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NCCPR news and commentary round-up, week ending Sept. 24, 2024

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

of SHIELDS for Families, writes a letter to the editor (the second one down when you click on this link ) about a major stress Murthy left out: Most families experience economic anxiety at some point. For many, it’s passing. That stress can never fully go away. ●

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Licensing Investigations: Suggestions from Social Workers Who Received Sanctions

Social Work Blog

Research participants suggested that being investigated for licensing violations can cause significant levels of anxiety, stress, and embarrassment. Although some participants felt that the investigation process was fair, others expressed deep concerns about how they were treated.

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psychotherapy as internal relation

Clinical Philosophy

This is the sort of thing which may be useful to write on an insurance report or in an NHS case file, but the 'treatment' concept does, I think, risk doing an justice to our sense of the therapeutic process. But whilst these defences help manage your anxiety they also create what we call 'symptoms' and thwart your development.

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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

Again, despite serving as the profession whose primary mission is social justice, social work is mostly absent from these news flashes. #4 We’re the profession of social justice and have much work to do to disrupt racism inside our own profession. I wonder about how COVID-19 will affect social anxiety and substance use.

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what's love got to do with it?

Clinical Philosophy

Sometimes they talk about, say, anxiety or depression or hypomania, sometimes about relationship and work difficulties. The surrogacy analogy conveys something of value, but I think it neither fully deactivates Read’s concern nor does justice to the therapeutic situation. A Common Humanity: Thinking about Love and Truth and Justice.

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Trump attempting to revive horrible practice of detaining migrant, immigrant families

Social Work Blog

Medical and early childhood trauma professionals have noted that family detention is especially harmful to children – leading to emotional and mental health issues, including post-traumatic stress disorder, depression, anxiety, and weight loss, among other physical and behavioral health problems.