The New Social Worker

JULY 4, 2022

Use these tools to build a purposeful professional self-care practice that includes a personalized and comprehensive self-care lifestyle.

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R.E.A.L. Social Workers

MAY 7, 2023

What you need is a tool to help you free yourself of the baggage. In this blog post, I will share A Simple Tool for Stressed Women to Let Go of Emotional Clutter. In day today’s blog, I am sharing a tool that is adapted from the book Clearing Emotional Clutter by Donald Altman. This tool changes how you respond to the clutter.

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Famcare

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Our messaging and email tools offer both simplicity and superior functionality to our users. Enjoy watching this overview of the messaging and emailing tools. We understand our clients in the human service field need a simple yet powerful communication system.

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Famcare

MAY 12, 2022

A growing number of non-profit volunteers and social workers are joining a market that is constantly bemoaning a lack of project management tools. It currently employs over 12 million people, accounting for 10% of the total workforce in the country. You can't run a non-profit unless you know how to manage everything effectively.

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The Social Care Elf

DECEMBER 6, 2020

This study explores the use of humour as a practice tool in social care, drawing on the humour-health hypothesis as the premise of the investigation and identifying both positive and negative impacts that definitely warrant some more thought and exploration. The post Humour as a tool for practice appeared first on National Elf Service.

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Social Work Futures

DECEMBER 18, 2021

Futures thinker Bob Johansen says that futures thinking now, is about moving from “categorical” to “spectrum” thinking in his most recent book. To me, full spectrum thinking is about being able to consider the complexity of phenomena, situations and/or challenge – and avoid the trap of oversimplifying.

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CAPC

OCTOBER 21, 2022

Screening tool helps to identify SICU patients for palliative care consults, reducing burden on families and medical staff.

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CAPC

APRIL 6, 2023

Current serious illness communication tools do not actively guide users to incorporate patients’ experiences with racism into care.

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Communication 52

Famcare

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Louise, a crusty journey-woman social worker had three pairs of glasses hanging from tiny chains around her neck and a sharpened yellow number two pencil plunged into her beehive hairdo. How unlikely that this woman would teach us how to use humor in social work.

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CAPC

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Study assessing the effectiveness of an artificial intelligence decision support tool for predicting patient need for palliative care services.

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Teaching & Learning in Social Work

DECEMBER 8, 2023

In this blog post, she shares how she uses artificial intelligence tools to improve her teaching and save time. All of this is to say that AI can be used as a teaching tool for social work educators. Here is an AI tool directory to help get you started. It is a tool that can be very helpful, but it is not the end all, be all.

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Social Work Bubble

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

However, they can provide an effective tool to perpetuate motivation during difficult times, or allow an effective activity to express emotions. As a therapist, I LOVE using vision boards and collages for clients of all ages and identities, and it’s a tool they can easily do at home.

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The New Social Worker

JULY 6, 2023

The simple fact of “using” or “not using” AI does not dictate whether social work students are acting ethically. Similarly, there are both ethical and unethical ways in which students can use a variety of technologies.

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The New Social Worker

SEPTEMBER 26, 2021

The New Social Worker book review of Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor.

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Social Work Futures

APRIL 6, 2023

This set of tools (generative AI) has incredible potential AND incredible risks. After the presentation – we’ll be engaging in some foresight play/learning using the futures triangle to help discern where the group feels like the most important to focus as we navigate “what comes next” for this important set of tools.

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Teaching & Learning in Social Work

MARCH 29, 2024

As social work educators, we find ourselves at a point where the capabilities of generative artificial intelligence (AI) tools like ChatGPT intersect with our professional practice more and more often, and we ponder these challenges with much philosophical debate in academic settings.

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My Brains Not Broken

MAY 2, 2023

Anxiety & Depression Association of America This year, the Anxiety & Depression Association is sharing knowledge around tools and resources for mental health. Using #ToolsForMentalHealth , ADAA wants to spread the word about the tools that have helped people’s mental health and how they can be accessible for everyone.

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Photo: Jacob Lund/Adobe Stock (posed by model) Unsurprisingly, tools used were limited to familiar platforms such as Zoom, Microsoft Teams and WhatsApp as there is little availability of dedicated safeguarding tools or applications (Carlick, 2018).

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 3, 2023

The Allegheny Family Screening Tool slaps an invisible scarlet number "risk score" on every child whose parents or other caretakers have been accused of neglect. Is Pittsburgh’s “child welfare” predictive analytics algorithm running amok? Inquiring minds (at the US Dept. of Justice) want to know!

