Community Care
DECEMBER 13, 2022
Social worker shortages are making an already challenging job ‘unsustainable’ for some practitioners, Ofsted has warned in its annual report, published today. The inspectorate said problems recruiting and retaining staff were arguably the biggest challenges facing children’s social care and one that had got worse since the pandemic.
Social Work Futures
DECEMBER 30, 2022
As part of writing that is happening in my world right now, I’ve been doing deep dive in this literature. We have a powerful history of taking this question VERY seriously in social work. Thanks to contributions from friends on Twitter (!!!). I promised to share my final working version. I think there are likely a few that aren’t on here…but I’m satisfied I gathered well.
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Gary Direnfeld
DECEMBER 21, 2022
If you are sensitive, you may be shying away from important conversations. In so doing, things left unsaid, unresolved, may fester. Those difficult conversations are important to have. You can start by acknowledging you have something difficult or awkward to talk about, but still need to do so. That is known as meta-communicating. You communicate about the need to communicate.
Famcare
DECEMBER 27, 2022
If you’re like most agencies, the people you serve have come to you through a referral process. Being able to track where you get your “clients” or “kids” or “students”, etc. (for this article let’s refer to them as clients) is vitally important to your business model. Clients may be referred to you through the schools, courts, hospitals, jails, DHS, and other organizations that provide complimentary services.
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In the world of small business management, the challenge of managing payroll & HR efficiently while scaling operations can be overwhelming. Yet, with the right strategies in place, these challenges can become opportunities for growth and innovation. In this session, Joe Sharpe, Senior Director of Managed Payroll Services at IRIS, will reveal practical methods and expert insights for outsourcing and streamlining payroll processes, resulting in substantial time and resource savings.
Gateway Foundation
DECEMBER 2, 2022
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a medical condition individuals can develop after traumatic experiences. People can develop PTSD from many experiences, including natural disasters, abuse or other life-altering events. Some people may turn to substances to cope with their symptoms and strong emotions. Some people develop misconceptions regarding PTSD, which creates a stigma within the mental health community that could prevent people from seeking the help they need to improve their healt
My Brains Not Broken
DECEMBER 28, 2022
Every year, around this time, I like to take stock of the year I had. I wish I did this in a more formal way, but I don’t. It’s mostly thought and reflection, but it’s very important for me to think back on the year I’ve experienced. It helps me process things I might have otherwise missed, and I think it plays a big role in helping me move through certain things and prepare for the year ahead.
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Social Work Futures
DECEMBER 16, 2022
Over the last couple of years and through my own foresight journey (as a social worker and a human)…I’ve found emerging language regarding the future to be really interesting, illuminating, sometimes troubling, and valuable. Sometimes there are words that are more “pop culture” words that emerge from the mainstream (they are a little like popcorn…not much substance).
Gary Direnfeld
DECEMBER 21, 2022
I remember buying our son a chocolate bar when he was about 5. He reminded me to bring home the receipt for mom. He knew then we tracked our spending. All our spending. That he reminded me to bring home the receipt took me by surprise. It’s amazing what kids pick up on. There wasn’t her money and my money. There was just money. If we didn’t know what each other spent, we wouldn’t know what was left.
CAPC
DECEMBER 1, 2022
A palliative care program administrator shares the ins and outs of stay interviews, including how and when to conduct them for team retention.
Community Care
DECEMBER 2, 2022
Just over 4,000 social workers will no longer be able to in practise in England because they did not renew their registration this year, according to provisional figures. The number marks an increase on last year’s figure (2,869) and represents 4% of those who needed to renew, up from 3% in 2021, said Social Work England. However, it is in line with previous years, which have seen 4,000 to 6,000 people leave the register annually.
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My Brains Not Broken
DECEMBER 30, 2022
My last post of the year is usually one of my shortest ones. It’s a simple message, but one I wish was spread more this time of year, so I try to reflect on it at least once during the month of December. I don’t know about you, but this year certainly had its share of ups and downs. There were a lot of good moments, but there was also a lot of times that were painful and sad.
