Community Care

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Cafcass’s 2023-26 strategy: measures of success Among the measures of success in Cafcass’s 2023-26 strategy are: Increasing proportion of practice that is rated good or better in audits, with reduced variation between operational areas. The goal would be challenging at the best of times. Having safe caseloads.

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Blurt It Out

MARCH 3, 2024

If our container (window of tolerance) holds 1.5kg of rice, then it would take 1.6kg of rice (irritations) to make it overflow (cause us to snap). Sometimes, it dulls them, sometimes we’re extra-sensitive to the world around us. Depression can cause us to feel increasingly irritable. What Is Irritability? So we snap.

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Save the Social Worker

JANUARY 10, 2024

Welcome to the world of FSC social work Kudos to you. Welcome to the world of FSC social work Kudos to you. I’m sat at the hospital with a client, wondering what I should do. Should I go home to take a break, or should I continue staying? It’s Christmas tomorrow after all. But duty calls. There are some who might enjoy this.

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My Brains Not Broken

JUNE 30, 2023

Today’s post is an interview with Tiffany Whitlow, who is the co-founder of biotechnology research company Acclinate, and its associated community brand NOWINCLUDED – the online health community focused on empowering the Black community to make better-informed health decisions. What is NOWINCLUDED doing to change this?

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My Brains Not Broken

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

The way that these things all connect in our minds and bodies can be hard to understand, but it’s worth it to try. The article goes on to say that emotions can motivate you to act, help you avoid danger and help you make decisions (among other things). However, I love to do research and find out what the experts are saying.

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Blurt It Out

APRIL 15, 2024

But when we find ourselves struggling with a fear of stepping into the outside world, it can begin to affect our well-being and impact our daily lives. Here, we can wrap ourselves in our metaphorical blanket, safe from any potential harm or danger the outside world could expose us to.

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Social Work With Adults

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

So, I welcome the Patient Carer Race Equality Framework (PCREF) and I’m looking forward to leading on it within my local trust, so that together, we can affect positive change and better outcomes. Lyn Romeo: It's an honour to host blogs from social workers, researchers and people with lived experience of health and social care.

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Blurt It Out

APRIL 15, 2024

We find ourselves living in a world where we are rewarded for productivity. We find ourselves living in a world where we are rewarded for productivity. That sacred space is essential to enabling ourselves to recuperate, restore and ensure that we’re making our mental well-being a priority. Why D o We Experience So Much Guilt ?

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Prosper Health Collective

JULY 16, 2023

Schemas (in general) are our beliefs that we hold about ourselves, the world around us, and the world of others. You can think of schemas as frameworks, or structures, through the lens of which we organize and make sense of our life experiences. What will the child think about themselves and the world around them?

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Save the Social Worker

JANUARY 1, 2021

Do you go Tony Robbins-style, beating your chest and feeling ready to conquer the world? James Clear , in his bestseller Atomic Habits, shares about this mistake many of us make. Finding quotes that will do the trick in upping your motivation to return to work, after the long break? To see clients again? You won’t find it. Here’s why.

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Social Work Haven

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Equally, in our personal lives, sometimes we have the longing for impossible things indeed, because they are impossible; nostalgia and reminiscence for what never was; the desire for what could have been; regret over not being someone else; dissatisfaction with our career; and overall dissatisfaction with the world’s existence!

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Save the Social Worker

JANUARY 3, 2021

Moving from a passionate social work student, eager to change the world, to someone who wants to quit the sector, doesn’t happen in a day. Introduction. It was a Saturday afternoon. My dog is having a nap. I’m working on my case-notes. Tallying up the numbers, uploading it to the system. At some point, I look at what I type. Then on weekends.

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MQ Mental Health

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

In this personal story from Juliette Burton that has key points backed by research, we explore how one person’s mental health challenges can be improved by exploring the world. And since I’ve begun traveling solo, alone and without anybody to make decisions with, it really is all down to me. Autonomy of Choice Traveling is my choice.

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Stop Abuse Campaign

MAY 20, 2022

She would watch me as I grabbed food, whether this was in my own home or in someone else’s, to make sure that I was taking an “appropriate” amount of food. It leads people to place the blame on the person suffering. Growing up, I could always feel my mom’s eyes on me as I walked into the kitchen. Little known facts about mental health.

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Blurt It Out

JANUARY 2, 2024

Click to Tweet : Teen Mental Health In Tricky Times [link] @blurtalerts We wanted to offer some support – but all our blogs come from a place of lived experience, and though we were teenagers once, it was a different time and a different world when we were in school. Teen mental health is no exception. It’s been tough.

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Social Work Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5) does not identify glossophobia as a specific phobia, but its prevalence makes finding treatment for those who suffer from it important. Approximately seven to nine percent of the United States population experience specific phobias. I found that amazing. Number two was death.

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Bipolar Bandit

MAY 13, 2023

This timetable of sorts teaches us that the world is a coherent, ordered place. Indeed, our present is largely spent trying to control our near or distant future: we make daily schedules, have monthly targets and formulate 5-year plans as if we’re certain we’ll live forever. Adults are not too different.

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Save the Social Worker

DECEMBER 27, 2021

What could you have done better? and how we can better leverage the technologies that are available to us today. and how we can better leverage the technologies that are available to us today. Yes, and … maybe there’s also a space to think about how we can better use the technology that’s already on hand.

