Community Care

AUGUST 16, 2023

By Leigh Zywek and Richard Devine, Bath and North East Somerset Council In our work, we have found that many of the challenges parents faced in safely caring for their children stemmed from coping strategies the parents had developed to handle extremely difficult and traumatic childhoods. It will also save money. That is simply wrong.

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Social Work With Adults

DECEMBER 19, 2023

It's been an eventful year for adult social work. We have done this in collaboration with our colleagues in the social care workforce who, together with us, work alongside people and communities to enable them to lead the best possible lives. including the] graduate scheme for mental health social work students, ThinkAhead."

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Community Care

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

. “We are hugely grateful for Lyn’s leadership over the last 10 years, which has ensured that social work in adult social care is well placed to support people to have better lives “We will update on her successor in due course.” Her absence, from autumn 2019 to spring 2021, included the first year of the pandemic.

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MQ Mental Health

MARCH 20, 2024

Contributor to the report, Keith Godfrey, Professor of Epidemiology and Human Development at the University of Southampton and the NIHR Southampton Biomedical Research Centre said: “Adverse child experiences have lasting impacts that impair a child’s ability to fulfil their potential. first appeared on MQ Mental Health Research.

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Community Care

JANUARY 6, 2023

The Scottish Government intends to create a National Care Service (NCS), under ministerial control, by 2026 , initially with responsibility for adult social care but with a view to taking charge of children’s social care and criminal justice social work over time.

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Community Care

MARCH 25, 2022

Less than 1% of social workers reported to Social Work England last year were referred to a hearing or found to have impaired fitness to practise (FtP), show figures released by the regulator. Both rates have fallen since Social Work England’s first year regulating the profession (December 2019 to November 2020), when 0.8%

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MQ Mental Health

MAY 3, 2024

Then, through the UK Health Data Research Innovation Gateway, researchers can discover the data and use it most effectively so that eventually we can together make the next breakthroughs in mental health science leading to a mentally healthier future for us all. I really appreciated the refresher.

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Community Care

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Agile working practices such as hotdesking are failing to meet social workers’ needs in Scotland and employers should review them, a study has concluded. “The majority of participants over the last five years have consistently described ‘agile working’ in negative terms,” the report said.

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Community Care

MAY 12, 2023

There is “momentum for change” among sector leaders and practitioners to tackle the social work’s mounting workforce “crisis”, according to a Social Work England lead. The number of frontline “case holding” social workers working in children’s services fell by 8% , from September 2020 to September 2022.

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MQ Mental Health

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

In this webinar, presented by the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) and hosted by MQ’s own Director of Research Partnerships and Development Emily Wheeler, we heard from some experts into what the latest developments have been in the area of depression research. Of which MQ is a supporter.

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inSocialWork

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Candace Christensen, PhD & Meg Paceley, PhD Legislative attacks continue to target transgender and gender expansive people — and often, the response from our own profession has not been sufficient. For our latest podcast, we focus on this community’s needs and challenges.

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MQ Mental Health

MAY 10, 2024

Movement can have a positive impact on mental wellness whether that be through running, some more gentle activity or even through fundraising for charities such as MQ Mental Health Research. Freedom of Unconditional Positive Regard The unconditional positive regard of my therapist provided safety for me in our therapeutic relationship.

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Social Work With Adults

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

"Moving Social Work focuses on increasing physical activity [opportunities for disabled people] and the benefits this generates for mind and body." In this spirit, the Moving Social Work (MSW) programme aims to harness the skills and values of social workers to support the health, wellbeing and human rights of people with disabilities.

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Social Work With Adults

JANUARY 31, 2024

Lyn, enjoying the stunning vistas of her home country, Australia, on an earlier trip.for all the amazing adult social work This is my farewell post before I step down as Chief Social Worker for Adults. I must also pay tribute to the civil servants with whom I have worked.

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Community Care

MAY 25, 2022

Ofsted rated Sefton inadequate earlier this month , following an inspection in February that found a lack of social work capacity was leaving children inadequately protected, and widespread failings that were not “sufficiently understood” by leaders. ‘Presumption’ services will be removed.

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Social Work Futures

MARCH 24, 2023

[link] Is all social work – “disaster social work” now? Slow disasters – like our variety of forms of structural violence in underfunded social care resources – and – fast disasters like pandemics, large scale climate events, and other cataclysmic events like oil spills and the like…all real.

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MQ Mental Health

APRIL 5, 2024

Applications to become an MQ fellow are open for researchers in the United States. The opportunity will mean researchers will receive not only financial support but also practical support from the MQ team. 2013 In MQ’s first year as a charity organisation, 2013, two of our first ever fellows were based in the United States.

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OCD Mental Health Depression Disorder 59

Ultimate Youth Worker

JANUARY 1, 2024

A Practice Framework for Ultimate Youth Workers In the field of youth work, where the challenges are as diverse as the young people themselves, the difference between good youth workers and Ultimate Youth Workers is abundantly clear. Youth work is so much more to them than just a job. What makes an Ultimate Youth Worker?

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Mandatory CPD or enhancements to the assessed and supported year in employment (ASYE) are needed to address skills and knowledge gaps left by the disruption to social work education caused by the pandemic. Of 166 students surveyed by researchers for this report, 60.6% However, the study found concerns with both these approaches.

