Social Work Haven

JUNE 15, 2023

A student contacted me recently wanting tips on how to write on the topic; ‘why I want to be a social worker’ I explained the great benefits of being a social worker. I also embedded myself in this task and wrote with my own experiences and views on why I became a social worker in an essay format.

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Community Care

JANUARY 15, 2025

The model is being tested in the 10 families first for children pathfinder areas, though ADCS found that some other councils were adopting a similar approach. “[Directors] report that a negative judgement following inspection by Ofsted generates increased staff churn and reliance on agency social workers,” the report said.

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Social Work Blog

APRIL 24, 2023

Throughout the Self-Care in Social Work, Cox and Steiner draw upon their extensive clinical and academic experience as social work faculty. Policies that adopted surrounding these tenets can increase morale, greater leadership within staff, and deepen an agency’s ability to improve client care.

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KVC

MARCH 24, 2021

March is National Social Work Month and KVC is honoring the incredible ways that social workers, clinicians, and other professionals improve the lives of children, adults and families. We celebrate that impact and want to share a peek into a day in the life of a social worker. For Dalton, it was more personal. “[I]

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Social Work Haven

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

You asked, what is a social worker home visit checklist? A social worker home visit checklist serves as a comprehensive guide for social workers conducting home visits to assess the holistic health and well-being of their clients. Over the years of practice, I have also found this tool useful.

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Relias

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

It’s when organizations are adaptable and trauma-informed and adopt a culture that fosters resilience within their staff. Social worker and best-selling author, Brené Brown, says that resilience is tolerating discomfort and painful emotions. What is organizational resilience? Resilience has many definitions and facets.

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Social Work Haven

APRIL 3, 2023

In addition, using ecomap symbols as part of ecomap creation gives social workers a comprehensive picture of many things. With a social work ecomap activity, social workers can help foster positive working relationships and explore effective intervention strategies to facilitate change.

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Community Care

OCTOBER 15, 2024

There was also some evidence, from two studies, of navigator programmes helping children to move into permanency, whether through reunification with their parents, adoption or guardianship. Evidence for navigator programmes improving child safety and carers’ wellbeing, parenting skills and knowledge of services was more limited.

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Community Care

MARCH 27, 2024

Social Work England has called for a consistent approach to supporting early career social workers, amid government plans to replace the assessed and supported year in employment (ASYE) in council children’s services, but not in other sectors.

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Social Work Blog

APRIL 5, 2023

The NASW Code of Ethics is a set of standards that guide the professional conduct of social workers. Moreover, revisions to the Cultural Competence standard provide more explicit guidance to social workers. All social workers should review the new text and affirm their commitment to abide by the Code of Ethics.

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Community Care

MARCH 7, 2024

The government is urging more councils and children’s trusts to test its planned five-year programme of support for newly qualified social workers (NQSWs) in children’s services. The policy is designed to boost social workers’ skills and knowledge, but also improve retention.

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

The others will cover support for families in adversity with children aged 11-19, parents or carers of children with disabilities or severe mental illness and adoptive and foster parents. Based on this, it identified 12 principles for working with families, including: Using strengths-based approaches to engage parents.

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Social Work Blog

AUGUST 1, 2023

The American Academy of Social Work and Welfare’s grand challenge to “create social responses to a changing environment” is a call to action for social workers to advocate for environmental justice. Prior to 2020, the field of social work was limited in its adoption of digital practice.

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Social Work Blog

AUGUST 1, 2023

The American Academy of Social Work and Welfare’s grand challenge to “create social responses to a changing environment” is a call to action for social workers to advocate for environmental justice. Prior to 2020, the field of social work was limited in its adoption of digital practice.

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

They described how this had worked in the past with children with more complex needs, who did not want to engage face to face. For example, some workers who were interested in gaming and digital activities used these as a tool for engagement, which resulted in positive connections.

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Community Care

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Ray Jones, emeritus professor of social work at Kingston University, is one of the rare ones with more than 50 years of experience. That is three to four different workers, assuming the workers within the teams don’t also change,” says Jones. We’re a short-term interjection, and then we disappear and someone else interjects.”

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The International Association Of Schools Of Social

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

This year, UNRISD teamed up once again with the Geneva and Fribourg Schools of Social Work and its international partners to mark the Day at UN in Geneva. The celebration of WSWD 2024 will include contributions from social workers and scholars based in various regions of the world.

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Community Care

APRIL 17, 2024

He was one of those children whose lives were transformed by a social worker. Smith was taken into care as a baby, spending the first 11 years of his life in a foster home before those same carers adopted him. “I had a really positive experience of social workers,” he says.

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Community Care

JULY 4, 2024

By Zoe Ash and Toni Mayo Many statutory social workers find themselves in an uncomfortable dilemma when carrying out their duties. The family had had all the support that social care could think to offer. Our work with families focuses on the parents’ readiness to engage in a supportive relationship.

