Social Work Tech Talk: I, Chatbot—What Does AI Have To Do With Social Work?
The New Social Worker
AUGUST 2, 2023
Suddenly, everyone is talking about AI.
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‘Stick with social work’: senior leaders share their best advice
Community Care
AUGUST 22, 2023
Community Care’s Choose Social Work campaign, which has been running since June, aims to champion the brilliant work social workers do every day, inspire the next generation of practitioners, and counteract the negative media coverage of the profession. We asked senior leaders to share their best advice for social workers, and why they are proud to be part of the profession.
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Advancing Social Work Praxis: Uniting Communities to Tackle Adversity, Vulnerability, and Trauma
Social Service Workforce
AUGUST 11, 2023
Written by Dr Poppy Masinga, President of the Association of South African Social Work Education Institutions (ASASWEI)
Children referred to social care twice as likely to fail GCSE maths and English
The Guardian
AUGUST 21, 2023
Research found 53% of teenagers in England who had been referred to services did not achieve a pass in both subjects Children in England who are referred to social services at any point in their childhood are twice as likely to fail GCSE maths and English, according to new research published ahead of results day on Thursday. Analysts looked at 1.6m pupils’ exam results over a three-year period and found that 53% of teenagers who had been referred to social care – as detailed in the Children in N
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When injustice hides in plain sight
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
AUGUST 30, 2023
The New York Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights is examining racism in the New York family policing system (a more accurate term than “child welfare” system). New York’s institutional providers of family defense prepared in-depth written testimony that is a report in itself. As I read it, I had to stop every few pages. Just reading the first-hand accounts of soul-crushing injustice visited upon overwhelmingly poor nonwhite families was tough.
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Notes from the Future – August 28, 2023 Edition
Social Work Futures
AUGUST 28, 2023
This is part of an occasional series of posts to share a few things I run across regarding the future of social work (and beyond). For people involved in foresight practice, the practice of scanning, organizing and creatively interpreting “signals of change” in the ecosystem is a primary and foundational part of the work. This blog is a place where I’m doing that “out loud” and in public to both share what I’m finding, and encouraging readers to do the same.
Children’s social care gets fifth minister in two years
Community Care
AUGUST 31, 2023
Children’s social care has its fifth minister in two years, following today’s cabinet reshuffle. David Johnston has succeeded Claire Coutinho as minister for children, families and wellbeing , after her elevation to the cabinet as energy secretary. Coutinho spent just 10 months in post , though this was longer than her two immediate predecessors with responsibility for the sector – Kelly Tolhurst and Brendan Clarke-Smith – each of whom lasted two months, amid the turbulen
MBNB Song of the Month – You Are Enough
My Brains Not Broken
AUGUST 31, 2023
As part of a new recurring series on the blog, I’m going to be sharing a ‘Song of the Month on MBNB. It might be a song I can’t stop listening to at the moment, or a song I have a history with. It could be a song I don’t know much about, or I’ve listened to a thousand times. Regardless of the reason, these songs have inspired me and my mental health, and I want to share them with you.
Using motivational interviewing in students’ practice learning
Martin Webber
AUGUST 18, 2023
Teaching students to use motivational interviewing in their practice works!
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.
How To Relieve Chest Tightness From Anxiety? 4 Helpful Ways
Blurt It Out
AUGUST 29, 2023
Anxiety is a widespread mental health condition that affects roughly 3.1% of Americans , [1] mostly women. It can occur at any moment throughout a person’s life and is frequently made worse by particular stressful events or transitions. There’s a good probability that in addition to psychological and emotional symptoms, you’ve also had physical ones-especially if you’ve ever had an anxiety or panic attack.
Divorcing? Invest in Learning with These Tips
Gary Direnfeld
AUGUST 30, 2023
Divorce always ranks as one of the most stressful life events, often only second to the death of a loved one. With divorce, life as you knew it is thrown up into the air. You don’t know the configuration life will take until those pieces land. To say it’s a wild ride is an understatement. The nature of the person whom your are divorcing plays into that stress.
Blood clots during COVID-19 may be a cause of ‘brain fog’
MQ Mental Health
AUGUST 31, 2023
MQ researcher Dr Max Taquet and his team from the University of Oxford have found evidence that the ongoing cognitive problems that some people experience after contracting COVID could be caused by blood clots. Many people with long-COVID experience memory issues and slowed thinking, often referred to as brain fog. Now we are one step closer to understanding the exact cause.
