Social Work Futures

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Have you seen the film “The Social Dilemma?” In a previous post, I shared a couple of fine reviews specifically concerning the lack of diverse representation in the film – particularly when it comes to breakthrough thinking, practicing, research and imagining about the future in tech and beyond. Most concerning is the lack of inclusion of the voices of Women of Color who have been conducting important work in this space for many years.

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Save the Social Worker

DECEMBER 29, 2020

You probably already know this. You need good supervision to progress as a social worker. Not supervision that tells you what to do. But supervision that works with you, for you. How do you do that? But more importantly, why should you do that? Let’s start with what good supervision looks like, before we go into how to make your own supervision better.

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Teaching & Learning in Social Work

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

A few years back, my colleague, Dr. Lisa Baker at Samford University’s Department of Social Work , and I collaborated on a study about a technology-meditated assignment that we developed for a Human Behavior and the Social Environment (HBSE) course. Our goal was to breathe some new life into a stale assignment. In this post, I want to share how we approached the development, assessment, and dissemination of our study related to this tech-mediated assignment.

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Martin Webber

JULY 14, 2020

Our research has identified a potential role for social workers in addressing social risk factors for cardiovascular disease in India.

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Learning Social Worker

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

In this blog, I shall tell you about my book that I have written in the hope of changing hearts, minds, and practice. I am pretty excited about the prospect of seeing my first book in print. He Died Waiting: Learning the lessons – a bereaved mother’s view of mental health services is based on my experiences as a mother and as a social worker. Inevitably my story is biased.

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Psychological Health Care

DECEMBER 21, 2020

After a year of uncertainty and periods of isolation brought about by COVID-19, many people will be setting expectations for an extra jolly Christmas and planning time connecting with family and friends in celebration. However, for many people the festive season can also magnify financial issues, family conflict and loneliness and increase stress for people with anxiety and depression.

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A Splintered Mind

DECEMBER 7, 2020

All was not terrible in 2020. The press will try to convince you otherwise, but their job is to panic you into thinking the world is ending any minute…again…so that you click on their news links to help them make money. I'm sure your personal life is filled with happy events that spit in the eye of Cynicism 2020. In fact, I'm positive I can rattle off dozens of such events in my own personal life.

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Creative Play Therapist

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Click for your free download. This feelings can be found in the "Mindful Monsters Therapeutic Workbook" along with close to 100 other interventions, coloring pages, crafts and worksheets. The workbook can be used on its own, or alongside the children's book "Be Mindful of Monsters.". Visit BumbleBLS.com/Shop to buy these books. “Be Mindful of Monsters” is an early reader created to help children understand and cope with powerful emotions.

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Millennial Social Worker

DECEMBER 26, 2020

Grief, I’ve learned, is really just love. It’s all the love you want to give, but cannot. All that unspent love gathers up in the corners of your eyes, the lump in your throat, and in that hollow part of your chest. Grief is just love with no place to go.”. ? Jamie Anderson. Many of us have experienced some form of grief this year. We have all felt its weight in one way or the other.

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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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Clinical Philosophy

DECEMBER 23, 2020

In Where's the Problem? Rachel Cooper offers us, amongst other things, a reading of a central aspect of Laing & Esterson's classic Sanity, Madness and the Family. Much of her paper is concerned with evaluating the idea that mental disorders are or are not 'in' the individuals diagnosed with them. I want to leave off discussion of philosophical psychiatry's curious use of that preposition for another time; for now the focus shall be on her reading of Laing & Esterson (hereafter: Laing).

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Social Work Futures

OCTOBER 2, 2020

The week before last, the Institute for the Future (where I have a Research Fellowship affiliation) had their annual “Ten Year Forecast” meeting. It is always a robust, engaging – and sometimes unsettling gathering. I learn so much every year – thought I’d summarize the high points I took away. I did a download of the meeting – check it out!!

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Save the Social Worker

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Table of Contents. 1. Introduction. 2. Who are you to tell me this? 3. Because let’s face it…. 4. Strategy is playing people chess, not people checkers. 5. Successful strategy is in the day-to-day course correction. What are the practical steps? 6. Successful strategy is a habit. 7. But I’m just a member of staff! Be active, not passive. Manage your boss.

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Social Work Bubble

DECEMBER 23, 2020

Before diving into my New Year Resolutions, let’s remind ourselves what effective goals look like. Creating SMART goals can hold us accountable, and describe goals in more realistic ways. It means our goals are Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Realistic, and Time Oriented. With this magic formula in mind, you can be sure to create goals that you CAN and WILL achieve.

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Martin Webber

OCTOBER 10, 2020

On World Mental Heath Day here is an opportunity to reflect on the importance of social connections for our mental health.

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Learning Social Worker

DECEMBER 30, 2020

Book review, by Stephanie Hassanali (nurse and clinical nurse trainer), of He Died Waiting: Learning the lessons – a bereaved mother’s view of mental health services by Caroline Aldridge. I read He Died Waiting because I want to impact positively on outcomes for everyone, “patients”, professionals and families. I have worked hard to put into practice care that is personalised.

