Social Care

AUGUST 3, 2022

Around a fifth of the adult social care workforce are from a black or minority ethnic background. This increases to 40% of nurses. Sadly, this diversity is not reflected at senior management and leadership level. A new leadership programme aims to change that. [Image copyright Lauren Hurley/DHSC]. Quality, diversity, status. As Chief Nurse for Adult Social Care, one of my unwavering priorities is to improve the quality, diversity and status of adult social care (ASC) nursing.

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Prosper Health Collective

JULY 31, 2022

Stress is a normal response to being in a situation that we feel we can’t manage or control well. We might feel under pressure or overwhelmed. Stress can be short-term, such as in response to preparing for an exam or perhaps minor surgery. Stress can also be long-term (chronic) when the stressful situation continues for a long period of time without a significant break.

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Gary Direnfeld

AUGUST 2, 2022

I smoked a lot of dope in high school. I dropped out without completing my grade thirteen. I went from part time to full time at Calderone shoes. A girl I was dating at the time convinced me to return to school. I went to Seneca for audio-visual techniques. While I found that program basic, I took a psychology course as an elective and fell in love with it.

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Private Practice Mental Health Social Worker Schools 147

My Brains Not Broken

AUGUST 4, 2022

Earlier this week, I shared a post about the importance of feeling your feelings. Though there are a lot of ways you can do this, one of my favorite ways is through journaling. Journaling slows me down, and gives me time to collect my thoughts and figure out what I’m really feeling. It has a way of cutting through the noise and find what really needs to be shared.

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Stop Abuse Campaign

JULY 31, 2022

← Why Maternal Home Visiting Programs are Proven to Work. Right now, on social media, elected officials, advocates for children, and everyone else is posting messages about “why haven’t any of Jeffrey Epstein’s clients been arrested?” or “when are we going to see the list of Epstein’s clients?” As a long-time advocate against child sexual abuse and trafficking, I find this sudden fixation on the case as amusing as it is concerning.

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Criminal Justice Confidentiality Clinical Social Work Advocacy 128

Social Care

AUGUST 1, 2022

Protecting us all: "It’s so important staff in all care settings make the case for covid vaccine boosters and flu jabs now, making consent from colleagues, residents and others in receipt of care a formality." [Image created by freepik.com ]. Always looking ahead. We may be in the midst of summer, record breaking heatwaves and all but, like most care and health professionals, my thoughts inevitably turn to autumn and winter.

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Clinic 108

My Brains Not Broken

AUGUST 2, 2022

Last week, I wrote about the summer and how it’s flying by. This weekend, everything I did reminded me of the classic phrase “time flies when you’re having fun.” While it might feel our lives are moving faster than we can handle, that can also mean we’re doing things we enjoy and are with people we love. And even though those feelings of enjoyment can be fleeting, being intentional about feeling them can actually go a long way toward long-term health and wellness.

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Anxiety Depression Mental Health 130

The New Social Worker

AUGUST 2, 2022

An interstate compact license for social workers would facilitate practice mobility, allowing social workers to practice across state lines. A social work interstate licensing compact is under development, and you can submit your feedback now.

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Social Worker 107

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

AUGUST 5, 2022

Once touted as a model institution, the Glen Mills School was closed after the Philadelphia Inquirer exposed widespread abuse. The Philadelphia Inquirer zeros in on real solutions Here’s something I never thought I’d see in a story about children trapped in night-to-night placements because family policing agencies (a more accurate term than “child welfare” agencies) had no place else to put them: Advocates say what’s needed now is to address the short-term glitches while pursuing the long-term

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Gary Direnfeld

AUGUST 2, 2022

She wasn’t hit. Her dad did hit her mom though. As mean as he was to her mom, she was treated like gold. She was the favorite. She had learned early on by what she witnessed, never to cross her dad. In fact, she did whatever she could to please and appease him. It was no wonder she was his favorite. Come adulthood she met and married a man much like her father.

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Counseling Private Practice Mental Health Depression 113

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 International Association Of Schools Of Social

AUGUST 4, 2022

CALL FOR PAPERS: SOCIAL DIALOGUE (ISSUE 27). TITLE OF THIS EDITION: Armed conflicts and disasters: Voices from the ‘unheard’. . We live in a world where the many atrocities and disasters impact the everyday lives of millions across the globe. The failure of the current global system is evident even in the natural disasters that cause widespread destruction.

