Social Work With Adults

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Lyn Romeo: It's an honour to host blogs from social workers, researchers and people with lived experience of health and social care. Image created by freepik.com ] Let's work this out together Debbie Best: I’m an optimist. That’s not equity, co-production, or partnership working. I am also a carer. It’s been a journey.

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Community Care

DECEMBER 1, 2022

The government has legislated to replace DoLS with a new system, the Liberty Protection Safeguards, but is yet to set out a timetable for implementation, with the Department of Health and Social Care scotching a recent that it would come into force in October 2023. Concerns over reduced social work input. Related articles.

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Mental Health Hospitals Patient Safety Government 265

University of Connecticut

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Trel then went to the University of Connecticut School of Social Work, earning a Master’s in Social Work, Class of 2022. Trel is a consultant serving as a valuable resource to non-profits that are starter-up in Violence Prevention work. Trel is CEO/Founder of Daniel’s Company Youth Leadership Mentoring Program.

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Community Care

JANUARY 7, 2022

Welsh minister for social justice Jane Hutt and Scottish social justice secretary Shona Robison wrote to home secretary Priti Patel last month expressing concerns over the mandatory scheme, requesting clarity that “adequate funding and flexible arrangements will be put in place”. Related articles.

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Social Work Bubble

MARCH 14, 2022

Social workers have roles in many levels of society – micro, mezzo, and macro. Today, we’ll describe what each of these levels encompass and specific jobs a social worker does. Keep in mind, one social worker can perform in various levels, and they each can be integrated together for holistic, positive change.

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Domestic Violence Community Outreach Rehabilitation Case Management 59

Social Care

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

"In order to truly reform social care, we need to dispel the longstanding belief it is just about older people and care homes. The sector provides for all our citizens, including working age adults and families receiving a range of care and support services." The Prime Minister made a commitment to “fix social care, once and for all”.

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The Guardian

MAY 30, 2022

A key lesson is that the more forensic aspects of safeguarding work should be taken over by specialist multi-agency safeguarding teams.

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Social Work Bubble

MARCH 14, 2022

Social workers have roles in many levels of society – micro, mezzo, and macro. Today, we’ll describe what each of these levels encompass and specific jobs a social worker does. Keep in mind, one social worker can perform in various levels, and they each can be integrated together for holistic, positive change.

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Domestic Violence Community Outreach Rehabilitation Case Management 40

Social Work Awards

AUGUST 16, 2023

The Social Worker of the Year Awards is pleased to announce this year’s finalists. The finalists were chosen by independent judging panels of young care leavers, social workers, industry leaders and people with lived experience of social work.

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Society of Clinical Psychology

MAY 2, 2019

Widely known as the ‘what works’ or risk-need-responsivity approach to offender rehabilitation, the most efficacious programs are implemented in ways that adhere to key, empirically derived service delivery principles (Andrews & Bonta, 2010). Dowden & Andrews, 2000; Lipsey, 2009). Clinical Psychology: Science and Practice , e12282.

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Social Care

MAY 4, 2023

Clare Shard is Head of Interpreting Services for Cygnet Health Care and Victoria Hamilton is a Forensic Psychologist in Training. We make sure we work collaboratively to make sure access to assessment, treatment and therapy for service users, plus information and training for deaf professionals, is delivered to a very high standard."

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Mental Health Criminal Justice Hospitals Disorder 57

Social Work Blog

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Social workers dedicate their lives to helping others, including some of the most vulnerable people in our society. However, research shows members of the social work profession are more likely to experience work-related stress, burnout, and a lower quality of life compared to other professions and the general population.

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Social Worker Self-harm Child Welfare Communication 109

Reimagining Social Work

OCTOBER 7, 2021

The mainstream history of state social work since the nineteenth century is bound up with interventions targeted at problem populations – people pushed to the margins of liberal capitalist societies. We know that this process has not worked well in the distant or recent past. Scott, 2006, p.9).

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Child Welfare Self-harm Welfare Justice and Corrections 40

Stop Abuse Campaign

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

You can work towards healing your inner child by practicing self-parenting for abuse survivors. There are different types of mental health professionals that you can work with, such as psychologists, therapists, and psychiatric nurses. Rather than be hard on yourself, that love can begin with you.

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University of Connecticut

MAY 8, 2023

Thanks to the generosity of our donors, the School of Social Work is able to offer a number of scholarship opportunities to our BSW and MSW students each academic year. This scholarship, created by Mary and her late husband, Raymond, will provide financial support to a student enrolled in the Bachelor of Social Work program.

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Justice and Corrections LMSW Schools Mental Health 52

The Critical Blog

APRIL 15, 2021

BASW England, Professional Officer, Social Worker & Anti-racism Visionary. Question – What does ‘Megxit’’, the KCMG medal and the Social Work professional standards all have in common? Obviously, these are just a few examples of how White supremacy works against us (people of colour). By Wayne Reid.

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Community Care

JUNE 29, 2023

The NHS increased the size of its mental health social work workforce by 20% from 2019-22, official figures show. The figures includes trainee social workers in year one of the Think Ahead fast-track qualifying programme.

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Community Care

JANUARY 19, 2023

The proposed mental health commissioner should promote the work of ‘responsible persons’, and produce proposals on reducing inequalities and improving data. In respect of part 3 (forensic) patients, the joint committee felt the evidence was inconclusive and recommended the reformed MHA should be reviewed within three years of becoming law.

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Community Care

MAY 30, 2022

The panel’s key lessons from its combined reviews into the murders of Star and Arthur Labinjo-Hughes were the need to significantly improve multi-agency working and child protection expertise. Social workers felt uninvolved in ‘inadequate’ council’s attempts to improve, says commissioner.

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