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The Illinois “Public Guardian’s” big little lie

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

It would never be tolerated in a story about criminal justice. A question for any journalists reading this: Suppose you were working on a story about the criminal justice system, and a prosecutor said: “ By definition , anyone in jail is a criminal – they’re rapists and torturers and all sorts of other crooks.”

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News Items (Special Edition) – June 28, 2022

Social Workers Speak

Following is a joint statement from the American Psychological Association, the American Psychiatric Association and the National Association of Social Workers in reaction to the U.S. Wade and the opinion issued by Justice Alito is disempowering and will have a tremendously negative impact on the country. The Weekly Challenger.

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Violent offender treatment effectiveness: What we know and where to from here?

Society of Clinical Psychology

Worldwide, violence is a significant public health problem in terms of its effects on victims, the quality of life for offenders, and the economic burden on correctional services, the health sector, and society generally. Effective correctional treatment and violent reoffending: a meta-analysis. Discussion Questions. References.

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BSW & MSW Scholarship Recipients 2022-2023

University of Connecticut

My future plans include advocating for restorative justice within the juvenile justice system so my social work education will help me with these endeavors. I am a second-year student and expect to graduate in May with a focused area of study in Intersectionality, Human Agency, and Social Justice.

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gaslit: narcissistic perversions of thesoul's moral fabric

Clinical Philosophy

‘Gas lighting’ was then put to psychopathological use in 1969 by psychiatrists Barton & Whitehead, who documented examples of wives inventing stories of their husband’s violent behaviour in order to get them psychiatrically detained. and returned to his obnoxious conversation. (So We recognise this as a paradigm of narcissism.

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Values-based practice - Using the book, He Died Waiting, as a learning tool

Learning Social Worker

Evidences: PCF – 4 (rights, justice and economic wellbeing), 7 (skills and interventions). Instead, my attitudes reflected the prevailing social construction of psychiatric diagnosis and treatment. · Can you think of an example in placement, work setting, or organisation where you have spoken up (or supported someone else to do this)?

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what's love got to do with it?

Clinical Philosophy

The surrogacy analogy conveys something of value, but I think it neither fully deactivates Read’s concern nor does justice to the therapeutic situation. It ‘demands beneficence and fraternal correction’, it ‘is benevolence’, it ‘fosters reciprocity and remains disinterested and generous’; it is ‘friendship and communion’ (Catechism §1829).