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51 Children Services Interview Questions You Should Know Of

Social Work Haven

Preparing for a social work interview within children’s services can be nerve-wracking, especially if it is your first ever social work job interview. However, with the right set of practice interview questions, you are most likely to outshine other candidates. How do you prepare for a social work interview?

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How equipped is children’s social work for digital safeguarding?

Community Care

Our work seeks to develop innovative ways in which children and young people can digitally and safely self-refer to children’s social care, allowing them to communicate harms and experiences in real time.

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Guest Post: Interview with Author of Breakdown: A Clinician’s Experience in a Broken System of Emergency Psychiatry

Bipolar Bandit

If they don’t qualify for inpatient, I can refer them to outpatient treatment programs or give them self-help material. But someone can have this level of psychosis with the ability to eat, sleep, clean herself, protect herself from basic harm, pay rent, along with not posing a risk of serious physical harm to anyone.

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Meet a Voyager: Christopher Soriano-Palma

Beautiful Voyager

A person is not their mental illness, and we have a pseudo-scientific self-help mentality within American culture based solely on individualism. You cannot self-help your way out of deep despair. You can read all the positivity books on self-improvement all you want. There is no break from a real bipolar disorder.

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How to Get Started with Wellbeing

Social Work Haven

Having a thriving social network of friends and family makes you healthier because the support of other people reduces the harmful effects of stress. Your self-worth increases and you feel positive about the future. Self-love is not selfish, and it is important to give back to yourself. Try something new I must confess.

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Let’s Take Pride Back to its Basics

Social Work Blog

We have continued to recognize within ourselves the human dignity and the rights to life, liberty, and happiness while much of the world has sought only to oppress and harm us. She has been an in-demand speaker on topics such as self-care, compassion fatigue, LGBTQIA+ best practices, and the stigma of mental illness.

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Members in the News – August 4, 2023

Social Workers Speak

We make harmful assumptions that can lead to weight stigma or lead us to encourage someone to continue their restrictive eating and overexercise.” When interviewing, it’s important to make your desire for a professional path and guidance known.” – Jennifer L. and Connecticut based social worker.

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