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Social workers less likely to have high morale or to recommend profession than in 2020, finds study

Community Care

Separate research with practitioners carried out last year found that social workers were working more overtime, experiencing greater levels of burnout and reporting lower work-related quality of life than at the start of the pandemic. This was strongly linked to retention risk.

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CMS Seeks Feedback on Good Faith Estimates

Social Work Blog

The request for feedback is related to the No Surprise Act (NSA), which protects patients from large, surprise healthcare bills. Clinical social workers (CSWs) are currently required to give Good Faith Estimates (GFEs) to patients who are uninsured and patients who have insurance but do not plan to use it, [link].

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CALL FOR BOOK CHAPTERS-Climate Change: Cases of Effective Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies in the Global South

The International Association Of Schools Of Social

Topics/themes of interest of this edited volume include, but are not limited to climate change events related to the following vulnerable populations, with particular emphasis on Case Studies of Mitigation and Adaptation. Climate Change & Human Trafficking: Victims of Human Trafficking can be within any industry.

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Can Sleep Cure Mental Illness?

MQ Mental Health

Sleep and mental health are inextricably linked. In the past, major industrial disasters such as the Exxon Valdez oil spill were linked to inadequate sleep. Women are more likely to experience more sleep-related problems and women do fall asleep faster than men. World Sleep Day celebrates awareness of sleep health.

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The Inaugural SCP Conference

Society of Clinical Psychology

We welcome your innovative submissions on these and other topics related to geropsychology. We welcome submissions on topics related to social justice as psychologists, promoting health equity, and conducting anti-racist research, industry work, and practice. Please consider submitting.

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Making the Invisibility of Social Work Interventions in Climate Issues Visible: Varied activities of a profession with a deep history of activities aimed at environmental justice

The International Association Of Schools Of Social

These were expressed as poverty, environmental degradation resulting from fossil fuel burning industries that discharged their wastes into local rivers, atmosphere and soils, polluting all they touched and engendering ill health – physical and mental, among residents. Alston also asserted the importance of gender in these deliberations.

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CQC urges government to fund better pay for care staff to tackle ‘gridlocked’ system

Community Care

Related articles. And despite this, the sector was continuing to lose staff to higher paying industries with less stressful conditions, or to the NHS, while home care providers said their efforts to raise pay were being compromised by the significantly elevated fuel costs their staff were facing. per hour per social care employee.