Save the Social Worker
FEBRUARY 20, 2021
By now, it’s a bit of a running joke, isn’t it? That what you learn in university doesn’t seem to apply in practice. 15 months after qualifying as a social worker, here are 7 things I wish university taught me. If you’re newly qualified, you may find this helpful in reflecting on your own work after a year in social work. I hope it reveals new ways you might think about your own work.
Blurt It Out
FEBRUARY 25, 2021
Hearing what someone says, and listening to their words, are not the same thing. There are fundamental differences between them. Listening can be harder work than hearing, but it’s important to have people in our lives who listen to us and to listen to them in return. Hearing The dictionary defines hearing as: “the process, The post The Difference Between Hearing And Listening appeared first on The Blurt Foundation.
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KVC
FEBRUARY 26, 2021
It’s a life-changing decision to become a foster parent, providing a safe place and 24/7 support for children who have experienced abuse, neglect or other family challenges. It takes an enormous amount of patience and commitment, and not everyone is called to be a foster parent. Fostering is just one of many ways to help children in crisis, so here are seven other ways you can help a child in foster care: 1.
Learning Social Worker
FEBRUARY 7, 2021
The book, He Died Waiting: Learning the lessons - a bereaved mother's view of mental health services by Caroline Aldridge (2020), and the postcards with quotes from it, can be used in many ways to help students and practitioners to develop reflexiveness, empathy, and values-based practice. This resource provides materials for two, 50 minute – 1 hour, workshops.
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Social Work Tech
FEBRUARY 28, 2021
By popular demand, I am posting this Safety Plan in my Social Work Tech Tools (and this post) for folks to look at and reference. Disclaimer (like, hella). Please note, this document is not a recommendation for practice or me telling you what to do for intervention. if you use this in your own practice, the user(s) (i.e. you and your client) assumes the risks involved with safety planning.
Social Work.Career
FEBRUARY 28, 2021
This post is part of the monthly series, Free Mental Health Webinars for Social Workers and Mental Health Professionals, featuring over 30 free webcasts that I could find for you this month in the field of social work and mental health. To make it easier for you to find a webinar that is of interest […]. The post Free Mental Health Webinars, March 2021 appeared first on SocialWork.Career.
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Blurt It Out
FEBRUARY 11, 2021
Brain fog is something that many of us deal with day in, day out. It’s not a diagnosable condition but is a common symptom for many different illnesses. Brain fog can range from being an occasional annoyance to a persistent condition which impacts many areas of our lives. What Causes Brain Fog? There are lots. The post Coping With Foggy Brain Days appeared first on The Blurt Foundation.
NASW Foundation
FEBRUARY 23, 2021
The NASW Foundation and NASW are proud to celebrate Black History Month and honor the rich history of blacks in social work. We encourage you to celebrate with us by learning more about this.
Beautiful Voyager
FEBRUARY 23, 2021
Photo by Nathan McDine. And why is it even harder for men? I was recently watching an online event organized by MAYDAY! M’AIDER!, a new French-Canadian online community that focuses on opening the dialogue on mental health and breaking the isolation. What was unique about this event called “Les Boys'' was the guest-speaker line-up which was solely composed of men.
The Masked AMHP
FEBRUARY 22, 2021
So why did I become a social worker in the first place? It's the little, but significant, life experiences that plant the seeds of your future career.Having been a social worker for approaching 45 years, now that I’ve actually retired I’ve had time to think about what led me into social work in the first place. I have written in the Guardian in the past about what led to my first social work.
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.
Social Work Synergy
FEBRUARY 22, 2021
Pat Shelly. “The start to a better world is to believe that it is possible.” Lily Tomlin. I first heard Laura Nissen speak about futures thinking in 2018, during the annual meeting of the Council on Social Work Education. In a plenary session, she spoke of the potential of using a futures framework through which we can increase the scope of social work to address society’s challenges in the decades ahead.
Social Work Haven
FEBRUARY 21, 2021
If you are a social worker who works with children, you may have come across teenagers who vape. You may also find this article useful: A Parent’s Guide to Adolescent Substance Abuse Teenagers are vaping substances like nicotine and marijuana at alarming rates. The finding comes from the most recent survey of teens by the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan.
