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How to become a better social worker

Save the Social Worker

Introduction. I must confess. I have been wanting to quit social work. It’s not because the work isn’t fulfilling, or that the work isn’t meaningful. It’s that I keep falling over the same things, over and over again. I keep struggling whenever a client raises difficult emotions, especially at me. I have no idea how to manage it. I think: Maybe this just isn’t for me.

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Skin-Picking And Hair-Pulling: Some Lesser-Known Symptoms Of Anxiety

Blurt It Out

Skin-picking, hair-pulling and other body-focused, repetitive behaviours can all be anxiety-related. They’re far more common than many of us realise, but we often feel shame associated with these behaviours, so we don’t talk about them. Because we all find it so difficult to talk about, it can feel like we’re the only person in the.

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Potential long-term mental and behavioral health consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic

Society of Clinical Psychology

Life as we knew it changed almost overnight with the onset of the coronavirus pandemic. To date, almost 100 million people have been infected with and approximately 2 million of those have died from the SARS-2-CoV 2019 virus (COVID-19). What’s not accounted for in these numbers, however, is how many people have been impacted by the pandemic without actually contracting the virus.

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Social Work with the Dead

The Masked AMHP

While it’s an occupational hazard for the police, ambulance crews, doctors and nurses to have to deal with dead and dying people, it’s fairly unusual for social workers to have such experiences. In over 40 years of being a social worker, I’ve been in the unfortunate position of being directly involved in the discovery of a recently deceased person on only four occasions.

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5 Must Haves for Case Management

Thousands of nonprofits rely on case management software to help collect data, manage programs, coordinate with agencies, and provide life-changing health and human services. Adopting a cloud-based case management platform is essential for nonprofits and government agencies to operate more efficiently and make better use of their funding and budget.

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Towards a UN Convention on the Rights of Older Persons: 11th session of the Open-Ended Working Group on Ageing 29.03-01.04.2021 

Health & Social Care Workforce

Caroline Green is Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Policy Research Unit in Health and Social Care Workforce, King’s College London.

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Improving Treatment for People with Physical and Cognitive Disabilities

Counselor Toolbox podcast

*Podcast had to be done with a backup microphone, I apologize for the sound quality. Sponsored by BetterHelp. Clinicians, sign up with BetterHelp to increase your bookings and work from the comfort of your own home. [link]. Objectives. ~ Define the impact of disabilities on the 7 categories of functional capacity. ~ Explore unique challenges for people with disabilities. ~ Identify attitudinal, procedural and treatment barriers and methods to mitigate them. ~ Review other identified behavioral t