2022

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How We Shape the Future: Reflexive Questions for the Social Work Profession

Social Work Futures

As I’m making my way through a book project (Anticipatory Social Work!!!) I’m doing a lot of working and thinking about and structuring activities to guide the profession into meaningful, direct and generative questions for individuals and collectives. The future of social work isn’t only “out there.” It is connected to the things we are doing, the places we are looking, the places we aren’t looking…right now.

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How Do You Talk About Mental Health?

My Brains Not Broken

During Mental Health Awareness Month , there is a lot of attention focused on knowing what mental health challenges look like. It makes sense – mental illness and mental health disorders have become much more prevalent in the past few decades and the pandemic has only amplified that, so awareness is extremely important. But there are so many things to be aware of when it comes to mental health that not everyone might know.

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‘Why child protection policies on bruising to babies need to change’

Community Care

By Andy Bilson. In a recent report, the Child Safeguarding Practice Review Panel (“the panel”) asked safeguarding partners to review their policies on bruising in non-mobile infants “to check for consistency with the evidence base and national guidelines.”. The panel acknowledges that there are a small number of children who are seriously harmed or die, where bruises have been seen by staff with a responsibility to protect children before more serious injuries have taken place.

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Two Ways to Decolonize a Social Work Research Course

Teaching & Learning in Social Work

Editor’s Note: Dr. Amy Werman, DSW, LCSW , is a lecturer at the Columbia School of Social Work , with over 20 years of teaching experience in social work education. In this blog post, she shares two practical suggestions for social work research courses, focusing on ways to decolonize traditional content and integrate an anti-racist/anti-oppressive approach to teaching about research methodology.

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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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Introducing The Anti-racist Listening Project podcast

Social Work With Adults

Lyn Romeo: I am delighted to once again host adult social workers Nimal Jude and Liz Howard as guest bloggers, this time introducing their latest exciting venture, the Anti-racist Listening Project podcast. Making sure social work practice always challenges discrimination and oppression is imperative if we are to truly promote a human rights and social justice based approach to working with individuals, families and the diverse communities we serve.

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JOINT WORLD CONFERENCE ON SOCIAL WORK EDUCATION AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT

The International Association Of Schools Of Social

JOINT WORLD CONFERENCE ON SOCIAL WORK EDUCATION AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT. The SWESD 2022 Organizing Committee is pleased to announce the Call for Abstracts for the JOINT WORLD CONFERENCE ON SOCIAL WORK EDUCATION AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT: REDEFINING SOCIAL POLICY AND SOCIAL WORK PRACTICE IN A POST-PANDEMIC SOCIETY: SOCIAL WELFARE PROGRAMS AND SOCIAL WORK EDUCATION AT A CROSSROADS.

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National Report Addresses Nursing Home Quality & Promotes Value of Social Work

Social Work Blog

Image description: Photo of an empty bed in the corner of a room, topped by two pillows and a handmade blanket. A walker is positioned next to the bed, and sunlight is coming through a window with a curtain. The window is over a low table that holds a mug, plant, and open book. Posted April 22, 2022. On April 6, 2022, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) released a report entitled The National Imperative to Improve Nursing Home Quality: Honoring Our Commitment to

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Is There a Link between Childhood Trauma and Heart Disease?

Stop Abuse Campaign

← Types of Therapy and Mental Health Providers. We know unhealthy habits often lead to a life of chronic pain, disease, and immune disorders, but many of us don’t think to trace those habits back to childhood. Research has discovered that our health outcomes are affected more or less harshly depending on how many of the ten types of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) we may have endured during our formative years. .

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Cutting through the spin about predictive analytics in child welfare

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

The Scarlet Number: Allegheny County (metropolitan Pittsburgh) has been trying to slap a "risk score" on every child at birth. The score could haunt them their entire lives. In Allegheny County, Pa., even the county’s hand-picked ethics reviewers had reservations about the county’s Orwellian “Hello Baby” algorithm. A key feature of the program flunked one reviewer’s ethics test.

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Helping unpaid carers get vaccinated helps us all

Social Care

Unpaid carers are eligible for a COVID-19 autumn booster if they are caring for someone who is clinically vulnerable. They are similarly entitled to a free flu jab. [Image created by freepik.com ]. Protecting those who care for others. With the winter upon us, it’s more important than ever to protect ourselves and those we care for against COVID-19 and flu and get vaccinated.