Nnatasha Tracy
DECEMBER 8, 2022
I never stop crying. I can understand why you might think this isn't true. After all, my cheeks are dry right now. But, believe me, I never stop crying, whether it's external or suppressed enough to be internal. I have found depression can be like that. No matter what is happening — good or bad — the tears are always there. The depression is always there.
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
DECEMBER 19, 2022
Yesterday, in a post about “child welfare” and the moral bankruptcy of social work, I noted that Alan Detlaff of the University of Houston, who has dedicated his career to fighting racism in family policing (a more accurate term than “child welfare”) had been ousted as the Dean of the university’s Graduate College of Social Work. I wrote that I have no doubt he could have kept that deanship if he’d simply used the playbook perfected by another social work dean, Richard Barth at the University of
Gary Direnfeld
DECEMBER 21, 2022
He thought his dad was strong. With that, the thought of counseling was an embarrassment. Never would his father ever consider it. But here he was now, under an ultimatum from his parter. Join her in counseling, or leave. He bit the bullet and agreed to go. He was open with the counselor about how his dad would frown on this. The counselor wondered about other values and biases his dad had.
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DECEMBER 2, 2022
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Community Care
DECEMBER 16, 2022
One in five children’s social work posts lay vacant in English councils this summer in the wake of practitioners reporting rising stress and workloads and reduced job satisfaction and support from employers. Those were among the findings of research released this week from the Department for Education and Association of Directors of Children’s Services (ADCS), illustrating the scale of the workforce pressures engulfing local authorities.
My Brains Not Broken
DECEMBER 22, 2022
Does the title of this post sound a bit off? Well, that’s because it’s a play on the song “It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year,” a classic Christmas song that has more covers and iterations than I could care to count. And even though this time of year actually is one of my favorite times of the year, it’s also incredibly busy.
Michigan Social Work
DECEMBER 13, 2022
Dean Beth Angell has been appointed the Phillip Fellin Collegiate Professor of Social Work. Angell’s research focuses on behavioral health, particularly on serious mental illness and its intersection with substance abuse and criminal justice involvement. Some of the topics of her research studies have related to treatment seeking, treatment engagement and adherence; consumer-provider interactions and relationships; sources and consequences of stigma; and mandated or involuntary treatment.
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.
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
DECEMBER 26, 2022
Among the year's highlights: This ad campaign from JMACforFamilies Instead of the usual highlights of the week, we look back at some of the best family preservation journalism and scholarship of 2022 – and a little from late 2021. We start with three important books: ● First, Prof. Dorothy Roberts’ definitive dissection of racism in family policing: Torn Apart: How the Child Welfare System Destroys Black Families--and How Abolition Can Build a Safer World.
Gary Direnfeld
DECEMBER 19, 2022
While some decisions to separate may be reached jointly at or near the same time, this is a less common scenario. The decision to separate is more often the outcome of one reaching a conclusion where being apart is better than being together. That decision doesn’t typically come easy or fast. Most often it several years in the making. With that, the one coming to the decision to separate has had a chance to come to terms with their feelings about it.
Society of Clinical Psychology
DECEMBER 13, 2022
Early behavioral interventions (BI) such as applied behavior analysis (ABA) and early intensive behavioral intervention (EIBI) are the main established therapeutic interventions for autism spectrum disorders (ASD). The current study examined the effect of early BI when delivered in routine clinical care. We included studies that examined the effectiveness of empirically supported early BI treatment programs for children with ASD, delivered by practicing clinicians in routine clinical care, to pa
Community Care
DECEMBER 5, 2022
Just over 1,000 social workers have been removed from the register despite paying the £90 fee and meeting continuing professional development (CPD) requirements in this year’s renewal round. Social Work England released the figure after several social workers reported being inadvertently barred from practice by what they described as flaws in the regulator’s online registration system that meant they did not complete the renewal application form.
