Social Work Blog

JUNE 26, 2024

Social workers can use the printed word, books, and poetry to empower clients, promote social justice, and offer hope By Heather Rose Artushin, LISW-CP People have long understood the healing power of words. Scherlong, LCSW-R, CHHC, SEP, PTR/CJT-CM is a licensed clinical social worker and the current president of the IFBPT.

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Social Work Haven

MAY 9, 2023

You Asked, Can Social Workers Prescribe Medication? This is a very common question a lot of people ask in relation to the role of the social worker in health and social care. Social workers play an important role in promoting the health and wellbeing of people in the community.

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R.E.A.L. Social Workers

JANUARY 8, 2024

When we spend time comparing ourselves to others, we fill space with hurtful thoughts, feelings and beliefs that lead to anxiety, depression, and stress. In this blog post we are going to talk about the comparisons and behaviors that cause anxiety, depression and stress. As social workers, we know beauty is not one-dimensional.

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Community Care

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Moving from expecting compliance from social workers to enabling them to exercise professional curiosity is a key factor in improving children’s services. This included initiatives such as the use of social work academies to develop staff, with training days backfilled and caseloads capped. of the workforce.

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Social Work Blog

MARCH 6, 2023

Anxiety disorders are among the most prevalent disorders for Black young adults (ages 18 to 29) in the United States. Additionally, some Black young adults who have had encounters, directly or indirectly, with police may experience “police contact anxiety” (PCA) symptoms either during or in anticipation of future encounters with police.

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Community Care

JUNE 28, 2023

By Clare Jerrom Employers have been set standards to tackle the “poor support” received by the UK’s growing band of overseas social workers. Secondly, social workers from overseas often were not given the training and support needed to adjust to working in the UK, said Tran. In the wake of a 175.3% In the wake of a 175.3%

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Community Care

MARCH 25, 2022

Children’s social workers’ caseloads are bigger, more complex and harder to manage, taking a toll on their mental health and family life and leaving some contemplating quitting. A third of social workers said their caseloads had increased “a lot” over the past year, while a further 36% said they had risen “slightly”.

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Community Care

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Just over 1,000 social workers have been removed from the register despite paying the £90 fee and meeting continuing professional development (CPD) requirements in this year’s renewal round. These practitioners, roughly 1% of those who were expected to renew, are now unable to practise as social workers.

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Social Work Blog

OCTOBER 4, 2023

The National Association of Social Workers Maryland Chapter (NASW Maryland) offers its condolences to the families and friends of the victims, as well as the entire community. Everyone has the right to safely attend events, go to school, and do their job without fear of, or anxiety over becoming a victim of gun violence.

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University of Connecticut

APRIL 10, 2025

Kristin Waters, a clinical pharmacist in psychiatry and assistant clinical professor at the UConn School of Pharmacy will join us to examine current pharmacotherapy for Depression and Anxiety Disorders and Alcohol Use Disorder and Opioid Use Disorder. The second hour of the webinar will focus on Alcohol Use Disorder and Opioid Use Disorder.

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Community Care

JULY 5, 2023

No agency social workers are left practising in Northern Ireland’s health and social care (HSC) trusts , says the region’s Department of Health (DoH). High quality social work services require stable and consistent social work teams, in which social workers feel valued.

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Social Work Haven

MAY 9, 2023

Curious to know the differences between a Psychologist vs Social Worker? Well, it is vital to note the difference between psychology and social work because they both seek to help individuals in different ways. Do social workers use psychology? Ecological systems, strengths-based, etc.

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Community Care

AUGUST 26, 2022

The cost of living crisis is ‘severely’ affecting people accessing children’s and adults’ services, fuelling a host of issues including poverty, debt, mental ill-health and domestic conflict, social workers have warned. ” The social worker added.

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Community Care

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Agile working practices such as hotdesking are failing to meet social workers’ needs in Scotland and employers should review them, a study has concluded. Our findings (consistent over the last five years) indicate that agile working models in Scotland are failing to meet the needs of social workers.”

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Social Work Blog

JUNE 6, 2023

When clients have concerns about licensed social workers, they may file complaints with their state licensing boards. Although prior research has explored the types of complaints made against social workers, there has been little research on the experiences of social workers who are being investigated.

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Community Care

MAY 27, 2022

The number of council child and family social workers in England quitting children’s services altogether rose by 22% last year, suggest government figures. of employed children’s social workers appear to have quit the sector in 2020-21, up from 7.2% of social workers of this age leaving in 2020-21 – up from 17.6%

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Community Care

MARCH 7, 2025

In many such cases, family members step in to care for a child without the involvement of social workers. Tested in practice and improved From June to October 2024, we piloted Form K in ten local authorities, and sought feedback from social workers, managers, agency decision-makers, panel members as well as kinship carers themselves.

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Community Care

APRIL 7, 2022

As he prepared to take over as Association of Directors of Children’s Services president, Steve Crocker said he was “awed” by the proficiency of social workers entering the profession. I know when I go and talk to newly qualified social workers in Hampshire, I am awed by their professionalism and experience and skills and ability.