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Community Care

APRIL 11, 2024

Laming’s report made 108 recommendations, designed to increase the priority placed on children within government, local authorities and other agencies, enhance joint working and significantly improve the quality of practice by social workers and other agencies. I’m very clear that in social work it’s not about the chat.

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Social Work Haven

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Recommended Books for Preparing to Study Social Work Recommended Books for Student Social Workers Recommended Books for Newly Qualified Social Workers Recommended Books when working with Adults Recommended Books for Direct Work with Children Recommended Books for Practice Educators Recommended Books for Approved Mental Health Practitioners.

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Community Care

MAY 22, 2024

The Department for Education adopted many of the proposals in its Stable Homes, Built on Love strategy , published last year. Agency social work rules: rules curbing councils’ use of children’s social work locums are currently due to come into force this summer, with implementation taking place in stages up to next spring.

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Social Work Haven

DECEMBER 4, 2022

“Rethinking Social Work’s Role in a Rapidly Changing World : by Antoinette Lombard and Andre Viviers offer an overview of the need for social work in teh 21st century to adopt a more transformative social-policy approach, including policy advocacy. Social Work in Mental Health Settings” by Kevin J.

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Social Work Blog

JUNE 3, 2024

The 12th edition of Social Work Speaks is a comprehensive and unabridged collection of policies adopted and revised by the NASW Delegate Assembly in 2020. This thought-provoking and reader-friendly text prepares students for class engagement, lobbying activities, meeting with legislators, and serving their local communities.

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Social Work Blog

JULY 15, 2024

Titles range from burnout, self-care, and meditation to ethical standards in social work, digital practice, economic well-being, social entrepreneurship, and mentoring women for leadership, to name a few. Prior to 2020, the field of social work was limited in its adoption of digital practice.

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Social Work Blog

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Interpersonal Violence: The Social Work Response , edited by Tricia B. Bent-Goodley, proposes that it is essential for social workers to understand the evolving and persistent landscape of interpersonal violence, including concurrent victimization, overlapping patterns, and intersections. You Might Also Be Interested In.

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Beyond Advocacy

AUGUST 7, 2024

It also strengthens post-adoption services. This is another example of why it is so important for social workers to be engaged in legislative settings at all levels of government,” Dr. Day concluded. It expands access for tribal communities and provides support systems for the 2.5

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Social Work Haven

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Knowledge of social work intervention strategies is central to the social work role. The role of the social worker becomes increasingly important as communities become more diverse. Ultimate Social Work Intervention Strategies. How do social workers intervene with clients?

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Social Work Blog

MARCH 4, 2024

Reamer, was the first ethics casebook, including extensive cases and commentary, written exclusively for social workers. Prior to 2020, the field of social work was limited in its adoption of digital practice. The second edition was published in 2018.

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Social Work With Adults

DECEMBER 1, 2021

I have been so impressed with the huge amount of great policy work undertaken by Department of Health and Social Care colleagues, and the broad and comprehensive engagement with the sector – with over 200 organisations engaged in developing the vision and proposals. Image created by freepik.com]. Funding the vision.

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Community Care

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Several serious case reviews found that high workloads meant social workers lacked the time to build the effective relationships necessary to exercise effective challenge in families where children were at risk, according to the latest – and final – three-year analysis of SCRs, covering 2017-19.

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Social Work Haven

JUNE 15, 2023

Reflecting upon past experience is a vital capability for all social work professionals to develop improved communication skills, commend ourselves for what went well, enhance future performance, and continuing professional development. Reflection also allows social workers to link theory to practice.

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Relias

MAY 20, 2024

Even in typical circumstances, professionals in helping roles are susceptible to secondary trauma, sometimes referred to as an inherent risk in their field by social workers. Shockingly, studies reveal that one-third of child protective services workers exhibit symptoms consistent with post-traumatic stress disorder.

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KVC

JUNE 23, 2021

Bobbie Friedemann says the process of dealing with the courts, social workers, child advocates and counselors can feel overwhelming for birth parents. “It Co-Parenting Partnerships Keep Birth Parents Engaged, Focused and Present. The Friedemanns regularly engage with birth parents. “We

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Social Work Haven

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

The Assessed and Supported Year in Employment (ASYE) is one of the most important aspects of your social work career. The ASYE social work programme gives Newly Qualified Social Workers (NQSW) extra support during their first year in employment. Newly qualified social workers often ask whether the ASYE is compulsory.

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Social Work Haven

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Discover the profound wisdom of empowering attitude powerful lion quotes and how it relates to social workers today. A social worker, like the king of the jungle, possesses a lion’s heart and exhibits the lion’s attitude in the face of adversity. ” What is the best quote about a lion?

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Relias

JANUARY 24, 2024

By adopting a trauma-informed perspective, juvenile justice systems and organizations can address immediate legal concerns but also foster healing, resilience, and positive transformation for young people engaged in the juvenile justice system. thyroid disorder or neurological problems) Review of personal history (e.g.,

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