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Reducing Workplace Violence in Nursing & Healthcare

Relias

While lateral violence doesn’t put healthcare workers in immediate physical danger, it still creates a toxic work environment that negatively impacts employee productivity and morale. Domestic Violence. It is not uncommon for violence that occurs outside of the workplace to creep into healthcare settings.

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NASW Observes Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Month

Social Work Blog

The Center for Deployment Psychology will be hosting a 90-minute webinar entitled “Treating PTSD and Co-Occurring Substance Use Disorders Using Prolonged Exposure.” This publication from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Administration provides valuable tools to help people during these challenging times. June 21, 2022.

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The good news: A public radio station in Kansas City talked to the right people for a "child welfare" story. The bad news: They still missed the point

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

Getting down to cases The story begins this way: Shayla Curts, 22, had been living at Newhouse KC, a domestic violence shelter in Kansas City, Missouri, for several months after the birth of her second child. She said it gave her a safe place to breast feed her infant and care for her 4-year-old while trying to get back on her feet.

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Maine’s child welfare ombudsman is dangerously wrong

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

She is wrong about domestic violence, she is wrong about truancy, she is wrong about “alternative response,” she is wrong about false reports and she is wrong to call for more institutionalization of children. Wrongful removal inflicts profound psychological trauma. Rather they witnessed domestic violence.

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It’s Not “Just Poverty” – It’s UNjust Poverty

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

But this medical model – the idea that abuse and neglect always were some kind of psychological failing in the parent, became the organizing principle around efforts to fight child abuse. When Ronald Reagan’s budget cuts caused massive increases in homelessness, his administration said: No, no, they’re all mentally ill. So send money.

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Maternal Mental Health Matters: A Neglected but Vital Issue

Relias

Maternal mental health is the emotional, psychological, and social well-being of women during pregnancy, birth, and the postpartum period. As we work to improve all aspects of maternal health, we must bring more focus to an area of critical concern — supporting maternal mental health. How to improve maternal mental health In the U.S.,

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41+ Famous Social Workers You Need to Know About

Social Work Haven

From 1950 until his death in 1973 he was the professor of social administration at the London School of Economics. His work had an immense influence on the field of psychology, and he is widely credited for revolutionising the way people understood human behaviour and communication.