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ASWB Exam Prep: Clinical Assessment

Therapist Development Center

Today’s ASWB social work blog topic is one that is important for both the exams and our clinical practice: clinical assessment. In fact, this topic is so important that TDC created a six hour clinical assessment course on life stressors … Continued. The post ASWB Exam Prep: Clinical Assessment appeared first on Therapist Development Center Blog.

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The East End care home where Covid stole the lives of 21 people

The Guardian

Residents at Aspen Court survived the blitz but had little chance against disastrous government policy in first wave Number of UK Covid deaths passes 200,000, ONS data shows “It was like I had been hit by a truck,” said Lauren Turrell, thinking back to over two years ago. On 4 April 2020, her grandmother Irene Penton died in a Covid-ravaged care home in London’s East End.

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NCCPR news and commentary round-up, week ending July 12, 2022

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

? When workers for family policing agencies do awful things, they often can’t be successfully sued because of a doctrine known as “qualified immunity.” Honolulu Civil Beat has a story about how the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has exercised sound judgment and common sense in applying this doctrine. ? The same cannot be said for the Eighth Circuit, which effectively has given family police caseworkers a green light to retaliate against families who dare to fight back.

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The Family of Grace, Joe, and Kris

The New Social Worker

Sometimes, a client's story stays with a social worker for a lifetime. This story of the loss of a child is one such case.

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5 Must Haves for Case Management

Thousands of nonprofits rely on case management software to help collect data, manage programs, coordinate with agencies, and provide life-changing health and human services. Adopting a cloud-based case management platform is essential for nonprofits and government agencies to operate more efficiently and make better use of their funding and budget.

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Social Work Journal, July 2022 Contents

Social Work Blog

NASW members can access the Social Work journal, published by NASW Press, online as a member benefit. The contents for the July 2022 issue include: Editorial: Social Work’s Role in Rebuilding the Child Welfare Workforce. There has been a great deal of discussion in academia and the media about how the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted the workforce. Many question whether these changes are permanent shifts in who is working, how we work, and how we balance work and the rest of our lives.

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The Opioid Addiction Epidemic Where Do We Stand?

Famcare

As so often happens in our modern 24-hour news cycle the latest crisis pushes any ongoing crisis off the front page and out of public consciousness. COVID 19 and January 6th have all but eliminated the opioid addiction epidemic from our front-page view. However, the crisis has not gone away. Provisional data from CDC’s National Center for Health Statistics indicate that there were an estimated 100,306 drug overdose deaths in the United States during 12-month period ending in April 2021, an incre

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Brian Perron Fights Academic Fraud

Michigan Social Work

Professor Brian Perron has been invited to speak with members of the U.S. House of Representatives Science Committee regarding his investigation of a Russian academic paper mill. Such entities provide fraudulent services – ghostwriting, brokering authorship on accepted papers, and falsifying data–to researchers seeking to publish articles in peer-reviewed journals.

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Election Results 2022

The International Association Of Schools Of Social

Election Results 2022. Congratulations to IASSW’s newly elected board members for 4 years of term (2022-2026). Treasurer. Azlinda Azman from Malaysia. Member –at-large: Member at- Large-: Alex Altshuler from Israel. Member at- Large-: Pamela Singla from India. The IASSW Board of directors and all members are looking forward to the contribution of newly elected board members for the evolution and expansion of the International Association of Schools of Social Work (IASSW).

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