Teaching & Learning in Social Work

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Editor’s note: Melissa Freedman, MSW, is a social work educator and consultant specializing in leadership, supervision, administration, and quality management and assurance. In this blog post, she shares an overview of the interpretation guide to write a self-study for social work accreditation by the Council on Social Work Education (CSWE). I found using CSWE’s interpretation guide both useful and overwhelming at the same time, and the tips that Melissa shares in this post helped break do

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Communication Consultation Administration Diversity 130

Social Care

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Deborah Sturdy: Christabel Chinonso U worked as a social care nurse when she came to the UK from Nigeria in 2022. Keen to boost her confidence and be a positive influence, she participated in a DHSC supported Florence Nightingale Foundation leadership programme for social care nurses from global majority backgrounds in 2022-23. To mark Black History Month , we are proud to share Christabel’s story.

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Healthcare Communication Diversity Home Care 129

The New Social Worker

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Lace up your hiking boots, and let’s go on a journey into exciting and complex technology terms and examples of extended reality (XR), mixed reality (MR), virtual reality (VR), and augmented reality (AR), as they apply to social work.

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Social Worker 92

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 24, 2023

● When I first saw that Mother Jones had published an expose of the horrors of a for-profit McTreatment chain’s residential treatment centers, I thought: There’ve been so many exposes, what could possibly be new? What could still shock? In fact, by zeroing in on foster youth, reporter Julia Lurie unearthed much that is new and even more that is shocking.

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Foster Care Child Welfare Welfare Counseling 83

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Swhelper

OCTOBER 24, 2023

SWHELPER Women represent the fastest-growing population in U.S. institutional corrections facilities. In the past four decades, the number of women incarcerated has increased by more than 475%, rising from 26,326 in 1980 to 152,854 in 2020.

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Criminal Justice University 78

Social Work With Adults

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Lyn Romeo: October is an important month as it marks World Mental Health Day and Black History Month. These two important themes were explored at a brilliant webinar on anti -racist perspectives and the Approved Mental Health Professional (AMHP) role: ‘taking professional responsibility to address racism in practice’, chaired by Jason Brandon, Mental Health Social Work lead in the Chief Social Worker for Adults' office, in partnership with the British Association of Social Workers (BASW) England

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Mental Health Social Worker University 60

Living Sober

OCTOBER 24, 2023

One of the greatest gifts of sobriety.

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Sobriety 54

CAPC

OCTOBER 24, 2023

A compilation of questions and answers about palliative care from a state policymaker lens.

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CAPC

OCTOBER 24, 2023

With the focus on the patient and their family, palliative care helps ease the transition from hospital to home.

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Hospitals 52