Save the Social Worker

JULY 18, 2022

I confess. I’m no expert on social work. I’ve been complained about many times from clients. In my last placement, my supervisor wanted to fail me. Twice. You may feel cautious reading this. But those experiences in social work, however much of a ‘failure’ it was, taught me what not to do, and how the small, micro skills in social work could really make a difference between a happy client, and a not so happy one.

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Nnatasha Tracy

JULY 28, 2022

This week, Snap Out of It! The Mental Illness in the Workplace Podcast with Natasha Tracy is talking to Gary Koplin , Founder, and President at HealthyPlace.com , a large consumer mental health site. Gary has a unique perspective as he specifically hires and manages people with mental illness. He's worked with people who have had disorders from social phobia to bipolar disorder, from depression to dissociative identity disorder, and everything in between.

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My Brains Not Broken

JULY 7, 2022

I am tired. Tired of a lot of things, but today I’m sharing one specific reason I’m tired. I’m tired of seeing mental illness get weaponized. Tired of seeing mental health being brought up in bad faith, in harmful, disingenuous and shameful ways that undo the work people have put in for decades to shrink the stigma surrounding mental health.

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Mental Health Depression 246

Social Work Futures

JULY 18, 2022

Ethics evolve as the times change. For a while now, I’ve been exploring how futures thinking and practice might intersect with the NASW social work code of ethics. At times I worry that we are thinking of “ethical practice” ONLY as something that reflects historical or current practice…and believe we need and can manage to incorporate a temporal dimension looking ahead as well.

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Code of Ethics Social Worker 223

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Case Management

Gary Direnfeld

JULY 24, 2022

Parenting the infant, preschooler, school age child, the grown up is the boss. We set the rules, structure, expectations. While there may be some room for negotiation, ultimately it is the parent who determines what is eaten and when, bathing and bedtime and activities. All that changes come adolescence. While the parent likes to think themself in charge, the developing teen confronts those notions.

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Consultation Private Practice Counseling Mental Health 182

The International Association Of Schools Of Social

JULY 6, 2022

IASSW Announces The Release Of Social Dialogue Magazine # 26. Dear Colleagues, International Association of Schools of Social Work (IASSW) has launched Social Dialogue magazine volume 26 on Black Lives Matter: developments in de-colonising social work. This volume contains 16 articles from Ecuador, Guyana, Uruguay, Papua New Guinea, Italy, UK, Canada, Australia, and Aotearoa/New Zealand, exploring the title “Black lives matter: Developments in decolonising social work”.

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Social Worker Schools 144

The New Social Worker

JULY 17, 2022

The new 988 number for the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline went into effect July 16, 2022. How does it work, and what gaps in services need to be filled? Jonathan Singer summarizes what social workers need to know.

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Social Worker 123

My Brains Not Broken

JULY 19, 2022

It happens to all of us every now and then — at certain points in our lives, we feel stagnant. We feel like we’re doing too may things and not enough at the same time; we feel like we’ve accomplished so much, but at the same time haven’t accomplished anything of value. And while I have tried to figure out ways to deal with these feelings (keep an eye out for Thursday’s post!

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Mental Health 246

Social Work Futures

JULY 20, 2022

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Gary Direnfeld

JULY 28, 2022

I posted about the Papal visit and hoping well for Indigenous Peoples on another Facebook page – a community page. It drew a racist comment in response to my use of the word genocide. The person wanted me to prove it. It was presented as a demand and insinuated I didn’t know what I was talking about. It felt provocative and bullying in style. I checked out the person’s own Facebook page.

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Child Welfare Private Practice Mental Health Counseling 147

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

A Splintered Mind

JULY 7, 2022

The problem with chronic illness is that it's boring. I don't mean for the person stricken in bed and suffering. Who cares about them, right? I am referring to everybody else who finds the subject duller than a twenty-four hour CSPAN marathon. When the chronically sick try to tell others about their struggles, they are likely to receive no small degree of exasperation from people who can't hide their dismay, as if to say "What?

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Depression Schools 120

CAPC

JULY 21, 2022

The importance of reviewing a patients’ list of medications before adding to it—and how to assess if a patient is overmedicated.

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Clinic 140

The New Social Worker

JULY 20, 2022

BSW students at University of Alabama Birmingham were asked: What does being a professional social worker mean to you? How do you define research? A poetic analysis of their answers resulted in two poems.

