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Moving Social Work: it means what it says!

Social Work With Adults

"Moving Social Work focuses on increasing physical activity [opportunities for disabled people] and the benefits this generates for mind and body." [Image created by freepik.com ] Equality of opportunity Modern social work is many things, but one of its central tenets involves the belief that everyone should have access to the same opportunities to live full, active, healthy lives, regardless of circumstance and background.

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Officials in two states that routinely destroy Native American families make their position clear: We don’t care, we don’t have to.

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

South Dakota tears apart families at a rate well above the national average. Native American children are 13% of the child population and 74% of the foster child population. But hey, a slogan is a slogan, right? There were two important news stories last week from states that destroy astounding numbers of Native American families every year. The stories make one thing clear: State officials and many state lawmakers don’t give a damn about it. ● Montana continually vies with West Virginia for the

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How Improv theater is like therapy | NASW Member Voices

Social Work Blog

By Marisa Markowtiz, LMSW, CASAC-T The National Institute of Mental Health defines specific phobia as an intense, irrational fear that poses little or no actual danger. Approximately seven to nine percent of the United States population experience specific phobias. Glossophobia, or fear of public speaking, affects up to 75 percent of the population.

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Celebrating support workers

Social Care

Support workers are the backbone of health and social care organisations, providing year-round care for service users, patients and residents. Leanne Flint joined Cygnet Healthcare as a support worker in 2008. Here, she writes about the training and personal development which has helped her progress. Leanne takes a positive approach to life's challenges.

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5 Must Haves for Case Management

Thousands of nonprofits rely on case management software to help collect data, manage programs, coordinate with agencies, and provide life-changing health and human services. Adopting a cloud-based case management platform is essential for nonprofits and government agencies to operate more efficiently and make better use of their funding and budget.

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Can Self-Care Improve Mental Health? 10 Ways to Show Yourself Love This Valentine’s Day

MQ Mental Health

On Valentine’s Day and every day, the most important relationship we can have is with ourselves. Learning to love who we are is a challenge for many of us, whether we live with mental illness or not. Self-love means giving attention to yourself, accepting yourself, caring for and protecting yourself. It might feel harder to do this on a day of the year dedicated to love.

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Choosing Your Community Partners Wisely

Nicole Clark Consulting

While building a partnership with other organizations, engaging the right participants is crucial to facilitating a process that’s mutually beneficial. Your organization knows the key community players who are doing the same work, whose work is adjacent to yours, or whose work is in another areas but they can champion your work. A facilitator may [.

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Intervals by Marianne Brooker review – a daughter’s angry and profound memorial to her mother

The Guardian

The author’s singular account of her parent’s illness and decision to hasten her death is written with remarkable clarity and precision Intervals is an exceptional book, for which every deserved superlative seems cliched, in part because the language of illness, death and bereavement often feels too hollowed out by use to accommodate the magnitude of those experiences.

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Understanding vs. Succumbing to the System

American Board of Clinical Social Work

Couples have a nonconscious, intersubjective system between the two partners that has been existent and developing in complexity since they first met each other. It has been well-established in recent years that this type of system gestates during childhood and becomes the template that dictates who we will be attracted to and commit to as a life partner.

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Young and old help each other to thrive | Brief letters

The Guardian

The beauty of Belong Chester | Sunday snooping | Boris Johnson’s service | Everyone’s an emeritus I read your feature on the Belong intergenerational community in Chester with absolute delight ( Young, old and marvellous: how a care home built a nursery – and everyone thrived, 6 February ). I am so pleased that somebody is taking the all‑important connection between old and young seriously, and making it work.

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Episode 26 – ‘Default Depression: How we now interpret human distress as mental illness’ with Anthony Smith.

Social Work Discoveries

Hello Listeners, Welcome to the Social Work Discoveries podcast. I’m your host Ben Joseph and I’m so happy to have you with me today. The rise of the biomedical approach to treatment of depression and anxiety among other mental health issues for Australians has been swift, expansive, and for many, completely all-consuming. It is the dominant lens through which we as a society believe mental illness can be administered and recovery be found, but is it the only answer?

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Get Connected: Using Social Media for Social Work Success

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.