Community Care

JANUARY 24, 2022

Home Office guidance for social workers assessing the age of young people arriving in Kent is unlawful, the High Court has ruled. The guidance, for practitioners employed by the Home Office at the Kent intake unit (KIU), did not provide for age assessments to be carried out with adequate safeguards for the unaccompanied claimants concerned. Mr Justice Henshaw also found that age assessments carried out by social workers on two claimants, ‘MA’ and ‘HT’, at the KIU, in under an hour, just after th

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My Brains Not Broken

JANUARY 27, 2022

I’ve often thought about the phrase, “the mind works in mysterious ways.” I’ve heard it since I was a kid, and it’s been offered up for everything under the sun as an explanation for why people do the things they do. Since I’m naturally curious, those types of answers have never been satisfying to me. Mostly, this phrase felt like a catch-all to use when people didn’t feel like pondering why something was the way it was, even if they couldn’t figur

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Martin Webber

JANUARY 18, 2022

I have been talking to the Community Development Podcast about community-enhanced social prescribing - what it is and how we are evaluating it.

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Gary Direnfeld

JANUARY 24, 2022

She came because the one child wouldn’t listen. In actuality, the child did listen, just not to her, the mom. The child did listen to the grandmother. Seems the grandmother would talk down about the mother to the child. The grandmother also allowed the child far more freedoms than would the mom. The mom was hoping to better manage the child, however, it was abundantly clear it wouldn’t happen with the undermining influence of the grandmother… her mother.

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The International Association Of Schools Of Social

JANUARY 18, 2022

38th Annual Social Work Day at the UN. Moving Toward Food Security for All: The Role of Social Work. SAVE THE DAT E : Tuesday, March 15, 2022. Noon — 2 p.m. EST. This event will be held virtually on Zoom.

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Social Care

JANUARY 17, 2022

Nadra Ahmed, Executive Chair of the National Care Association, explains how a new website can help people make informed decisions about paying for care. The power of testimony. Friends, family and colleagues are all great sources of information. Sometimes, information comes from chance encounters, when you’re walking the dog or dropping off the kids.

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Interviewing 142

My Brains Not Broken

JANUARY 20, 2022

As someone who experiences depression on a fairly regular basis, I struggle when it comes to the concept of choosing. I forget about my power to decide, and how those choices can directly impact my well-being. After so many years of experiencing mental illness, the power to choose feels like a theoretical concept at this point, but I don’t think I’d realized just how much I was limiting myself until the pandemic hit.

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Nnatasha Tracy

JANUARY 27, 2022

Bipolar disorder is not your fault. Schizophrenia is not your fault. Depression is not your fault. You did nothing to deserve a mental illness. You are a good person and your being sick does not affect that. Mental illness landed on you and started eating away at your brain. It could have happened to anyone. You had nothing to do with it. Mental illness is not your fault.

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Gary Direnfeld

JANUARY 13, 2022

The call came from a close friend. Moments ago. His five-year-old grandson’s best friend died in a car crash. His grandson’s friend was six. My friend asked me for words. What does one say to a child so young whose friend has passed over? As the story unpacks, there is also the family of the child, coping now with his loss. What do we say? There are times, moments, where words are unavailable, where words seem so inadequate.

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Health & Social Care Workforce

JANUARY 20, 2022

Mary Baginsky, Senior Research Fellow at the NIHR Policy Research Unit in Health and Social Care Workforce, introduces the paper given by Martha Cover recently at the Unit. Dr Baginsky convenes the seminar series where the paper was presented.

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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.

Private Practice

The New Social Worker

JANUARY 12, 2022

Recent events have given us lots of opportunities to practice meditation. For people new to meditation and practicing under these conditions, it might seem daunting. There are a lot of quality meditation apps to help you find your way.

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Community Care

JANUARY 14, 2022

The Department for Education has scrapped its national assessment and accreditation scheme (NAAS) for children’s social workers. It plans to introduce a replacement accreditation programme later this year, designed to be “more sustainable” and deliver “a better overall experience for social workers” that was “more meaningful” for them and employers.

