) Kia ora koutou!

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Gary Direnfeld

MARCH 21, 2024

If you are separated and coparenting with a n-rcissist, life is tough. You may have learned that that coparent would happily mess things up for the kids if it makes your life miserable. They would even accept problems for themselves if the problems they create for you are greater. In the process you may find yourself advocating for the kids. It could be to attend an event, a program, an opportunity.

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Gary Direnfeld

MARCH 21, 2024

When developing a parenting plan with a coparent who either may not show up or return the kids when they should, set it up so they must pick the kids up at the start of their time and that you retrieve them for your time. Always have a contingency plan for when the coparent is a no show. Make it clear you will only wait an hour before invoking your own plans, no longer waiting.

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