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Five Ways to Deal With Mental Filters

My Brains Not Broken

In Tuesday’s breakdown of mental health terms, I wrote about mental filters, what they look like and how they appear in our lives. Mental filters can go my many names, but what’s important to know is that they can impact the way we view the world. When mental filters go unchallenged for too long, they can change the way we think, the way we perceive what’s going on around us.

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Can Addiction Make People More Vulnerable To Illness?

Gateway Foundation

Addiction can have an immense impact on your physical health. Depending on the substance and severity, addiction can weaken your immune system and make you more vulnerable to illness, infection, and disease. It can also lead to health complications and put a person at risk of unintentional injuries and accidents. That’s why treatment programs address all aspects of a person’s addiction — including nutrition, exercise, and healthy activities — to strengthen physical health.

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Guide to Applying Systemic Practice in Social Work

Social Work Haven

One of the key purposes of understanding what a systemic social work theory entails is to help practitioners focus on relationships. Another key purpose is to guide social workers in understanding how individuals are embedded within their social context. A systemic approach is essential in social work practice as it helps shape the way social work practitioners interact with families, how they build strong trusting relationships, the point of view they take and the solutions they try to find to

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How Becoming an Adjunct Improved My Social Work Practice

Teaching & Learning in Social Work

Editor’s Note: Christa McCrorie (she/her), LICSW-PIP, is an adjunct instructor at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and a social worker with a private practice, Creative Therapeutic Solutions, LLC, where she specializes in queer needs and trauma processing. In this blog post, she shares how her time as an adjunct instructor has improved her own social work practice and offers reflection prompts for those interested in adjunct teaching as a social worker.

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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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The Need for Transparency in Non-Profit Agencies

Famcare

Transparency in a non-profit can entail disclosing to supporters, the public, and the government, the internal operations, board composition, impact, and financials of your agency. You're telling a story that demonstrates the positive effect your efforts are having for your clients. A story that is supported by vital statistics. These vital statistics or reporting is essential for the funding and continued support of your agency.

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‘You can’t reform a children’s social care system based on quicksand’

Community Care

John Pearce’s year as Association of Directors of Children’s Services (ADCS) promises to be an eventful one. The Durham director formally assumed the role today at a presidential reception alongside his fellow children’s services leaders. Clapping him in was outgoing president Steve Crocker, who is also retiring from his post as DCS at Hampshire and the Isle of Wight.

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Breaking Down Mental Health Terms: What Are Mental Filters?

My Brains Not Broken

Over the years, I’ve learned a number of words, phrases and definitions that have helped me understand my own mental health. Some of these are connected to mental illness or medicine, while others are connected to mental wellness. In this recurring series, I break down some of the mental health terms I’ve learned over the years. Today, I’ll be breaking down mental filters : what they are, what they look like, and what we can do about it.

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Hawaii family police agency sinks to misrepresentation and blackmail - and that’s just how they treat the State Legislature!

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

The Hawaii State Capitol As regular readers of this blog know, many states are swiping money from foster children to reimburse themselves for giving those youth the “privilege” of living in foster care. It happens to foster youth who are entitled to Social Security Disability or Survivor benefits. It might be legal – though even that is a gray area.

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DfE should set expectation of face-to-face practice for children’s social workers, say directors

Community Care

The government should set an expectation that frontline children’s social workers carry out face-to-face practice, in the light of concerns about the rise of remote working. That was the message from the Association of Directors of Children’s Services in its response to a Department for Education (DfE) consultation on setting rules for the use of agency staff in local authority child and family social work.

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Emerging Words for the Future (Spring 2023 Edition)

Social Work Futures

Over the last couple of years and through my own foresight journey (as a social worker and a human)…I’ve found emerging language regarding the future to be really interesting, illuminating, sometimes troubling, and valuable. Sometimes there are words that are more “pop culture” words that emerge from the mainstream (they are a little like popcorn…not much substance).

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Get Connected: Using Social Media for Social Work Success

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.

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Reflections on a shattering year for Black people in Buffalo, New York

inSocialWork

Phylicia Brown & Kathryn Franco An avowed white supremacist researched Buffalo’s East Side and the Tops supermarket located there and on May 14, 2022, drove 200 miles to kill Black people. Ten community residents were murdered and many others injured and traumatized in the supermarket that also serves as a community hub for the overwhelmingly Black community there.

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Beyond bulletproof backpacks: Addressing the school shootings

Stop Abuse Campaign

← Sacrifice spanking, not your children Bulletproof backpacks. For children. Bulletproof. Backpacks. That’s an actual product you can purchase. I know this to be true because after the most recent school shooting… Wait. Read that again. “The most recent school shooting.” School shootings happen so frequently in our country that we’ve come to refer to them as “the most recent.

