Social Work Blog

APRIL 24, 2023

When workplaces investigate root causes of stress and take seriously what they find, the authors argue that this promotes “psychological health and safety, incorporating inclusion, and valuing vision.” This reduces turnover rates, increases workers reported job satisfaction, and minimizes reported chronic stress.

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Relias

JULY 30, 2024

Moreover, fostering an inclusive workplace promotes a culture of psychological safety. By adopting these strategies, organizations can improve disability inclusion in the workplace, creating a more welcoming and productive environment for all employees.

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Michigan Social Work

MARCH 16, 2023

Ramona Perry, Joint Doctoral Program in Social Work and Psychology, has successfully defended her dissertation "Black During COVID-19: A Mixed-Methods Exploration of Adoption of COVID-19 Risk Reduction Behaviors among Black Adults." Her committee included Jamie Mitchell (co-chair) and Jaclynn Hawkins.

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Teaching & Learning in Social Work

FEBRUARY 5, 2022

Many universities have adopted the Poverty simulation to help their students understand what it is like to live in poverty beyond reading a book or watching a movie, with the ultimate goal of inspiring students to address the problem of poverty through their respective disciplines. Why Poverty Simulations?

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Relias

MAY 20, 2024

It affects everyone differently, so that two people who live through the same traumatic event will have different psychological reactions to it. Trauma-informed leadership is, thus, a critical piece of creating an organizational culture of inclusion and psychological safety. While this might sound straightforward, trauma is tricky.

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CO4Kids

AUGUST 30, 2024

CASA volunteers also complete 30 to 40 hours of training with a curriculum that includes psychology, the foster care system, juvenile law, court structure, dynamics of abuse, how to build trust and rapport, volunteer safety as well as other training that may be tailored to the needs of local jurisdictions.

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Relias

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Focusing on individual errors or specific cases to eliminate the causes, the authors reasoned, would not be as effective as adopting a systemic approach. They suggested that the domain of safety include accessibility as well as transparency, privacy, and psychological safety as missing from the original model.

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Relias

APRIL 28, 2023

Birth trauma is an adverse psychological reaction following pregnancy or childbirth similar to post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). A trauma-informed approach to birth trauma To help your clients cope with and overcome the effects of birth trauma, it’s important that your organization adopt a trauma-informed approach to care.

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Relias

MAY 21, 2024

Response: Applying trauma-informed principles to all operational areas of an organization, building psychologically and physically safe environments, and working to promote a trauma-informed approach through training, leadership support, mission, and messaging. Trauma-informed care aligns with the healthcare motto, “do no harm.”

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Relias

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Caring for an individual’s holistic health has only begun to gain widespread acceptance and adoption within the last several decades. One of the other major challenges facing the adoption of value-based contracts in behavioral health is more clinical. Know what is “in it for them.”

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 6, 2022

Wrongful removal inflicts profound psychological trauma. Providers were not objective and recommendations in a psychological evaluation were not implemented. Providers were not objective and recommendations in a psychological evaluation were not implemented. She is dangerously wrong. How do we know providers were not objective?

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Michigan Social Work

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

His efforts led to the adoption of protection of farm workers from excessive heat and overtime pay. Sagi-Schwartz earned his BA in social work from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and at U-M received his MSW, an MA in psychology and a PhD in the Joint Program in Social Work and Social Science (developmental psychology).

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The Child and Family Corp

JULY 22, 2024

Ostracism, a common experience, can have far-reaching effects, influencing individuals’ psychological well-being and behavior. It also influences behavior by heightening sensitivity to others’ emotional expressions and leading individuals to adopt either prosocial or antisocial attitudes, depending on the situation.

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Community Care

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Drawing on previous studies, it highlighted the challenges for social workers and other practitioners in balancing building a respectful and supportive relationship with parents with adopting a critical and investigative stance.

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Clinical Philosophy

MAY 2, 2019

The concept of self-regulation is popular in psychology, and in my (clinical) part of psychology it crops up especially in relation to 'affect regulation' and 'mood regulation'. What I'm concerned about is the utility of the 'regulation' idea when we stay at the psychological level of description. I've a worry about it.

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All For Kids

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

According to Psychology Today , your childrens ability to care about others must be nurtured by you in their early years and woven into your familys life. Teach Your Child About Judgment Psychology Today defines compassion as understanding another person’s or oneself’s emotional state. ask, Did you have a great day today?

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Clinical Philosophy

MARCH 19, 2022

In a recent episode of The Life Scientific , the guest - psychologist Julia Shaw (who researches false memories, forensic psychology, and bisexuality) - talks about coming to understand that her father was schizophrenic. It sort of put a construct to all of his behaviour and a lot of the experiences I had growing up."

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Community Care

JULY 4, 2024

Contrary to the values that lead most into their profession, we can find ourselves in the profoundly uncomfortable position of causing unequivocal psychological harm when separating children from their parents. By Zoe Ash and Toni Mayo Many statutory social workers find themselves in an uncomfortable dilemma when carrying out their duties.

