The New Social Worker
OCTOBER 31, 2022
Sometimes, we need to pause for a period of time to reflect, recharge, revise, re-vision, rest, re-set, re-re whatever needs to be “re”ed. Dr. Erlene Grise-Owens is taking a pause. Will you?
Relias
NOVEMBER 2, 2022
Positive behavior support is a holistic approach to improving a person’s quality of life that can reduce challenging behavior. Grounded in applied behavior analysis , the concept of positive behavior supports emerged in response to deinstitutionalization and the move toward person centered supports and services. This focus on the individual has led positive behavior supports to include features such as: Collaboration with other caregivers.
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Prosper Health Collective
OCTOBER 29, 2022
November was meant to offer a series based on Psychology Week. Unfortunately as of late October, the Australian Psychological Society had still not published a theme, so Prosper Health Collective is going to offer a mixed bag of what clinicians would like to share with you. I will be talking about the role of the vagus nerve in modulating our anxiety response.
Community Care
OCTOBER 31, 2022
The number of child protection enquiries reached record levels in 2021-22, as referrals to children’s social care surged in the wake of the removal of Covid restrictions. Social workers carried out 10% more enquiries (217,800) under section 47 of the Children Act 1989 than in 2020-21, the first rise after three years of falling numbers and the highest total ever recorded.
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Gary Direnfeld
OCTOBER 31, 2022
The child was about ten. He was angry. With his parents in the room, I asked about the relationship between his parents. Having already met with the parents, I already knew the answer to the question. The parents were well informed where I would go with their child. The child said his parents sometimes fight. I asked how and he described the yelling and screaming, more by one than the other.
My Brains Not Broken
NOVEMBER 3, 2022
Several times a day, I’m reminded of how important it is to feel. I don’t mean to be happy or sad, nervous or stressed out. But I mean to feel, really feel, an emotion coming over me or an action that I’m taking. This might sound a little out there, or even simplistic, so I hope you can stick with me for this post. But today, I want to share how valuable it is to actually, really, truly feel your feelings.
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Community Care
NOVEMBER 1, 2022
Increasing numbers of children’s agency social workers are newly qualified, amid worsening staff shortages and rising demand, directors have warned. Children’s services leaders raised concerns about the cost, quality and profit extracted from agency work in responses to the Association of Directors of Children’s Services latest safeguarding pressures report, issued today.
Gary Direnfeld
OCTOBER 31, 2022
It was many years ago. With nowhere to discharge the teen, then 16, the plan was to simply drop him off at a downtown men’s shelter. This after a several month stay in the children’s mental health centre to get his schizophrenia under control. I couldn’t live with that. I asked his parents to see me for a private meeting. While they couldn’t take him home, they certainly didn’t want this for him either.
My Brains Not Broken
NOVEMBER 1, 2022
Last week, I broke down a mental health term I’ve learned more about in recent years – automatic negative thoughts. We all process things in different ways, and negative thoughts are a byproduct of that processing. While I haven’t been able to rid myself of negative thoughts, I have been able to recognize them and try to deal with them in a more direct way than I used to.
International Federation of Social Workers
NOVEMBER 3, 2022
‘Social workers have among the most difficult working conditions of all equivalent professions’, is the key finding of new research just published in International Social Work journal. ‘This has detrimental […].
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.
Community Care
NOVEMBER 1, 2022
Three-quarters of social workers are yet to renew their registration, with one month to go until the deadline. As of this morning (1 November), 23% of eligible practitioners (22,582) had completed the process. This involves submitting the renewal application, paying the £90 fee and providing two pieces of continuing professional development, one of which must have been reflected upon with a peer.
Gary Direnfeld
OCTOBER 31, 2022
She went to her parents for advice on her marriage. However they never liked him. The advice was biased. Leave. She had to think long and hard about that. She loved him. He was actually a kind fellow. He didn’t drink. Her parents did. They felt he thought he was better than them. It was all projection. Her parents had considerable issues of their own.
