Community Care

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Social workers’ wellbeing at work is lower than that of other health and social care staff groups, in the wake of Covid, research has found. The profession’s quality of working life has also fallen further than nurses’, midwives’, social care workers’ and allied health professionals’ during the pandemic, found the latest and fifth round of an ongoing study into Covid’s impact on health and care staff.

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My Brains Not Broken

OCTOBER 25, 2022

I’d been in therapy for a few years when I first heard the phrase automatic negative thoughts for the first time. It wasn’t hard to deduce the meaning of the phrase, but I found it interesting nonetheless. Like everyone else, I deal with negative thoughts every single day. They might be about myself or other things, but one thing is certain: they’re negative.

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Social Work Futures

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Last July, I launched the Social Work Jobs of the Future game! This game uses futures thinking to imagine what the future of our profession may look like and what social workers may do on a daily basis. It evokes “scenarios” that imagine different worlds where our work occurs – some of them might be scenarios we very much want, and others – scenarios we worry about and actively work against.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 25, 2022

It’s part editorial, part documentary exposé: A brilliantly presented New York Times Opinion section column on the enormous harm done to children institutionalized in “residential treatment.” The commentary begins this way: It’s known as the troubled teen industry. Spread across the country, this array of boot camps, wilderness therapy programs, therapeutic boarding schools and residential treatment centers is supposed to help children with mental health and behavioral issues, through a mix of t

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Advertiser: Caseworthy

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Community Care

OCTOBER 28, 2022

The Liberty Protection Safeguards (LPS) is due to be implemented in October 2023. The planned date was revealed in a report to today’s Social Work England board meeting and represents a six-month delay to the government’s previous internal target for bringing in the replacement for the Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards. Publicly, the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) and Ministry of Justice (MoJ) have not specified when they plan to implement the LPS, which was originally d

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Doin' The Work

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Episode 58 Guests: Jewel Patterson, MS; Edgar Ibarria; Nicole Bates, JD Host: Shimon Cohen, LCSW. www.dointhework.com. Listen/Subscribe on: Apple Podcasts , Google Podcasts , Stitcher , Spotify. Follow on Twitter & Instagram , Like on Facebook. Join the mailing list Support the podcast Download transcript. We are now offering our Racial Justice & Liberatory Practice Continuing Education Series at Columbia University , Michigan State University , and the University of Houston.

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International Federation of Social Workers

OCTOBER 22, 2022

A Social Investment Partnership was launched today in the Kamenets Podisk district of Ukraine by the National Association of Social Workers Ukraine and IFSW. The President of the NASWU Yana […].

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Community Care

OCTOBER 28, 2022

By Mithran Samuel and Anastasia Koutsounia. Children’s social care has been handed its fifth secretary of state of 2022, while the minister with direct responsibility for the sector has quit after a month, despite it facing one of its biggest policy shake-ups in many years. Prime minister Rishi Sunak appointed Gillian Keegan to the education secretary post this week, succeeding Kit Malthouse, James Cleverley, Michelle Donelan and Nadhim Zahawi, all of whom have held the role – which

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The New Social Worker

OCTOBER 24, 2022

The maternal mortality rate is showing increase in the U.S. with evidence of racial disparities. Pertaining to maternal health equity, what will you do to promote social justice?

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National Casa Gal

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Neglect is the most common reason why children enter child welfare system. Read More. The post The common thread in child removal – neglect not abuse appeared first on National CASA/GAL Association for Children.

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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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The Guardian

OCTOBER 22, 2022

Eighty years after the Beveridge report, time to ask again what are the essentials that allow us to thrive ‘Out of intermittent labour spring our gravest woes. It produces in the labourer intermittent energy; the off-days become habitual; with indolence comes intemperance; with uncertainty of employment comes recklessness about the future; from these result pauperism and the whole series of mental and physical infirmities that are the creatures of pauperism.

