Social Work With Adults

MAY 10, 2023

Lyn Romeo: Those of you who are regular readers of my reports and blogs will know that one of my priorities continues to be the importance and value of social care research in social work. Lyn Romeo: “Research is never an optional extra, indeed in these challenging times it is more important than ever”.

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Community Care

JANUARY 6, 2022

The research , which is currently being peer-reviewed, suggests 10,356 more children living in English local authority areas became looked after than would have been the case had poverty levels remained at 2015 levels. Researchers estimated that between 2015 and 2020, 6.7% of all new child protection plans and 3.2%

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Criminal Justice Interventional Child Welfare Social Worker 360

Community Care

AUGUST 7, 2023

Children whose parents are referred to family drug and alcohol courts (FDACs) are more likely to be reunified with their families than those involved in standard care proceedings, research has found.

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Community Care

JULY 28, 2023

Racism is driving black and minority ethnic social workers out of permanent local authority posts into agency work, research with over 1,000 practitioners has found. Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll.

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Community Care

MARCH 23, 2022

Councils that spend more on early help and those with wealthier populations are more likely to receive an outstanding or good Ofsted grade, research has found. In contrast, researchers found no statistically significant link between how much authorities spent on safeguarding per child and the Ofsted outcomes they achieved.

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MQ Mental Health

MARCH 7, 2024

of researchers are women, which is why at MQ we are incredibly proud to say we fund male and female researchers equally. In the run up to International Women’s Day (8th of March) we celebrate those women who make up 50% of our researchers, and their pioneering work. Internationally, 33.3%

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Mental Health CBT OCD Interventional 59

Martin Webber

APRIL 15, 2021

The Incubator for Mental Health Research offers practical advice, connections and career development opportunities for aspiring researchers in mental health.

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Mental Health 130

Community Care

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Social workers’ wellbeing at work is lower than that of other health and social care staff groups, in the wake of Covid, research has found. The majority of the 1,737 respondents to the UK-wide survey from May to July 2022, as well as of the 380 social workers who completed the research, worked in Northern Ireland.

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Community Care

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Those were among the findings of research released this week from the Department for Education and Association of Directors of Children’s Services (ADCS), illustrating the scale of the workforce pressures engulfing local authorities. Sharp rise in vacancy rate. to 19% in the year to June 2022, based on data from 108 of the 152 councils.

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Social Worker 260

Community Care

JUNE 13, 2023

Over 2,000 children per year in England could avoid care through the rollout of family group conferences (FGC), research has found.

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Teaching & Learning in Social Work

APRIL 29, 2022

Editor’s Note: This blog post was written by Amber Sutton, LICSW, ABD, a social work instructor at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, in collaboration with students from her undergraduate social work research course during the Spring 2022 semester. How do you define research? You can also read their two poems. Similarities?

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University Social Worker Communication Interventional 195

Community Care

APRIL 25, 2023

More and more looked-after children are being placed far from home, with increased risk of lower wellbeing, according to research issued today. Children in care and care leavers charity Become published the findings today as it launched a campaign, #GoneTooFar, to end inappropriate placements far from home in England.

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Martin Webber

OCTOBER 13, 2021

We're setting up a working group to help shape the future of the Social Work Research Podcast.

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Michigan Social Work

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Professor Matthew Smith was appointed the Associate Dean for Research, effective January 2024. In this role, he oversees the Office of Research, which supports faculty research endeavors, fosters a vibrant research culture, and ensures compliance with relevant policies. Smith joined the School faculty in 2017.

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MQ Mental Health

APRIL 12, 2024

Applications to become an MQ fellow are open for researchers in the United States. Much of my prior research had focused on the biology of chronic psychosis using brain imaging and genomic tools and had pointed to a promising treatment lead involving supplemental folic acid. first appeared on MQ Mental Health Research.

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Schizophrenia Psychiatry Psychiatric Interventional 59

MQ Mental Health

MARCH 13, 2023

MQ Mental Health Research is today announcing an investment of £2.2 million into seven new research projects, through the prestigious MQ Fellowships programme. These new MQ Fellows will be conducting research into how serious mental illnesses and physical illnesses can combine to cause premature death.

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MQ Mental Health

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Immediately it really piqued my interest because I am really interested in research and being involved in research projects. But it makes it even more important that I am involved in contributing my lived experience my expertise in research from a lived experience point of view. People do die early yet this is very preventable.

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Mental Health Disability Psychology Interventional 52

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. One in five children’s social work posts vacant in wake of rising stress and workloads, finds research.

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University Social Worker 216

Gary Direnfeld

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Between my undergraduate, specialized honours degree in psychology and my masters degree in social work, I have taken three courses in research as well as conducted an undergraduate thesis and graduate research paper. With that, I have only respect for the true researchers, scientists, epidemiologists, and bio-technologists.

