Community Care

JANUARY 18, 2023

Hospital social workers should be reinstated onto wards to support people to achieve better outcomes on discharge, amid the current severe pressures on the NHS and social care. That was the message today from the Adult Principal Social Worker Network in an open letter to health and social care secretary Steve Barclay. The letter, which has been backed by the British Association of Social Workers (BASW) England, warned that a lack of social work assessments prior to discharge was leading to peopl

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Social Work Futures

JANUARY 18, 2023

As all know…technology is ever shaping our shared world. What is the right “stance” for social workers? Lean into new tech opportunities – explore, experiment or develop new applications? Or resist, interrogate and complicate deployment of tech and datafication of modern life? The truth is that the answer is probably “both,” and definitely not “hide and avoid it all…” Most urgently – social workers need to plug in and learn with gusto.

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Social Work Blog

JANUARY 18, 2023

Healing Justice Values Alongside Therapeutic Interventions. By Violeta A. Donawa, LMSW. In December 2015, I reconnected with a sister-teacher-friend , Adela Nieves Martinez, who had been asked to develop a healing justice curriculum to community organizers, residents, and activists in Waawiiyatanong (the land now known as Detroit, Mich.). In the spirit of collaboration, she invited a small group of facilitators, herbalists, health and healing activists to help dream up this offering together.

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The New Social Worker

JANUARY 18, 2023

TikTok. Hashtags. Biometrics. Digital literacy, digital responsibility, digital ethics. Feeling lost in the ever-changing tech landscape and how it relates to your social work practice? Join us on a quick ride through the landscape of #SWTech.

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MQ Mental Health

JANUARY 18, 2023

Tommy Lowther and Living With PTSD - MQ Open Mind CONTENT WARNING: this episode of Open Mind includes stories about trauma and sexual assault. Listener discretion is advised. In the experience of mental illness, sometimes the question ‘What happened to you?’ proves more useful than ‘what conditions do you have?’. Born in Dundee, Scotland, Tommy Lowther’s childhood dream was to become a soldier.

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Famcare

JANUARY 18, 2023

Research shows that social service professionals exhibit a greater capacity for empathy than most of their contemporaries in other professions. Studies also show that this “ability to understand and share the feelings of another” is what motivates well-meaning young people to go into social work in the first place. The irony, however, is that this same capacity to “share the feelings of another” is also the primary cause of burnout among caseworkers.

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CAPC

JANUARY 18, 2023

Medicare estimates 13.2 million beneficiaries in one of three models.

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CAPC

JANUARY 18, 2023

Study exploring palliative care program leaders’ perceptions of the future viability of their programs.

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