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?NASW Member Voices: Social Work and Self-Care — A Review Through an Updated Lens

Social Work Blog

By Violeta Donawa, LMSW, MA Dr. Kathleen Cox and Dr. Sue Steiner bring the concept of ‘self-care’ out of the shadows and demystifies its significance in the lives of social work practitioners and leaders. Throughout the Self-Care in Social Work, Cox and Steiner draw upon their extensive clinical and academic experience as social work faculty.

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Member Voices: Be Wary of Mental Health ‘Experts’ on Social Media

Social Work Blog

It is one thing to share your own experience living with mental illness, but to suggest that mental illness is not real or should be dealt with without the guidance of a trained professional can be harmful. A good place to start is the US Department of Health and Human Services administration, which operates a suicide and crisis Lifeline.

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How Can You Support Your Staff During and After a Crisis?

Relias

These strategies can help you create a workplace where staff feel safer — both physically and psychologically. Share how you are managing uncertainty to encourage employees to talk about their own self-care and mental health. Support : Support and mutual self-help can create a sense of safety and hope for staff.

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What Is Lateral Violence in Nursing?

Relias

Also referred to as horizontal violence or bullying, lateral violence is defined as non-physical, aggressive, hostile, and/or harmful behavior between coworkers. For decades, both hospital administrators and patients considered nurses inferior to physicians. Who are the main perpetrators of lateral violence in nursing?

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The Six Domains of Health Care Quality — New Considerations

Relias

They suggested that the domain of safety include accessibility as well as transparency, privacy, and psychological safety as missing from the original model. AHRQ defined each of the domains as follows: Safe — avoiding harm to patients from the care that is intended to help them. In 2020, researchers from Ireland, the U.S.,

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Maine’s child welfare ombudsman is dangerously wrong

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

Most of all she is wrong to ignore the enormous harm of needless removal. ? The errors go in all directions, and all of these errors harm children. ? Wrongful removal inflicts profound psychological trauma. Another criterion: “The degree of harm alleged to the child.” She is dangerously wrong.

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Child Abuse: Understanding, Prevention & Support

All For Kids

Child Abuse: Understanding, Prevention & Support Child abuse is a pervasive and devastating issue affecting millions of children worldwide, with long-lasting physical, emotional, and psychological consequences. Physical abuse involves the intentional use of force that causes physical harm or injury to a child.