Gary Direnfeld
SEPTEMBER 4, 2024
This post discusses severe parental alienation, when one parent seeks to poison the children’s relationship to the other parent by causing the children to believe horrible yet unfounded allegations about that parent. —– I get it. When a parent is manipulating their child to hate the other parent, it’s a nightmare. No matter what you do, it’s twisted to use against you.
Social Work Blog
SEPTEMBER 1, 2024
Social workers across practice settings provide services to individuals, including pregnant people, who are consuming alcohol at risky levels. Reducing problematic alcohol use is crucial to preventing fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASDs)—neurodevelopmental disabilities and birth defects that can occur in a baby exposed to alcohol before birth. FASDs represent a range of behavioral, intellectual, and physical disabilities across the lifespan, and might affect up to 5% of school children natio
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International Federation of Social Workers
SEPTEMBER 6, 2024
On 12 April 2024, the National Association of Social Workers in Burundi (NASWA-BURUNDI), in collaboration with the Ministry of National Solidarity, Social Affairs, Human Rights and Gender, and with the […]
The International Association Of Schools Of Social
SEPTEMBER 1, 2024
Nominations are called for the Prestigious Katherine A. Kendall Memorial Award for distinguished contribution to the development of social work education internationally. The nominee can come from any region of the world and may or may not be a member of IASSW. The biography of the nominee must match the required criteria. For details about the nomination process and guidelines on the criteria, please go to : [link] Nominations should be submitted to the chair of the Committee Halaevalu Vakala
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Gary Direnfeld
SEPTEMBER 4, 2024
Ontario high school students are required to provide 40 hours of community service. I remember a friend of mine who worked for a community agency telling me that parents would ask him to sign a form indicating their kid had done so… when they hadn’t done so. Other parents would do their kids work of finding them a placement to do their time… as if it was a jail sentence.
Social Work.Career
SEPTEMBER 3, 2024
This post is part of the monthly series, Free Webinars for Social Workers and Mental Health Professionals, featuring over 40 free webcasts that we 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 to you, […] The post Free Mental Health Webinars, September 2024 appeared first on SocialWork.Career.
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The New Social Worker
SEPTEMBER 4, 2024
I am a school social worker, a canary in the coal mine of public education. I see the collective strain on school staff, but I also envision the way forward.
Gary Direnfeld
SEPTEMBER 4, 2024
The thing is, not everyone can manage. Not everyone can maintain employment. Some truly don’t have the skills. Some meet hardship that overwhelms. Some face illness, accident or injury. Some simply lack capacity for self-sufficiency. What of these folks? We can leave them to themselves. Swim or drown. Few will want to drown. They may live a subsistence life, perhaps on the streets, perhaps scrounging, doing anything necessary to survive.
The International Association Of Schools Of Social
SEPTEMBER 1, 2024
The Cadernos GEPE journal invites researchers, academics and practitioners in Social Work areas to submit articles for its next edition. Published annually, the journal is a scholarly organ of the Ethics Study and Research Group (GEPE) of UFPE, whose central focus is ethics in Social Work, with a close look at the theoretical and practical implications of this area in national and international contexts.
International Federation of Social Workers
SEPTEMBER 4, 2024
The National Association of Social Workers Uganda (NASWU) has recently released its 2024 report, highlighting the significant strides made in advancing social work in Uganda over the past three years.
Speaker: Joe Sharpe and James Carlson
Payroll optimization can be one of the most time-consuming and complex factors of small business management. Yet, organizations that crack the code on streamlining employee compensation often discover innovative avenues for growth. With the right strategies in place, outsourcing and streamlining payroll processes can result in substantial time and resource savings.
Children’s Defense Fund
SEPTEMBER 6, 2024
Children’s Defense Fund mourns the passing of our dear friend and emeritus board member, Leonard Riggio. Mr. Riggio is best known for founding the Barnes and Noble Booksellers. But we know him as a stalwart advocate for “the unfinished business of the Civil Rights Movement” and his generosity in supporting the development of Children’s Defense Fund’s Alex Haley Farm, where the Langston Hughes Library and the Leonard Riggio-WIlliam Lynch Chapel stand as testaments to his philanthropic commitment
Gary Direnfeld
SEPTEMBER 4, 2024
Be cautious about rushing to soothe every frustration your kid experiences. That thing called frustration tolerance cannot develop if each instance is compensated for or soothed by another. Indeed, all that soothing can rob the child of the capacity to develop resilience, the ability to overcome adversity. As they are left to manage their own feelings, then and only then can they come to self-soothe.
University of Connecticut
SEPTEMBER 3, 2024
UConn School of Social Work professor S. Megan Berthold has traveled around the world as far as Nepal to work with trauma survivors, but a yearlong academic Fulbright Canada Distinguished Research Chair Award at Carleton University in Ottawa, Ontario, will put her only about 400 miles to the north of Hartford. While that’s closer than the 8,700 miles away when she was on the Thai-Cambodian border, working on the edge of a war zone, her research in Canada will be no less important.
International Federation of Social Workers
SEPTEMBER 5, 2024
The Indonesian Independent Association of Professional Social Workers (IPSPI) has officially released its much-anticipated report for World Social Work Day (WSWD) 2024.
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Michigan Social Work
SEPTEMBER 3, 2024
Associate Professor Anao Zhang's article "The efficacy of cognitive behavioral therapy for mental health and quality of life among individuals diagnosed with cancer: A systematic review and meta-analysis," was published in Cancer Medicine and featured in Everyday Health. Zhang says the findings confirm that cognitive behavioral therapy can help many people cope with the negative feelings that come up while living with cancer.