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University Social Worker 119

My Brains Not Broken

JULY 14, 2022

As I wrote about earlier this week , it’s been a very interesting road to coming to terms with some of my limitations. Identifying my limitations (whether they’re physical, mental, emotional, etc.) is an important part of growth I’m coming to terms with. But the next step is more challenging: how do I cope with these limitations? How do I manage my feelings around them so they don’t make me upset, annoyed or depressed?

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The International Association Of Schools Of Social

JULY 20, 2022

Co-building an Eco Social World. Strengthening the African Social Work Academic Network. ASSWA will be hosting a webinar next week on the above topic. Please join us when we discuss how we can leverage on each other as African academics. [link].

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Gary Direnfeld

JULY 14, 2022

I see so many folks dealing with a narcissistic ex in my practice. My role is to coach them on how to better manage and respond so as to mitigate conflict, control and impact of the narcissist. This is not a touchy feely or emotive approach. This is about skill building and developing strategies more likely to manage more effectively. I do however delve into one’s upbringing.

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Private Practice Psychology Disorder Mental Health 147

Swhelper

JULY 7, 2022

SWHELPER. WASHINGTON, D.C. – Alaska social worker Yvonne Chase is the new president-elect of the National Association of Social Workers (NASW) and has pledged to keep the association focused on social justice issues while advocating for innovations to prepare the fast-growing social work profession for future challenges. Chase, PhD, LCSW, ACSW, MSW, who is an associate professor […].

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The Guardian

JULY 24, 2022

Poet Lemn Sissay, with the help of London’s Foundling Museum, has gathered 59 athletes, artists, CEOs and others who, like him, spent part of their childhoods in care. The result is an inspiring photograph for young people in care today Introduction by Claire Armitstead. Interviews by Killian Fox “I once was Christopher Goldsmith,” reads a poem, neatly typed out on one side of a piece of A4 paper.

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Social Care

JULY 20, 2022

Chief Nurse for Adult Social Care, Deborah Sturdy, and Skills for Care CEO, Oonagh Smyth, look at the progress being made to create a national voluntary framework to support the safe and effective delegation of healthcare interventions to the social care workforce. Delegated healthcare interventions include blood pressure monitoring, insulin administration, catheter care, wound care and more.

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My Brains Not Broken

JULY 12, 2022

It happens to all of us often – several times a week, I get stark reminders that I’m only human. Sometimes those are conscious reminders, but many times the reminders are because of my physical limitations. Like many people, one of the biggest reminder of my physical limitations is that I get tired. I push myself physically, mentally, emotionally, etc., and by the end of the day (or few days) I am exhausted.

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Mental Health Anxiety Depression 246

Michigan Social Work

JULY 27, 2022

Governor Gretchen Whitmer has signed Michigan Senate Bill 1012 into law. The legislation provides for the creation of a Student Mental Health Apprenticeship Retention and Training grant program (SMART), paying graduate social work students $25 an hour for their field education in public schools settings. The legislation was supported by The School’s Joint Task Force on Stipends and the social work student campaign Payments for Placements in partnership with the Michigan Chapter of the National

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Mental Health Advocacy Schools Social Worker 98

Gary Direnfeld

JULY 28, 2022

Personally, I don’t subscribe to any organized religion. Indeed, I don’t even think about a god and I don’t fret about death particularly, even with what I went through recently. (I am not fond of pain.). I don’t pray whatsoever. I do not practice the faith in which I was raised although I do identify as Jewish from a cultural perspective as that was my upbringing.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JULY 25, 2022

The doctor will report you now. That’s not what the recent article in the online publication Parent Map is called, of course. The actual title is “What do Do If You Are Mistakenly Accused of Child Abuse in a Hospital Emergency Room.” But the authors should have made clear the advice only applies if the “You” in that headline is a white, middle-class person.

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Hospitals Child Welfare Interviewing Foster Care 98

The Guardian

JULY 23, 2022

Amid staffing crisis and warnings that system is ‘deeply flawed’ companies caring for elderly and disabled enjoyed financial success The UK’s biggest care home chains saw their profit margins jump by 18% on average during the pandemic, new research shows, while the highest paid director’s salary surged to £2.3m. Amid a social care staffing crisis, and warnings from medical leaders that the system is “deeply flawed” and in need of urgent reform, analysis seen by the Observer lays bare the financi

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Prosper Health Collective

JULY 31, 2022

Stress is a physical and emotional reaction that people have as a result of challenging life circumstances. Stress is common and everyone will experience some degree of stress within their lifetime, however everyone experiences that stress differently. Research tells us that when we are stressed, our body’s release hormones- adrenaline and cortisol.