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Eligibility for CHC People can become eligible for CHC in one of two ways: Through the standard route, following assessment by a multidisciplinary team (MDT), using the decision support tool (DST) to determine eligibility. People are often referred after being screened for potential eligibility using the so-called checklist tool.

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My Brains Not Broken

JANUARY 24, 2024

Almost 100% of the time, I use rest as a tool. And while I think it’s a good tool, it shouldn’t only be used that way. .); calms me down when I’m riddled with anxiety; and plays a vital role in my mental health toolkit. But here’s where I’ve been wrong in my thinking.

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Famcare

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

In the US, there are more than 700,000 caseworkers , according to data from 2020. If you're a member of this sizable workforce, you are well aware of the difficulties faced by those who work in the nation's human services.

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Community Care

MARCH 31, 2023

The funding would allow authorities to hire a productivity lead to review existing procedures and implement some or all of the following approaches: Purchasing digital tools to enable people with needs or carers to input their information to feed into the assessment process. Making greater use of virtual assessments.

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Counselor Toolbox podcast

AUGUST 14, 2021

Strengths Based Tools to Address Mood Disorders Strengths Based Tools to Address Mood Disorders

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Creative Play Therapist

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Clients can also use Buzzies at home for resourcing or to help regulate the nervous system as a coping tool. Buzzies for Therapy & Play Therapy : In non-EMDR sessions, Buzzies can help clients regulate their emotions as they explore their windows of tolerance.

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Social Work Futures

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Exploring them greatly sparks creativity and curiosity about how groups are challenging current assumptions about the present and exploring the tools to inform more desirable futures. Futures Toolkit: Tools for Futures Thinking and Foresight Across UK Government (2017). This is an ever-evolving resource. Africa (Continent-wide).

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Counselor Toolbox podcast

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Behavior Modification Tools for Obsessions, Cravings and Addictive or Compulsive Behavior #behaviormodification #NCMHCE #OCD NOTE: ALL Podcasts are for educational purposes only and are NOT a replacement for medical advice or counseling from a licensed professional. Objectives ? Objectives ?

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Learning Social Worker

FEBRUARY 7, 2021

The book, He Died Waiting: Learning the lessons - a bereaved mother's view of mental health services by Caroline Aldridge (2020), and the postcards with quotes from it, can be used in many ways to help students and practitioners to develop reflexiveness, empathy, and values-based practice.

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Community Care

MAY 11, 2022

Though rating the authority as good, rather than outstanding, for help and protection, Ofsted found “exceptional examples” of social workers using direct work tools to evaluate the impact of parental vulnerabilities while keeping a clear focus on children’s safety.

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Social Work Futures

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Feminist theories and practices are important tools to acknowledge the existence of the political structures behind the deployment of technologies and, therefore, are an important framework to question them. ” Their mission is “democratizing the tools of health making around the world. Rights are not universally accessed.

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Nicole Clark Consulting

AUGUST 10, 2023

When logic models are viewed as a valuable planning and learning tool, rather than solely as a grant making reporting requirement, it increases the likelihood that your organization will use them. When logic models are viewed in connection to other tools you have at your disposal, that also increases [.]

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Social Work Futures

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Anticipatory social work (ASW) helps people shape their present lives, and create better futures, in a rapidly changing, complex world. ASW espouses both rigorous ethics and context-sensitive deployment of foresight frames, analytics and approaches.

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Social Work Futures

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

And a few interesting online tools of use to academics: In 2019, the Institute for the Future engaged in a project specifically looking at the future of higher education as it might co-exist with blockchain technologies. Future of Higher Education: Four Models Moving Towards 2040 – May 21, 2021.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

We have put together guidance on submitting learning you have acquired on the sites – and saved using our CPD tool – to Social Work England. Help with submitting your CPD Community Care Inform users have plenty of learning they can benefit from that can contribute to their CPD for registration renewal.

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Community Care

DECEMBER 11, 2023

We hope this will be an inspirational tool for people working with unpaid carers, where they can find out more about different approaches other organisations have taken and how they can translate learnings in their own practice.

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Nicole Clark Consulting

AUGUST 16, 2023

When logic models are viewed as a valuable planning and learning tool and used with other programmatic tools, it increases the likelihood that your organization will use them. Try this activity and let me know how it goes for you. So, let’s update your program’s logic model! This activity is ideal for: Anyone responsible for [.]

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Social Work Futures

JANUARY 18, 2023

This is a list of some of my favorite and most important learning spaces/tools/resources! Learning tools and community. Tech justice-related learning should be a regular priority for every social worker in practice and every social work student. Oracle for Transfeminist Technology game and resource.

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