Social Work Futures
MAY 24, 2022
Let’s have an imagination session! Think about how different a “typical social work job” was 50 years ago. That would be the year 1972. And imagine how different it might be 50 years from now – the year 2072. What will the world be like? What will our global and local challenges, opportunities, strengths, crisis, dynamics and possibilities be at that time?
Nnatasha Tracy
MAY 23, 2022
Emotional permanence is a term I recently heard for the first time. It has to do with believing in emotions even when they can't be seen. This concept is taken from object permanence which is the understanding that objects exist even when they can't be seen. When I read the term, I realized that I have problems with emotional permanence. I also realized that not having a consistent sense of emotional permanence was a major cause of anxiety.
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Community Care
MAY 25, 2022
A council is at risk of losing control of its children’s services after the government intervened in the light of a damning Ofsted report. The Department for Education (DfE) has appointed a commissioner, Paul Moffat, to oversee and direct improvements at Sefton council, and also to determine whether it has the capacity and capability to improve itself over the long term.
Gary Direnfeld
MAY 27, 2022
The other evening I gathered my family for a ZOOM call to share the news of my angiogram. It came on the heels of a day that began with a call to go to hospital at 7:00 am. Owing to a number of emergency patients ahead of me and other complex patients, the procedure for my angiogam was late in the afternoon. Recovery another 2.5 hours. Although mildly sedated, the doctor walked me through the findings while still on the table.
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My Brains Not Broken
MAY 24, 2022
It today’s digital world, lots of thoughts and feelings can be boiled down to a slogan or a hashtag, something that will grab a person and make them want to learn more or take action. When it comes to mental health there are a lot different ideas and slogans, but one of the most popular is the phrase it’s okay not to be okay. Usually that’s said in a way that is reassuring or a catalyst for change, but today I also want to talk about how this can help pave the way for a new nor
Social Work Futures
MAY 24, 2022
The future I will be working on includes reproductive freedom for all. This is (another) rallying moment for the profession of social work. Yet sadly, I don’t see enough dialogue, planning and learning together about what comes next for us…how the profession will play a role in assuring this basic human right. Because to accomplish the future we want, we all need to jump in and do what we can from wherever we are, I pulled a list of signals, articles, and organizations to learn from,
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Gary Direnfeld
MAY 27, 2022
I read the psych-ed report on their child. It wasn’t good news and could easily be difficult to understand by any parent. I explained the results. Although of average intelligence there was difficulty absorbing information as well as getting it out there. It’s kind of like having a reasonable computer, but a lousy keyboard and flickering monitor.
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
MAY 27, 2022
Massachusetts "Child Advocate" Maria Mossaides Consider the relative positions and power of two women in Massachusetts. Crystal Sorey is the mother of Harmony Montgomery, a child who was taken from her because of her illness – drug use - and ultimately placed with her father. Harmony was last seen toward the end of 2019. We still might not even know that Harmony is missing were it not for her mother’s persistence in demanding answers.
Social Work Blog
MAY 27, 2022
Getty Images. Social workers have a long tradition of social justice and political advocacy – to include working to expand and protect voting rights and promote voter registration. Our essential work on behalf of protecting voting rights is needed now more than ever. The right to vote was hard won and still remains tenuous for historically vulnerable and under-represented communities.
Community Care
MAY 24, 2022
By Charlotte Goddard and Mithran Samuel. Care review proposals for “expert” social workers to both lead safeguarding cases and chair child protection conferences pose a “massive concern”, the British Association of Social Workers (BASW) has warned. BASW said that the proposal risked sacrificing the objectivity of the child protection conference chair role, as currently enshrined in Working Together to Safeguard Children.
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.
CAPC
MAY 23, 2022
Interview highlights from CAPC’s environmental scan, Equitable Access to Quality Palliative Care for Black Patients.
Society of Clinical Psychology
MAY 24, 2022
It may come as no surprise to patients and therapists to hear that the therapist matters when it comes to the quality of psychotherapy. This contrasts with the perspective of health systems that often view clinicians as interchangeable; or, to researchers who often view therapist differences as a statistical nuisance for which one must control. Findings from psychotherapy outcome research have “caught up” to anecdote and patient and therapist intuition.
Social Work Blog
MAY 25, 2022
June 2022. NASW recognizes June as Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) Awareness Month. PTSD impacts millions of people in the United States. “According to the National Center for PTSD, a program of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, about seven or eight of every 100 people will experience PTSD in their lifetime.” 1 Although PTSD has commonly been associated with the military and veteran populations, it affects people of all ages, communities, gender, and social economic background.
Stop Abuse Campaign
MAY 23, 2022
← The Ugly Truth About Mental Health Stigma. My childhood trauma began at age seven when my mother left us and our father, who physically, sexually, and mentally abused her. He was 27 years older than her. After my mother left, my father abused me. I was courageous; I found my mother and told her. Her reaction confirmed this was not supposed to happen.
Beautiful Voyager
MAY 25, 2022
As part of my job at Pinterest, I am lucky enough to co-lead an incredible community group called Pinside Out. Through this work, I am connected with incredible people around the world who are also interested in sharing their personal experiences around mental health. One of those people is the incredible Dublin-based Conor Sharkey. Conor, thank you so much for sharing your light with all of us. ??
National Casa Gal
MAY 25, 2022
Protecting children and ensuring their safety are always top of mind at the National CASA/GAL Association for Children. Read More. The post Condolences to the Uvalde, Texas community appeared first on National CASA/GAL Association for Children.
The New Social Worker
MAY 23, 2022
Congratulations, social work grads! While celebrating, many will also engage in preparation. This period may consist of making determinations about employment, pursuing further education, and considering what your “social work life” will look like.
