Community Care
MARCH 15, 2024
Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll. Black, Asian and minority ethnic social care staff face disproportionately high levels of workplace bullying, disciplinary action and fitness to practise referrals, while also being less likely than white counterparts to be shortlisted for jobs.
Gary Direnfeld
MARCH 11, 2024
The parent wondered why their child didn’t listen. I observed the parent and child. Whenever the child didn’t listen to a direction, the parent turned to me and offered a reason why the child didn’t do as asked. At the same time the parent would say, they were sorry to the child for whatever the child was feeling about the expectation There was no meaningful follow through to require the child to do as asked.
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My Brains Not Broken
MARCH 13, 2024
You know, it’s funny. You would think, after ten years of living with depression, of experiencing it on and off, I’d have a better understanding of it by now. Some days I feel like I do. I feel like I understand why I’m experiencing symptoms, or I know exactly what I can do to alleviate these symptoms and feel better. But other days, it’s like I’m dealing with depression for the first time.
MQ Mental Health
MARCH 14, 2024
This World Sleep Day (15 March 2024), we consider the powerful effects sleep and sleep quality can have on mental health. World Sleep Day celebrates awareness of sleep health. Sleep and mental health are inextricably linked. Anyone who doesn’t sleep well for a few nights can attest to the effect it can have on mood, behaviour, thoughts and your ability to think clearly or look after yourself or others.
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Community Care
MARCH 15, 2024
Non-statutory placements make up over half of practice learning provision for social work students in Scotland, leaving some graduates underprepared for practice, research has revealed. The lack of placements in local authorities is driven by underfunding and practice educator shortages, said a report commissioned by regulator the Scottish Social Services Council (SSSC) and the Social Work Education Partnership (SWEP), an alliance of sector leaders that oversees the education system.
Gary Direnfeld
MARCH 11, 2024
That gaslighting. It causes so many to believe they are somehow to blame for matters actually originating with their partner. Ways to tell if you are being gaslighted include: If you feel somehow someone has flipped the script and you find yourself on the defensive when trying to address their behavior; If you find yourself confused in the discussion wondering if you did did something wrong; If you find the other disproportionately angry for things you are simply trying to clarify or resolve.
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CAPC
MARCH 13, 2024
Passing this bill would ensure permanent Medicare payments for telehealth and some telephonic services.
Community Care
MARCH 12, 2024
Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll. Older people are routinely having their human rights breached because of a failure to tackle the “huge” Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLS) backlog and a system in “complete disarray” That was the verdict from an Age UK report that warned many people were being unlawfully deprived of their liberty because of the government’s failure to reform DoLS, signifi
Gary Direnfeld
MARCH 11, 2024
I heard a wise friend explain to another that they must paddle their own canoe. It was a vivid metaphor and image of what can happen should one reach to paddle the canoe of another. It isn’t necessarily the other who lands in the water, but oneself. So often people seek for another to change their ways, they try to tell or influence their behavior.
International Federation of Social Workers
MARCH 13, 2024
Organized in collaboration by IFSW Europe, in partnership with the Association of Social Workers of Turkey and the Center for Training and Evaluation in Social Work (CFCECAS), the training program […]
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.
The Guardian
MARCH 9, 2024
Thousands of families have not found permanent accommodation for more than a decade, according to alarming new research • Read more: ‘My children never had a place they could say was home’ Some homeless children are now spending their entire childhoods in supposedly “temporary accommodation”, while thousands of families have been housed in it for more than a decade, according to alarming new evidence of a homelessness crisis “spiralling out of control”.
Community Care
MARCH 10, 2024
Fitness to practise (FTP) delays are set to rise further due to pressures on Social Work England’s budget, the regulator has confirmed. Case lengths – from referral to a decision on the practitioner’s fitness to practise – will increase over the next 12 months from a current average of just over two years, Social Work England said in a report to its board meeting last month.
Gary Direnfeld
MARCH 11, 2024
Your teen escalates and you seek to restore order. Many a parent will try to exert greater power and control over the teen. However, that typically results in an escalation… of both teen and parent. Then the parent will escalate threats, usually framed as loss of privileges or resources. The length of time for which such is taken away grows as the conflict continues.
Social Work Blog
MARCH 13, 2024
By Sue Coyle Self-care is an often-discussed topic among social workers, the organizations that employ them, and the profession as a whole—and for good reason. Social work is a challenging career choice in myriad ways. From the client-based schedules that often extend into the evenings, to the lack of resources available for organizations and individuals, to the emotional toll service work can take on a professional, social workers are likely to feel overwhelmed and stressed—at the very least—at
The New Social Worker
MARCH 11, 2024
While our professional focus often lies in empowering others, this year’s NASW Social Work Month theme, “Empowering Social Workers,” serves as a timely reminder of the importance of self-empowerment.
Community Care
MARCH 13, 2024
Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll. Four in ten family support and early help workers have personal experience of domestic abuse, a survey has found. The proportion of those who reported personal experience of domestic abuse (39.1%) compares with a prevalence rate for women aged over 16 across England and Wales of 27% as of 2023, according to Office for National Statistics (ONS) data.
Gary Direnfeld
MARCH 11, 2024
They weren’t the worst of separating parents. Each was focused on missing their child. They were also focused on creating an easy parenting plan. The child was three. They chose a week about schedule. A week with each parent and change over Friday before dinner. Trouble was, that three-year-old missed both parents too. By the third day the child was distraught.
The Guardian
MARCH 14, 2024
Health Services Union secretary says new benchmark pay rate will make sector competitive with public health system Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our morning and afternoon news emails , free app or daily news podcast Aged care workers will receive an average pay rise of 23% after the Fair Work Commission delivered its decision in a long-running work value case.
