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‘We are just working to live at the moment’ – social workers on the cost of living crisis

Community Care

Struggling with petrol, budgeting, outgoings, food, and bills makes me have anxiety. “If our personal stress increases – the absolute fear of not being able to eat, keep ourselves warm, or put petrol into our car – we are at risk of an anxiety paralysis. It feels like we are just working to live at the moment.”.

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Maternal Mental Health Matters: A Neglected but Vital Issue

Relias

The EPDS can also detect other mental disorders, such as anxiety, bipolar disorder, and post-traumatic stress disorder. Developed by the California Maternal Quality Care Collaborative , the bundle consists of four components: universal screening, timely referral, access to treatment, and follow-up.

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Social worker wins appeal to have discrimination claims against council reconsidered

Community Care

Rooney had an early mediation hearing with the council before submitting a claim via solicitors in January 2019 for constructive unfair dismissal, non-payment of holiday pay and seeking outstanding expenses, unpaid overtime, and reimbursement of university fees.

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My Short Stay in a Mental Health Hospital

Beautiful Voyager

Anxiety so strong it tightened my chest to a choking point and made me feel like cutting myself to bleed the anxious feelings out of my system. Yes, one for depression and one for anxiety. I’d had the same passive suicidal thoughts, ramped-up anxiety and cutting fantasies. Once he arrived, I got the standard set of questions.

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NCCPR family preservation news and commentary round-up for the year 2024, part two

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

Decades later, Stacy Torres, now a professor of sociology at the University of California, San Francisco, writes in Vital City that the wounds have not healed. The drugs include morphine or fentanyl for epidurals or other pain relief, anxiety medications, and two different blood pressure meds prescribed for C-sections. every year.

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Ten Ways COVID-19 Created the Perfect Storm for Social Worker Burnout (and why I still have hope)

Teaching & Learning in Social Work

Editor’s note: This post was written by Melanie Sage from the University at Buffalo’s School of Social Work in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. As a university professor , I do not work with clients directly. Even a vague reference to a client’s trauma might show up in the news and exploit confidentiality.