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Anxiety Schools 98

My Brains Not Broken

JULY 5, 2022

Every so often, I deal with situations or moments that I’ve come to recognize as “winding myself up.” I know that it’s a pretty well-known phrase and this happens to a lot of people, but I wanted to talk about my experience with getting wound up because I think it’s a unique insight into what it’s like to experience anxiety.

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Michigan Social Work

JULY 22, 2022

Professor Rogério M. Pinto has been named a University Diversity and Social Transformation Professor. Sponsored by the Office of the Provost, and jointly administered by the U-M National Center for Institutional Diversity (NCID) and the Office for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (ODEI), the Diversity and Social Transformation Professorship is an honor designation for senior faculty who have the highest levels of achievement in demonstrating a commitment to the university’s ideals of diversity, e

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Gary Direnfeld

JULY 28, 2022

I was a teen at the time. Selling shoes. It was my part time job. The store was upscale, the shoes expensive, women’s and men’s. The store was located on the corner of an open air mall near Yonge and Finch, in Willowdale, Ontario. Murray’s Highgrade Footwear. It was late on a Saturday afternoon. It must have been towards November. It was getting dark outside.

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Private Practice Empathy Mental Health Counseling 113

Social Work Blog

JULY 20, 2022

Ryan Estes, LCSW, LCAS, treasurer and compliance officer for the NASW national board of directors, is one of 15 leaders selected for the Annie E. Casey Foundation’s Children and Family Fellowship®. The people selected for the fellowship will spend 21 months working within their agencies, organizations and communities toward specific, measurable improvements for large numbers of young people and families.

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The Guardian

JULY 31, 2022

New report says policy changes are needed to protect ‘hidden workforce’ from exploitation Live-in care workers recruited from overseas to care for disabled and elderly people in Britain are being exploited by “unscrupulous” agencies who dock their pay to cover “accommodation costs”, according to new research. The workers, who live with clients to provide round-the-clock care, in some cases had their pay reduced by hundreds of pounds a month despite being paid only the minimum wage to begin with.

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Disability 98

Prosper Health Collective

JULY 31, 2022

Stress is a normal response to being in a situation that we feel we can’t manage or control well. We might feel under pressure or overwhelmed. Stress can be short-term, such as in response to preparing for an exam or perhaps minor surgery. Stress can also be long-term (chronic) when the stressful situation continues for a long period of time without a significant break.

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Anxiety 98

My Brains Not Broken

JULY 28, 2022

I don’t know about y’all, but I feel like this summer is flying by. Even though this is what happens almost every summer of my life, the strangeness of the summers of 2020 and 2021 have made this summer feel very foreign and unlike any other one I’ve experienced. It’s been years since I’ve been this busy, and expending that amount of social energy is taxing.

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Mental Health Anxiety 130

The International Association Of Schools Of Social

JULY 2, 2022

The People’s Charter for an Eco-Social World. People’s Charter for an Eco-Social World. The People’s Charter for an Eco-Social World comes from the People’s Global Summit, ‘Co-Building a New Eco-Social World: Leaving No One Behind’, held online on 29 June – 2 July 2022. It is a living document and reference point that will grow as the world’s populations share their solutions to our joint challenges, so all people can live with confidence, security, and peace in a sustainable world.

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Gary Direnfeld

JULY 28, 2022

Then there was the time when a guy came into the store wanting rubber over-shoes. You don’t seem to see these much anymore. They were a black rubber boot that fit over the shoe with a zipper up the center. Great for rain or snow. I was 17 at the time and had been working in the shoe store part-time about a year. It was late in the day and the smell of alcohol was more than this guy’s perfume.

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Private Practice Mental Health Social Worker Counseling 113

International Federation of Social Workers

JULY 17, 2022

Photo from left to right: Herbert Paulischin, Rory Truell, Yana Melnychuk, Ana Radulescu & Mykhailo Simashkevych. The International Federation of Social Workers, along with the President of the Kamianets-Podilskyi region, and community members have agreed on a partnership to start a Community Centre and social work hub in the Western Ukraine province of Kamianets-Podilskyi.

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