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Diversity Social Worker Communication Consultation 223

Community Care

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Graduates of fast-track training schemes feel more prepared for social work but experience greater stress and less satisfaction once in practice, research for the Department for Education (DfE) has revealed. How training routes differ.

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University Social Worker 227

MQ Mental Health

MARCH 4, 2024

Women are making history in research, some of them working with MQ. One such woman is Marisa Marraccini , one of the researchers selected to be a US Fellow for MQ in 2022. The opportunity will mean researchers in the USA who are selected will receive not only financial support but also practical support from the MQ team.

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Hospitals Interventional Mental Health Psychiatric 78

KVC

APRIL 18, 2024

Answering this question gives us a chance to tell you about our history and our future… both where we’ve been and where we’re going. “Dad” went off to work each day. In 2003, to bring our name in line with the scope of our work, Kaw Valley Center became simply KVC Behavioral Healthcare.

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MQ Mental Health

MAY 8, 2024

For many, it’s annoying being told to exercise and change our bodies to fit in with a perceived societal ideal. More Eating Disorders research is necessary. Recently I’ve read a lot about how eating disorders might be a form of attachment disorder , linked to recent work into attachment theory.

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inSocialWork

MARCH 21, 2023

Louanne Bakk, Mickey Sperlich, & Steven Sturman In today’s podcast episode, our guests — Louanne Bakk, Mickey Sperlich and Steve Sturman, who are colleagues at the University at Buffalo School of Social Work (UBSSW) — will provide an overview of virtual reality (VR). She has been a faculty member with the UBSSW since 2013.

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Community Care

MARCH 8, 2022

The government has estimated that the Lords change would cost £900m a year compared to its favoured approach. Age UK charity director Caroline Abrahams said: “If it had passed, it would have taken the cap beyond the grasp of older people with few or modest assets, poorer places and disabled people of working age.

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Community Care

APRIL 11, 2024

Our interview with Lord Herbert Laming is part of a new series of profiles of key figures who have shaped social work over the past five decades, to celebrate Community Care’s 50th anniversary. The sad thing is [her situation] was known, but it was not shared with other services,” he says now.

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inSocialWork

JANUARY 23, 2024

Our guest today is Theresa Moyers, PhD, a practitioner, researcher, author and leading scholar in the motivational interviewing approach. Her work focuses on what effective psychotherapists bring to the table to help clients achieve successful treatment outcomes. Interested in clinical work? Are they born this way?

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Community Care

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Children’s social care reforms Alongside the research, commissioned by evidence body Foundations in June, the Department for Education has proposed revising the Working Together to Safeguard Children guidance to encourage use of FGCs from early help onwards where there is a risk of the child going into care.

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MQ Mental Health

MARCH 4, 2024

Women are making history in research, some of them working with MQ Mental Health Research in their work. One such woman is Marisa Marraccini , one of the researchers selected to be a US Fellow for MQ in 2022. How did you find out about MQ Mental Health Research initially and the MQ Fellowship opportunity?

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Hospitals Interventional Mental Health Psychiatric 59

Community Care

DECEMBER 20, 2022

High workloads and a lack of supervision are undermining the professional curiosity and challenge needed for effective child protection practice, research has found. Simplistic and optimistic’ approach to domestic abuse evident in serious cases, warns national panel.

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inSocialWork

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Our guest, Husain Lateef, is exploring this disparity and learning that an Afrocentric worldview that emphasizes collectivism, community, compassion and “being human through other people” can promote improved mental health and help-seeking behavior among Black men.

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Mental Health University Interventional Depression 67

The International Association Of Schools Of Social

AUGUST 16, 2022

Global Dimensions in Social Work Education – Call for Proposal for SW Education Conference. Now more than ever, the social work profession is called to action as our world is impacted by social, economic, environmental, and cultural justice issues on a global platform. in social work distance education.

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Social Work With Adults

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Lyn Romeo: I am delighted to support the launch of a free online training course for social work in disaster situations. Since the tragedies of Grenfell and the Manchester Arena bombings, so much work has been done by social workers and others in the social care sector to support our profession in this vital area.

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Social Worker University Engagement Psychology 137

MQ Mental Health

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

My doctoral research focused on the impact of prenatal alcohol exposure on epigenomic and transcriptomic patterns in animal models and clinical cohorts of individuals with fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD). I have worked at MGH and HMS since I began my postdoctoral studies in April 2019 (4.5 years ago). What is your area of study?

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Depression Interviewing Mental Health Psychiatric 52

MQ Mental Health

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Researchers found that young people with joint hypermobility were more likely to have depression and anxiety , and that psychiatric symptoms were also more severe among hypermobile participants. Being aware of the link between hypermobility and depression and anxiety means that we can work on developing appropriate and effective treatments.”.

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Social Work Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

I’ve navigated through various social work roles such as working within an Employee Assistance Program, to working with foster children and families within CPS. It’s safe to say I’ve seen it all, and I can personally attest to how many opportunities there are within the social work field!

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Community Care

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Family support and child protection reforms The figures come with the government testing a new approach to family support and child protection in three areas through its families first for children pathfinders , an approach proposed by the care review in its final report last year.

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