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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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‘I believe in the value of social work’: launch editor looks back as Community Care turns 50

Community Care

This is the first in a series of interviews celebrating Community Care’s 50th anniversary. Before he began his degree in social studies at Durham University, he took a gap year. ” Writing a book In 2021, Mark published his debut novel, a psychological thriller called Life Term.

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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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Applying to Clinical Psychology Graduate Programs: Tips and Resources

Society of Clinical Psychology

Tips and Resources for Applying to Graduate Programs in Clinical Psychology. When I was applying to PhD programs in clinical psychology, I remember experiencing a mix of emotions – anxiety, excitement, stress. The clinical psychology graduate school application process is unlike that of many other graduate programs.

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Effective Psychotherapists: Learning & Practicing Skills to Improve Client Outcomes

inSocialWork

Our guest today is Theresa Moyers, PhD, a practitioner, researcher, author and leading scholar in the motivational interviewing approach. Theresa Moyers, PhD, is a professor of psychology at the University of New Mexico, where she specializes in the treatment of addictive behaviors. What do they do, and how do they do it?

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Staff-to-service-user ratios ‘not safe’ in UK social work, say two-thirds of practitioners

Community Care

Those were among the findings of the sixth wave of research into Covid-19’s impact on health and social care practitioners, which started in May 2020 and has been carried out by academics from Ulster University, Queen’s University Belfast, Bath Spa University and University College London.

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Is “Abnormal Psychology” Really all that Abnormal?

Society of Clinical Psychology

Is “Abnormal Psychology” Really all that Abnormal – a blog post by Jonathan D. Schaefer, a doctoral student of Clinical Psychology at Duke University. abnormal psychology”), and in the stigmatization of individuals who suffer from mental illness. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 126 (2), 212-224.