Community Care

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Pre-court meetings between children’s social workers and Cafcass guardians have the potential to improve the care proceedings process, a pilot study has concluded. However, a longer, forthcoming pilot will be needed to assess whether the meetings can curb current case backlogs. According to Cafcass, the average length of time it worked with families in these cases from July to September 2023 was 44 weeks , well above the 26-week target for the duration of proceedings.

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MQ Mental Health

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

This Eating Disorders Awareness Week, MQ’s copywriter Juliette Burton who also works as a writer, comedian, and mental health activist, shares her experience of what happened the day she was sectioned under the mental health act for anorexia. When I was 17 it was decided I was “insane”. So, I spent my 18 th birthday sectioned under the mental health act in hospital.

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Just over four in five of the first cohort of social work apprentices gained their qualification, official data has shown. According to Skills for Care , 82.7% of apprentices qualified as a social worker in 2021-22, including all of those who completed the course. The remainder (17.3%) did not finish their training. With the apprenticeship, which takes three years, having been rolled out in 2019 , this represents the first full cohort to complete the degree-level programme.

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The New Social Worker

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

In this episode of Conversations on Social Work Careers, Your Social Work Career Coach Jennifer Luna interviews Dr. Jonathan Singer. Jonathan is the founder of The Social Work Podcast and was inducted as an NASW Social Work Pioneer® in 2023.

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll. Local authorities’ use of agency social workers in adults’ services rose by a quarter from September 2022 to September 2023, official figures have shown. Councils employed about 1,900 locum adult social workers in September 2023, compared with around 1,500 a year earlier, according to Skills for Care figures.

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CAPC

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

A social worker explains ‘living loss’ and provides five ways for clinicians to help patients, and their families, acknowledge and move through their grief.

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CAPC

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Providers' and administrators' perspectives outline potential barriers to planning community-based palliative care interventions based on potential disparities in social determinants of health (SDOH).

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Relias

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

What is care coordination? Coordination of care is the process of organizing and integrating health care services for patients across care settings and providers. It involves communicating and collaborating with patients, their families, and their health care teams to ensure that the patient’s needs and preferences are met and that the best possible outcomes are achieved.

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CAPC

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Journal of Palliative Medicine article examines the relationship between functional status and severity of symptoms for people living with a serious illness.

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Consultation 59

The Masked AMHP

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

I was at the CMHT when I got a call from the Criminal Justice Liaison Nurse. He had been asked to see Stella, a 62 year old woman in the local Police Station, who was under arrest on suspicion of attempted murder. “I’ve just seen her,” he said. “She gives long rambling answers to even the simplest questions.

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Criminal Justice 51

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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CAPC

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Listen to learn more about the psychological issues in patients living with serious illness.

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Psychology 69

Hospice Chaplaincy

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

In Today’s episode, Saul talks to Ronald Greer about his new book, “The Quiet House.” Ron Greer is the Director of the Pastoral Counseling Service at Peachtree Road United Methodist Church in Atlanta, Georgia, having been with this ministry for forty years.

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University of Connecticut

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Supervising in 2024: Who are our Supervisees and How Can We Use a Social Justice, Anti-Racist, Whole-Person Approach to Facilitate their Growth? Patricia Wilcox, LCSW and Aminah Ali, LMSW Thursday, April 11 9 am – 12 pm 3 CECs Registration Fee: $75 – 10% discount for UConn SSW Alumni Free for Current SSW Field Instructors Webinar link will be emailed when your registration is complete.

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The Critical Blog

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

This is an extract from Social Work Law: Applying the Law in Practice by Michelle Evans and Denise Harvey, ISBN 978-1914171802 and published by Critical Publishing Ltd Introduction This chapter starts with a disclaimer, and that is: my aim is not to make you a legal professional but rather to consider the law as it relates specifically to social work practice within the wider context of the English legal system.

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