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Interventional Social Worker 98

The New Social Worker

AUGUST 1, 2022

Reading life-stories deepens compassion, widens worldview, and encourages spirit—all aspects of expansive self-care. Here are four “big picture” aspects from Viola Davis’s compelling life-story that we can emulate in our own self-care journeys.

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The Guardian

AUGUST 2, 2022

As small businesses crumble, shelves get emptier and the care-worker shortage intensifies, life outside the EU is having a dire effect on many of us. Why aren’t politicians talking about it? When British politicians talk about Brexit and its consequences, they tend to adopt rictus grins and assure us that, by some miracle as yet unexplained, everything is going to be OK.

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Parenthood Understood

AUGUST 4, 2022

Whether you are thrilled or a little wistful, the end of summer vacation is upon us. Transitioning from summer’s more relaxed schedules and expectations isn’t easy—for us or them. I’m sending you good thoughts for peaceful adjustment, along with 3 simple tips to make back to school smoother this year. Know : It’s stressful for them.

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Schools Adoption 98

Prosper Health Collective

JULY 31, 2022

Stress is a physical and emotional reaction that people have as a result of challenging life circumstances. Stress is common and everyone will experience some degree of stress within their lifetime, however everyone experiences that stress differently. Research tells us that when we are stressed, our body’s release hormones- adrenaline and cortisol.

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Anxiety Schools 98

Social Work Blog

AUGUST 5, 2022

The NASW Specialty Practice Sections webinar, Words with Friends: The Nexus Between Grant Writing and Social Work , provides an overview of grant writing strategies and techniques with emphasis on the written narrative portion of proposals for funding. It is available on demand at the Social Work Online CE Institute. The presentation includes how grant writing fits within an agency’s larger resource development activities.

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The Guardian

JULY 31, 2022

New report says policy changes are needed to protect ‘hidden workforce’ from exploitation Live-in care workers recruited from overseas to care for disabled and elderly people in Britain are being exploited by “unscrupulous” agencies who dock their pay to cover “accommodation costs”, according to new research. The workers, who live with clients to provide round-the-clock care, in some cases had their pay reduced by hundreds of pounds a month despite being paid only the minimum wage to begin with.

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Disability 95

The New Social Worker

AUGUST 3, 2022

Ethical challenges arise when school social workers (SSWs) are faced with conflicting ethical codes, laws, and policies. In particular, this article focuses on laws restricting SSWs’ ability to discuss sexuality and gender with students.

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Social Worker Schools 94

National Casa Gal

AUGUST 5, 2022

Q5id Guardian will begin to immediately focus on providing financial and other support toward increasing the awareness of National CASA/GAL and expanding efforts to advocate for children who have experienced abuse or neglect. Read More. The post Q5id Guardian to support the National CASA/GAL Association for Children appeared first on National CASA/GAL Association for Children.

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International Federation of Social Workers

AUGUST 1, 2022

Dear IFSW European members, Dear social workers, Please help to us to make a new poverty watch report 2022 and answer this questionnaire before 01 September 2022. The questionnaire is available HERE. Please feel free to make it as an organization or to send it to your members. WE THANK YOU VERY MUCH! Birthe Povlsen Member […].

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Social Worker 85

The Vintage Social Worker

AUGUST 2, 2022

I love Lemn Sissay’s poetry and I loved the book, My Name is Why, if you are allowed to love a book that is a real life story of loss, anger, bewilderment and sadness. What I mean is that I have read many “lives of” books and blogs of those who have been unfortunate enough not to be able to live with their own families during their childhood years.

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Schools Psychiatric Empathy Welfare 81

The Guardian

AUGUST 2, 2022

Granting aged care providers an immunity provision relating to restraint practices is unjust. But there is an alternative Does the Albanese government really want to be remembered as the one that stripped many older Australians of their fundamental legal and human rights? The federal government has recently made numerous, welcome commitments to improve the lives of older people living in residential aged care.

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Government 72

Nnatasha Tracy

AUGUST 3, 2022

I have no motivation, but I still have to get things done, just like everyone. Getting things done without motivation is no easy feat, however. I find that my amotivation (no motivation) combined with the other symptoms of depression pretty much glue me to the couch. And while there seems to be a lot of recognition of a lack of motivation and other similar concepts like abolition and abulia in mental illness, there seems to be precious few solutions.

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Health & Social Care Workforce

AUGUST 2, 2022

Adele van Wyk is a Research Associate at the NIHR Policy Research Unit in Health and Social Care Workforce at King’s.