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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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What is “Anticipatory Social Work?” Advancing a Provocation for the Next Chapter of the Profession

Social Work Futures

Social workers specialize in the effects of cascading failures of our most important community institutions and the very real hope, determination and commitment to justice and well-being for all. This includes work in poverty, inequity and racism, homelessness, access to health and behavioral health resources, education and many other issues. As the world continues to change, old issues transform/evolve and new issues emerge…too much of our intellectual and practice infrastructure posit

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Reflecting on 2022 on My Brain’s Not Broken

My Brains Not Broken

Every year, around this time, I like to take stock of the year I had. I wish I did this in a more formal way, but I don’t. It’s mostly thought and reflection, but it’s very important for me to think back on the year I’ve experienced. It helps me process things I might have otherwise missed, and I think it plays a big role in helping me move through certain things and prepare for the year ahead.

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Home Office social worker guidance unlawful, High Court rules

Community Care

Home Office guidance for social workers assessing the age of young people arriving in Kent is unlawful, the High Court has ruled. The guidance, for practitioners employed by the Home Office at the Kent intake unit (KIU), did not provide for age assessments to be carried out with adequate safeguards for the unaccompanied claimants concerned. Mr Justice Henshaw also found that age assessments carried out by social workers on two claimants, ‘MA’ and ‘HT’, at the KIU, in under an hour, just after th

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What Causes Coke Bloat? What You Need to Know

Gateway Foundation

Cocaine is a powerfully addictive drug that can create numerous severe side effects. Once a person becomes addicted to the illegal drug, they can experience physical, mental and emotional changes that take a toll on their quality of life. One of these changes includes facial puffiness, often referred to as coke bloat. Coke bloat can alter the appearance, affecting one’s self-esteem and perception of self-worth.

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Keep calm and call an AMHP

Social Work With Adults

[Image created by freepik.com ]. National AMHP Day 2022 is here. With so many recent challenges and experiences in the pandemic, I can’t think of a more suitable title to this blog post, which describes the dignity and professionalism our approved mental health professional (AMHP) workforce as they helped many people through a period of national crisis.

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IASSW Announces The Release Of Social Dialogue Magazine # 26

The International Association Of Schools Of Social

IASSW Announces The Release Of Social Dialogue Magazine # 26. Dear Colleagues, International Association of Schools of Social Work (IASSW) has launched Social Dialogue magazine volume 26 on Black Lives Matter: developments in de-colonising social work. This volume contains 16 articles from Ecuador, Guyana, Uruguay, Papua New Guinea, Italy, UK, Canada, Australia, and Aotearoa/New Zealand, exploring the title “Black lives matter: Developments in decolonising social work”.

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The Scariest Parts of Bipolar Disorder

Nnatasha Tracy

The scariest parts of bipolar disorder depend on who you ask, I guess, but I can think of quite a few scary things; after all, serious chronic illnesses like bipolar disorder tend to be scary on their very face. From having to deal with bipolar disorder for the rest of your life to possibly losing your life to bipolar disorder, there's a lot of which to be scared.

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An Open Letter to LGBTQIA2S+ Kids and Youth from NASW during Pride Month

Social Work Blog

Getty Images. We write this letter to LGBTQIA2S+ kids and youth to express deep gratitude that you exist, because our world would be incomplete without you. We honor the richness of your authenticity and openly proclaim that you are perfect exactly as you are. Ralph Waldo Emerson once said, “To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”.

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New IFSW Global President Elected

International Federation of Social Workers

IFSW is delighted to announce that the new global President is Joachim Mumba from Zambia. His 4-year term as president will commence on the 16th of May. He follows on from Silvana Martinez who steps down at the end of her 4-year term at the end of the IFSW General Meeting which is currently in […].

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Neurodivergent people are more likely to experience pain, due to hypermobility

MQ Mental Health

Neurodivergent people are more than twice as likely as the general population to have hypermobile joints and are far more likely to experience pain on a regular basis, according to new research. . Led by Brighton and Sussex Medical School (BSMS) and funded by the MRC, MQ Mental Health Research and Versus Arthritis, the research found that more than 50% of participants with a diagnosis of Autism , attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) or tic disorder (Tourette syndrome) demonstrated ele

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You've got a friend in Social Care Talk

Social Care

Nadra Ahmed, Executive Chair of the National Care Association, explains how a new website can help people make informed decisions about paying for care. The power of testimony. Friends, family and colleagues are all great sources of information. Sometimes, information comes from chance encounters, when you’re walking the dog or dropping off the kids.

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Foresight-Based Map of Social Work’s Immediate Future/Heat Map: Considering 1-5 years Ahead

Social Work Futures

One of the relevant steps in trying to think about what “social work of the future” might look like, is to rigorously map out what some of the issues, signals and drivers of change for the profession are right now. Then, one might think about them in combinations – and imagine how these will interact with other larger force (different political climates for example) as time moves forward.

