My Brains Not Broken
JANUARY 10, 2023
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.
Psychological Health Care
JANUARY 8, 2023
Make 2023 the year you focus on your mental health. Forget short-lived New Year’s resolutions and rigid goal setting, instead commit to adopting some simple habits to boost your mental fitness now and well into the future.
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Blurt It Out
JANUARY 10, 2023
We all go through ups and downs. For some, the downs become really dark. It’s hard to find any light. During these particularly difficult times, dark thoughts can overwhelm us. It can feel like life is pointless. Meaningless. We might not be able to see a way out.
Community Care
JANUARY 10, 2023
Councils’ Care Act 2014 duties have arguably been “permanently undermined” by widespread non-compliance during the pandemic, a study has found.
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In this webinar with business development consultant Gary Direnfeld, we will explore the different methods of marketing your private social work practice and boosting your online presence. Gary will provide valuable insight on choosing and using social media to attract viable referrals.
My Brains Not Broken
JANUARY 12, 2023
Earlier this week, I wrote about thought spirals , what they look like, and what we can do about them. Thought spirals can be tricky to deal with, but there are ways we can try and manage them.
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Gary Direnfeld
JANUARY 8, 2023
Please realize, an affair is a traumatic experience for the one cheated on. Regardless the quality or issues in the relationship, fidelity remains an expectation. When broken, trust is difficult to repair. That repair requires unequivocal taking of responsibility by the one who had the affair.
Community Care
JANUARY 9, 2023
Government plans for the NHS to discharge people from hospitals to care homes risk inappropriate placements and neglect the root causes of the acute pressures on the health service.
Nicole Clark Consulting
JANUARY 10, 2023
How can “sending the elevator back down” promote equity? January is National Mentorship Month, highlighting the power of mentorship and its benefits. Mentoring fosters trust and understanding between a more experienced person (mentor) and someone with less experience (mentee).
Swhelper
JANUARY 11, 2023
Manuel Stoilov. After helplessly watching her sister try to navigate the international adoption process, Felicia Curcuru launched Binti in an effort to reinvent foster care and adoption.
Gary Direnfeld
JANUARY 8, 2023
For some, gender can be so confusing. Not fitting neatly into a checkbox can leave one feeling amiss. As humans we strive for and typically require certainty. Ambiguity is unsettling. Figuring out one’s gender may not be a destination, but a journey. Therein ambiguity continues. Then there are those around you. They seek to have a definitive understanding of who you are all while you remain uncertain.
Community Care
JANUARY 10, 2023
The government has proposed changing the law to make it easier for adults to access adoption-related counselling. The Department for Education is consulting on removing the requirement for counsellors providing adoption-related therapy to adults to register with Ofsted as adoption support agencies.
The Guardian
JANUARY 8, 2023
Other countries are looking on appalled as the UK’s failure to reform social care has left its health service struggling to survive It is 6am and a dozen ambulances are waiting to offload their patients, but the local NHS hospital is already full. Every bed in the emergency department is occupied.
The Critical Blog
JANUARY 10, 2023
As a society, our current approach to mental health is damaging and limiting. There is a tendency within the media and support agencies to assume a continual rise in emotional difficulties among the young. We are told—in very general terms—that it is virtually impossible to escape mental health damage caused by factors such as engagement with social media, the fallout from Covid-19 lockdowns, and peer pressure.
Social Care
JANUARY 13, 2023
"Working at Vida has shown me how important it is for all nurses to have the opportunity to take a placement or work in a specialist dementia care setting and to interact with people living with dementia." Image created by freepik.com ]. The power of placements.
Community Care
JANUARY 8, 2023
The government will give the NHS an extra £200m to buy short-term care placements to help relieve the pressures on its beleaguered emergency care system.
The Guardian
JANUARY 8, 2023
Care England says current funding is ‘inadequate’ if homes are to pay staff more and manage rehabilitation Care providers are demanding double the usual fees to look after thousands of people who need to be discharged from hospitals to ease the crisis in the NHS.