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Schools 70

Relias

AUGUST 5, 2022

The Baiera family’s birth story unfolds like a movie we would love to see. It features a hopeful young family, a daunting obstacle to overcome, and a happy ending. But it wasn’t a Hollywood creation — it was real life for Vince Baiera, his wife Parissa, and their twin sons, Rocky and Leo. Their memorable story represents a case of many things going right over five long months, ultimately resulting in two healthy babies.

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Patient Safety Healthcare Hospitals Communication 52

The Guardian

AUGUST 1, 2022

Advocates say proposed laws are an ‘extraordinary overreach’ but minister says they are needed for safety Get our free news app , morning email briefing or daily news podcast Proposed federal aged care laws that would give providers immunity from prosecution over the use of restraints may breach international agreements on civil rights and torture, advocates say.

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Famcare

AUGUST 5, 2022

This site is dedicated to educating readers about the homeless community, as well as the triumphs and challenges encountered by those who are committed to helping them. Government organizations and nonprofits are working hard to create solutions for this vulnerable group. Case management software with a focus on homelessness can aid in making the process of finding a solution more manageable by giving organizations the tools they need to coordinate and speed up the various services and activitie

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Case Management Government Human Services 52

Social Service Workforce

AUGUST 4, 2022

1. Please tell us a little bit about yourself. I live in Chiquimula, Guatemala. I am married and have three beautiful children, two boys and one girl. I really enjoy spending time with my family, going on walks in the countryside and spending time with friends. I also enjoy reading books to help me grow as a person.

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Social Services Social Services 52

Nicole Clark Consulting

AUGUST 2, 2022

Have a question you’d like to be featured? Let me know. A year or so before leaving my old agency, I conducted an intake assessment with a new client. They were in their early twenties and presented as a young man. They were soon assigned to my caseload, and after a few appointments together, they [.]. The post Ask Nicole: Trust & the Client-Consultant Relationship appeared first on Nicole Clark Consulting.

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Consultation 52

Michigan Social Work

AUGUST 2, 2022

Lolita Moss, Joint Doctoral Program in Social Work and Psychology, has successfully defended her dissertation entitled “The Medium and the Message: An Investigation of Mainstream Media Use, Relationship Scripts, and Intimate Partner Violence among Black Adolescents.” Her committee consisted of Lorraine Gutiérrez and Richard Tolman. Moss has accepted a position as a research faculty professor at Tulane University's Violence Prevention Institute in the School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine

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Psychology University Schools 52

Famcare

AUGUST 4, 2022

Bullying is a pervasive problem in schools across the United States. According to the National Center for Education Statistics , about one-third of students aged 12-18 reported being bullied during the school year. The most common type of bullying is verbal abuse, including name-calling, teasing, and making fun of someone. Other types of bullying include physical abuse, cyberbullying, and social exclusion.

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Schools Mental Health 52

Living Sober

AUGUST 1, 2022

This guest post comes from our lovely community member Matt (@emjaycee). == I left my job as a journalist in late October 2010 to look after my then nine-month-old daughter full time when my wife returned to work. It was a six-month trial to see whether it suited me, my daughter and our little family. It lasted over seven years. […] Parenting Sober (Guest Post) was first posted on August 2, 2022 at 1:36 am. ©2019 " Living Sober " Use of this feed is for personal non-commercial

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Social Work Blog

AUGUST 1, 2022

43 Essential Policies for Human Services Professionals , by Gerald V. O’Brien, boils down key policies to their most essential elements: historical overview and nature of the social problem, policy overview, and effectiveness. Analysis elements address issues related to the policy, such as trigger events, problem framing, social engineering, covert rationales, unintended consequences, target efficiency, and governmental responsibility.

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Advocacy Clinical Social Work Clinic Human Services 52

Social Workers Speak

AUGUST 5, 2022

Kristen Lee is a member: 3 Essential Anti-Rumination Practices. Psychology Today. Rumination , the inclination to overthink things or have repetitive thoughts that are difficult to ignore , is a human tendency that escalates in the throes of hard times. Many ruminators struggle with fixations that involve high levels of self-criticism and regret, renting inordinate space in one’s mind, squeezing out room for pursuits that cultivate joy, gratitude , and growth.

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Therapist Social Worker Mental Health Clinic 40

Famcare

AUGUST 3, 2022

There are over 111,565 forensic social workers currently employed in the United States, but few people have any idea what they do. Forensic social workers are involved in both criminal and civil cases that can include termination of parental rights, juvenile and adult justice services, corrections, and mandated treatment. They fight against oppression that is exhibited through exploitation, marginalization, powerlessness, violence, criminalization, and cultural dominance or imperialism.

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