Gary Direnfeld
SEPTEMBER 4, 2024
This post discusses severe parental alienation, when one parent seeks to poison the children’s relationship to the other parent by causing the children to believe horrible yet unfounded allegations about that parent. —– I get it. When a parent is manipulating their child to hate the other parent, it’s a nightmare. No matter what you do, it’s twisted to use against you.
International Federation of Social Workers
SEPTEMBER 6, 2024
On 12 April 2024, the National Association of Social Workers in Burundi (NASWA-BURUNDI), in collaboration with the Ministry of National Solidarity, Social Affairs, Human Rights and Gender, and with the […]
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My Brains Not Broken
AUGUST 21, 2024
Over the years, I’ve learned a lot about the impact that my experience with anxiety has on me. It impacts the way I see the world, the way I interact with it, and the way I interact with others. But after years of learning about myself and my anxiety, I’ve started to notice the patterns that my anxiety creates. One pattern in particular is how my anxiety can lead to making assumptions, and how those assumptions can create problems in my life that didn’t exist before.
Teaching & Learning in Social Work
AUGUST 20, 2024
My colleague, Dr. Melanie Sage and I are excited to invite submissions for our upcoming book, tentatively called 101 Things to Do with a Social Work Degree. This book aims to showcase social workers’ diverse and impactful roles across various settings. We seek contributions in English from social workers actively practicing or utilizing their social work degrees in traditional or unique settings at the micro, mezzo, and macro levels.
Speaker: Joe Sharpe and James Carlson
In the world of small business management, the challenge of managing payroll & HR efficiently while scaling operations can be overwhelming. Yet, with the right strategies in place, these challenges can become opportunities for growth and innovation. In this session, Joe Sharpe, Senior Director of Managed Payroll Services at IRIS, will reveal practical methods and expert insights for outsourcing and streamlining payroll processes, resulting in substantial time and resource savings.
Community Care
AUGUST 26, 2024
A “worrying” number of looked-after children and care leavers have been wrongly placed in supported accommodation, Ofsted’s social care chief has warned. Yvette Stanley said that inspectors had encountered young people who were “clearly in need of a higher level of care than supported accommodation is equipped to provide” in visits to the settings.
MQ Mental Health
AUGUST 19, 2024
Around the world, young peoples mental health has been declining over the past two decades and is now entering a dangerous phase, suggests a new Lancet Psychiatry Commission. It has long been known that 75% of mental illnesses take hold before adulthood. Mental illnesses generally have their peak onset at age 15 and mental ill-health accounts for 45% of the overall burden of disease in people aged 10-24.
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International Federation of Social Workers
AUGUST 26, 2024
The International Federation of Social Workers (IFSW) Africa is inviting applications for up to 3 volunteer positions as Regional Representatives to the UN Office.
National Casa Gal
AUGUST 21, 2024
The 2024 Mid-Year Impact Report highlights key recent accomplishments, including continuing education for CASA/GAL volunteers and staff. Read More. The post National CASA/GAL’s 2024 Mid-Year Impact Report appeared first on National CASA/GAL Association for Children.
Community Care
SEPTEMBER 2, 2024
Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll. Ofsted is to scrap single-word judgments for its inspections of local authority children’s services and regulated social care providers. The regulator announced the change, a day after the government ended the use of overall effectiveness ratings for state schools with immediate effect.
The International Association Of Schools Of Social
SEPTEMBER 1, 2024
Nominations are called for the Prestigious Katherine A. Kendall Memorial Award for distinguished contribution to the development of social work education internationally. The nominee can come from any region of the world and may or may not be a member of IASSW. The biography of the nominee must match the required criteria. For details about the nomination process and guidelines on the criteria, please go to : [link] Nominations should be submitted to the chair of the Committee Halaevalu Vakala
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Gary Direnfeld
SEPTEMBER 4, 2024
The thing is, not everyone can manage. Not everyone can maintain employment. Some truly don’t have the skills. Some meet hardship that overwhelms. Some face illness, accident or injury. Some simply lack capacity for self-sufficiency. What of these folks? We can leave them to themselves. Swim or drown. Few will want to drown. They may live a subsistence life, perhaps on the streets, perhaps scrounging, doing anything necessary to survive.