Nnatasha Tracy
MARCH 13, 2024
I'm extremely excited to announce that I'm releasing my second book. For those of you who don't know, I released a book in 2016, Lost Marbles: Insights into My Life with Depression & Bipolar. It's a combination of memoir and self-help. It was very well received by people with bipolar disorder and their loved ones alike. I've certainly written a lot since 2016, and this new book is a result of that and so much more.
The New Social Worker
MARCH 10, 2024
In this episode of Conversations on Social Work Careers, The New Social Worker columnists and editor/publisher/founder Linda Grobman got together to talk about their thoughts on the Social Work Month theme, "Empowering Social Workers.
The Masked AMHP
MARCH 11, 2024
So, you’ve been detained under the MHA, and you want to get out of hospital. Based on my decades of first-hand experience here a few hints and tips that might make your stay a little shorter. 1. Appeal against your detention When you are detained under a section of the MHA, it is the duty of the AMHP who detained you, and of the hospital staff, to inform you of your rights to appeal.
The Guardian
MARCH 11, 2024
‘Strong case’ to increase co-contributions for people with means, as there will always be some who need more government support, report says Get our morning and afternoon news emails , free app or daily news podcast Older Australians with more wealth should have to pay more for the cost of their aged care, a government-appointed expert panel has recommended, potentially from their superannuation balances.
International Federation of Social Workers
MARCH 14, 2024
IFSW is delighted to announce a new era for the International Journal of Social Work Values and Ethics with the appointment of Robert McKinney as the new editor.
CAPC
MARCH 15, 2024
Palliative care leaders from resource-constrained organizations share creative and practical strategies for operating palliative care programs in the health care safety net.
MQ Mental Health
MARCH 13, 2024
John and Susan Wilkes, long term supporters of MQ Mental Health Research, remember their son Nick Wilkes who died by suicide ten years ago in 2014. John and Susan’s support helps fund vital research to prevent others losing their lives to suicide in the future. Here they recall Nick with fondness and explain why supporting MQ is so important to them.
The Guardian
MARCH 12, 2024
Grosvenor says it is prevented from making 3,000 visits a week as it pays migrant workers to sit at home because permits not renewed One of the UK’s biggest home care providers says it is paying dozens of migrant workers to sit at home and do nothing because the Home Office has not renewed key immigration permits. Thousands of workers, mostly from Africa, were welcomed into the UK to help fill the one in 10 care worker jobs vacant after the Covid crisis.
International Federation of Social Workers
MARCH 14, 2024
Today I lived the life of social work students in Ukraine, from the classroom to the bunker.
Michigan Social Work
MARCH 14, 2024
ENGAGE Strategist Sonia Harb has been appointed board chair of the Michigan League for Public Policy (MLPP) in January 2024. MLPP is a nonpartisan policy institute that addresses poverty and analyzes the impact of state and federal budgets and policies on residents with low incomes. “Engaging community and supporting grassroots advocacy is near and dear to my heart and the work the League is doing in that space is transformative,” she said.
The International Association Of Schools Of Social
MARCH 14, 2024
Special Issue “Capitalist Crisis, Right-Wing Movements, Ongoing Rebellions, and Social Struggles” The Journal Critical Proposals in Social Work – Propuestas Críticas en Trabajo Social- is an academic publication of the Department of Social Work at the University of Chile, aiming to foster debate and the development of proposals in response to the impacts of capitalism, inequality, and oppression affecting various sectors of society.
The Guardian
MARCH 12, 2024
Multiple cases of abuse and exploitation have been documented, but many staff feel ‘powerless to complain’ for fear of losing the right to work in the country A foreign care worker says she was repeatedly raped by her manager but felt unable to report him to the police for fear of losing her right to work, in a case that exposes the way the UK’s visa system for health and care workers leaves people completely dependent on their employer.
International Federation of Social Workers
MARCH 14, 2024
After enduring decades of neoliberal policy making that advocated for a small state and promoted the market as the primary instrument for the efficient allocation of jobs and resources, the […]
Michigan Social Work
MARCH 14, 2024
Associate Professor M. Candace Christensen has been named a Public Engagement Faculty Fellow by the U-M Office of the Vice President for Research. The fellowship offers an opportunity for faculty members to consider how they can prioritize outward engagement in their scholarly activity and translate it into meaningful public impacts. “My vision for who I want to be as a professional scholar in 5-10 years is to be exceptionally proficient at translating my own research, but also a guide, mentor,
Jaeran Kim
MARCH 12, 2024
Faculty Fellows in Community Engagement – University of Washington Tacoma Office of Community Partnerships Summary of Project: SAMM is a series of activities aimed at supporting and growing peer mentorship communities for youth and adults with lived adoption histories. When adoptees begin to develop an adoptee identity and reflect on how adoption has impacted them, a sense of confusion and dissonance can occur.
The Guardian
MARCH 10, 2024
University of Oxford study shows benefits and risks of technology to healthcare, but ethical issues remain Britain’s hard-pressed carers need all the help they can get. But that should not include using unregulated AI bots, according to researchers who say the AI revolution in social care needs a hard ethical edge. A pilot study by academics at the University of Oxford found some care providers had been using generative AI chatbots such as ChatGPT and Bard to create care plans for people receivi
Prosper Health Collective
MARCH 12, 2024
How Depression impacts Social Connection Depression often leads to social isolation as people who are feeling depressed tend to withdraw from interacting with others. This withdrawal can exacerbate feelings of loneliness and further contribute to depressive symptoms, causing a vicious cycle. Reasons for Social Isolation Feelings of worthlessness Feelings of hopelessness that social interaction will not improve the situation Lack of energy and motivation Feelings of burdensome Fear of rejec
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