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Free Mental Health Webinars, April 2022

Social Work.Career

This post is part of the monthly series, Free Webinars for Social Workers and Mental Health Professionals, featuring over 65 free webcasts that I could find for you this month in the field of social work and mental health. To make it easier for you to find a webinar that is of interest to you, […]. The post Free Mental Health Webinars, April 2022 appeared first on SocialWork.Career.

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National DoLs court launched to handle children’s deprivation of liberty cases

Community Care

The leading family judge has launched a National DoLs (deprivation of liberty) Court to handle applications to deprive children of their liberty, which have risen rapidly in recent years. Sir Andrew McFarlane, president of the family division of the High Court, said the court would start work on 4 July, handling all applications to authorise the deprivation of children’s liberty.

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Overseas nurses in the UK forced to pay out thousands if they want to quit jobs

The Guardian

Observer investigation uncovers NHS trusts and private care homes charging staff who leave to recoup recruitment costs • Trapped and destitute: how foreign nurses’ UK dreams turned sour International nurses working for NHS trusts and private care homes are being trapped in their jobs by clauses in their contracts that require them to pay thousands of pounds if they try to leave.

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The Pit of Inaction: My Thoughts

Learning Social Worker

Many of us are frustrated by the way large organisations seem to get stuck. Even though people at every level are working really hard, somehow things do not change. I created a ‘messy map’ to make sense of my observations and shared it on Twitter. It seemed to strike a chord and generate discussions. So, I refined my scribbles into a neat graphic and decided to write this blog to provide some context and share some ideas for using this to promote some positive actions.

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38th Annual Social Work Day at the UN

The International Association Of Schools Of Social

38th Annual Social Work Day at the UN. Moving Toward Food Security for All: The Role of Social Work. SAVE THE DAT E : Tuesday, March 15, 2022. Noon — 2 p.m. EST. This event will be held virtually on Zoom.

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Why we won’t see Jeffrey Epstein’s list and why it doesn’t matter

Stop Abuse Campaign

← 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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“Child welfare” in Pennsylvania: checking Pandora’s Box

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

Photo by Tara Winstead Pennsylvania take-the-child-and-run extremists are upset about the very idea that families should get an administrative hearing before they’re blacklisted forever in the state’s central registry of alleged child abusers Suppose you were reading a news story about a community that had decided to end the racist practice of stop-and-frisk policing.

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World Indigenous Peoples Day message

International Federation of Social Workers

Photo by the UN The IFSW Message on World Indigenous Peoples Day Today on World Indigenous Peoples Day, IFSW acknowledges the indigenous social workers that have for decades worked patiently to steer the profession towards understanding, respecting and celebrating diverse cultures. IFSW acknowledges that in many places around the world social work as a profession […].

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Social Work Tech Talk: Meditation Apps for Instruction and Self-Care

The New Social Worker

Recent events have given us lots of opportunities to practice meditation. For people new to meditation and practicing under these conditions, it might seem daunting. There are a lot of quality meditation apps to help you find your way.

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Getting vaccinated saves lives (and helps the health and care system too)

Social Care

"The first time I had the virus, I was put in a medically induced coma. I was told by the doctors that if I hadn’t had the vaccine, I would have died." Think Local Act Personal 's Clenton Farquharson. A personal journey. I’ve caught COVID-19 three times. If I hadn’t had the vaccine, I wouldn’t be here writing this now. Back in January 2021, you might remember me talking in this blog about the vaccine discussions we were having in my family: “We’ve had many heated debates about it - particularly

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Reflections and Takeaways from reading Amy Webb and Andrew Hessel’s book, The Genesis Machine

Social Work Futures

Just finished reading (finally) the new book from Amy Webb and her co-author Andrew Hessel. It’s called “The Genesis Machine: Our Quest to Rewrite Life in the Age of Synthetic Biology.” It came out earlier this year – and is published by Public Affairs in New York. I’ll include some “official” reviews of it at the end of this post – but here’s a list of 10 things I learned from reading this book.

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Bipolar or Any Mental Illness Is Not Your Fault

Nnatasha Tracy

Bipolar disorder is not your fault. Schizophrenia is not your fault. Depression is not your fault. You did nothing to deserve a mental illness. You are a good person and your being sick does not affect that. Mental illness landed on you and started eating away at your brain. It could have happened to anyone. You had nothing to do with it. Mental illness is not your fault.

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Child poverty rises linked to 10,000 more children going into care over five years, finds research

Community Care

Rises in child poverty fuelled by benefit cuts was associated with more than 10,000 more children being taken into care between 2015 and 2020, a new study has estimated. The research , which is currently being peer-reviewed, suggests 10,356 more children living in English local authority areas became looked after than would have been the case had poverty levels remained at 2015 levels.