MQ Mental Health
AUGUST 19, 2024
People who are lonely are more likely to experience bad dreams. The research highlights a connection between loneliness and sleep disorders, both of which are significant public health concerns linked to higher risks of heart disease, stroke, and premature death. Oregon State University's Colin Hesse, a co-author of the study published in the Journal of Psychology , explained that stress is a key factor linking loneliness to both the frequency and intensity of nightmares.
Community Care
SEPTEMBER 6, 2024
The government has selected two groups of councils to test the commissioning and delivery of looked-after children’s placements at a regional level. Greater Manchester and the South East have been chosen as pathfinders for so-called regional care co-operatives (RCCs), under which individual councils pool their resources and plan placements centrally.
The New Social Worker
AUGUST 29, 2024
It Ends With Us is a film adaptation of the best-selling Colleen Hoover novel of the same name. Intimate partner violence is a primary theme, and the movie has been surrounded by controversy. Did they get it right? A social worker's view.
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Gary Direnfeld
SEPTEMBER 4, 2024
Be cautious about rushing to soothe every frustration your kid experiences. That thing called frustration tolerance cannot develop if each instance is compensated for or soothed by another. Indeed, all that soothing can rob the child of the capacity to develop resilience, the ability to overcome adversity. As they are left to manage their own feelings, then and only then can they come to self-soothe.
Social Work Blog
AUGUST 30, 2024
Labor Day, celebrating workers and their contributions, began during a period of swift U.S. industrial growth with limited worker rights. In the late 19 th century, many Americans, especially those experiencing profound poverty and those who had recently immigrated were working 12 hours per day, six or seven days per week with little or no access to ventilation, hygiene and rest breaks.
inSocialWork
AUGUST 20, 2024
Brooke Stott, LMSW In the ever-evolving field of mental health, groundbreaking approaches are continuously emerging, challenging our traditional perspectives on healing and recovery. One such frontier is the integration of psychedelic-assisted therapy — a burgeoning area of research and practice that could change the way practitioners approach mental health treatment.
Community Care
SEPTEMBER 4, 2024
Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll. Sixty per cent of community social care services in England have no or an ‘outdated’ performance rating, an analysis of Care Quality Commission (CQC) data has found. Almost a quarter of home care, extra care, shared lives or supported living services (23%) had never been rated by the CQC as of June 2024, despite more than half of these having been registered with the regulator f
Speaker: Gary Direnfeld, MSW, RSW.
You may have the clinical skills to manage a private practice, but your success could actually hinge on marketing skills. For a thriving practice, you need to differentiate yourself from others and present yourself in a way that attracts referrals. These days, much of that happens online, including on social media. In this webinar, Gary Direnfeld will discuss how social media marketing can help you build your private practice and grow your client base.
MQ Mental Health
SEPTEMBER 2, 2024
A new study from the Universities of Bath and Southampton, published in the British Journal of Health Psychology, found that just 10 minutes of daily mindfulness practice can significantly improve wellbeing, reduce depression and anxiety, and motivate people to adopt healthier lifestyles, including better exercise, eating, and sleeping habits. The study involved 1,247 adults from 91 countries who were new to mindfulness.
Gary Direnfeld
AUGUST 20, 2024
Don’t chase the parent who isn’t seeing their kids to see the kids. It’s their responsibility, not yours. If you assume their responsibility and fail, as often happens, then it looks as if you are to blame. Also, do not give the kids false impressions of the other parent. Do not say, “Oh, but they love you.” That’s gaslighting.
