My Brains Not Broken

MARCH 14, 2023

Self-stigmatization about my own mental wellness disguises itself well. To borrow from my post last year about self-stigma, the American Psychological Association defines it as: “Self-stigma refers to the negative attitudes, including internalized shame, that people with mental illness have about their own condition.”

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My Brains Not Broken

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Rachael Kearney’s post about burnout, shame and the sticking point of our words. That’s why I decided to start my own email newsletter, Negative Thoughts, Positive Person ! That’s why I decided to start my own email newsletter, Negative Thoughts, Positive Person ! My Most Popular Posts. Do I Know How to Rest?

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Social Work Futures

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Over the last couple of years and through my own foresight journey (as a social worker and a human)…I’ve found emerging language regarding the future to be really interesting, illuminating, sometimes troubling, and valuable. I haven’t posted one of these in a while. More information here , here and here.

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Save the Social Worker

APRIL 28, 2024

Becoming Better, by John Lim This is my very own book on social work , produced after 18 months in full time social work. I believe that reading them can give you a more holistic idea of social work. If you look at the most successful people in the world, a common habit they have is reading. What about in social work?

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Gary Direnfeld

JANUARY 13, 2022

My friend asked me for words. There are times, moments, where words are unavailable, where words seem so inadequate. Worry less about the words to say, than about being there, a witness to the pain, be it for the family or the child. It’s more important than the words we think we need. What do we say? Being there.

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Community Care

MAY 25, 2023

These have intensified since the Department of Health and Social Care told the CQC to produce single-word ratings of authorities. The Care Quality Commission’s (CQC) new system for assessing council adults’ services’ performance of their Care Act 2014 duties will be piloted by three councils over the coming months.

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

If you can own your own life, then you have to deeply believe that you have a right to describe how your life should be. Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll. Can you tell me about your work with Promote the Vote? But does it matter?

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Community Care

AUGUST 22, 2023

It accompanies the reintroduction this year of Care Quality Commission (CQC) assessments of council adults’ services, which will involve each of the 153 authorities receiving a single-word rating – outstanding, good, requires improvement or outstanding – over the next two years.

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Teaching & Learning in Social Work

APRIL 29, 2022

Then, allotting 20 minutes, I asked the students to answer these two questions in a way that felt most comfortable to them (words, drawings, etc.): In this blog post, Amber and the students share how they used poetic analysis to answer some age-old questions – What does it mean to be a social worker, and what is research?

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My Brains Not Broken

MAY 2, 2023

Using #ToolsForMentalHealth , ADAA wants to spread the word about the tools that have helped people’s mental health and how they can be accessible for everyone. You never know how your experience can help someone else; by sharing your own knowledge, you can help others grow their tools for mental health and wellness.

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Social Work Blog

APRIL 12, 2024

We feed, clothe, counsel, love ,” Riffel paused, “that’s probably the most important word.” Social workers can embrace an awareness and acceptance of death, and begin to approach life and death mindfully, first in their own lives, and then learn more about ways to engage in conversations with clients about their own perspectives and wishes.

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Bipolar Bandit

JANUARY 23, 2024

She is the Connecticut State Trainer for NAMI’s Family-to-Family Course, and is the author of Ben Behind His Voices: One Family’s Journey From th e Chaos of Schizophrenia to Hope (Bowman & Littlefield,2011 and Front Porch Press audiobook 2022 ), and Happier Made Simple: Choose Your Words. The wait is long, but there is hope.

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Community Care

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

However, multiple organisations, including the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH) and British Association of Social Workers, have voiced strongly-worded concerns about the introduction of scientific age assessments in the UK.

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Gary Direnfeld

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

If there with your partner, have a safe word. Come up with a word or phrase that if uttered to one softly by the other, you both pick up and leave quietly. If in your own home and something occurs, you can ask the person to leave. Have a safe word. If you chose to, do so quietly, without fanfare. You both will just go.

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My Brains Not Broken

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Over the years, I have experienced my own struggles with suicide and have attempted it several times. I held onto every word my mother spoke over the phone; as she whispered that “he is gone,” my knees gave forth, and I crashed to the ground. The last words to leave his lips. of all deaths worldwide.

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Save the Social Worker

DECEMBER 12, 2023

When you are stating an opinion, you need to be clear that you are.For example, when stating an opinion or your own personal assessment, you might try: From my assessment, I can observe that X struggles with issues around self-esteem and self-worth. **I When I was in university, we once had a strange assignment. His narrative. Why is this so?

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My Brains Not Broken

JANUARY 10, 2024

When you read the words comfort zone , what comes to mind? I reflect on my own, but I also think about the idea itself. You might think of the way people tell us to leave them; you might wonder if you’re in one right now. A comfort zone might not be a place at all; it could be a feeling or a moment in time.

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Community Care

MAY 5, 2023

” We have indisputable skills, vast knowledge and a range of different approaches to helping people, but I believe that every individual is the expert in their own unique situation. It was not, necessarily, the consequence of having not enough hours in the day! However, social work is social work and I could not do this every day!

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Social Work Futures

APRIL 16, 2023

Over the last couple of years and through my own foresight journey (as a social worker and a human)…I’ve found emerging language regarding the future to be really interesting, illuminating, sometimes troubling, and valuable. I post these revisions and expansions on an irregular basis.