Blurt It Out
FEBRUARY 4, 2021
Accessing mental health services can be overwhelming. On top of the muddle of feelings we’ve got going on, we also find ourselves grappling with jargon. Someone might refer us to an SPA, who contact IAPT, who refer us to CMHT where we end up with a CPN as our CCo. It sounds like gobbledygook and. The post The Mental Health Jargon Buster appeared first on The Blurt Foundation.
Parenthood Understood
FEBRUARY 21, 2021
Once upon a time, on a Monday, a man was walking down a road. All of a sudden, out of nowhere, he found himself at the bottom of a big, dark place. It was scary! After several hours, he figured out that he had fallen into a very large pothole. He wasn’t able to get out on his own–actually it required a lot of help to get out, but eventually he did get out.
Beautiful Voyager
FEBRUARY 22, 2021
Gloucester, England, where the author lives. I live in Gloucester, England, where COVID lockdowns have happened in two waves. Lockdown 1.0 had catastrophic effects on all of our mental health, but it was clear that the elderly suffered more than most. Older people are more susceptible to the disease, so many were forced to shield for months and some didn’t have social contact throughout that time.
KVC
FEBRUARY 19, 2021
When a child is discharged from a children’s psychiatric hospital, they will likely experience a range of emotions and expectations for life after their hospital stay. Choosing to admit a child for inpatient psychiatric care is never easy and it can be an overwhelming decision to make. But it is also a choice that can, and should, be life-changing in improving a child’s emotional and mental health.
The Socail Issue
FEBRUARY 19, 2021
TweetDebates about Covid-19 recovery and economic renewal ignore disabled people. This is shameful given that even before the virus, the UK’s 7.7 million working-age disabled people already faced significant inequalities. I wrote this opinion piece for the RSA Journal.
Social Work Haven
FEBRUARY 21, 2021
Do you have a way of coping with anxiety, stress, or depression? Perhaps you like to meditate, write or exercise. Do you use journaling prompts for depression or anxiety? Among many other activities, I enjoy writing the most to help cope with my anxiety and stress. I write because I acknowledge the health (mental and physical) risks of social work. According to a recent article by Oliver Beer and Sheena Asthana published in Community Care , the job of the social worker is carried out in an incre
Blurt It Out
FEBRUARY 18, 2021
Stress is our body’s normal response to increased physical and emotional pressure. When we’re repeatedly adding to our level of stress, and don’t have anything in place to counterbalance it, those stress levels go up and up until we reach our capacity, our emotional limits – negatively affecting our mental wellbeing. We all have a.
The Social Care Elf
FEBRUARY 17, 2021
There is increasing interest in co-production in public services and in social care. This blog reports on a PhD study of timebanks which are now seen as an example of co-production but have a long history in being promising indications of mutual aid and reciprocal support between members of local communities. Social care interest groups [read the full story.].
inSocialWork
FEBRUARY 16, 2021
Katrina Cherney, PhD. In this episode, Katrina Cherney discusses her research examining the relationship between student loan debt and subjective well-being over time, and how student loan debt is stratified across the socioeconomic spectrum and compounds inequalities and disparities. She summarizes the history of student loans and their role in financing education, describes the concept of the ‘dual quality of debt’, and considers the implications of the growing student loan debt crisis for soc
The Masked AMHP
FEBRUARY 14, 2021
This is about the first assessment I did under the 1983 Act. On 28th September 1983 the 1959 Mental Health Act was rescinded. I ceased being a Mental Welfare Officer and became an Approved Social Worker. It sounded much more modern, as did the 1983 Mental Health Act itself, which incorporated more human rights safeguards in the process of compulsory detention in hospital.
The Socail Issue
FEBRUARY 19, 2021
TweetImagine the anxiety of knowing you are at a greater risk of dying from the Coronavirus but are at the back of the queue for a life-saving vaccination and, if hospitalised, doctors might decide not to save your life. This is what learning disabled people are facing in this pandemic.
Social Work Haven
FEBRUARY 21, 2021
Social work is a relationship-based practice, and communication is key when forming positive relationships. So what is communication? Communication is the act of exchanging or transferring information from one person, place, area or system to another in the form of verbal or non-verbal communication. . TRENDING CONTENT ON SOCIAL WORK HAVEN. This means we use body language and spoken words in practice.