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Community Care

MARCH 7, 2024

The magazine covered the gamut of social work and social care including child protection, adoption, mental health and services for disabled and older people. ” Writing a book In 2021, Mark published his debut novel, a psychological thriller called Life Term. On 3 April 1974, the first ever issue of Community Care was published.

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Clinical Philosophy

DECEMBER 23, 2020

First off, he tells us that he's not offering an account of schizophrenia, doesn't 'accept it as a fact' or 'adopt it as a hypothesis', does not 'assume its existence' and 'propose[s] no model for it'. (I Laing offers us an account of schizophrenia, one arguing that 'it is not 'in' the diagnosed patient', in fact he explicitly denies this.

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Relias

MAY 8, 2023

In this way, you can better understand a traumatic event and how it has affected the behavior and psychology of an individual. This means your organization will not simply tell staff, “We’re adopting TIC.” Rather than asking, “What’s wrong with you?” this approach asks, “What happened to you?”

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Relias

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Long work hours also lead to an increase in needle sticks and other injuries, in addition to heightened psychological distress. Adopting a safety mindset: The most important step that healthcare leaders can take to improve patient safety is adjusting their mindset. But patients aren’t the only ones at risk.

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Relias

OCTOBER 10, 2023

In addition to patients’ physical harm, the NIH reported that both patients and clinicians can suffer from long-term negative psychological effects. Those who continuously learn from past mistakes and proactively adopt more effective patient safety practices are better able to reduce errors and save lives.

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Social Work Haven

JUNE 15, 2023

As I embark on this transformative journey, I am committed to adopting a strength-based approach—one that recognises and nurtures the inherent potential within each individual. Strength-Based Approach One of the key aspects of being a social worker is adopting a strength-based approach.

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Clinical Philosophy

MARCH 9, 2022

But a psychological answer? What, exactly, is the psychological problem that the question is addressing?! I can't myself see one, and so don't see what it is that a psychology of vision is supposed to be doing. Let's adopt interpretative charity and assume the latter. But perhaps there is a good question hereabouts?

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2021

The authors note that CASAs are not required to have expertise in law, social work, psychology or child development. It speaks volumes about the Florida CASA program that their email effectively adopts the position that all families are guilty. Second: Whether it's abuse or neglect, the missing word is accused.

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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.

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Social Work Haven

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

“Adopt the mentality of a lion and never settle for anything less than greatness.” Anger management for autistic children Anger management for autistic children – Social work aims to enhance the mental and emotional health of individuals and families by offering psychological services.

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The Frontline

MAY 10, 2023

The judge saw the struggles faced by the parent to meet their child’s needs and keep them safe while facing material deprivation and the psychological impacts of that. The Frontline programme training taught me to adopt a way of working that always considers the experiences of children and their parents.

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The Frontline

MAY 10, 2023

The judge saw the struggles faced by the parent to meet their child’s needs and keep them safe while facing material deprivation and the psychological impacts of that. The Frontline programme training taught me to adopt a way of working that always considers the experiences of children and their parents.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

.” ● A private company has been vacuuming up the most sensitive personal information imaginable about foster youth and families who might want to adopt them. The algorithm supposedly increases the chances of matching the children with adoptive parents. But the Associated Press reports that the results are, at best, questionable.

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Social Work Blog

MAY 6, 2022

The complete policy statement can be found in the 12th edition of Social Work Speaks, which is a comprehensive and unabridged collection of policies adopted and revised by the NASW Delegate Assembly. Center of Deployment Psychology (CDP) Presents: Dyadic Interventions – Involving Significant Others in Suicide Prevention.

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All For Kids

MARCH 12, 2025

A study in the American Journal of Community Psychology (2015) examined the long-term economic benefits of natural mentoring for youth. This Fathers Day, whether youre a father by biology, foster care, adoption, guardianship, mentoring, leadership, influence, or love, we at All For Kids honor and celebrate you!

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Community Care

MARCH 10, 2025

Thousands of vulnerable children risk losing access to vital therapy with the Adoption and Special Guardianship Support Fund (ASGSF) set to expire at the end of this month. Their intervention followed an open letter, issued last week, by Adoption UK to education secretary Bridget Phillipson, which delivered a similar message.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 30, 2024

Baird answered that babies have never possessed a cultural identity, and therefore are not losing anything, at their age, by being adopted. In 2024, the Kentucky family police agency took away a child whose adoptive parents just needed help to cope with her behavioral problems. He was institutionalized. He ran away, and he died.

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Child Welfare Monitor

MARCH 4, 2024

At almost three years old, and after two straight years in foster care with the same family that fostered her from the start and wanted to adopt her, Harmony was returned to her mother for the second time. Harmony was returned to her mother at seven months, and removed again at ten months.

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