Social Work Blog

MARCH 31, 2024

As the nation’s largest group of mental health services providers, social workers are uniquely positioned to help clients make significant positive changes in their health and well-being by taking time to talk with them about their drinking. These conversations can have a major impact.

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Social Work Blog

JUNE 20, 2023

Mistrust of healthcare institutions is one factor to consider. While challenges remain in the delivery of healthcare to PEH, this pandemic experience has been an opportunity to expand all health care to PEH. The expansion of virtual healthcare is another opportunity to engage PEH with healthcare professionals.

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Social Work Blog

MARCH 31, 2024

As the nation’s largest group of mental health services providers, social workers are uniquely positioned to help clients make significant positive changes in their health and well-being by taking time to talk with them about their drinking. These conversations can have a major impact.

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Relias

JANUARY 30, 2023

By working to make your organization a safer place to work for everyone, you’re likely to see staff retention and engagement increase, which can lead to more consistent, quality care for persons served. Enhance employee engagement, networking, and empowerment. It’s truly a win-win. It is important and necessary work.

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Relias

JUNE 28, 2023

According to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), integrated care is defined as “the systematic coordination of general and behavioral healthcare.” To provide the best services possible, healthcare organizations of all kinds must understand how to implement integrated care management.

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Relias

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

To effectively manage workers from so many generations, you need to keep three simple tips in mind: communication, respect, and engagement. Respect people’s differences As Gallup points out, employees who know “they are respected as individuals at work” are more likely to be engaged.

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Relias

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Continuous quality improvement (CQI) is a philosophy within healthcare organizations that looks to constantly improve upon patient care, staff safety, and organizational processes. When quality improvement is working well, people are more engaged in their jobs. Healthcare is “an overworked, understaffed, stressful environment.”

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Society of Clinical Psychology

APRIL 26, 2023

BARRIERS TO CARE Prior research has identified three main categories of barriers to mental healthcare for people of color (POC): Access, Retention, and Effectiveness. The literature is more mixed on ethnoracial disparities in mental healthcare retention and effectiveness. Department of Health and Human Services, 2019).

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Relias

MARCH 17, 2023

Patient Safety Awareness Week, sponsored by the Institute for Healthcare Improvement , is the perfect time to review the Joint Commission’s National Patient Safety Goals. The national patient safety goals listed by the Joint Commission include some of the biggest preventable risks to patient safety across healthcare systems.

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Relias

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

Though the COVID-19 pandemic is waning, the changes it brought to healthcare persist. It is not just a trait you are naturally imbued with, but rather “ an active practice ” that anyone can engage in. At work, resilience is associated with job satisfaction, employee engagement, and interpersonal relationships.

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Relias

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Whether they are natural or man-made disasters, human services professionals must prepare accordingly. The link between trauma and healthcare needs. In recent years, researchers have taken a more holistic approach to understanding human health. Engage in partnerships. Disasters happen.

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Social Work Blog

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Department of Health and Human Services first declared a 90-day public health emergency (PHE). If individuals no longer qualify for Medicaid or CHIP because their income has increased, they may be able to get health coverage through an employer or the healthcare marketplace. By Carrie Dorn, MPA, LMSW.

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Relias

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

For healthcare organizations that treat veteran populations, creating a program that can identify individuals struggling with suicidal ideation and other mental health conditions can go a long way to decreasing the incidence of suicide among veterans. Male veterans have higher suicide rates than female veterans.

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Relias

MARCH 4, 2024

Before implementing any of these modalities of telehealth, the provider should evaluate the risks and benefits of each model, as well as determine the ability of the caregiver to engage in telehealth with the appropriate technology.

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Social Work Blog

MAY 25, 2022

Learn a combination of diagnosis and interventionist tools of dissociation to consider when engaged in treatment of populations of color. Identify future areas of work/growth, boundaries as practitioners as the continued need for mental health treatment remains an essential service during the COVID 19 pandemic in the U.S. .”

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Relias

JULY 13, 2023

Older adults in healthcare settings and long-term care facilities are more likely to have a behavioral health disorder than those who live in the community, according to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. Part of this care includes building resilience in older adults.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2024

By utilizing open-ended questions, affirmations, reflective listening, and summaries, healthcare practitioners can effectively facilitate conversations that promote positive change. To engage in reflective listening, you must cultivate reflective thinking. You should then adjust your interpretation accordingly.

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KVC

JULY 20, 2021

The shared services model also ensures consistency and reduces costs by enabling smaller business units to access high-quality experts and resources that might otherwise be out of their reach. It’s important to note that KVC does not have the same mix of services in each state.

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MAY 8, 2023

For healthcare organizations of all kinds, becoming trauma-informed has never been more important. To that end, organizational leaders and administrators need to engage in collaborative partnerships with staff, clients, and other agencies. What does it mean to be trauma-informed?

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Social Workers Speak

AUGUST 5, 2021

Interim CPS CEO Wants to Engage With 100K Students at Risk of Not Re-Enrolling This Fall. Lena Richardson is a member: GA Dept of Human Services Appoints Lena Richardson to Georgia Council on Aging. Department of Human Services Commissioner Gerlda B. “There’s no consequence for poor behavior,” Lamb said. “If

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Social Workers Speak

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

With over 30 years of reflection and engagement, social work educator, researcher, community organizer, and social justice advocate, Dr. Joyner currently oversees 55 chapters of the National Association of Social Workers (NASW) throughout the United States. “We We have this healthcare system that separates that,” he said.

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Society of Clinical Psychology

OCTOBER 7, 2016

In fact, the majority of CBH services continue to have little or no relation to practices supported by empirical evidence (Zima et al., These services typically treat a high volume of underserved populations, who for a variety of reasons have proven less likely to actively seek out traditional mental healthcare (Safran et al.,

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Relias

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Provide patient education, improve engagement, and ensure appropriate hand-offs during transitions of care. They take an active stance in managing the utilization of client healthcare services and in improving client outcomes. When done effectively, care coordination can reduce the burden placed on healthcare providers.

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Relias

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Direct Support Professionals (DSPs), like most adult learners, want to be engaged in their job training and learn new skills best by building on their life experiences. These techniques will help learners become and remain engaged in their training, while simultaneously improving their retention of the information presented.

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