Social work’s public image ‘pushing people out of frontline roles and making families distrustful’
Community Care
AUGUST 4, 2023
Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll. Social work’s poor public image is driving people out of frontline children’s roles, hurting recruitment and making families fearful and distrustful of practitioners. Those were among the findings of research with just over 1,000 social workers and managers working for local authorities in London and the South East , carried out by the two regions’ local authority children
Why Habits Don’t Need to Be Permanent
My Brains Not Broken
AUGUST 29, 2023
On this blog, I have a tendency to write posts that build on each other. After writing about habits last week, I thought more about how we create and maintain healthy habits. In my research, it’s clear that any type of significant habit formation takes time. And during that time, we can become extremely committed to these new habits and the impact they’ll have in our life.
Exploitation and low pay causing poverty among care workers, TUC finds
The Guardian
AUGUST 28, 2023
TUC says urgent investment needed in ‘Cinderella sectors’ to head off demographic timebomb ‘Invisible, endless, relentless’: the reality of care work in England Chronic under-investment, exploitation and low pay is leading to widespread poverty among workers in the care sector, according to damning research from the Trades Union Congress. As it publishes its first workforce blueprint for the care economy, the TUC argues that the “Cinderella sectors” of social care and childcare need urgent inves
NASW disappointed by ruling upholding firing of pregnant Catholic school teacher
Social Work Blog
AUGUST 25, 2023
Y The National Association of Social Workers (NASW) in August 2021, along with 26 other organizations committed to civil rights, filed an amicus brief in the New Jersey Supreme Court in support of Victoria Crisitello. Crisitello was an elementary school art teacher who was terminated by her employer, a Catholic elementary school, after she became pregnant while unmarried.
When Someone You Love has Anxiety…
Gary Direnfeld
AUGUST 14, 2023
For many, there is a relational aspect to anxiety. They seek others to help them manage, make them feel safe or less anxious. They draw others in. Those that get drawn in become part of a dynamic where as they try to comfort, cajole, support, facilitate, the one with the anxiety experiences and expresses greater fear. This causes the helper to increase their supportive efforts.
What Is Lateral Violence in Nursing?
Relias
AUGUST 23, 2023
As surprising as it may be, healthcare professionals don’t always treat each other with kindness and respect. In fact, research suggests that lateral violence in healthcare is a serious issue. Also referred to as horizontal violence or bullying, lateral violence is defined as non-physical, aggressive, hostile, and/or harmful behavior between coworkers.
‘Why we’re providing therapy for parents in pre-proceedings’
Community Care
AUGUST 16, 2023
By Leigh Zywek and Richard Devine, Bath and North East Somerset Council In our work, we have found that many of the challenges parents faced in safely caring for their children stemmed from coping strategies the parents had developed to handle extremely difficult and traumatic childhoods. This exposed the significant disparity between the support provided to parents and what they required.
Habit Forming and Mental Health
My Brains Not Broken
AUGUST 24, 2023
After writing about high-functioning anxiety earlier this week , I started thinking about habits. Over the course of our lives, we develop habits of all kinds. They can be good for us, they can be bad for us. They can be the thing we need to get through the day, or they can be something we do absentmindedly before bed. Regardless of where they originated from, habits form a major aspect of our day-to-day lives.
When the journalism of child welfare fails, part four: A Washington State news site discovers the trauma and tragedy of false allegations of child abuse – well, sort of.
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
AUGUST 13, 2023
Wow. Things sure got tough for Silvia Zarate after she was falsely accused of child abuse. She had to fight her way through a long, cumbersome appeals process before she could get overturned a determination by a caseworker for the Washington State family police agency (a more accurate term than “child welfare” agency) that the allegation against her was “founded.
NASW Member Voices: What the March on Washington means 60 years later
Social Work Blog
AUGUST 17, 2023
Martin Luther King Jr. at the March on Washington. Photo courtesy of the Library of Congress. By Chad Dion Lassiter, MSW Sixty years ago, on the day before the March of Washington for Jobs and Freedom, NASW Social Work Pioneer W.E.B DuBois died. The famed sociologist and civil rights activist was 95 years old and had moved to Ghana several years earlier to create an African diaspora encyclopedia.