The New Social Worker
AUGUST 27, 2024
Celebrate our anniversary and deepen awareness and activation of self-care. This calendar provides a daily dose of self-care for September 2024.
International Federation of Social Workers
SEPTEMBER 4, 2024
The International Federation of Social Workers (IFSW) Africa is seeking a dedicated and passionate individual to serve as a volunteer Representative to ANESW (Africa Network for Environmental Social Work and […]
Community Care
AUGUST 27, 2024
Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll. Researchers have proposed a definition of safer and effective staffing levels within social work to inform legislation on the issue in Northern Ireland. The definition, based on practitioner feedback, is believed to be the first of its kind, and covers both staff sufficiency and practitioners having access to “regular supportive, reflective supervision”, “compassionate line management” and
MQ Mental Health
SEPTEMBER 6, 2024
Why do I feel so overwhelmed? Why did I say that embarrassing thing? Is everyone else achieving more than me? What can I actually do to make a difference? Am I the only one feeling this way? Drawing on her own experience with mental health issues and neurodivergence, in her debut book, MQ Ambassador Gemma Styles gets curious about how we tick in order to better understand and navigate the unique pressures of life today.
Gary Direnfeld
AUGUST 20, 2024
If you really want your kid to be happy, stop giving in to their wants and stop compensating for their upsets. Those two strategies do not make happy kids. Indeed, quite the opposite. Those strategies create indulged kids who think every negative outcome must be compensated for, instead of learning to cope with life’s bumps and grind. When life doesn’t give them everything or compensate for their upsets, they will be anything but happy.
The International Association Of Schools Of Social
SEPTEMBER 1, 2024
The Cadernos GEPE journal invites researchers, academics and practitioners in Social Work areas to submit articles for its next edition. Published annually, the journal is a scholarly organ of the Ethics Study and Research Group (GEPE) of UFPE, whose central focus is ethics in Social Work, with a close look at the theoretical and practical implications of this area in national and international contexts.
International Federation of Social Workers
SEPTEMBER 4, 2024
The National Association of Social Workers Uganda (NASWU) has recently released its 2024 report, highlighting the significant strides made in advancing social work in Uganda over the past three years.
Community Care
AUGUST 23, 2024
Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll. The number of Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLS) referrals hit a new high in 2023-24 but practitioners managed to cut backlogs, official figures have shown. Care homes and hospitals made 332,455 applications to deprive a person of liberty for their own protection last year, up 11% on the figure for 2022-23, according to NHS England’s annual DoLS data.
MQ Mental Health
AUGUST 29, 2024
New research from the University of Nottingham reveals that the fear of missing out (FoMO) and information overload in digital workplaces are significant risk factors for employee mental health, potentially leading to increased stress and burnout. The study, published in SAGE Open, analyzed survey data from 142 employees to explore the negative impacts of digital working.
Gary Direnfeld
AUGUST 20, 2024
I remember smoking when I was a teen. Mostly it was to get a break at my part time job. To say you wanted five minutes for a smoke was acceptable. To say you wanted five minutes to stand around doing nothing, wasn’t. Even our high school had an indoor smoking area for students. Smoking was everywhere. The olden days. Now, after years of the antismoking messages getting through, smoking, while still around, isn’t like it used to be.
The New Social Worker
SEPTEMBER 4, 2024
I am a school social worker, a canary in the coal mine of public education. I see the collective strain on school staff, but I also envision the way forward.
International Federation of Social Workers
AUGUST 18, 2024
IFSW United Nations Commission representatives Dr Sebastian Cordoba and Evelyn Tomaszewski attended the latest UN Summit of the Future consultation forum advocating for more collaborative, transparent and accountable action.
Community Care
AUGUST 28, 2024
Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll. The AMHP Leads Network has appointed fresh leadership to represent the views of those responsible for approved mental health professional (AMHP) services. Christina Cheney and Robert Lewis have stepped down as co-chairs after just over two years at the helm.
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