My Brains Not Broken
DECEMBER 8, 2022
The more experience I’ve gained on my mental health journey, the better I’ve gotten at recognizing my depression and the reasons behind it. That being said, depression can still be tricky. There are times where I feel like I know exactly why I feel depressed; other times, it’s like a feeling or emotion comes out of nowhere. The wintertime is actually one of the trickiest times to recognize my feelings.
The International Association Of Schools Of Social
DECEMBER 8, 2022
Conference – Social Work as a Human Rights Profession. 9-10 December, 2022. Purpose of the conference: The purpose of the conference is to raise awareness about social work as a global profession focusing on human rights of global citizens. Motto of the conference: Advancing human rights in global social work profession The conference is dedicated to 18 years work of Georgian Association of Social Workers.
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
DECEMBER 20, 2022
● There’s Another outstanding installment in the series from ProPublica and NBC News, documenting the enormous harm family policing does to children. This time, the story looks at child welfare’s “death penalty” – termination of children’s rights to their parents. There’s a special focus on West Virginia, which is both the child removal capital of America and the termination capital of America.
Gary Direnfeld
DECEMBER 12, 2022
Fridays we babysit the grandkids. There are three; ages five, three and three months. Arlene and I couldn’t go together for a few months because of Sidney. He needed all his vaccines to be with our kids’ dog and he needed to work on his manners and control. We were taking turns going. We have been going together now the past three Fridays.
Society of Clinical Psychology
DECEMBER 13, 2022
Diversity is not an adjunct descriptor of the U.S. population, but rather, it is a fundamental construct of our country’s demographics which is predicted only to increase. As stated in our nation’s preamble, it is our duty to “establish justice and promote the general welfare” of American people, which includes the protection of our nation’s most vulnerable identities.
Community Care
DECEMBER 12, 2022
The government must set up a task force to tackle longstanding racial disparities in the adoption system, including by making the workforce more diverse. That was one of the conclusions of a House of Lords committee examining 2014 children’s social care law reforms that, among other things, sought to make it easier for black and ethnic minority children to be adopted.
My Brains Not Broken
DECEMBER 1, 2022
Earlier this week, I wrote a post about getting stuck in my head. Some days, I really wish I could get out of my head. I have so much going on in my brain, it can be exhausting trying to engage with it on a daily basis. This is easier said than done, of course, but I’d still like to have that option when possible. But even when we want to get out of our own heads, where do we start?
Prosper Health Collective
DECEMBER 6, 2022
Christmas can be a wonderful time of year where we get to spend time with family and friends, enjoy the rituals of giving and receiving, participate in traditions, and eat, drink and be merry! However, Christmas is also a time of busyness, increased stress, financial pressures, and often general excess. We tend to be going out more, spending more, eating and drinking more all at the end of the year when we might be feeling tired more.
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
DECEMBER 18, 2022
Are the failures of social work really just a matter of degree? (Image from Depositphotos ) Call it The Perennial Whine of the Licensed Social Worker. It crops up over and over when there’s any story about what family police agencies (a more accurate term than “child welfare” agencies) do to families. Most recently I saw it repeatedly in comments on the Washington Post story I discuss here , about a family traumatized by a midnight raid by the Massachusetts Department of Children and Families.
Gary Direnfeld
DECEMBER 12, 2022
Good luck keeping that narcissist from messing with your kid’s head. Just like locks don’t really keep out burglars, Judge’s orders not to badmouth a parent don’t really stop the narcissist either. The way to help your kid manage is by your actions as a role model. That means remaining calm under duress and your learning not to be dragged down rabbit holes be it by the ex or your kid.
International Federation of Social Workers
DECEMBER 22, 2022
IFSW is pleased to announce that three more national associations of social work have been admitted as full members. The National Alliance of Professional Social Workers of Kazakhstan, the Guinea-Bissau Association […].
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