Educational Assistants’ Advice to Parents for the Start of School
Gary Direnfeld
AUGUST 30, 2023
Parents: On my Facebook page I asked Educational Assistants what they would like to know about your child and what they would like you to know. There were 175 comments. I read them all. Here is a very brief summary. I will place a link to the original post and comments in a comment to this post for those who would like to read them. It is informative.
Celebrating co-production
Social Care
AUGUST 8, 2023
Social Care Institute for Excellence: "[We want to see] diversity in co-production practice, broadening the voices heard and extending participation." [Image created by freepik.com ] Looking back at Co-production Week At SCIE , we recently marked the eighth year of our annual Co-production Week , a five day national festival of co-production in action, in which we celebrated and shared good practice in coproduction in social care.
Chief social worker and adult PSWs issue assessment guidance
Community Care
AUGUST 8, 2023
Chief social worker for adults Lyn Romeo and principal social workers have issued guidance on carrying out proportionate assessments under the Care Act 2014. The guide comes in the wake of Department of Health and Social Care funding designed to streamline the assessment process, including through virtual processes, delegating assessments to third parties and making more use of non-qualified staff to help deal with social worker shortages.
Jumping From One Thought to Another
My Brains Not Broken
AUGUST 22, 2023
One aspect of mental health that I think is fascinating is the idea of high-functioning mental illness. I’ve written posts about high-functioning anxiety and high-functioning depression and even though I’ve learned a lot about both over the years, there is still so much to learn. Lately, I’ve thought a lot about how my brain works when I’m experiencing high-functioning anxiety – the way I race to get things done, the pressure I put on myself to finish things by the
What part of “no evidence” does this child welfare “scholar” not understand
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
AUGUST 27, 2023
Meet the "scholar" who is turning the concept of "evidence based" upside-down (Photo by Nick Youngson, pix4free.org) This post quotes from many tweets. I have not tried to correct the typos in those tweets. Have you noticed something new about the “child welfare” establishment lately? You know, the wonderful people who created the child welfare surveillance state that tears apart at least 200,000 families a year and subjects more than half of all Black children to traumatic child abuse investiga
NASW Member Voices: Now that Affirmative Action is Dead, Look Back for the Way Forward
Social Work Blog
AUGUST 2, 2023
By Chad Dion Lassiter, MSW When the Supreme Court finally declared the Civil Rights Act of 1875 unconstitutional, Frederick Douglass, amid an outpouring of outrage, advised that we must first take a collective deep breath. The Supreme Court had killed the law that guaranteed African Americans access to public accommodations and stopped barring them from serving on a jury on the grounds it didn’t control actions of individuals.
Couple Counseling: Is It Safe?
Gary Direnfeld
AUGUST 30, 2023
It’s not uncommon for me to decline a request for couple counseling. The reasons typically have to do with safety and/or substance use and/or serious mental health issues. Safety is code for concerns of domestic violence. Risk indicators includes screaming, name calling, breaking of objects, hitting, pushing, shoving, choking, threatening harm, abuse of pets, limiting access to resources, police or child protection agency involvement.
IFSW hosts side-event during the 2023 UN High Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development
International Federation of Social Workers
AUGUST 28, 2023
During the 2023 UN High Level Political Forum (UN HLPF) on Sustainable Development, IFSW hosted a side-event , “Co-building an Eco-Social World for Sustainable Development”.
AMHPs lack time for ‘extremely important’ pre-assessment work with people in crisis, finds survey
Community Care
AUGUST 8, 2023
Approved mental health professionals (AMHPs) lack time to carry out “extremely important” pre-assessment work that would likely improve outcomes for people in mental health crisis. That was among the findings from a recent survey of 118 AMHPs – the vast majority still in practice – in relation to working with people prior to an assessment of whether the person should be detained under the Mental Health Act 1983.
The Learning Curve of Mental Health
My Brains Not Broken
AUGUST 17, 2023
When it comes to my mental health, one thing I can always count on is that it won’t be too long before I learn something new. Sometimes it’s a mental health or psychological term. Other times it’s a phrase, or a more accurate description than one I’d been using. After ten years of living with depression and anxiety, there’s still a lot to learn.
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