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‘Outdated’ law on social care for disabled children will be reviewed

Community Care

The ‘outdated’ legal framework on social care for disabled children in England will be reviewed with a view to making it fairer and more effective. The Department for Education has asked the Law Commission for England and Wales to review the “patchwork of legislation” for the group , dating back to 1970. The review was a commitment in the DfE’s draft children’s social care implementation strategy, published in February, in response to the Independent Review of

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Future proofing care

Social Care

"We knew care staff were facing unprecedented challenges and we wanted to make sure. residents could stay in contact with friends and family while visiting was restricted." [Image created by freepik.com ] Innovation spurred by huge challenges Three years ago, at the start of the pandemic, we began an ambitious project to send thousands of iPads out to care homes.

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Self-Care A-Z: Earth Day and Self-Care—It’s All Connected

The New Social Worker

You might be surprised to see the topic of planetary well-being on a blog focused on self-care. Yet, Earth Day is an ideal occasion to talk about the inextricable and important connection between self-care and planetary care.

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National Volunteer Month — a message from our CEO

National Casa Gal

CASA/GAL volunteers attend in-depth training and ongoing professional development to ensure they have the tools and resources they need to effectively support the children, youth and families they serve. Read More. The post National Volunteer Month — a message from our CEO appeared first on National CASA/GAL Association for Children.

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Safeguarding overhaul needed to better protect disabled children in care, says abuse inquiry

Community Care

Councils should have a bigger role monitoring local residential settings in their areas to better protect disabled children, an inquiry into the abuse of children in three services has concluded. The measure is among nine recommendations designed to overhaul the safeguarding of disabled children and those with complex health needs in residential care, made by the Child Safeguarding Practice Review Panel today.

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Labour is on the warpath at last. But why is it targeting benefit claimants and disabled people? | Frances Ryan

The Guardian

By reviving scrounger myths and rubbishing free social care, Starmer’s begun a race to the bottom – one the Tories will win With the local elections round the corner and the general election rumoured for next autumn, Keir Starmer, the measured lawyer, is rebranding. Faced with criticism over attack ads on Rishi Sunak , the newly bullish Labour leader has doubled down, insisting he will continue “no matter how squeamish it might make some feel”.

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Book Review: Unraveling Faculty Burnout

The New Social Worker

When I read Dr. Rebecca Pope-Ruark’s book, Unraveling Faculty Burnout, I felt seen. It's the rare educator who isn't acquainted with this sense of "never enough," of never feeling that there is an obtainable career stride they can reach.

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NCCPR news and commentary round-up, week ending April 18, 2023

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

● Some relatively good news in Tennessee: Tennessee Lookout reports that thanks to strong legal advocacy, public pressure, and some very good journalism, the children taken from parents whose “crime” was Driving While Black have been returned. That does not, of course, take away the trauma inflicted on those children, and so many others in Tennessee and elsewhere. ● NBC News and KXAS-TV report that there is less progress concerning another case of wrongful removal of a child from a Black family,

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When experience and policy creation meet

Social Work With Adults

Social worker, Gavin Wilson, provides a positive account of his secondment to the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) as Lead Analyst in the 'fair cost of care' policy team. "For twelve years, I had worked mainly with health and social workers, professions which attract people who are caring, open minded, helpful and understanding. Would colleagues at DHSC be different?

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Safe housing denied to 10,000 women in England fleeing domestic abuse

The Guardian

Lack of shelters may be forcing victims to return to their violent partners or leaving them homeless More than 10,000 women escaping domestic abuse across England were refused safe housing last year, amid warnings that many could be left homeless or driven back to dangerous partners as a result of a “woeful” lack of safe accommodation. Official figures seen by the Observer found that almost 8,000 households referred to a safe accommodation service did not receive support because there was no cap

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Conversations on Social Work Careers: Consulting, Advocacy, and Impact With Zander Keig

The New Social Worker

Zander Keig shares his perspective as a 56-year-old first-generation American of Mexican heritage (Latino) trans man, TBI survivor, and neurodivergent first-generation college graduate. Zander was NASW 2020 Social Worker of the Year.

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Anger Management: 5 Tips to Control Your Temper

Psychological Health Care

Feeling angry is a normal emotion that everyone experiences from time to time. It is a natural response to situations that you perceive as threatening, frustrating, or unjust. Anger can be a healthy emotion when it is expressed in a constructive way, but it can also have negative consequences when expressed in a destructive or harmful way. Chronic or intense anger can also have negative effects on your physical and mental health.