Nicole Clark Consulting
SEPTEMBER 2, 2024
Here are five recommendations to help programmatic staff balance participant feedback with their capacity to implement changes. The post Ask Nicole: Balancing Participant Feedback & Staff Capacity appeared first on Nicole Clark Consulting.
NASW Foundation
SEPTEMBER 1, 2024
Social workers across practice settings provide services to individuals, including pregnant people, who are consuming alcohol at risky levels. Reducing problematic alcohol use is crucial to.
International Federation of Social Workers
SEPTEMBER 6, 2024
Le 12 avril 2024, l’Association Nationale des Travailleurs Sociaux du Burundi (NASWA-BURUNDI), en collaboration avec le Ministère de la Solidarité Nationale, des Affaires Sociales, des Droits de l’Homme et du […]
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
SEPTEMBER 2, 2024
Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll. Ofsted is to scrap single-word judgments for its inspections of local authority children’s services and regulated social care providers. The regulator announced the change, a day after the government ended the use of overall effectiveness ratings for state schools with immediate effect.
Children’s Defense Fund
SEPTEMBER 6, 2024
September and the beginning of fall are traditionally thought of as “back to school” season. Whether students and their teachers have been in their classrooms for just a few days or a few weeks already, this is usually the time when routines start settling in, and school days return to familiar patterns. This year, the first week of September was disrupted by a terrible tragedy that has become its own all-too-familiar routine in our nation: headlines about another school shooting.
University of Connecticut
SEPTEMBER 5, 2024
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Social Care
SEPTEMBER 5, 2024
The social care workforce plays a hugely important role in public health, but this has not always been celebrated and recognised to the extent that it should be. [Image created by freepik.com ] Making good ideas happen Most people will support the idea that ‘prevention is better than cure’ but we know from both the data and our own professional and personal experiences, this is not always the reality.
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Community Care
SEPTEMBER 6, 2024
The government has selected two groups of councils to test the commissioning and delivery of looked-after children’s placements at a regional level. Greater Manchester and the South East have been chosen as pathfinders for so-called regional care co-operatives (RCCs), under which individual councils pool their resources and plan placements centrally.
The Guardian
SEPTEMBER 4, 2024
Exclusive: Case of Sia Kasparis, who has dementia, had been highlighted in Guardian investigation into unpaid care UK politics live – latest updates An 86-year-old woman with advanced dementia has been told by the government she no longer has to repay a £13,000 benefit debt after her case was highlighted by the Guardian. Sia Kasparis, who is partially blind and has been bed-bound for two years, was ordered to repay the huge sum after officials said she had failed to notify them her son had taken
University of Connecticut
SEPTEMBER 3, 2024
Donald deGraffenried, LCSW Friday, October 11, 2024 In-person 9:00 am – 4:00 pm 6 CECs Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is an innovative and powerful therapy used for the desensitization of PTSD and other mental health concerns. It has been in existence for over fifty years, is research validated and many clinicians have questions about the therapy.
Relias
SEPTEMBER 6, 2024
The landscape of obstetric care is evolving rapidly, but not always in ways that benefit healthcare providers. One of the most pressing issues today is the rise of “nuclear verdicts” in obstetrics — staggering malpractice awards that exceed $10 million. For example: In 2023, A Pennsylvania jury awarded $183 million to the family of a boy born with severe brain injuries due to a delayed C-section at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania.
Community Care
SEPTEMBER 4, 2024
Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll. Sixty per cent of community social care services in England have no or an ‘outdated’ performance rating, an analysis of Care Quality Commission (CQC) data has found. Almost a quarter of home care, extra care, shared lives or supported living services (23%) had never been rated by the CQC as of June 2024, despite more than half of these having been registered with the regulator f
The Guardian
AUGUST 31, 2024
Labour accused of dropping pledges after it abandons cap on costs and prepares to scrap care worker training fund • Unless Labour wakes up on social care, tragedies will happen Labour has discarded its social care commitments and seems set to repeat the failure of previous governments to tackle the care crisis, the sector’s leaders have warned. Announcements by Rachel Reeves, the chancellor, that she would not cap costs for older people’s care and Stephen Kinnock, the care minister, that he woul
CO4Kids
SEPTEMBER 3, 2024
Back to Blogs Community Blog Adams County Celebrates Kinship Care Month This Kinship Care Month Adams County is recognizing an outstanding kinship caregiver, caseworker and community partner for all they do to support youth in foster care and kinship caregivers. Kinship Caregiver Marjorie Lane is a single grandmother who took on four children between the ages of five and fifteen.
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
SEPTEMBER 2, 2024
“Yes, it’s Big Brother. But we have to have our eyes open to the potential of this model.” -- Rhema Vaithianathan, co-designer of child welfare “predictive analytics” algorithms, discussing the idea of assessing children’s risk of abuse – while they’re still in the womb. The Lincoln Project is a group of disaffected Republicans appalled by what has happened to their party.
Community Care
SEPTEMBER 3, 2024
Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll. Councils’ response to child neglect is “slow and inadequate” due to high thresholds for intervention and a lack of services, the NSPCC has found. A third of social workers polled by the charity said they had faced pressure from managers or colleagues to cease or delay intervention in neglect cases, while professionals in partner agencies criticised how children’s soc
The Guardian
SEPTEMBER 2, 2024
Julia Ross from the British Association of Social Workers says if a referral is made it must be acted on – it is the law What the media coverage on the Kirstie Allsopp story misses is how social work actually works ( Kirstie Allsopp reported to social services for allowing son, 15, to travel abroad, 25 August ). If a referral is made, it must be acted on when certain criteria are met – it is simply the law.
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