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Community Care

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Average pay for adult social workers is 57% higher in local authorities than in the independent sector, official data has revealed. The hourly pay gap was higher for social workers than for any other job role in adult social care, showed Skills for Care’s annual state of the adult social care sector and workforce report. Estimated average hourly pay for local authority adult social workers was £19.75 in 2021-22, compared with £12.56 in the independent sector.

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CAPC

OCTOBER 24, 2022

A doctor writes about the lessons learned from her palliative care colleagues about empathetic communication.

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National Casa Gal

OCTOBER 27, 2022

The Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA) of 1978 is a federal law that recognizes tribal sovereignty and governs jurisdiction over the removal of Native American (Indian) children from their families. Read More. The post United States Supreme Court to hear oral argument on November 9th on the constitutionality of the Indian Child Welfare Act appeared first on National CASA/GAL Association for Children.

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The Guardian

OCTOBER 22, 2022

Recruits in pilot scheme have been taken from chains in charge of facilities deemed unsatisfactory Managers from some of the largest private children’s home chains in the UK have been asked to carry out inspections for Ofsted, despite those groups owning numerous homes that are deemed unsatisfactory. The Observer has discovered that Ofsted, which oversees standards in children’s social care, has recruited staff from the Outcomes First Group and the Keys Group to inspect homes as part of a pilot.

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Community Care

OCTOBER 28, 2022

By Mithran Samuel and Anastasia Koutsounia. Adult social care has a new cabinet minister as the government mulls delaying its proposed funding reforms, including the cap on care costs. Steve Barclay has returned to the post of health and social care secretary, which he held for just two months over the summer, following Thérèse Coffey’s even shorter stint in the role.

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Relias

OCTOBER 28, 2022

A well-designed care coordination process benefits patients, providers, and payer organizations. Improved care quality and patient safety, reduced readmissions and ER visits, and lower healthcare costs are just some of the positive outcomes of effective care coordination. Though the benefits are clear, many home health and hospice agencies struggle to optimize coordination.

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Famcare

OCTOBER 27, 2022

The social services sector has begun incorporating technology into routine work, just like other sectors. Managers and front-line employees at these human services firms can streamline processes, enhance client communication, and deliver better results thanks to a variety of technology and applications. However, this is only feasible if a social services organization makes use of cutting-edge, game-changing human services software.

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The Guardian

OCTOBER 23, 2022

Boarding schools have escaped real reform, says one victim of abuse, while Dr Bernard Gallagher calls out the austerity-driven crisis in child protection, and Emily Aklan calls for a ban on harmful handcuffing I am a boarding school survivor and, after more than 50 years of silence, a witness to the Truth Project that was set up as part of the independent inquiry into child sexual abuse (IICSA).

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Community Care

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Social workers have been urged to help tackle the impact on Gypsy and Traveller families of increased police powers to evict them from unauthorised camps, brought in this year. Practitioners from the communities have produced a guide to carrying out welfare enquiries to help social workers and others support families affected by the measures in the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022.

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MQ Mental Health

OCTOBER 25, 2022

This article was submitted by Shaun Flores, a lived-experience advocate, model and podcaster based in the UK. Mental illnesses are common in society, and the more we speak about them, the more we normalise dialogues encouraging people to get the help they need. We need to incentivise people to stop hiding. At twenty-seven years old, I was diagnosed with OCD (Obsessive-compulsive Disorder).

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Famcare

OCTOBER 26, 2022

In the beginning , pioneering social workers responded to the most critical and immediate needs of the destitute, the homeless, and orphans. But as the 20th century wore on social services recognized a more nuanced and complex catalogue of vulnerabilities. Social workers, aid organizations, government agencies, and communities began to support people presenting a complexity of needs like poverty brought on by addiction and child abuse resulting from mental illness or homeless juvenile offenders

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Therapist Development Center

OCTOBER 25, 2022

This month we’re going to tackle an important topic of confidentiality as it relates to the law and ethics exam preparation. Confidentiality is both a legal and an ethical requirement placed on the therapist that restricts the volunteering of information … Continued. The post Law and Ethics Exam Prep: Confidentiality appeared first on Therapist Development Center Blog.