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My Brains Not Broken

MAY 18, 2023

I often reflect on my own story, and the way it’s come together in the last decade. Sure, I was afraid of the stigma and how my words would be perceived; but there was also self-stigma involved. Telling our stories isn’t only about finding the right words or way to tell it. It’s challenging.

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My Brains Not Broken

MAY 11, 2023

I hope one of these ways will help and inspire you to raise awareness, in your own way, this month. This is very similar to my first point about the importance of mental health, but it emphasizes actions more than words. Build your own holistic approach to mental health. Mental health awareness saves lives.

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Gary Direnfeld

DECEMBER 16, 2021

They help you distinguish who respects you acting in your interest versus their own. “No” is a boundary word. Do not explain for as you do, it may be twisted to undermine your reason in favor of their own. Own your life. And with Christmas just around the corner, whose will it be? Someone elses? Boundaries.

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My Brains Not Broken

APRIL 18, 2023

Over the years, I’ve learned a number of words, phrases and definitions that have helped me understand my own mental health. Mental filters can be tricky unless you’re willing to call them out or see them in your own thinking. But recognizing our own filtering is much easier in theory than in practice.

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Save the Social Worker

MAY 9, 2023

Store information on session dates Keep track of what other professionals involved on the case are doing Plan what’s next Process your case notes in Microsoft Word or Google Docs Using Microsoft Word will make your work infinitely easier. Ah, remember our dear SSNET? Oh dear SSNET, could you be faster?

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MQ Mental Health

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

It may seem an impossible task at times, particularly with words regarding mental health. I love learning about etymology, how words evolve through the history of their use, the invention of new words and the shifts in changes of use. Words can be hugely powerful. Language as power I am a massive language nerd.

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Prosper Health Collective

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

Vocabulary Enrichment: Engaging in conversations with your child exposes them to a diverse range of words and phrases. The more words they hear, the larger their vocabulary becomes. Parents share a desire for strong and meaningful connections with their children. How does positive engagement support communication development?

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MQ Mental Health

JANUARY 26, 2024

It may seem an impossible task at times, particularly with words regarding mental health. I love learning about etymology, how words evolve through the history of their use, the invention of new words and the shifts in changes of use. Words can be hugely powerful. Language as power I am a massive language nerd.

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Demonstrating an awareness of your own biases and prejudices, including the potential of unconscious bias to impact on decision making. The structure of the statements had an average rating of 3.53, with respondents who were positive describing them as clearly worded and accessible.

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MQ Mental Health

APRIL 15, 2024

Moreover, writing or drawing helps me see something new about my own thought process or feelings, it helps unblock something I’m struggling to communicate to myself let alone to others. Managing our own mental health at home, our physical health, and importantly our stress levels can be improved by getting a bit creative.

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My Brains Not Broken

MARCH 21, 2023

When it comes to mental health terms, I’d guess that the word “symptoms” is very well-known. It’s taken me years to learn about my own symptoms and how they show up in my life – what about you? Today, I want to talk about symptoms. Most often, what we’re told to do is rest. Do you have a cavity?

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Gary Direnfeld

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

However, he never seemed to complain when her needs superseded his own. If I recall any harsh words between them it would have been about his smoking. I never knew what they did, only that she was busy attending numerous meetings and frequently making dozens of phone calls. As a boy many of those meetings took place in our home.

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Social Work Blog

MAY 3, 2024

“After the pandemic, libraries saw a huge increase in people with poverty, housing needs, food insecurity, and mental and behavioral health problems who needed extra support,” explained Beth Wahler, Ph.D., MSW, a consultant who runs Social Work Consulting Services for Libraries. Then, in 2020, the libraries shut down due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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My Brains Not Broken

MARCH 7, 2023

Writing is one of my favorite things in the world, but I don’t always have the right words to express how I feel. In my next post, I’ll explore more of my own relationship with music and it’s impact on my mental health. But even so, I love listening to music. But even so, I love listening to music.

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Teaching & Learning in Social Work

JULY 30, 2021

The second post covers tips for writing and presenting a values-based teaching philosophy, and in the third post, we share our own values-based teaching philosophies that resulted from this process. Review this list of teaching value words. Which words jump out and resonate in your teaching style or with your student interactions?

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The International Association Of Schools Of Social

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

It means that the entire book manuscript length is 24,000-48,000 words, inclusive of references, figures, tables, equations or other additional content. The aim is to include ten chapters, each is about 4500 words including everything.

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Teaching & Learning in Social Work

AUGUST 5, 2021

The first post offers a process for identifying your teaching values and in the third post, we share our own values-based teaching philosophies. Actions often speak louder than words. This blog post is one of a three-part series about how to write a values-based teaching philosophy. Align your “Why” with your “How”.

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Gary Direnfeld

JULY 28, 2022

It drew a racist comment in response to my use of the word genocide. I checked out the person’s own Facebook page. I posted about the Papal visit and hoping well for Indigenous Peoples on another Facebook page – a community page. The person wanted me to prove it. It felt provocative and bullying in style. I had control over that.

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