Community Care
OCTOBER 28, 2021
Adults’ services in England will need more social workers over the next two years to implement the government’s social care reforms, the chief social worker has said. Lyn Romeo told Community Care Live earlier this month that more practitioners would be needed to carry out assessments and support planning, under the reforms, which come into force in October 2023.
Social Work Futures
OCTOBER 28, 2021
(Photo is from Cape Horn Lookout – Columbia River Gorge, Washington, USA – sunrise. Taken by L.Nissen). This blog was started as a way to track my journey as a social worker, and social work scholar, as I “learned out loud” about what futures work/foresight was all about. Recently, I revised my “manifesto” that reflects my most recent and focused explanation about “why futures thinking and foresight should matter to social work.” Sharing it here fo
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Gary Direnfeld
OCTOBER 28, 2021
As one experiences, one then believes that is the way for all. If raised in a home where yelling, screaming, belittling, perhaps worse such as pushing, shoving and hitting were frequent, it can create the impression that this happens in all homes. It also is true that if one grows up in a home that is peaceful and where conflict is met with understanding and problem-solving, similarly, it can create the impression that this too is how all homes function.
Bipolar Bandit
OCTOBER 28, 2021
Today every one in five people is diagnosed with a mental illness, including bipolar disorder. For those who still don’t know, bipolar disorder is a serious mental illness that’s thought to be caused by an imbalance in the way brain cells communicate with each other. This imbalance causes extreme mood swings that go way beyond the normal ‘ups and downs of everyday life, wildly exaggerating the mood changes that everyone has.
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R.E.A.L. Social Workers
OCTOBER 28, 2021
My nails were beautiful and my mother was furious. I suppose she thought a 6-year-old should not have painted fingernails. My aunt painted them. She let me choose the color and I took my time choosing the right one. My aunt had lots of fingernail polish. The colors ranged from white to deep red. I had trouble deciding because I had so many options. My aunt did not rush me.
Bipolar Bandit
OCTOBER 28, 2021
Look past the woman with unwashed hair who is wearing a security blanket of a sweater and notice that she made the bed. I’d call that hope. I can feel myself slipping into an abyss. I could be sliding into depression or a mixed state if I can’t stop it from happening. Just so we’re all on the same page, a mixed state is a mixture of mania and depression (e.g., feeling depressed and irritable but also having racing thoughts and being unable to sleep).
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Socialwork License Map
OCTOBER 28, 2021
There is no excerpt because this is a protected post. The post Protected: Resources to Support Self-Care for Social Workers and Social Work Students appeared first on Social Work License Map.
Swhelper
OCTOBER 28, 2021
SWHELPER. It’s striking and familiar. A new report finds women physicians across all races and ethnicities earn less than their male counterparts. In fact, women physicians earn between 67 cents and 77 cents on the dollar compared to white men physicians. This new data, which comes from the Association of American Medical Colleges, reinforces that academic medicine […].
Social Service Workforce
OCTOBER 28, 2021
By Lavender Ondere, technical specialist on natural resource management for World Vision’s Integrated Management of Natural Resources for Resilience in Arid and Semi-Arid Lands (IMARA) p
My Brains Not Broken
OCTOBER 28, 2021
This past week was my birthday. I’ll be honest – historically speaking, I’m not big on birthdays. Actually, let me be more specific: I’m not that big on my birthday. I’ll help anyone else celebrate the day they were born. Name the time and place and I am in there, ready to do it up big. But when it comes to my own birthday, there have always been a few challenges that have gotten in the way of enjoying my birthday the way I’d like to.
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Nnatasha Tracy
OCTOBER 28, 2021
I've experienced hypersexuality as part of bipolar disorder. Now, I'm not one to run about and have sex with everything that moves (but it's okay if you are), so, luckily, this symptom of bipolar has not hurt me (although it has affected me). That said, hypersexuality is a real bipolar symptom with real consequences for people. One of the problems with hypersexuality, though, is that it is about sex.
The Guardian
OCTOBER 28, 2021
The Andrews government has defended the absence of a Covid vaccine mandate, saying the rule balances risks with the harm of social isolation Follow our Covid live blog for the latest updates Vic: Hotspots ; restrictions ; vaccination rates by postcode Vaccine rollout tracker ; cases and data tracker Get our free news app ; get our morning email briefing The Victorian government has doubled-down on its refusal to mandate vaccinations for visitors to aged care facilities, an approach that breaks w
SSW Netrwork
OCTOBER 28, 2021
Racial segregation impacts resource distribution, access to opportunity, and democratic participation in public education. In 1954 the Supreme Court made a historic ruling on the Brown v. Board of Education case. This first ruling dictated that state laws mandating racial segregation in public education were unconstitutional. The court then made a second ruling in 1955, […].
Social Workers Speak
OCTOBER 28, 2021
Social workers press Democrats to make Child Tax Credit permanent. Politico. The social workers, in the letter organized by the National Association of Social Workers , argued that the enhanced Child Tax Credit they’re looking to see included in the package would “ultimately be most powerful in conjunction with other supports currently under debate including but not limited to expanded Pre-K, publicly-supported child care, and paid family leave.
Reimagining Social Work
OCTOBER 28, 2021
Those of us involved in the movement for Palestinian rights are very used to the twists and turns of the Israeli state and its accomplices abroad. They act together to silence and smear the movement for the liberation of Palestine. The Israelis refer to this as hasbara or advocacy for Israel. In reality, hasbara consists … Continue reading Palestine, the IASSW and the academic boycott of Israel: A call to action.
Reimagining Social Work
OCTOBER 28, 2021
Those of us involved in the movement for Palestinian rights are very used to the twists and turns of the Israeli state and its accomplices abroad. They act together to silence and smear the movement for the liberation of Palestine. The Israelis refer to this as hasbara or advocacy for Israel. In reality, hasbara consists of well-funded campaigns of misinformation that work to delegitimise and demonise any criticism of the seemingly endless military occupation of Palestinian land.
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