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My Brains Not Broken

JANUARY 13, 2022

I’ve written about my dislike for wintertime before, but a new thought popped into my head as to why this time of year isn’t great for me. We know about seasonal affective disorder, shorter days and colder nights and all that, but there’s another big reason that I don’t love this time of year. I have several activities and hobbies that I do that relieve/help me manage my mental health challenges, and the winter is one of the most challenging times because it limits what I

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CAPC

JANUARY 17, 2022

Understanding the psychology behind an unconscious response in patient encounters, and how clinicians can make meaning of these experiences.

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Gary Direnfeld

JANUARY 12, 2022

Chatted recently with two persons separated from partners they identified as narcissists. These were both follow-up meetings. The change in their disposition was truly amazing. From scared and intimated to confident and empowered. Both had been significantly traumatized by the experiences with their ex. Both had also recently started medication for anxiety.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 17, 2022

The rate at which children were torn from their homes in large Florida counties where sheriff's offices are in charge of child abuse investigations. Note that even if Pinellas County has now cut removals in half, it's still above the state average and well above Broward County. Hey, remember when the Sheriff of Pinellas County, Florida, Bob Gualtieri, whose office is responsible for child abuse investigations in the county, insisted that his officers never, ever needlessly take children from the

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Bipolar Bandit

JANUARY 13, 2022

When handling trauma, therapists, counselors, health professionals, caregivers, and others that are helping, seek to understand the person, get a pulse on the crisis, engage in triaging the most devastating issues, and offer interventions that help to restore, or create in some cases, stability. None of these previously stated tasks are easy. In fact, the challenges that these helpers face, especially in working with trauma, can lead to an apathetic state of mind, body, and spirit.

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Community Care

JANUARY 4, 2022

The Department for Education has renewed calls for children’s social workers who are not currently practising to return to the profession temporarily to ease staffing pressures caused by Covid-19. With staff absences within public services a mounting concern since the rapid rise of the Omicron variant, children’s minister Will Quince urged practitioners on Social Work England’s temporary register to contact their council’s children’s services department or sign up with a local agency.

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My Brains Not Broken

JANUARY 11, 2022

While I’ve improved how I manage anxiety over the years, there are plenty of ways my anxiety manifests that I’ve never been able to get a handle on. No matter how much I try to manage anxiety in every possible area of my life, there always seems to be something that makes me anxious. Once I see what that something is, I work to manage that anxiety or try to problem solve as best I can.

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Social Care

JANUARY 26, 2022

"There is now a seismic shift in the care sector’s digital focus and ambition." [Image supplied by freepik.com ]. Leading fulfilled lives in homes and communities. The Social Care White Paper asserts ‘When technology is embedded into care and support services, it can be transformative, helping people to live happy, fulfilled lives in their homes and communities.

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Gary Direnfeld

JANUARY 8, 2022

In the family law world, January is a busy month. It is traditionally the month with the most divorce filings of the year. Many people hang on through holidays, hoping for things to improve or at least not wanting to undermine the enjoyment of the time for the kids. Then bang. Things come to a head. I have to imagine that with this lockdown upon us, those whose lives together were difficult enough, are even more so without a break from each other.

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The Guardian

JANUARY 5, 2022

Over 11,000 care workers off for Covid reasons, internal health system staffing data shows Coronavirus – latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage Care operators are facing acute staffing shortages caused by Omicron with more than 90 declaring a “red” alert, which means staffing ratios have been breached. Over 11,000 care home workers are off for Covid reasons, according to internal health system staffing data seen by the Guardian.

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Sober Courage

JANUARY 31, 2022

A relapse is when a person returns to using drugs or alcohol after a period of sobriety. Relapses are most common in the first 90 days of sobriety and according to the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), relapse rates while in recovery are 40 to 60%. There are 3 stages of a relapse: emotional, … Continue reading Relapse Stages, Triggers and Coping Skills.

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Community Care

JANUARY 18, 2022

A London borough has agreed to pay £2,500 to a disabled boy and his adoptive mother after issuing care proceedings on “incomplete and flawed information”. The Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman found that Richmond council had not considered the full range of information available to it about ‘Ms X’ and ‘Y’ at its legal planning meeting before launching care proceedings.