The Guardian
OCTOBER 30, 2022
Exclusive: discharge funding to relieve hospital delays promised by Thérèse Coffey in September has not materialised Hospitals and care homes have not received a single penny of a £500m emergency fund promised by the government to prevent the NHS becoming overwhelmed this winter, the Guardian has learned. Ministers announced they were injecting the cash into the health and social care system last month , to help get thousands of medically fit patients out of hospital into either their own home o
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
NOVEMBER 4, 2022
If you're a poor child, the moment your family crosses this border heading north the odds that you will be taken from your parents more than double. ? How did Massachusetts wind up tearing apart families at a rate more than 60% above the national average - and two to three times the rate of Connecticut? ? Why does Massachusetts also institutionalize children at a rate 60% above the national average?
Community Care
NOVEMBER 4, 2022
Councils have been asked to fund backpay for staff who have recently left their roles, following this year’s annual pay settlement for social workers and other local authority workers. The Local Government Association said it recommended that councils paid former staff backpay covering the period from 1 April up to their last day of employment, should ex-employees approach them.
The International Association Of Schools Of Social
NOVEMBER 4, 2022
Webinar on Social Work Practice Education in Europe. Lessons learned from the COVID-19 Pandemic and Future Perspectives. The EASSW co-funded project “Social Work Practice Education in Times of Pandemics, and Beyond. Continuities, Changes, Innovations in Europe (SWOOPED)” has been successful. The results will be presented and discussed with the global community of social work on December, 15 th in the Webinar “Social Work Practice Education in Europe.
Society of Clinical Psychology
NOVEMBER 2, 2022
Investigating transdiagnostic factors across mental disorders is of high importance as transdiagnostic factors can be targeted for both diagnosis and treatment in a diagnostically mixed sample. Rumination is one such potential transdiagnostic factor, whereby one repetitively and passively fixates on symptoms, causes and consequences of distress in a maladaptive way that does not lead to taking action (Nolen-Hoeksema, Wisco, & Lyubomirsky, 2008).
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
NOVEMBER 3, 2022
Last month, the Boston Globe published one of those stories popping up all over the country about a so-called “shortage” of placements for foster children, leading to some having to sleep in offices. Also last month NPR interviewed Julie Lurie of Mother Jones about her story concerning prolonged delays in initial hearings for families after the state family police agency – entirely on its own authority – rushes in and takes away the children.
Community Care
NOVEMBER 2, 2022
“Things have never been so bad,” for people needing care, carers and staff, the president of the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services has warned. In a speech to the National Children and Adult Services (NCAS) Conference yesterday, Sarah McClinton said the sector had been left with “no certainty, no plan and increasingly little time”, as it entered a challenging winter.
The International Association Of Schools Of Social
NOVEMBER 1, 2022
Webinar on Social Work and War. An online event co-sponsored by JASWE, IASSW, APASWE, and other Japanese academic organizations to be held on 12th November, 2022. Participation is FREE, Register to receive meeting link: Register here. For more details, please contact. Japanese Society for the Study of Social Work (JSSSW). Viktor Virag. E-mail?virag@jcsw.ac.jp.
Beyond Advocacy
NOVEMBER 1, 2022
Yesterday, the Supreme Court began hearing two cases concerning admissions criteria using affirmative action as one means of determining who gets coveted entry into Harvard University and the University of North Carolina. According to media reports, most justices appeared ready to end decades of judicial precedent and rule the use of affirmative action at public colleges and universities, represented by UNC, is unconstitutional.
Bipolar Bandit
OCTOBER 31, 2022
Biography I had my first mental illness episode with psychosis symptoms when I was 20 years old in 1982. I had mental illness episodes of extreme anxiety, depression, mania, and psychosis at different times from 1983-1992. I also worked in the mental health field for three years during this time, helping mentally ill patients in hospital settings. I was finally diagnosed with bipolar disorder in 1992 after I faced disciplinary action while a graduate counseling student because I had disabling sy
Community Care
NOVEMBER 3, 2022
The Supreme Court will hear a case to determine responsibility for funding mental health aftercare for certain out-of-area placements. It has granted Worcestershire council the right to appeal a Court of Appeal judgment that ruled against the authority and in favour of the government, in a case concerning ordinary residence in relation to section 117 of the Mental Health Act 1983.