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Community Care

OCTOBER 24, 2022

The Department for Education (DfE) has intervened in a council after a review found it had failed to improve its children’s services enough in the wake of criticisms from inspectors and in relation to the Arthur Labinjo-Hughes case. It has appointed Sir Alan Wood as commissioner for Solihull council with a remit to both support its improvement and report to the DfE by January 2023 on its capacity to improve.

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Relias

OCTOBER 25, 2022

I recently had the privilege of co-presenting a webinar for the American Hospital Association with two colleagues from Memorial Hermann Health System. Memorial Hermann is the largest not-for-profit health system in southeast Texas and spans 17 hospitals and over 260 care delivery sites with 1.7 million patient encounters per year. Our focus for this webinar was to look at how Memorial Hermann has emerged from the pandemic to reposition itself to successfully move forward in a difficult climate.

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Famcare

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Many human service non-profits utilize or have considered using case management software to streamline processes and increase organizational effectiveness. Finding the right software can be difficult for agencies in the nonprofit sector. There are various choices, costs, and function. Are they designed with human services agencies in mind. But, exactly, what does the program do?

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The Guardian

OCTOBER 22, 2022

For decades, society has turned a deaf ear to the suffering of children at the hands of abusive adults. Enough is enough I read with deep sadness Sonia Sodha’s article ( Comment ), in particular her notion that we “live in a society where there is so much guilt, shame and fear around child sexual abuse that there are powerful collective instincts to try to minimise it”.

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CAPC

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Next Avenue article about the role of caregiving navigators when families become overwhelmed as their loved ones age.

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Social Workers Speak

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Anita Daniels is a member of NASW-NC: Why? The most difficult question about Raleigh’s mass shooting may never have an answer. WRAL. Licensed clinical social worker Anita Daniels says one red flag can be a big change in personality. “It can be that they shrink back, or it could be that all of a sudden they have so much personality and so much to say,” she said.

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Hospice Chaplaincy

OCTOBER 23, 2022

In Today’s episode, Saul talks to Dr. Anne Francis. Dr. Francis is the author of the new book, “Called: Women in Ministry in Ireland.” She lives in County Cork and has worked in pastoral ministry and theology for over thirty-five years. She is a Practitioner in Spiritual and Psychological Care and a member of the Pastoral […].

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Counselor Toolbox podcast

OCTOBER 24, 2022

-Review the concept of the inner child -Identify the needs of the inner child -Explore strategies to reparent the inner child through developing secure attachment -Review the concept of the inner child -Identify the needs of the inner child -Explore strategies to reparent the inner child through developing secure attachment

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CAPC

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Hospice News article includes interview with CAPC CEO, Brynn Bowman.

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Gateway Foundation

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Over 14 million adults in the United States have alcohol use disorder (AUD), and professional athletes are no exception. The reasons behind this are varied. In many cases, they are thrown into a world of sudden wealth, fame and public scrutiny at too young of an age. When athletes turn to substances to cope, they often create a cycle that can be difficult to escape.

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Community Care

OCTOBER 23, 2022

Training gaps leave too many practitioners unable to identify and respond to child sexual abuse, an expert body has warned in response to the Independent Inquiry into CSA (IICSA). The Centre of expertise on child sexual abuse (CSA Centre) said the inquiry’s publication needed to occasion a shift from expecting children to disclose abuse to investing in the knowledge, skills and confidence of social workers and fellow professionals.

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The Guardian

OCTOBER 26, 2022

I lived with the shame for years until the Truth Project let me tell my story, and empowered me to call for healing and justice The abuse I experienced as a child has reverberated throughout my life. I didn’t allow anybody to touch me, beyond a handshake or a peck on the cheek, for 15 years. It planted in me the sense that everything to do with sex or my body was wrong.

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