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Social Workers Speak

JANUARY 13, 2022

Photo courtesy of Mattel. National Association of Social Workers (NASW) Social Work Pioneer, journalist and activist Ida B. Wells has been honored by toymaker Mattel with her very own Barbie doll. According to Barbie’s Twitter account , Wells, a social worker, is a part of Mattel’s Inspiring Women series and spotlights “heroes who inspire us to dream big.

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Nnatasha Tracy

JANUARY 13, 2022

Our society encourages people to push their limits, and there is no out for people with mental illness. Our society claims over and over that we must "push the envelope," "take risks," and "do what scares us." There is no societal pressure to "respect your limits" or "live the way you feel comfortable." And maybe that's good for the general population, I can't say, but what I can say is that it's terrible advice for people with mental illness.

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Gary Direnfeld

JANUARY 5, 2022

I am a late bloomer. Back in my day, one needed grade 13 to go to university. I wasn’t a good student. I lasted to grade 12 and then dropped out. If it wasn’t for music, I wouldn’t have made it that far. I gained an interest in photography and a year later applied and then attended a program at Seneca College. There I took an elective in psychology and with that applied as a mature student to York University.

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The Guardian

JANUARY 2, 2022

Mother says her 24-year-old son’s care at a hospital in Cheshire is ‘worse than being in prison’ The family of an autistic man confined to an apartment and fed through a hatch are planning a legal challenge against his conditions, in a case that will increase pressure on the government to end the practice of keeping people with severe learning disabilities in “modern-day asylums”.

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Ultimate Youth Worker

JANUARY 26, 2022

In todays episode of the Ultimate Youth Worker Podcast, “Thinking Critically About Youth Work: Part One”, Aaron speaks with Dr. Brian Belton about the need for youth workers to be critically reflective about who we are as professionals. Over the years we have had some really great deep web chats with Brian, but this is the first face-to-face!! I mean he lives in the UK and Aaron is here in Australia!

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Community Care

JANUARY 7, 2022

Councils will need to recruit more adults’ social workers to deal with hundreds of thousands more assessments and reviews per year on the back of care funding reforms, the government has confirmed. The additional assessments and reviews will be required from 2023-24 onwards when the government implements its cap on care costs and a more generous system of means-testing, bringing many more self-funders into local authority care and support.

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Sober Courage

JANUARY 26, 2022

Relapse is a big part of my recovery journey that has filled me with feelings of guilt and shame, two very powerful negative emotions. My guilt reflects feelings of accountability and regret for the relapses that negatively affected me and my family. The shame brings deeply painful feelings of self-unworthiness, arising from the belief that … Continue reading You Are a Relapse Survivor.

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Society of Clinical Psychology

JANUARY 10, 2022

The 65 and older population is growing rapidly and is estimated to make up 30% of the nation’s population by 2030 (U.S. Census Bureau, 2020). In 2012, the Institute of Medicine projected that at least 20% of older adults would experience some mental health concerns (Eden et al., 2012), though they could not have predicted the global COVID-19 pandemic and the added present-day mental health strain this would cause on all ages, especially older adults, many of whom were exponentially impacted due

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Social Work With Adults

JANUARY 28, 2022

Lyn Romeo: Continuous professional development in safeguarding practice is essential if we are to serve individuals, families, and communities well. The recently published Revisiting safeguarding practice will support local authority social workers to refresh their knowledge and understanding of their roles and responsibilities in responding to enquiries and concerns.

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Bipolar Bandit

JANUARY 20, 2022

Romantic relationships can come with many highs and lows. You can oscillate between feeling very confident and then insecure. Insecurities can come from unresolved internal issues, such as low self-esteem, fear of abandonment, trauma, and general anxiety. When these issues are not dealt with, they can topple over into your relationships. Insecurities in your relationship may also stem from your partner engaging in gaslighting.

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Ultimate Youth Worker

JANUARY 12, 2022

In todays episode of the Ultimate Youth Worker Podcast, “Listen to Engage”, Aaron speaks to us about the need for youth workers to listen respectfully to their young people. One of the keys to developing respectful engagement with our young people is the skill of listening to gain understanding of how they view their experiences. Listen to Engage. We have two ears and one mouth, so the proverb goes, so listen twice as much as you speak.

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