Nnatasha Tracy
JANUARY 11, 2023
Mental illness self-stigma is essential to recognize. Stigma is a very popular word in mental health advocacy circles. People talk nonstop about the effects of stigma, stigma, stigma. However, self-stigma gets somewhat less press.
Social Care
JANUARY 10, 2023
The Florence Nightingale Leadership Programme allows care colleagues, like St Monica Trust's Emily Pimm, to apply their experience and knowledge to improve practice in their fields of work. An opportunity to develop.
Community Care
JANUARY 13, 2023
The government’s forthcoming response to the care review will begin to address mounting pressures on the social work workforce, the president of the Association of Directors of Children’s Services (ADCS) has said.
International Federation of Social Workers
JANUARY 11, 2023
The above image shows Dignity Shopping at the Kamenets Podisk Social Supermarket and children’s activities at the Community Social Work Centre “Thank you IFSW so much for all the support. […]. Ukraine IFSW
Swhelper
JANUARY 7, 2023
Jake Paul. The term “Employee well-being” covers the mental, physical and financial health of the workers in the organization. According to a recent survey, 58% of the world’s population spends one-third of their lives at the workplace.
Prosper Health Collective
JANUARY 13, 2023
When your child is nervous and/or worried, it is often parents’ first instinct to try to fix the problem – and why wouldn’t you? You love your child, and that’s why you do it. However, sometimes, fixing the problem isn’t what is needed. What parents often do when children are nervous and/or worried.
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
JANUARY 11, 2023
This agency's failure to follow federal law contributed to an unspeakable tragedy Last fall, I took issue with how KCUR public radio in Kansas City handled a story about the failings of the state’s family policing system (a more accurate term than “child welfare” system).
The New Social Worker
JANUARY 11, 2023
The National Day of Racial Healing is January 17, 2023. Let us build on our strengths as professional social workers to help usher in social change for social justice this year
International Federation of Social Workers
JANUARY 12, 2023
Dear colleagues, Happy New Year to all of you! On behalf of the Executive, Commissioners, Ambassador, Secretary General and the Secretariat I am delighted to present you the 2022 End […].
Prosper Health Collective
JANUARY 13, 2023
Listening is a skill. Listening can be highly effective. However, it’s not easy because parents have to actively “do nothing”. Listening can be very effective for helping children who are feeling nervous and/or worried (see blog “ How to help your nervous or worried child by “simply” listening” ).
Social Work Blog
JANUARY 9, 2023
The journal Social Work is a benefit of NASW membership. It is available online or, at a member’s request, in print. Children & Schools , Health & Social Work and Social Work Research. are available by subscription at a discounted rate for NASW members, either online or in print.
Psychological Health Care
JANUARY 8, 2023
Medicare subsidised visits to psychologists have been reduced from 1 January 2023. This means the number of Medicare subsidised psychology sessions you can claim has dropped from 20 to 10, per calendar year.
Famcare
JANUARY 13, 2023
According to research , around 1.5 million NGOs (non-governmental organizations) are currently operational in the United States.
Prosper Health Collective
JANUARY 13, 2023
The anticipation, excitement, nervousness and bittersweet feelings that arise when children start school for the first time! Here are some things to think about for this process. Attending to practicalities is important.
Social Work Blog
JANUARY 11, 2023
The U.S. leads the world in the total number of incarcerations, imprisoning Americans at a rate of 629 people per every 100,000. And even though the current rate is the lowest in 20 years, the U.S. in 2022 had more than two million people in prison, according to World Population Review.
International Federation of Social Workers
JANUARY 11, 2023
The above image shows Dignity Shopping at the Kamianets-Podilskyi Social Supermarket and children’s activities at the Community Social Work Centre “Thank you IFSW so much for all the support. It […]. IFSW Ukraine
Famcare
JANUARY 12, 2023
According to surveys , around 53% of companies have adopted data analytics to enhance their procedures.
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