Social Work Bubble
FEBRUARY 15, 2021
Vision boards are a widely known concept, completed by many to express goals through creativity. But just because it’s common, doesn’t make it any less helpful in mental health treatment. So what’s so significant about the vision board when in comes to addressing mental health? From Leaders in Heels. Vision boards help describe goals in more specific and tangible ways, and allow people to do just that, visualize.
Learning Social Worker
FEBRUARY 13, 2021
On the 11th February 2021, the University of Essex Social Work and Social Justice department and the charity, Mental Health Time for Action, co-hosted a launch for my book, He Died Waiting. I was honoured to be supported by inspirational speakers, Professor Sara Ryan (author of Justice for Laughing Boy who wrote the foreword to my book), Caroline Bald (social work lecturer), Rachel Bannister (chair of Mental Health Time for Action), and Claire Skilleter (Practice Education Lead). 136 people, inc
Ultimate Youth Worker
FEBRUARY 10, 2021
In todays episode of the Ultimate Youth Worker Podcast “Supervision” Aaron speaks to us about the need for youth workers to have good professional supervision. As an industry that claims professional status it is ludicrous that mot of our members do not receive a minimum of monthly professional supervision. Supervision. In, the AYAC National Youth Work Snapshot 2013 , a survey of youth workers showed that 8.4% of surveyed youth workers had never had a supervision session and around 51.7% receive
N.A.H
FEBRUARY 8, 2021
In reflection on Dr. King’s life and legacy I gathered a few quotes from him that I feel could use a lot more attention than they... The post These Quotes from Dr. King Deserve More Attention appeared first on N.A.H.
Shelter, Inc
FEBRUARY 4, 2021
The harsh reality is not all children are represented equally in the child welfare system, nor do they have equal outcomes. For example, in the American population of children, African Americans make up 15%, but they represent 33% of foster care children. Yet, study after study show child abuse and neglect is lower in Black families than white families.
Creative Play Therapist
FEBRUARY 3, 2021
Instructions. - CLICK HERE to make a copy of the Feelings Monsters Google Slides presentation. - Pages 3 - 8 of the Gslides presentation are the monster outline templates. To change the color of the monsters click on the line of color to the right of the monster and then click the paint can icon to select a new color. - Page 9 - 10 of the presentation contain the facial feature options for the monster.
Social Work Bubble
FEBRUARY 8, 2021
Social workers are often told, alongside the pity glance, that the field is low pay & you’ll burn yourself out trying to survive. Though I agree that the field is terribly underpaid and undervalued, I do believe that too much weight is given to the underpaid aspect of social work. So how can we make money in this field? Micro Level. In order to build wealth, it is essential to have multiple streams of income.
Doin' The Work
FEBRUARY 1, 2021
Episode 38 Guests: Garland Jaggers, MSW & Denise McLane-Davison, PhD, AM Host: Shimon Cohen, LCSW. www.dointhework.com. Listen/Subscribe on: Apple Podcasts , Google Podcasts , Stitcher , Spotify. Follow on Twitter & Instagram , Like on Facebook. Join the mailing list Support the podcast Download transcript. Thank you to this episode’s sponsors!
Ultimate Youth Worker
FEBRUARY 3, 2021
In todays episode of the Ultimate Youth Worker Podcast “Why research must inform your practice” Aaron speaks to us about the need to use evidence based practice in our youth work. We look at the need for professionals to have a theory base in their industry which informs the way they practice. Why research must inform your practice. All too often youth workers get tarnished with the reputation of the slackers in the wider human services sector.
SECTIONED
FEBRUARY 23, 2021
I am being buried alive by professionals. Each fresh attempt to get care, treatment & support for severe & enduring mental ill-health in the past 3 years since I was discharged from community mental health services has led to more & more professionals covering their own arses. There is no way, simply no way, to get NHS mental health services or social care to respond in a constructive way when they’ve decided to exclude you from care – even when they’ve assessed you
NASW Foundation
FEBRUARY 22, 2021
Nominate and honor a new member of the NASW Social Work Pioneers® to celebrate Social Work Month in March! Nominations for new Pioneers will be accepted through March 31, 2021. Follow this.
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