Social Work Blog
NOVEMBER 1, 2022
By Chad Dion Lassiter, MSW. I was browsing a free book on the Internet recently and the first line stopped me. It started with Amartya Sen’s quote, “A misconceived theory can kill.”. Immediately, I thought about the amount of death that has pummeled the United States over the past few years. More than a million deaths from COVID-19 to date, 45,222 people died from gun-related injuries in 2020, and more than 107,000 fatalities from drug overdose, 75 percent of those involving an opioid in 2021.
CAPC
NOVEMBER 1, 2022
KevinMD publishes excerpt from book on caregiving, highlighting ways to avoid compassion fatigue as a caregiver.
The Guardian
NOVEMBER 2, 2022
This live blog has now closed, you can read more on this story here This is from Bloomberg’s Alex Wickham, who has been engaging in the time-honoured lobby practice of U-turn counting. Alok Sharma , the Cop26 president, said he was “delighted” Rishi Sunak will now be attending the Cop27 summit in Egypt. And he said he completely agreed with Sunak’s comment that “there is no long-term prosperity without action on climate change”.
Community Care
OCTOBER 31, 2022
Just over half of people receiving council-arranged long-term care had a review of their support plans in 2021-22, official figures have shown. NHS Digital said 55.2% per cent of people who had been receiving long-term support for more than a year were reviewed in 2021-22 , down from 58.4% in 2020-21. Councils told the statistics body that the situation was caused, in part, by the deprioritisation of reviews during Covid-19 and staff shortages, it said in its annual adult social care activity an
Psychological Health Care
NOVEMBER 1, 2022
Dealing with Antenatal Anxiety and Postpartum Depression. Your mental health and wellbeing are just as important as your physical health during pregnancy and following childbirth. While welcoming a new family member is an exciting endeavour, there’s no doubt preparing to have a baby and becoming a new parent can also be a challenging time. It’s a period of great change and, for some people, brings with it an increased likelihood of developing a mental health condition.
CAPC
NOVEMBER 4, 2022
Editorial calls for the palliative care field to reflect on where it is going to ensure that new palliative care clinicians are being trained properly.
The Guardian
NOVEMBER 1, 2022
Figure represents 220,000 children, with union adding many families of nurses and public transport workers also in crisis More than one in four children with care worker parents are growing up in poverty, according to a report by Trades Union Congress, with the union warning of “rampant” hardship in households with key workers. The TUC said that 220,000 children – 28.4% – with at least one social care worker as a parent were in poverty, and said the number was on course to rise to nearly 300,000
The New Social Worker
NOVEMBER 2, 2022
With recent backlash against the term woke, anti-woke laws have been proposed in at least 17 state legislatures in 2022, and Florida enacted its own “Stop WOKE Act.” What is a social worker to do when such laws affect ability to practice ethically?
Social Work Blog
NOVEMBER 4, 2022
Attention Clinical Social Workers: CMS Seeking Feedback on Good Faith Estimates. The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) is seeking feedback from clinical social workers and other providers about how they should provide estimates for costs of services for patients who use their insurance to pay for health and mental health services. Your feedback would be helpful in providing information to CMS who may create a proposed rule for preparing national standards in this area.
CAPC
NOVEMBER 4, 2022
New online messaging toolkit launched this week, helping clinicians and organizations improve messaging.
The Guardian
NOVEMBER 2, 2022
Councils receiving 5,400 new requests for help each day while capacity has reduced significantly The state of social care in England has “never been so bad”, the country’s leading social services chief has said, with half a million people now waiting for help. Sarah McClinton, president of the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services (ADASS), told a conference of council care bosses in Manchester: “The shocking situation is that we have more people requesting help from councils, more ol
A Splintered Mind
NOVEMBER 3, 2022
I’ll write a bit vaguely today because I want to touch upon some things that are family matters and how they impact me. Recently, I have noticed longtime readers of my blog have leapfrogged over me while my life has become stagnant. I caught myself beginning to feel bitter about it, so instead of letting that bitterness settle into depression, I will share some things that I have learned instead.
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