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Sensitivity to ‘bruised’ staff needed for effective DfE intervention in ‘inadequate’ services, finds study

Community Care

Government intervention in children’s services must be sensitive to the ‘bruising’ impact on staff of working in an ‘inadequate’ authority, in order to succeed. Clarity of roles in the context of there being multiple people involved with authorities in intervention. ” Senior management departures.

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How to improve your social work interviewing

Save the Social Worker

What is social work interviewing? Why interview? Who do you interview? How do you interview? How do you interview better? Think about social work interviewing… and your mind might hark back to the scenes in CSI Miami. Is this social work interviewing? What is social work interviewing?

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Depression and suicide risk: An interview with new MQ Fellow Dr Alexandre Lussier

MQ Mental Health

I received a BSc in Biochemistry from McGill University in 2012 and a PhD in Medical Genetics from the University of British Columbia in 2017. Following my PhD, I trained in computational biology and statistical genetics at Cornell University, working on X chromosome variation and psychiatric disease. years ago).

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Studying social prescribing: An interview with new MQ Fellow Dr Alexandra Burton

MQ Mental Health

MQ is pleased to announce that Dr. Alexandra Burton from University College London has been awarded an MQ Fellowship. but I had the fantastic opportunity to lead the qualitative part of the COVID-19 social study involving over 400 interviews on how the pandemic affected people’s mental health and wellbeing.

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AMHPs lack time for ‘extremely important’ pre-assessment work with people in crisis, finds survey

Community Care

This was borne out in the results of the survey, carried out by Nick Perry, an AMHP from East Sussex council and visiting lecturer on the AMHP training course at Brighton University. It found that: 74% of respondents believed pre-assessment interviews could be put to more therapeutic effect if there was more focus on them in training courses.

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Non-statutory placements make up over half of provision for students in Scotland, report reveals

Community Care

Decline in provision of statutory placements The SSSC/SWEP-commissioned report – based on written evidence from stakeholders, data analysis and research with councils, universities third sector bodies, practice educators and students – found the relative provision of statutory placements had declined in recent years.

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NIA-Funded Study Explores Re-Engagement of Black Older Adults After COVID-19

University of Connecticut

Preliminary findings are based on focus group interviews with leaders, staff and volunteers at churches and senior centers in the Greater Hartford area. The interviews explored engagement and disengagement among the older adults who had largely stopped going to church and senior centers during the height of the pandemic.