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Ask An Expert: Pauline (Family Drug Support)

Living Sober

Today's expert is Dr Pauline Stewart, a Counselling and Educational Psychologist and the Executive Officer and Founder of Family Drug Support Aotearoa New Zealand. Mrs D: What is Family Drug Support? Who is it for? Pauline: We set up Family Drug Support to help family members who are supporting people they care about who have alcohol or other drug […] Ask An Expert: Pauline (Family Drug Support) was first posted on April 22, 2023 at 4:20 pm. ©2019 " Living Sober " Use of this

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Fears grow over police collecting data from lone child refugees in UK

The Guardian

Welfare groups claim information could be used by Home Office to deport asylum seekers Police have been collecting the sensitive data of unaccompanied child asylum seekers and sharing it with immigration enforcement, sparking fears it could be used against them for their deportation. As part of a government operation to prevent unaccompanied migrant children being trafficked from Home Office hotels, police officers meet them for what is described as a “welfare conversation” to create “a relation

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179 Happy Saturday Good Morning Inspirational Quotes

Social Work Haven

Happy Saturday! As a social worker, the week is usually very busy and full on. I look forward to my weekend especially Saturdays to help me unwind and catch up with some self care! I kick off the weekend with some Saturday good morning inspirational quotes to inspire and motivate me for the day ahead. kickstart my day in the right direction. Saturday mornings are a time to rejuvenate, recharge and be inspired by some of the greatest minds whose wisdom and experiences can motivate us to be the be

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The Flexibility Mascot

Parenthood Understood

The Flexibility Mascot When your kids were younger, you provided the structure. This meant that you could usually create schedules and expectations that worked pretty well for you! But when your kid becomes a teenager, and has a much more independent life (and personality!) parents find themselves having to put some of their preferences and assumptions aside.

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News Items – April 20, 2023

Social Workers Speak

Keith Cunniffe is a member of NASW-NYS: “Here Comes Jimmy Hendrix”: A Psychiatrist and Patient Reconnect and Recollect Psychiatric Times Cunniffe: I started college at Fordham University in the fall of 1986 looking forward to making new friends and, hopefully, having a girlfriend. I vividly recall early on walking past Keating Hall, the pastoral campus’s centerpiece, and thinking that I felt a kind of darkness that I had never felt before.

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Urgent calls for reform after horrific abuse of young people at private care homes

The Guardian

Child safeguarding practice review panel says harm was result of day-to-day failures and oversight The government’s child safeguarding advisers have urged major reforms to protect severely disabled young people in residential care after “horrific and shocking” abuse revelations at a string of homes run by a private operator. The child safeguarding practice review panel recommendations, published on Thursday, follow its earlier report on the systematic abuse and neglect of more than 100 young peo

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Olivia Chang Named 2023 Promising Scholar by ResilienceCon

Michigan Social Work

PhD student Olivia Chang is the recipient of the ResilienceCon 2023 Life Paths Promising Scholars Award. This competitive award is presented to a small number of current students attending ResilienceCon who are conducting high-impact resilience-focused research that focus on under-served or disadvantaged communities.

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World Refugee Status Our Annual Report

Famcare

Client agencies that labor largely out of public view on behalf of the world's refugees annually share stats with this blog that astound us every year. Americans live in a civilization ordered by the rule of law. Unless we take the time to look outside our society, we rarely notice the civil disorder that plaques millions of our fellow humans.

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How To Measure and Assess Nurse Competency

Relias

Because hiring is a pressing concern for hospitals and health systems, leaders might shift focus away from nurse competency. Competing with other healthcare organizations to fill nurse vacancies creates a sense of urgency to hire, regardless of whether you’re selecting the most highly competent applicants. But instead of lowering your standards, now is the time to ensure that the nurses you hire and train are performing at their highest levels.

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How to Use Mental Health Hashtags on Social Media

Social Work Haven

Do you use Instagram or other social media platforms to create awareness on mental health or self-love? You may be a blogger, or perhaps you provide content in one of these areas will find this article useful. As a mental health blogger, I have realised that using hashtags can encourage social media users to explore content that catches their eye. It is also highly useful when people are trying to find relevant information.

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MSW student Kevin Nguyen Appointed to MAPAAC by Governor Gretchen Whitmer

Michigan Social Work

MSW student Kevin Nguyen has been appointed to the Michigan Asian Pacific American Affairs Commission by Governor Gretchen Whitmer. “As the only student and youngest commissioner to ever serve on MAPAAC, I am humbled and honored to represent the growing APIA population in Michigan.” ENGAGE Program Manager and Lecturer Ayesha Ghazi Edwin serves as chair of the commission.