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10 Things Everyone in Recovery Has to Remember

Gateway Foundation

Recovery is a lifelong process that offers hope for people overcoming substance use disorder. Individuals can overcome challenges in recovery when they remember important things, like their progress, goals, and healthy habits. These 10 factors are the most important things to remember in recovery: 1. How Far You Have Come.

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Your Healthy Outlook Can Promote Resilience and Recovery in Older Adults

Relias

The ways in which you engage older adults throughout the process to build resilience should include a focus on recovery, hope, and well-being. Believing in recovery Recognizing the ability to change can help when you are promoting resilience in older adults who have behavioral health challenges.

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10 Benefits of Yoga for Improving Health and Recovery

Pure Recovery California

Yoga as a practice is hugely beneficial for a person’s health and recovery. Utilizing yoga as a wellness tool and a way to stay healthy allows people, especially those in recovery for addiction and mental health issues, to focus on what the body can do on its own. Here are 10 Ways Yoga Can Improve Health and Recovery.

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Councils employing record numbers of children’s social workers on back of 25% recruitment boost

Community Care

However, the vacancy rate for local authority children’s practitioners has fallen only slightly, while councils are continuing to increase their engagement of agency staff, amid Department for Education (DfE) plans to curb their use.

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The Art of Destressing: How Creativity Creates Less Stress

MQ Mental Health

For me, I realised in my ongoing journey of mental health recovery, that the days I didn’t create were the days I felt disconnected and more likely to experience intrusive thoughts or unhealthy coping strategies. Self-care - Engaging in creative activities can be a form of self-care, promoting feelings of self-worth and self-esteem.

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“A Liminal Moment in Social Work”: Access NASW’s Social Work Journal Online

Social Work Blog

Burned Out, Engaged, Both, or Neither? Exploring Engagement and Burnout Profiles among Social Workers in Spain Few studies have analyzed the existence of homogeneous groups in burnout and engagement among professionals, and none in social workers. The research has implications for the practice of child social workers.

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DfE should set expectation of face-to-face practice for children’s social workers, say directors

Community Care

The inspectorate cited examples of staff living in rural areas taking posts in London boroughs, at higher salaries, without the need to travel, in a report on the sector’s recovery from Covid, published last July. A ban on agency project teams. A requirement for a minimum six-week notice period for agency social workers.