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Private Practice Interventional Mental Health Social Worker 100

University of Connecticut

MARCH 11, 2024

Eleni Rodis, managing director of research for the Connecticut Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services (DMHAS) Research Division at the UConn School of Social Work (SSW), and Wendy Ulaszek, associate research professor at the SSW, recently conducted a study of Connecticut college students and gambling.

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Addiction Mental Health Schools Interventional 45

University of Connecticut

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

With a $49,000 Research Excellence Program grant from UConn’s Office of the Vice President for Research, Assistant Professor Kelsi Carolan will lead a qualitative study with a focus on individuals with long COVID in Connecticut.

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Mental Health Psychosocial Clinic Interventional 59

Nicole Clark Consulting

JUNE 6, 2023

Larissa write: Hi Nicole, I’m a graduate student currently taking a class about research and evaluation. The post Ask Nicole: Should Research Come Before Evaluation? This question comes from Larissa, a graduate student in Arizona. I also just finished a course in evaluations within education and training.

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Consultation 64

Martin Webber

JUNE 7, 2020

Working with service users in research is essential, though it takes time to make it meaningful.

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CAPC

MARCH 29, 2024

FY24 Senate LHHS Appropriations Bill includes funding for palliative care research lead by the NIA.

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Stop Abuse Campaign

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

→ Research Roundup: September 2021. 1 Consistent with previous research, they found that children with 4 or more ACEs had approximately twice the odds of non-engagement in school, of absenteeism, and of repeating a grade. ← Protecting Children from Online Predators.

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Schools Engagement Confidentiality Interventional 92

University of Connecticut

MARCH 4, 2024

At the Society for Social Work and Research (SSWR) annual conference, the UConn SSW’s Associate Dean for Research Jennifer Manuel was welcomed to the 2024 class of Fellows. In addition to being associate dean for research, Manuel is also an associate professor at the UConn SSW. She earned her MSW and Ph.D.

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MQ Mental Health

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Fresh from having a new paper published, Professor Louise Arseneault, Professor of Developmental Psychology at Kings College London, joined the MQ Open Mind podcast team, Professor Rory O’Connor and Craig Perryman, to chat about collaboration in research. Good quality data collection means good quality research.

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Mental Health Interviewing Psychiatry Schools 52

Martin Webber

APRIL 30, 2021

Introducing the Social Work Research Podcast.

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University of Connecticut

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Singh’s research, Beyond Bars: Examining the Experiences of Formerly Incarcerated People Released Under Public Act 15-84 in Connecticut, is a primarily qualitative study that examines the parole and reentry experiences of formerly incarcerated people who were beneficiaries of Public Act 15-84. Read more about Singh’s research.

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University of Connecticut

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Associate Professor Margaret Lloyd Sieger has been awarded a National Institute on Drug Abuse K01 research grant of $881,147. Her four-year study will examine the effect of family care plans, or safety and wellness plans for infants affected by prenatal substance use and for their mothers’ treatment and recovery.

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Recovery 52

MQ Mental Health

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

This International Men’s Day (19 November) we’re celebrating the amazing achievements of men working in mental health research. Therefore, thanks to Dr Joshua’s research, public health policies changed worldwide to increase levels of foods fortified with folic acid. Read his full paper here.

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Mental Health Depression Addiction Interviewing 52

Martin Webber

MAY 27, 2020

International handbook on practice research in social work is now published by Routledge.

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MQ Mental Health

JUNE 14, 2023

In April 2023, the DATAMIND Data Science workshop and conference for researchers to share talks and presentations. Emily Ball, Post-doctoral Research Fellow funded by the Wellcome Trust, kindly shares their experiences attending the Data Science workshop and meeting. I am a Research Fellow at the University of Edinburgh.

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Clinic Mental Health Depression Communication 52

Martin Webber

JUNE 21, 2018

The work of the International Centre for Mental Health Social Research in India continued this week with a visit to the Rajagiri College of Social Sciences. Our focus this week has been supporting a new.

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Mental Health 130

International Federation of Social Workers

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

‘Social workers have among the most difficult working conditions of all equivalent professions’, is the key finding of new research just published in International Social Work journal. This has detrimental […].

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Social Worker 110

Martin Webber

MAY 5, 2020

Mental health social work research studies recruiting now.

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Mental Health 130

University of Connecticut

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

The researchers have partnered with colleagues at the University of Vermont and local community agencies, including the Connecticut Department of Children and Families and Wheeler Clinic, to conduct a three-year, multi-site randomized control trial of the intervention. Learn more about Phillips and Mogro-Wilson 's research.

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