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Save the Social Worker

DECEMBER 27, 2021

What could you have done better? and how we can better leverage the technologies that are available to us today. and how we can better leverage the technologies that are available to us today. maybe there’s also a space to think about how we can better use the technology that’s already on hand. What did you overcome?

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Social Work Haven

APRIL 3, 2023

Although challenging, social work is one of the most rewarding careers presenting an opportunity to make a difference in the lives of individuals. Kennedy “Everyone has an invisible sign hanging from their neck saying, ‘Make me feel important.’ These were put together from a variety of sources.

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KVC

MARCH 9, 2023

But make no mistake: self-care is so much more than an occasional bubble bath! Self-care is a decision we make to practice prioritizing our health and well-being. Especially when stress is ongoing, like the stressful scenarios social workers often encounter, it’s necessary to make self-care a habit.

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Save the Social Worker

JANUARY 30, 2021

This focused me on how I was moving towards better teamwork, rather than as someone who was stuck (always!) Having such a letter of love to yourself helps you to better overcome the rejection in your life. Please note that all client stories have had identifying details changed. Like a list of hacks to help people. Rejection.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

They just figured they’d do a better job than you. In fact, the research is overwhelming that when children really have to be placed in foster care, kinship foster care – placement with extended family or close family friends – is more stable and better for children’s well-being than what should properly be called “stranger care.”

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MQ Mental Health

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

I think I had the better venue. This Eating Disorders Awareness Week, MQ’s copywriter Juliette Burton who also works as a writer, comedian, and mental health activist, shares her experience of what happened the day she was sectioned under the mental health act for anorexia. When I was 17 it was decided I was “insane”. I thought.

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Bipolar Bandit

AUGUST 14, 2021

Disclaimer: I used Canva to make many of the designs. Trying to please everyone is a guaranteed prescription for unhappiness. The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up. I enjoy taking pictures and then adding quotes to them. 54 until here. Don’t be pushed around by the fears in your mind.

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Social Work Haven

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

3 Things Never To Say To Someone With Social Anxiety Yes, it can be frustrating to make plans with someone and for them to cancel last minute due to social anxiety, but we can almost guarantee that they’re feeling far worse than you. Anxiety is one of the most common mental illness. So, what is anxiety?

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Beautiful Voyager

FEBRUARY 24, 2024

That’s why I’ve been shouting from the rooftops about Sarah Warren and her work bringing Thomas Hanna’s clinical somatics to the wider world via through her book and online courses. In this Q&A I get the chance to ask Sarah the questions I’ve had since first starting my clinical somatics practice.

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Blurt It Out

JANUARY 9, 2023

WHATEVER WORKS Things that make us laugh or smile can be subjective. There will be things that make others smile, but not us. FINDING LIGHT IN NATURE When we’re losing faith in others, and the world seems unkind, zoning in on nature can help us find a little light. Notice how raindrops turn the world upside down.

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Beyond Advocacy

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Unlike Ayn Rand who believed the world would end when she died, many of us—particularly those who devote our lives to social work—would like to live our lives knowing we are contributing something that will leave the world in a bit better shape that it was when we arrived. It is our reason for being. We need more.

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MQ Mental Health

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Today (13 November) is World Kindness Day. The world might seem a difficult place to feel optimistic right now. While what is happening in the world around us may make us feel powerless, we can remind ourselves where we do have power. On World Kindness Day we explore exactly why kindness really counts.

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The International Association Of Schools Of Social

NOVEMBER 21, 2021

Vimla’s footprints in making this world a better place, lies deep. With her family’s inspiration, she worked tirelessly side by side with colleagues across the globe for a more just world. Tribute to Prof. Vimla Nadkarni . It was never about her, but always about others. Repose en Paix, mon amie.

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Gateway Foundation

DECEMBER 26, 2022

As a result of their condition, they get stuck in a state of constant alert , making them feel vulnerable and unsafe or causing them to relive the traumatic experience in their minds over and over. Learning more about PTSD and its symptoms can help you better understand what your loved one is going through. What PTSD Looks Like.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 18, 2022

So with that in mind, consider three vignettes from the world of social work, followed by a very brief quiz: Vignette #1 In Kentucky, a boy is found dead in the “residential treatment center” where he had been institutionalized. Are the failures of social work really just a matter of degree? Social workers would never do something like that!

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Stop Abuse Campaign

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

When we discuss homelessness, we try to discuss it in a way that will elicit sympathy, and often donations to the local shelter, which is most likely leading the conversation. ← Stop Abuse Campaign Gains a Champion in Preventing Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs). Homelessness in the US: The drivers and solutions.

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Relias

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Cheri DiStefano had been working in the corporate world for over a decade when she felt a calling to go to nursing school. Many people consider career changes, but few follow through. She took that brave leap, and it turned out to be the first of many challenging and rewarding events to come. This is what I kept coming back to,” she said.

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Social Workers Speak

MAY 4, 2023

They go from being in this terrible place to a better place, and that’s really inspiring.” Virma Little is a member of NASW-SC: Not screening for anxiety? Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) recommends screening for anxiety in adults aged 18 to 64, including pregnant and postpartum persons.

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Relias

AUGUST 9, 2023

Tis the season for evaluating training programs and checking everything twice to make sure you’re on the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ and The Joint Commission’s nice lists. It’s game time How do you motivate your staff to complete their training on time — especially when you’re trying to keep up with compliance?

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