Community Care

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Children who met thresholds were left waiting up to six weeks to see a social worker due to “significant, widespread and systemic” weaknesses in a council’s front door service, Ofsted has found. Inspectors downgraded Nottingham City Council from ‘requires improvement’ to ‘inadequate’ on the back of a full inspection in July , prompting the Department for Education to appoint an adviser to chair the city’s improvement board for children’s serv

Social Worker 273

Social Worker Adoption Interventional Foster Care 273

Gary Direnfeld

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Resiliency is the capacity to overcome adversity. It is learned and developed throughout childhood, even starting as a little one. It requires the child to meet with frustration and to be soothed such that they settle and cope. It is not about compensating for an upset such that the upset is offset by some gift or bribe. As the child learns they survive their distress, then they have capacity to learn that distress isn’t the end of everything.

Private Practice 147

Private Practice Empathy Mental Health Social Worker 147

The International Association Of Schools Of Social

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Future social work practice requires a holistic framework to deal effectively with the great social and economic disruptions of this unprecedented time. Innovation and creativity are indispensable to empowering social workers and social service organizations to make an impact on the lives of people and societies in today’s world. This book provides a range of innovative practices of social work drawing from alternate theories and with a global orientation.

Recovery 98

Recovery Social Services Social Services Engagement 98

Gary Direnfeld

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

It is not uncommon that when a person thinks about separating from their partner, they may contemplate it for years before following through. That means this person has had all that time to think it through as well as adjust emotionally. When the news is delivered, even if the relationship was problematic, the one just receiving the news feels like the rug is pulled from beneath them.

Private Practice 113

Private Practice Empathy Counseling Mental Health 113

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Social Work Futures

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

(This is a revision of a post first published in December 2018.). What does it look like when an entire government or a large government agency commits to a futures lens? Exploring them greatly sparks creativity and curiosity about how groups are challenging current assumptions about the present and exploring the tools to inform more desirable futures.

Government 182

Government University 182

Gary Direnfeld

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

I meet with folks who don’t realize the severity of the abuse and trauma to which they were exposed growing up. They may have tremendous issues with mental health, drug or alcohol abuse and/or serious physical ailments, but nowhere has anyone ever helped them make a connection to those early life experiences. I am the first to point out those experiences for what they were.

Counseling 113

Counseling Private Practice Mental Health Social Worker 113