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Society of Clinical Psychology

DECEMBER 23, 2020

To say that 2020 has been a “hard” year is almost facetious. The truth of the matter is, for many people 2020 has been a series of struggles at the hands of two pandemics, one that was novel and the other that was not. In being frank, 2020 was arguably disproportionately more difficult for Black people than any other group. African Americans in the United States had (and likely continue to have) more infections, hospitalizations, and subsequent deaths from COVID-19 than any other racial/ethnic g

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Beautiful Voyager

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Panic attacks from anxiety are nothing new and nothing to be ashamed of. The annoying time when your body preps for fight or flight can be nerve-racking, especially when your brain knows that there’s no real danger. Some symptoms of panic attack include pain or tightness in chest, a sense of impending danger, trembling, dizziness and nausea, shortness of breath, heart pounding, and sweating But the good news is, yoga can help you with some of these uncomfortable physical symptoms.

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A Splintered Mind

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

I might get myself in a bit of trouble with my daughters with this post, but I recently sat in on the Brownie’s session with her therapist (she’s learning disabled). We were discussing ways to regulate moods. She used to have anger issues, and although those days are behind us, she still doesn’t know what to do with strong, negative feelings like disappointment, irritation, and frustration.

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Shelter, Inc

DECEMBER 15, 2020

“Every child deserves a happy childhood, one they would not be sad to remember later on.” – unknown. . ‘Tis the holiday season when gift-giving plays a prominent role. Much time is spent finding the perfect toy, the right-size clothes, or anything for that hard-to-shop-for relative. Too often, we forget the best gift of all is a happy memory.

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N.A.H

DECEMBER 10, 2020

I saw a message online recently which said “Can we talk about college majors. I see many people struggling to find a job with degrees because... The post Can We Talk About College Majors? appeared first on N.A.H.

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The Social Care Elf

DECEMBER 6, 2020

This study explores the use of humour as a practice tool in social care, drawing on the humour-health hypothesis as the premise of the investigation and identifying both positive and negative impacts that definitely warrant some more thought and exploration. The Elves are not new to the idea that humour can be an important tool [read the full story.].

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Clinical Psychology of Social Interaction

DECEMBER 1, 2020

In our digital intervention tools, S.C.O.T.T. and Zirkus Empathico were documented on behalf of the German Ministry of Foreign Affairs for a Deutsche Welle contribution. Isabel Dziobek reports about their benefits for individuals on the autism spectrum and Zirkus Empathico is tested for the first time with an autistic boy (production by CONTEXT FILM Produktion for doc.station Medienproduktion GmbH; in German).

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Save the Social Worker

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Table of Contents. 1. What is social work interviewing? 2. Why interview? 3. Who do you interview? Involuntary clients. Voluntary clients. 4. How do you interview? Just before that…. 5. How do you interview better? Know where you are. Verbal. Vocal. Non-verbal. Ease people in. Be mindful. 6. Conclusion. Think about social work interviewing… and your mind might hark back to the scenes in CSI Miami.

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Social Work Bubble

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Being a therapist and social worker can make for chaotic days and constantly changing schedules. So how do we manage to stay on top of it all? Here is the breakdown of my daily schedule (generally speaking) and what my days look like as a therapist in New York City. As a fee-for-service therapist, my schedule is ultimately up to me. My caseload is as big as I want it to be, and my schedule is flexible based on each day.

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Martin Webber

MAY 31, 2020

Dr Tracee Green discusses her research just published in the Routledge Handbook of Social Work Practice Research.

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Doin' The Work

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

Episode 33. Guests: André Marcel Harris, BSW; Dashawna J. Fussell-Ware, MSW; Deana Ayers, BSW; Vivian Taylor, MSW. Host: Charla Cannon Yearwood, LSW. . 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.

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Society of Clinical Psychology

DECEMBER 23, 2020

When we think of eating disorders, we often picture a very thin, white woman. Consistently, this is how eating disorders are often portrayed in the media. However, diverse groups of people experience eating disorders, and there is growing evidence that eating disorders and associated thoughts and behaviors might be more prominent in minoritized individuals—including racial and ethnic minorities, sexual and gender minorities, and individuals with obesity.

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Beautiful Voyager

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Photo by Lukasz Szmigiel. Learn more about this approach to mental health that’s skyrocketed in popularity over the last few months The COVID-19 pandemic has brought with it a number of layoffs and furloughs across industries, as well as a number of other stress-inducing difficulties. While it hasn’t been an easy road for most, it has brought new, unique forms of therapy and self-care to the forefront of the public’s attention.

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Clinical Philosophy

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

A classic CBT formulation of that panic which is met with in panic disorder - a formulation owed to David Clark - looks like this: The idea, I believe, is that we're to read the arrows as meaning 'and then this leads to.' We might say that they're perhaps intended as 'causal' relations. For clinical purposes the model is helpful. The clinician can share the model, and then, with the model now there to help organise a terrifying runaway experience, the patient can start to stand back from her exp

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Social Work Awards

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

Social Work Awards, the charity behind the annual Social Worker of the Year Awards, has revealed that comedian, TV broadcaster and BBC radio presenter, Judi Love, will be hosting their virtual ‘Thank You Social Workers’ event on 26 November. The free virtual event will reflect and recognise the unique challenges, bravery and dedication of all social workers during Covid-19.

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N.A.H

DECEMBER 3, 2020

In the past as a student, and even today as a practitioner I have often found it challenging to find mentoring and supervision opportunities for people... The post Discussing Macro Social Work appeared first on N.A.H.

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The Social Care Elf

NOVEMBER 15, 2020

Jill Manthorpe discusses a qualitative study which examines the experiences of frontline workers in care homes and home care. The post Telling the tale: working in social care during the COVID-19 pandemic in early 2020 appeared first on National Elf Service.

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