Community Care

JANUARY 10, 2023

Councils’ Care Act 2014 duties have arguably been “permanently undermined” by widespread non-compliance during the pandemic, a study has found. Authorities across England cut provision to people needing care and support and carers, for example, by closing day centres or reducing respite services, without making use of the so-called Care Act easements, found the research by the University of Manchester.

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My Brains Not Broken

JANUARY 10, 2023

Over the years, I’ve learned a number of words, phrases and definitions that have helped me understand my own mental health. Some of these are connected to mental illness or medicine, while others are connected to mental wellness. In this recurring series, I break down some of the mental health terms I’ve learned over the years. Today, I’ll be breaking down thought spirals : what they are, what they look like and what we can do about them.

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Community Care

JANUARY 10, 2023

The government has proposed changing the law to make it easier for adults to access adoption-related counselling. The Department for Education is consulting on removing the requirement for counsellors providing adoption-related therapy to adults to register with Ofsted as adoption support agencies. It said the move would improve access to counselling for adult adoptees and birth relatives, and to therapeutic parenting services for adoptive parents, as current requirements acted as a disincentive

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Social Work Futures

JANUARY 10, 2023

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Case Management

Social Care

JANUARY 10, 2023

The Florence Nightingale Leadership Programme allows care colleagues, like St Monica Trust's Emily Pimm, to apply their experience and knowledge to improve practice in their fields of work. An opportunity to develop. My Florence Nightingale Foundation (FNF) journey began last year, with an application to their Leadership Scholarship programme. I had never heard of the Foundation before, but after a discussion with a friend about helping people understand the impact of coronavirus restrictions on

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Nicole Clark Consulting

JANUARY 10, 2023

How can “sending the elevator back down” promote equity? January is National Mentorship Month, highlighting the power of mentorship and its benefits. Mentoring fosters trust and understanding between a more experienced person (mentor) and someone with less experience (mentee). Ideally, mentoring is mutually beneficial, provides routine exchange of perspectives, and builds on knowledge and trust.

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Michigan Social Work

JANUARY 10, 2023

Clinical Assistant Professor Justin Hodge has been unanimously selected to serve as chair of the Washtenaw County Board of Commissioners. Hodge was reelected in November as the Washtenaw County Commissioner for District 5. “I am committed to doing all I can to make our home a place where everyone has the opportunity to thrive and succeed,” he said.

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Living Sober

JANUARY 10, 2023

This guest post comes from member @djstarheart. It was written as an update in the Members Feed and resonated with so many I thought it worth featuring here. Enjoy! = I started drinking from the age of 14, gradually progressing to a daily and binging habit until my body was literally screaming at me, "you are killing us!". I am […] Trueness and Beauty (Guest Post) was first posted on January 11, 2023 at 9:40 am. ©2019 " Living Sober " Use of this feed is for personal non-comme

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Michigan Social Work

JANUARY 10, 2023

PhD student Joonyoung Cho and Assistant Professor Xiaoling Xiang’s research — on how volunteering can help lessen feelings of isolation — was cited in a New York Times article on managing holiday loneliness.

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Beyond Advocacy

JANUARY 10, 2023

After four days and 15 ballots, and much trepidation, Kevin McCarthy was elected as the Speaker of the House of Representatives for the 118 th Congress. It may be a pyrrhic victory for the California congressman who must make good on numerous concessions to the far-right wing of the Republican Party, including one that allows just one House Member to call for a motion to vacate the speaker’s chair.

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Speaker: Gary Direnfeld, MSW, RSW.

You may have the clinical skills to manage a private practice, but your success could actually hinge on marketing skills. For a thriving practice, you need to differentiate yourself from others and present yourself in a way that attracts referrals. These days, much of that happens online, including on social media. In this webinar, Gary Direnfeld will discuss how social media marketing can help you build your private practice and grow your client base.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 10, 2023

● A story I first wrote about on this blog last September has taken an unspeakably tragic turn. In a state that tears apart children at a rate 80% above the national average, a state where the head of the family police agency effectively admits violating federal law requiring “reasonable efforts” to keep families together, a tragedy like this should shock, but not surprise.

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American Board of Clinical Social Work

JANUARY 10, 2023

As students, those of us who were pursuing a career as psychodynamic psychotherapists learned about the repetition compulsion. The Oxford Reference (www.oxfordreference.com) defines this phenomenon as “a tendency to place oneself in dangerous or distressing situations that repeat similar experiences from the past.” Webster’s Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary describes a compulsion as “an irresistible impulse to perform an irrational act.

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Counselor Toolbox podcast

JANUARY 10, 2023

TIMESTAMPS 00:00 Intro 00:34 Symptoms of Weak Boundaries 04:56 Symptoms of Rigid Boundaries 15:28 Physical Boundaries 28:15 Affective Boundaries 35:55 Cognitive Boundaries 44:20 Environmental Boundaries 53:08 Relationship / interpersonal boundaries 56:09 Other Tips for Maintaining Boundaries TIMESTAMPS 00:00 Intro 00:34 Symptoms of Weak Boundaries 04:56 Symptoms of Rigid Boundaries 15:28 Physical Boundaries 28:15 Affective Boundaries 35:55 Cognitive Boundaries 44:20 Environmental Boundaries 53:0

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