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Long COVID and the Implications for Social Work

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Jazmin Graham Just as the COVID-19 pandemic exposed cracks and disparities in many facets of society — including health care, governments, education and more — long COVID continues to disproportionately disrupt the lives of certain people. Jazmin Graham, LCSW , is a Licensed Clinical Social Work supervisor.

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Reinstate hospital social workers to improve discharge outcomes, PSWs urge Barclay

Community Care

Hospital social workers should be reinstated onto wards to support people to achieve better outcomes on discharge, amid the current severe pressures on the NHS and social care. That was the message today from the Adult Principal Social Worker Network in an open letter to health and social care secretary Steve Barclay.

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Children adopted from care falls to lowest in 21 years, government figures show

Community Care

Delays in family court proceedings during Covid-19 pandemic accelerated the latest annual decline in adoptions, but the number has fallen each year since a peak of 5,360 in 2014-15. The number of children adopted from care fell to its lowest level in 21 years in 2020-21, Department for Education (DfE) figures show. Adoptions taking longer.

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Notes from the Future – March 14, 2023

Social Work Futures

This is part of a monthly series of posts to share a few things I run across regarding the future of social work (and beyond). For people involved in foresight practice, the practice of scanning, organizing and creatively interpreting “signals of change” in the ecosystem is a primary and foundational part of the work.

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Notes from the Future – February 17, 2023

Social Work Futures

This is part of a monthly series of posts to share a few things each month that I run across regarding the future of social work (and beyond). The future of social issues “The Need to Protect the Data in our Brains” is a fascinating read dives into the futures of privacy and rapidly expanding neurotech applications.

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Potential long-term mental and behavioral health consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic

Society of Clinical Psychology

To date, almost 100 million people have been infected with and approximately 2 million of those have died from the SARS-2-CoV 2019 virus (COVID-19). First, COVID-19 is relatively novel and there is a lack of knowledge regarding long-term consequences of the virus.

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Being a Black Clinician During Dual Pandemics: A Trainee Perspective

Society of Clinical Psychology

African Americans in the United States had (and likely continue to have) more infections, hospitalizations, and subsequent deaths from COVID-19 than any other racial/ethnic group (Milam et al., One of the biggest factors affecting COVID-19 outcomes is access to healthcare, which is lower among minority groups (Laughland, 2020).

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