My Brains Not Broken
JULY 7, 2022
I am tired. Tired of a lot of things, but today I’m sharing one specific reason I’m tired. I’m tired of seeing mental illness get weaponized. Tired of seeing mental health being brought up in bad faith, in harmful, disingenuous and shameful ways that undo the work people have put in for decades to shrink the stigma surrounding mental health.
A Splintered Mind
JULY 7, 2022
The problem with chronic illness is that it's boring. I don't mean for the person stricken in bed and suffering. Who cares about them, right? I am referring to everybody else who finds the subject duller than a twenty-four hour CSPAN marathon. When the chronically sick try to tell others about their struggles, they are likely to receive no small degree of exasperation from people who can't hide their dismay, as if to say "What?
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Swhelper
JULY 7, 2022
SWHELPER. WASHINGTON, D.C. – Alaska social worker Yvonne Chase is the new president-elect of the National Association of Social Workers (NASW) and has pledged to keep the association focused on social justice issues while advocating for innovations to prepare the fast-growing social work profession for future challenges. Chase, PhD, LCSW, ACSW, MSW, who is an associate professor […].
International Federation of Social Workers
JULY 7, 2022
IFSW member organizations are expressing deep concern about the lack of global attention to the hyperinflation of basic essential commodities and the broken trade supply chains. These include the accessibility and of affordability of basic essential commodities such as bread, clean water, fertilizers and fuel, leading to ‘inflation refugees’ and a likelihood of widespread starvation. […].
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The New Social Worker
JULY 7, 2022
The National Association of Social Workers (NASW) has named Ohio social worker Dr. Patrice Palmer as the 2022 National Social Worker of the Year. She received the award for her work in helping break the cycle of mass incarceration.
The Guardian
JULY 7, 2022
Report by MPs calls for academies that illegally turn away looked-after children to be punished by Ofsted A report by MPs has identified “a host of indefensible system failings” behind the educational disadvantage affecting children in care, and called for academies that illegally turn them away to be punished by Ofsted. The report by the education select committee accused the government of failing to act as a “pushy parent” by placing looked-after children in the best schools available, resulti
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Famcare
JULY 7, 2022
Victims ' of domestic violence are frequently traumatized and perplexed, believing there is no way out of their predicament. However, many survivors have difficulty recognizing the abuse. Understanding and recognizing the various types of domestic violence is essential for leaving an abusive environment.
Living Sober
JULY 7, 2022
Edith Moore is of Cook Island M?ori descent. She has a Masters Degree in health psychology, is a mother of two, a grandmother of three, and she is sober. Click on the video or audio below to hear my Sobriety Chat with Edith. We discuss how she dealt with childhood neglect, learning how to honour anger and the work she […] Sobriety Chat: Edith was first posted on July 8, 2022 at 2:08 pm. ©2019 " Living Sober " Use of this feed is for personal non-commercial use only.
The Masked AMHP
JULY 7, 2022
The Mental Health Act 1983 has been through a long process of review. Wessely’s Review was published in December 2018, and the Government White Paper was published in January 2021. Finally, in June 2022, the Draft Bill has been published.
Michigan Social Work
JULY 7, 2022
Two Michigan Social Work PhD students have received 2022 Next Generation Initiative Awards from the Institute of Social Research. Analidis Ochoa was awarded a Marshall Weinberg Endowment for her project “Blood Veins for Hire: Plasma Donation in an age of Inequality, Instability, and Precarious Work.” Briana Starks received a Sarri Family Fellowship for Research on Educational Attainment of Children in Low Income Families for her project “Diapers, Debt, & Degrees: The Practical and Theoretica
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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.
The Guardian
JULY 7, 2022
Stephen Smith says neoliberalism has led to the vilification of the public provision of public services. Plus a letter from Jonathan Stanley Your editorial ( 3 July ) on children’s care homes proposes an important first step in reversing the trend since the 1980s in replacing the concept of public service as an underlying value with the profit motive.
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
JULY 7, 2022
Ever since the awful day 25 years ago when what would become the Adoption and Safe Families Act passed the House of Representatives, I’ve known that only one Democrat – Rep. Patsy Mink of Hawaii – was wise and courageous enough to vote against it. (A handful of Republicans opposed it, mostly on states’ rights grounds.) But only after a tweet from former New York Times reporter Nina Bernstein pointed me to Ben Proudfoot’s wonderful Times “op-doc” mini documentary about Rep.
Beyond Advocacy
JULY 7, 2022
The United States economy is teetering on the brink these days, as are most of the world’s economies. Many are predicting dire days ahead. Stock market watchers such as British investor Jeremy Grantham believes bubbles created by the longest bull market in history, interrupted briefly in 2020 by the Covid-19 pandemic, are about to burst. Coupled with extreme economic inequality and rampant inflation, he believes it’s just a matter of time before the bottom falls out.
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