Social Work Blog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Social workers provide counseling and psychotherapy services to patients in recovery. Social workers help patients eliminate psychosocial stressors such as homelessness, loss of job, divorce, and loneliness that may have led to their use of substances.

Recovery 52

Recovery Substance Abuse Confidentiality Harm Reduction 52

Social Work Blog

APRIL 1, 2022

Recognized by social work educators, researchers, practitioners, students, and policymakers as an essential guide to clear and precise communication in the profession, this indispensable reference work should be on the bookshelves of all social workers and human services professionals in the United States and abroad.

Code of Ethics 52

Code of Ethics Psychotherapy Confidentiality Communication 52

Social Work Blog

MAY 9, 2022

While these statistics are a significant cause for concern, social workers have been instrumental in providing support to people in crisis. Vibrant Emotional Health, who is the current administrator of the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline, believes that this change will help increase accessibility to these much-needed services.

Crisis Intervention 116

Crisis Intervention Mental Health Confidentiality Clinical Social Work 116

Bipolar Bandit

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

I’m in my 14 th year as a mobile emergency psychiatric social worker. Their stories motivated me to become a better social worker and write Breakdown. Administrative pressure to reduce hospital emergency lengths of stay can result in premature discharges. What is your main work role?

Psychiatry 98

Psychiatry Interviewing Psychiatric Schizophrenia 98

Relias

JANUARY 23, 2024

the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) and the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) have done a great deal of work to build on the momentum of national recognition that we have neglected maternal health and the role that social determinants play in the outcomes of women and children.

Mental Health 59

Mental Health Healthcare Disorder Depression 59

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 8, 2024

It’s practically the slogan of everyone in the family policing establishment, from the federal government’s Administration for Children and Families to the smallest county family police agency. Social workers and other professionals who work as part of family defense teams also should be exempted. Safety, permanency, well-being.”

Child Welfare 103

Child Welfare Domestic Violence Adoption Foster Care 103

Beautiful Voyager

JANUARY 28, 2024

All I ask is that you keep our conversations here confidential, to respect other peoples’ privacy. I applied for at least 50 jobs there, both at my administrative level and below it. In addition to a psychiatrist and psychotherapist, I was also assigned a social worker. “You’re welcome just to sit with us and listen.

Hospitals 52

Hospitals Mental Health Depression Anxiety 52

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

If anyone still doubts the need to replace anonymous reporting of alleged child abuse with confidential reporting, check out this story from ProPublica. One of those two things has now prompted the Biden Administration to propose regulations to curb this practice. Oh honey, that’s not how it works,” the social worker told Janell.

Child Welfare 106

Child Welfare Foster Care Welfare Confidentiality 106

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 30, 2024

The lawsuit says that investigators for the Administration for Childrens Services deceive and bully their way into peoples homes, where they rifle through families most private spaces, strip-search children and humiliate parents. A social worker who doesnt want to report kids in dirty clothes to CPS.

Child Welfare 110

Child Welfare Foster Care Welfare Domestic Violence 110

Teaching & Learning in Social Work

JANUARY 20, 2021

This is a follow-up to her post – A Love Letter to Social Workers on the Front Lines of COVID-19. Many social workers resonated with the stories I shared and many people who work with social workers also expressed their gratitude for the steady dedication of social workers.

Social Worker 130

Social Worker Child Welfare Justice and Corrections Confidentiality 130

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Instead, a social worker told Janell that the adults had lied about the dentist. Oh honey, that’s not how it works,” the social worker told Janell. But then … Three weeks later, her social worker surprised Lacie when she announced DCFS would be taking her children, after all. But she did not see her mother.

Child Welfare 106

Child Welfare Foster Care Welfare Adoption 106