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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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Social Work Blog

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

A study from Psychiatry International found possible benefits of mindfulness to help with self-compassion, quality of life, well being, depression, and anxiety. Bertin explains that social workers use elements of DBT that seem to be especially effective in helping clients with ADHD.

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Social Work Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Rine, PhD, associate professor, Department of Social Work, Edinboro University of Pennsylvania. The challenges faced by social workers during the pandemic are far-reaching and unique to each of us. This article is free to be read on the Oxford University Press website.]. To read the whole article, please follow this link.

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Social Work Blog

MARCH 25, 2022

The strains sometimes cause caregivers to lose sleep, she said, noting that studies have found higher rates of anxiety and depression among parents of special needs children. Before exploring how social workers can help neurodiverse children and their families, it’s important to understand their unique struggles.

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Community Care

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Community Care’s survey on the cost of living crisis found that a majority of social workers were struggling, with 94% receiving no additional help from employers. As a result, some social workers admitted feeling isolated, with one respondent now “constantly having to avoid doing anything social as I cannot afford it”.

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Community Care

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Their decision to care for a child is often made at times of family crisis, triggering heightened stress and anxiety, with little planning or preparation. At CoramBAAF , we hear from local authority social workers and managers who are passionate about providing much needed support to kinship families.

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Community Care

MAY 10, 2022

Social workers’ quality of working life continued to decline following the end of Covid lockdown measures despite other frontline professionals reporting improvements, according to a new study. But social workers’ overall wellbeing recovered from phase three to four, as it did for other professionals. in phase one.

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Community Care

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Moving from expecting compliance from social workers to enabling them to exercise professional curiosity is a key factor in improving children’s services. This had led to “unparalleled dependency”, whose numbers had grown by 13% over the same period, accounting for 17.6% of the workforce.

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Social Work Blog

JANUARY 26, 2023

Pace Social worker Jennifer Kljajic lost her brother to suicide when he was tapered off from opioids too quickly after taking them as prescribed for years due to a chronic pain condition in 2018. It is available online at the Social Work Online CE Institute. It was not until a year later that the U.S.

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Community Care

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Social workers have been urged to help tackle the impact on Gypsy and Traveller families of increased police powers to evict them from unauthorised camps, brought in this year. “So social workers need to separate those two things. You’re constantly living in anxiety’.

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Social Work Blog

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

Using firsthand accounts from 200 Black adolescents, Black Male Youth Raised in Public Systems: Engagement, Healing, Hope, edited by Sheryl Brissett Chapman, Ralph Belk, Jasilyn Morgan, and Krystal Holland, with Bruce Tyson and Omore Okhomina, validates the fears, anxieties, and complexities of these youth. Their stories have never been told.

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Social Work Blog

JANUARY 19, 2023

Monteiro, LCSW The past two years were filled with fear and uncertainty, exacerbating a mental health crisis with an increase in anxiety, depression, suicide rates, and substance abuse. I have a master’s degree in Social Work and am a Licensed Certified Social Worker (LCSW).

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Social Work Blog

JANUARY 18, 2023

One might wonder, why and how I shifted from community care-based healing work to becoming a Clinical Social Worker and Psychotherapist. I had not imagined myself studying SUD, and hadn’t considered addiction a social justice issue. Clinical Social Worker Violeta A. But for many of us, this was culture.

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The New Social Worker

MARCH 22, 2023

It is normal to have stress or anxiety about moving from classroom to workplace. Connect social work knowledge with skills for building workplace relationships that support safety, trustworthiness, collaboration, voice, and cultural responsiveness.

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The New Social Worker

JULY 27, 2022

Book review of Things I Got Wrong So You Don’t Have To: 48 Lessons To Banish Burnout and Avoid Anxiety for Those Who Put Others First, by Pooky Knightsmith, reviewed by Rhonda Peterson Dealey

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Social Work Haven

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Socialworkhaven.com Useful Resources Social Work To-Do List Social Work To – Do List: What To Include: We sometimes struggle with managing our daily tasks as social workers. That is why a social work to-do list may help us manage better. That is why a social work to-do list may help us manage better.

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Community Care

APRIL 14, 2022

Projects testing the impact of social work support for schools have received a £5m boost, extending their lifespan until the summer. The schemes, which place social workers in schools and provide school designated safeguarding leads (DSLs) with social work supervision, respectively, were due to end last month.

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Social Work Haven

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Dream big Anxiety and a lack of self–esteem will cripple your thoughts and belief in yourself. For example, if you’ve just been laid off, instead of lurching in self-pity, think about how great it is to finally have the time (and the redundancy package if you received one) to think about what you REALLY want to do with the rest of your life.

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Therapist Development Center

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

For many social workers, ASWB exam registration means facing one of their biggest fears: taking an exam. Anxiety sets in when we have to face the unknown. Understanding how tests like the ASWB exam are developed can help to demystify … Continued.

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