NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

APRIL 3, 2023

An Associated Press story and an analysis by the American Civil Liberties Union make clear just how much havoc the Pittsburgh algorithm can cause. CJMR Some of the data variables in the Cross Jurisdiction Model Replication Project And now comes the next all-too-logical progression.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 23, 2022

That not only hurts the children needlessly removed, it also overloads the system, making the next tragedy that much more likely. It begins like this: On the other end of the spectrum, we also know that far too many families are caught up in child welfare systems that don’t belong there. Emphasis in original.] Good luck finding them.

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Beautiful Voyager

JANUARY 20, 2021

For me, it was setting goals that were either unrealistic, based on social pressure, people-pleasing or I would just set too many. A routine provides a sense of control, purpose, structure, motivation and pride in having accomplished something. Letting go is key for so much of our mental suffering. Maybe it can inspire you too.

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Clinical Philosophy

SEPTEMBER 5, 2020

Perhaps this is because psychoanalytic psychotherapy’s earliest understandings of that life were all too often of internalised social pressures acting to constrain the id, preventing it from becoming ego, and causing hysterical psychopathology. In particular it’s not a concept which makes much of an appearance in psychotherapy texts.

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Beautiful Voyager

APRIL 30, 2021

You will see that they can be much more than “ just” meds. In my experience, some antidepressants made my symptoms of depression and anxiety worse, some others can make you feel numb or too agitated. So, it applies to medication too. It may take a few trials before you find the one that helps you best with the less side effects.

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Clinical Philosophy

MARCH 9, 2022

Let's leave aside too the idea that 'really', or 'of course', it's the earth spinning on its axis, and not the sun orbiting the earth, that accounts for there being night and day. These objects seem to have specific shapes and colours, and for the ones closer at hand, smells and textures too. What's gone wrong here?

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The Critical Blog

APRIL 15, 2021

Of course, Britain’s long history of colonisation and slavery, very much casts a revealing spotlight on many of our ‘modern institutions’. Symbolism can generate misplaced feelings of ‘pride’ and ‘patriotism’ in those who are compliant and ‘apprehension’ and ‘isolation’ in those questioning the implicit beliefs.

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Learning Social Worker

DECEMBER 30, 2020

I am both too. There are far too many stories of staff being bullied out when they raise concerns of safety. I related to Caroline’s thoughts far too much, especially around “the system”. My heart was literally swelling with pride when she tackled the “men in suits”. You literally cannot make this up!

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Beautiful Voyager

JULY 5, 2023

It was pre-internet, and I had no idea that anyone else did this too. Of course some part of me is grateful that my compulsivity settled into a safer landing spot than self-harm or theft, but now that I am a therapist, I appreciate how much harder it is to heal from perfectionism OCD.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Not for much longer , though. I can imagine Sheriff Gualtieri responding to these figures by taking perverse pride in how his officers supposedly “err on the side of the child” and put child safety ahead of family preservation. And note that the county with the lowest rate of removal, Broward, had the best safety record.

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Clinical Philosophy

JULY 2, 2023

Now, I just listed those topoi very speedily - and perhaps too speedily, for one of the things I want to urge later is that we can’t understand soul talk as reducible to the concepts which more singly populate such seemingly disparate domains. We also talk, by the way, of soulful glances or soulless eyes/expressions. New York, N.Y.,

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