Lawson Psychology
MAY 26, 2022
The post What to do when there is conflict in our romantic relationship? appeared first on Lawson Clinical Psychology.
International Federation of Social Workers
MAY 24, 2022
1. Concern The world is facing unparalleled levels of social and environmental crises; climate change, pandemics, persistent inequality, lack of consensus internationally at the geo-political level, and increased conflict. These crises are intertwined and have profound effects on people and their communities through the dramatic increase in the economic, social, emotional, and ecological challenges.
National Casa Gal
MAY 23, 2022
CASA/GAL supporters are encouraged to make a gift on June 7, as we aim to raise $40,000 to support the continued growth and development of our nationwide network. Read More. The post National CASA/GAL hosts special 40th Anniversary Day of Giving on June 7 appeared first on National CASA/GAL Association for Children.
The New Social Worker
MAY 25, 2022
Clinical social workers and those in management positions hold unique and valuable perspectives and knowledge that can be harnessed to inform and influence elected officials. Advocacy work can seem daunting, but it does not have to be.
The Guardian
MAY 22, 2022
New Beginnings gives social workers the time to develop relationships with the families they help Almost a year ago, Clare Western wrote a letter to her two teenage children. She opened up about her regrets and how she should have listened when they urged her to leave an abusive ex-partner. It was a “monumental moment”, she said. “They both broke down and hugged me.
CAPC
MAY 23, 2022
Claims culture of safety in health care at risk after nurse who committed a medication error was charged and convicted of criminally negligent homicide.
International Federation of Social Workers
MAY 25, 2022
The policy paper “The Role of Social Workers in Advancing a New Eco-Social World” has just been adopted as part of the 2022 IFSW General Meeting. The IFSW United Nations Commission who has developed the policy paper thanks the member organisations for their support. Awareness raising regarding ecological and social change is widespread nowadays, but […].
Living Sober
MAY 26, 2022
Greer Berry is a writer, award-winning journalist, PR advisor, wedding celebrant, wife, mother, and she is sober. Click below to watch or listen to my Sobriety Chat with Greer. You'll hear her talk about using 'mummy juice' to help with the pressure of being a military wife and mother, bringing an intense curiosity to sobriety, dealing with high pressure and […].
The Guardian
MAY 22, 2022
Root-and-branch review calls for five-year, £2.6bn programme to reform a system that is under ‘extreme stress’ An urgent multibillion-pound overhaul of children’s social care in England is needed to transform the life chances of thousands of vulnerable young people and reform a system that is spiralling out of control, a government-commissioned review has concluded.
Lawson Psychology
MAY 26, 2022
What to do when there is conflict in our romantic relationship? As social beings, humans have the need to develop safe emotional connections with others in order to thrive and survive, and feel happy and fulfilled. This need has been shaped and wired in by millions of years of human evolution. When we are born, we have the need to connect and attach to our caregivers.
International Federation of Social Workers
MAY 24, 2022
The International Federation of Social Workers is pleased to announce the award of the highest honour of the Federation – the Andrew Mouravieff-Apostol Medal – to Charles Mbugua and the Council of International Fellowship (CIF) The presentation was made at the IFSW virtual General Meeting on Saturday 14 May 2022. Charles Mbugua Charles Mbugua was […].
The International Association Of Schools Of Social
MAY 27, 2022
Social Work Professional Organizations in Europe and Beyond An Opportunity for Social Work and Social Policy in Complex Societies? International Blended Seminar. June, Monday 27th, 2022, 09:30-16:30. (Central European Summer Time). Physical Venue: Pisa, Aula Magna – Department of Political Science, Via Serafini 3. Virtual Venue: [link] via MS Teams.
The Guardian
MAY 27, 2022
From my 12 years of research, I know that the pressure staff come under – especially from hostile parents – can cloud their judgment Harry Ferguson is professor of social work at the University of Birmingham When six-year-old Arthur Labinjo-Hughes and 16-month-old Star Hobson’s deaths from appalling physical abuse became widely known in December there was an outpouring of public anger, grief and questions about how this could possibly have been allowed to happen.
Social Service Workforce
MAY 27, 2022
L’UNICEF travaille avec le Gouvernement congolais pour créer un environnement protecteur et assurer la sécurité des enfants les plus vulnérables. Publié à l'origine sur le site Web de l'UNICEF République Démocratique du Congo. Aussi disponible en anglais.
International Federation of Social Workers
MAY 25, 2022
The IFSW executive is pleased to announce that the Censure of the Israeli Union of Social Workers has now been withdrawn as part of the 2022 IFSW General Meeting. In 2018 the IFSW General Meeting supported the executive censure of the Israeli Union of Social Workers because of concerns “that the Israeli Union of Social […].
Michigan Social Work
MAY 26, 2022
Professor Daphne Watkins has received the 2022 Distinguished Faculty Award. Watkins is a University Diversity and Social Transformation Professor who studies behavioral interventions for historically marginalized groups, mixed methods approaches to research in context, and leadership development and organizational structures. She is the Director of the Vivian A. and James L.
The Guardian
MAY 23, 2022
Passing the buck for care on to the ‘community’ won’t work for children living in unsafe housing or suffering abuse Like a protective sibling, I am the first to both criticise and defend the care system. It failed and saved me in equal measure. In adult life, I returned to it as a social worker. I know its flaws and its potential to change lives. The sector is stretched and underfunded.
Social Service Workforce
MAY 27, 2022
UNICEF is working with the Congolese government to create a protective environment and to ensure the safety of the most vulnerable children. Originally published on the UNICEF Democtratic Republic of Congo website. Also available in French. .
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